Mystery 240V electrical deathtrap.
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- If you're new to this channel I strongly recommend checking out some of the other videos first. This one was slightly tongue in cheek and a guessing game about a reckless use of a kettle element for an application it was really not intended for.
Do not actually attempt this. It carries a high "element" of risk. Still safer than the jaw dropping bath heater here though.... • 2.5kW electro baby-cut...
For reference, a 2kW heating element in the UK (240v) can be used as a very high power 30 ohm resistor, and likewise, spiral cooker elements also make great industrial resistors too.
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"Electrocution of neighbors, calculated risk"
+TheDutyPaid Wow he stood inside jail with one leg. Or even 1,5. o:
+TheDutyPaid
Lol@"calculated risk".
It's not like anyone would know for certain which neighbor zapped the others.
+TheDutyPaid I like this guy. Its totally real like Scotty here :P
Soon he will start to wonder as to why the neighbours arent coming out anymore.
+RMJ1984
He may be too busy doing product reviews to fatten his TH-cam checks...
+A B He's from Scotland, so would receive a cheque as payment, if that was what he was doing.
"Overalls: not just for work, they're the quintessential fashion accessory for the discerning blue-collar bear."
Subscribed.
hahahaha
Smokey Jef Clive keeps me remembering that the world is not completely idiotic.
Damn straight!
@@trevorpomroy550 It's always nice to see an old comment like this again, thank you.
I thought he said bairn (scottish)
"...and kill all my neighbors. it was a calculated risk." anyone else thought the next sentence was going to be "i didn't like them anyway"?
What I've taken from this video as someone with no electrical knowledge is that killing all your neighbors for a hot bath is an acceptable risk.
You don't know his neighbours, lol.
Hearing my neighbours shout whilest enjoying a hot bath I can only agree...
Not going to happen. Metal water pipes underground will be at 0 potential. And, clean water is a poor conductor, so even if the pipes were all plastic (highly unlikely) not enough electricity is going to conduct over tens of meters to shock people in other houses. (Now, if the pipes were carrying ocean water, that would be different. But they're not.)
@@RobbieHatley If the water were like it is where I live, which is completely clean and safe but contains an awful lot of calcium ions (and a small amount of fluorine), it would be plenty conductive.
You could probably take "Please do it straight away" from a direct "NO, don't do it under any circumstances."
For one terrible moment I thought that we were going to see you in the bath at the end of the video.
+UKHeliBob I'm fairly certain everyone wants to see Clive in the tub sporting an even bigger beard of bubbles.
For some unholy reason, that turns me on.
+UKHeliBob Cringe at the thought. ;)
+UKHeliBob it would not electrocute you, it is closed loop
+tonymengela Afraid not, the bath water and plumbing will offer a path to ground. Current will take all paths to ground and unless it happens to be on an isolating transformer, its probably goodnight clive if it were to develop an earth fault!
Overalls? This is the 21st Century, we live in the future now, so they are Jumpsuits...
+Alex Law jumpsuits are a fashion garment for ladies and sporting posers. It's a tricky subject regarding global terminology. What the UK calls a bib and brace overall is what Americans call overalls. And what the UK calls a boilersuit is what Americans call coveralls.
If it is shiny and brightly coloured, it is a jumpsuit, embrace the future Clive ;-)
+Alex Law If it was Spandex or Lycra perhaps. But this one is very manly industrial Gore Tex.
Goretex is just Lycra for the fuller figured ;-)
+Alex Law I prefer my bright blue overalls with the Rolls Royce stitching on the left breast pocket.
My electric stove has 4 of those on it.
+Brian Hollinger don't try and start a convection based plumbing system like that other guy commented on.
+Brian Hollinger Drop it in the garden pond. Hey presto, heated swimming pool!
How are you supposed to heat a bath if they’re there?
Must be a tiny stove.
@@leglessinoz A _really_ tiny stove.
I didn't think you could kill someone from Glasgow. Electrocuting them will just irritate them and make them come over to give you a nice Glasgow kiss.
+Coffeehound after a few decades of fried everything food, too much alcohol and the 'scotch kiss' you are probably immune to a small amount of pain from the electrocution!
+Coffeehound Good point.
+jusb1066 Don't know about Clive but I can confirm, I'm Scottish and have been electrocuted many times. It got me irritated but wouldn't describe it as very painful. Been lucky so far ;)
+Firecul42 I've been hit five times, by 240v @ 50Hz not planning another. I have been very lucky.
+Firecul42 Do keep in mind that the word electrocuted actually indicates death from the passage of electrical current. You've had several electric shocks. And on the basis that you're still here I'd say there wasn't much of a path to ground, so you got some of the usual warning shots. Sometimes I wonder how many non fatal shocks are received in relation to actual full-on fatal ones.
I've seen on eBay a very similar device that hooks over a cup of tea and heats it up.
I think it's designed more for caravanners/campers, but it looks utterly lethal.
+Larry Bundy Jr
Yea, I seen them as well, I thought this one one of them but the box he made put me off.
If you have the power to run one of those then you have the power to run a microwave, and thats fine for me.
+Larry Bundy Jr This is what we used to make Raman noodles in college in the 1970's. Not dangerous at all, unless it fell out of the mug and started a dorm fire.
www.amazon.com/Travel-Immersion-Water-Heater-Voltage/dp/B000AXS0UE
*****
I'm surprised they still exist! Dangerous 70s electronics, like those hot dog cookers with the nails in each end.
+Larry Bundy Jr The Presto Hot Dogger... You can go on ebay and buy one right now if you want. They've become quite collectable because of their notorious nature.
You keep appearing on all the other youtube channels I like. Stop stalking me!
Kidding, Hello you~.
I'm liking this video to offset the dislikes.
IDK what people are actually doing.
LazerLord10 I don't know, people are stupid. These videos are awesome.
I watched the whole video, laughed a lot towards the end - "current could have traveled thorough the water and it could have lived up the plumbing and kill all my neighbours" :)) - then I jumped to give it a like, I saw all the dislikes, and I was like - "This is ridiculous. Really?" Good video! Happy New Year 2017!
they dislike, for they fear death. they fear death for they never licked a 9v battery. a lot.
Abstaining. Somewhat interesting, however he's describing how to do something quite dangerous that I don't find all that interesting.
Sure, smart people won't hurt themselves *while paying attention*. The same way people can drive just fine, until the smart part of their brains is distracted by (for example) texting.
He takes the whole video to tell you what could be told in 3 words.
A couple of years back I was tasked to help my sibling build an immersion (sous-vide) heater out of a heating element (similar to this one, but less powerful) and one of the common cheap off-the-shelf temperature controller modules. Since it was going to be used by someone else, I did want to make sure it was actually going to be safe, though, so I ended up attaching the element to the outside of a small metal project box (about 2x2x2 inches), which the power cord ran into the other end of, and then attached the ground to the metal exterior of the heating element (and box) and the power wires to the element terminals, and then just filled up the whole box with silicone sealant. Then I built a GFCI (RCD) outlet into the box containing the controller module so it was inline with everything (so even if it was plugged into a non-protected outlet, there would still be a GFCI on the element itself).
Worked like a charm (no issues with accidental tripping) and as far as I know they are still using it today...
Ha ha brilliant ..the number of dislikes speaks volumes to the lack of sense of humour of those passing through...keep up the good work perhaps the orange overalls were a little reckless.
Why is this rated so low??
+Sean Confer You do get some low-flow water heaters or kettles etc that aren't the typical 2500-3000 watts because they're meant for safe use with lower-rated electrical circuits (e.g. 10A rather than 13A; with a less than brilliant but not unknown 220v supply, makes the 2200w of tinyphantazma's comment, and some variation does occur - or it could be 8A at 250v...). Also, if you're going for absolute lowest production cost, lower output requires less filament...
+mspenrice ohhhh I gotcha. but I was referring to the video's rating lol.
Ah, right :)
Maybe people just don't have an appreciation for geekily amusing anecdotes with little visual action any more. I basically treated it as an audio podcast and tabbed over to some other things I was looking at whilst it played in the background.
+mspenrice all his other videos are good rated and is so weird this to have 50-50 likes-dislikes,maybe the company marshaled all employers to boycott it :P
"...but quite fun anyway."
Read between the lines folks. Build one !
+Flapjackbatter Yeah it's tempting. I should build one and send it to you as a gift. With some nice sodium chloride electrolyte bonus.
Vacuum tubes rule.
+Steven King You mean Thermionic Valves?
+Szymon Gorczynski American version: vacuum tubes. Yes. I have thousands of them, and I work on tube radios. Love electronics! Do you also enjoy the older electronics? :)
Steven King Oh I love them, you can strip absolutely anything apart and understand how it works, nowadays it's just a circuit board and a chip.
While I really enjoyed listening to your charming accent, I could not figure out the point of this video for the life of me, and I'm an Electrical Engineer.
+Robert Bell It was just a silly experiment I tried a while back to heat a bath of water in a simple, but electrically dangerous way. It was also considering all the paths of fault current. If you look at some of my other videos you'll find them much more functional and to the point.
bigclivedotcom
Probably better off to get an inline "on demand" heater. They are a little expensive, though.
For may bathroom sink, I bought a small tank heater like this one:
www.tanklesswaterheatersdirect.com/shop/ariston/ariston-electric-hot-water-heaters-gl25-gl4-gl6.asp
Actually, exactly that one. It gives me a lot of hot water for shaving. I think it was under $200. Instant hot water. It mounts under the sink.
Sadly, the people who designed my house put the hot water heater in the garage and then ran the pipes through the slab, so it takes about 5 minutes to get hot water in the shower or sink.
This solves the problem for the sink, anyway.
Of course, it is grounded and has a ground-fault-interrupter in the circuit.
+Robert Bell The on demand ones are not that great for filling things with hot water. Try filling a bucket of water from a 10kW shower and you'll see what I mean. In my new house the first thing I did was fit a vented under-sink tank in the kitchen so that I get instant hot water at the sink at any time of day.
bigclivedotcom
They make on-demand ones that will run a shower, but they draw a lot of current or run on gas. And they are not cheap. Like this one, for example:
www.rinnai.us/tankless-water-heater
So far, I find it easier to just wait a few minutes, although it wastes water...
+Robert Bell I was half way through and still had no idea what this video was ABOUT. So I stopped there. I had a hunch that the guy hadn't really decided what it was about himself.
It's not often that you hear the words funny and deathtrap used to describe the same contraption....
you,ll die laughing
You must have been new to this channel...
A death trap for young players, to paraphrase Dave.
up until late 80s? or later in some parts, such contraptions (bare heating elements of various sizes and shapes) were used in eastern Europe to boil water in mugs, cups, boil eggs, in houses without gas or hotel rooms. I can remember brewing tea many times myself...
My friend at school in the UK had one you plunged into your mug to heat your tea or soup
Not from china...peculiar. :)
So basically you put a toaster in the bath.
Private Pecker eh more or less
Toaster, Water cooker.
It was a calculated risk.
A kettle basically.
Big Clive, you are the best. I don't know anything about electronics, but I still find all your videos interesting to watch.
so how long did it take to heat the water?
They must see you coming a mile away in airports.. "Here's the guy with the crazy electrics again".
Lets just say that when my luggage goes through the x-ray it goes back and forth for a while.
"Deathtraps but quite fun anyway" is the primary reason most people watch this channel.
This is Clive's "Suicide Bath™" variant of those "Suicide Showers" seen
in some parts of the world, including a house in Kenya I stayed in. The
downstairs shower had the mains connections on the shower head. I used
the bath upstairs instead but likely not a great deal safer judging by
the wiring, if someone was using the shower at the same time and I touched the taps ...
My uncle in Puerto Rico had rigged something similar to the shower head in his bathroom. It was a heating element from a washing machine bent, coiled and crimped/bolted back together around the neck of the shower head. He had a typical extension cord running across the top of the sink light fixture and into the wall socket. With it being a concrete bathroom, I thought it was going to be a scene from the movie Saw. It heated the water for about 30 seconds at a time being before needing to heat back up. Not terrible but I would not do it again.
Holy crap. And I was worried about my low voltage outdoor Xmas lights idea...
+Lawrence Job why
We have these on some of our C.N.C. mills at work. The mill is run by a D.C. motor and if you want to change cycles and slow the mill down from 5,000 r.p.m. down to 300 r.p.m. or stopping quickly, these are used for dynamic breaking, same theory as the railroad locomotives use.
Rather than brake pads & friction, the D.C. motor is turned momentarily into a generator and this device uses that electricity to heat up (it's cooled by a fan on both our C.N.C. machines & in locomotives) drawing high amperage it quickly slows down the D.C. motor.
Please do not say a bath heater... I have not revealed the deathtrap but i have a bad feeling...
+GHOST It was a splendid bath heater thanks. But actually perhaps not as bad as the video of a REAL product I'll be putting up shortly.
Oh dayum, I didnt want it to be a bath heater due to the 240 volts XD, how fast did it heat up the bath?
+GHOST It took a good few hours, but the bath was piping hot by the end.
bigclivedotcom Dayum... Im only assuming that if you used a thinner heating element it would heat up faster?
+GHOST Not true. It has to do with the efficiency of the material being used as the element. That and since t was 220 it would heat much faster than a 110 variant. Hence why your electric range is not a 110 unit neither is an electric water heater.
I once tossed a 500W heating element into my mug to make tea. You see, I wanted to use a big glass beer type mug, which would obviously crack if you just dumped boiling water into it. Glass likes gradual heating. It was either gonna be 5 minutes of microwaving or about 1 minute of heating element. It worked perfectly. 10/10 would do again. :D
Well, that's got to beat a homemade kerosene immersion heater I once saw being used indoors. 😄
You can actually buy a product which is essentially the same: baptistryuk.com/heaters/
Not clear how that could be any safer.
+John Ward Ah, now I know how you came across those.... You probably did a little research after that rather ungodly incident when a minister reached up to adjust a microphone while paddling in the baptismal and was promptly electrocuted in front of his congregation.
Wow! 500 to 800 pounds for a simple water heater. Time to start a new business. (From you link)
+Graham Wilson The best £450+VAT that donated money can buy...
"It could have lived up the plumbing and killed all my neighbours... it was a calculated risk."
xD xD xD
There are premade heating elements with a nice metal guard, made for droping into water and heating the crap out of it. They were essentially used to heat large buckets of water for the old 'big red' rug doctors for professional carpet cleaning.
But you know, deathtraps like these were common as handheld devices to heat up small amounts of water, like enough to make a cup of tea, also directly referenced to the mains and their intended use was as a traveling companion for hotel rooms, or when you go on strange camping trips where you still have access to standard power outlets (trailer park like places to spend your holidays).
It's used as heating element in bathroom geysers. It comes in different shapes, size and power ratings.
when I was a kid we had immersion heaters that were just thick wire from the wall to a heating element wound around ceramic, and back around to the wall. they were wide spread, and I've never heard of an incident involving them, but to this day every time I remember them I question how I'm not dead
I bought one two years ago, actually. It's a cylindrical chunk of ceramic with a groove in it, and the wire coil wrapped around it - and the ends crimped to the mains power cord and shoved inside the insulator. I use it to warm up water for tea or sometimes instant coffee by the single cup of tea. Quicker than the microwave oven. Might take me 30 seconds to fully heat up the water from the time I plug in and key it on.
Mine is for 110 volts, however. Don't know how many watts it pulls though. It just came in a simple cellophane bag with a strip of paper on it for hanging on a peg board.
The main reason we have wiring regulations. You know what the risks are, but Joe public haven’t a clue. Keep them coming Clive. You just may save someone’s life.
I remember checking out those snowfalls back in March 2013 on the Isle of Man. It looked a lot like Michigan where I live, but you're in the middle of a vast sea where it's supposed to be between 38-64 degrees all the time. I didn't see a single snow plow in any article. The inhabitants were trying to move the snow with construction equipment, and I felt sorry for the sheep.
During the 2013-2014 season we had 94.9 inches or 241 cm of snow but typically we have 44.1 inches or 112 cm. Temperatures here range from -40 C or F (on the coldest nights) to 95 F or 35 C on the hottest days.
+John Gotts The only snow I'd seen on the island up to that point was a very occasional flurry that instantly disappeared, or the inevitable cap of snow up on the highest mountain. (Snaefell) That unbelievable and completely uncharacteristic snowfall was staggering. (A lot of sheep were buried alive.) There were no snow ploughs because there ARE no snow ploughs because we don't usually ever have snow.
I remember many years ago somebody telling me that on inspecting a property they owned discovered that the tenant had actually drilled a hole in the side of the cast iron bath and permanantly installed an electric kettle element!
That may be the most metal way to take a bath ever! I think I love you, Big Clive.
0:55 did you mean to say "that's why there is an OVERALL orange tint"?
The best way would be then to make a giant water boiler like the ones used to boil water for tea. Heat it as much as possible. Mix it with cold water before it enters the bath, with a control for how much cold water you let in.
sticking what is essentially a bare toaster into a tub of water, is not what you call a calculated risk. especially since you don't seem to have water proofing on that thing. From where im from we call that idiotic.
+Koba4329 What's the risk? Neither the bath or the pipes are conductive and he unplugs and removes it before getting in the bath. This is only dangerous in a country where a sticker saying "DO NOT TOUCH WATER WHILE ELECTRICITY IS IN IT!" and where we Scots come from we call the people from those countries idiots.
+Rob Fraser the pipes are conductive, the water from the tap would be conductive since I doubt he has distilled water coming out of his tap. though I would agree that if you're smart with it, and take it out before you jump in would most likely be fine. but then again most people aren't that smart.
Yes, overalls, are what farmers wear, coveralls are generally what mechanics wear. There is a difference. A "jumpsuit" is what someone wears when they are challenged by good taste
They ALL wear overalls these days Clive. They just call them 'onesies'..... :)
last week at work i took apart a huge one, made of graphite, we run 30V DC at about 2000 Amps, it generates a temp of a little over 2050C, we make sapphire crystals out of aluminum oxide with it.
Oh what a silly little electrocution device. Good job getting your bath heated quickly though. Personally I would rather invest in a gas instant water heater for the house, but this is definitely more "interesting" to say the least. If I ever decide to go serial killer I will consider this for killing off the house mates first...or maybe they just get a nice warm soak in the tub. 😂
I used to use a bucket heater to warm the water in a large plastic bin for bath time. We were living on a sailboat for a few years and really missed having a hot bath, Farm feed and supply stores sell them for around thirty bucks.
Is Part II heading the bath with sodium or is it how to shave with a blowtorch?
Terry Endicott Somewhat related, I've had coffie heated with a flamethrower in Ukraine. Like in-front-of-my-face rather spectacular flame engulfing the table.
Great coffie.
I was thinking it was a hot tub heater I guess I wasn't too far off
A water bed heater?
Well, maybe not. That sounds way too scary :)
I'm imagining a scenario in which we take items like this that may ACTUALLY have or does exist in agricultural industry or other such markets where people were ENTITLED to use COMMON SENSE and would know that after heating the water you unplugged it and went about your business. People today, with no warning signs and most without common sense would kill themselves over a bath LOL
My first guess was a heating element for a deep fryer
lmao me too
+Polonium Fist that's a reasonable suggestion. Except when we had an electric deep fat fryer the heating element and thermostat was a self contained unit that hung over the edge of the bath of cooking oil.
Smoking hot cooking oil is an immensely risky thing.
It looks more like a replacement element from a jug kettle (they only use L & N on the connector between the base and the bottom of the kettle). The base unit is earthed, but the kettle isn't.
Being Scottish a pocket heating element would come in useful when peckish, just buy some cooking oil, find a plant pot or other suitable receptacle and your on your way to cholesterol town in search of deep fried treasure.
Possibly electrocuting the neighbours is a "calculated risk"?? You must have scary neighbours!
Right away it looks like a deep fryer element
A SAFE version of this would be great to keep bath water at a particular temp for when you want to take extended baths like I do sometimes. It always annoys me having to get out of a bath before I want to because the water has gone cold.
You've given me an idea for when I renovate my bathroom and am without the immersion heater for a while :D
i remember buying something like this that went into an empty glass and would make water from oxygen in the air
"Don't build one of these, they're deathtraps... ...But quite fun anyway" Lmao, if I had a $5 bill for every time I've prefaced or ended a story about something that blew up in my face or nearly did with "Never try this" I could go on vacation for a week.
"Calculated Risk" 🤣🤣🤣 didn't like my neighbors anyway 🤣
I “COULDVE” killed my neighbours but.. it was a calculated risk. Dang I hope my neighbours aren’t electrical engineers
After watching this I instantly got a pain in my gut and felt like my I.Q just dropped 70 points. I must go take a dump now, thank you for nothing!
On the safer side: If you have a nice enameled cast iron tub, you can just slap a portable induction stove alongside it on the exterior and heat your water that way. *NOTE*: If heated too quickly, the enamel can crack or even explode off the tub, so use the lowest power setting to start.
I also utilised 2 Asda kettle elements to make a home brew boiler out a plastic fermenter, had one element low down and another element 90º to the side 2 inches higher which helped create some kind of movement in the liquid. I put them in separate plug tops and utilised the kettle switch so I could either run with 2 elements or just the one. the live section of the switching side of the element was shrouded by a cut down sticks like shit silicone tube and siliconed to shield fingers from the nasty terminals. It was also convenient that I could also drill a hole in the top of the sticks like shit tube to poke the led through so I new it was on. I made some great beer through that thing.
I know what that is, it's a gift for my X wife, I shall tell her it's a candle warmer to be used while she's having a bath
If you get into using waste vegetable oil for heating/driving/metal casting in the future that would make a great oil heating unit for pre-heating or filtering. Oil isn't conductive (I've heard) so electrocution should be a non-issue and that little gizmo sounds pretty potent.
Since you guys have a keyed plug, I would have connected neutral to the chassis. That's how things were wired around here, many decades ago, when there was no PE wire yet.
Why not treat your self to a nice gas, or electric tank-less water heater? Much safer. Just sayin'... ;)
Damn you sound like a grown-up version of Stewie Griffin.
Until you said water I guessed deep fryer heating element.
I've seen these in drip pans for refrigerated cases that are installed where there is no drain. Hooked up to a float switch, it heats up the water to evaporate it
Now I'm pondering ways to make it work while being only sanely dangerous... But with cast iron enamel bath and copper pipework, any leakage to earth will be annoying. Hrm... tricky...
+Allison Pell its only the wires that are the issue, we have immersion heaters inside large copper tanks as it is, but they keep the wires outside the unit!
+jusb1066 Aha! Solution! A small water pump to pull water out of the bath, and the internals of a drip coffee machine to do the heating!
When I experiment with poison gasses I also take the risk of killing some of my neighbours. But I do take care of only doing this when the wind goes in the direction with the fewer persons. Experiment responsibly is my motto.
This sounds like it was a project inspired by several beers and a couple of bad Pizzas, Been there, done that, survived :o)
It was inspired by coming home from work covered in oil and with the unlagged hot water pipe (just unlagged at the roof edge) freezing up in winter in just that tiny inaccessible area.
looks like a ceramic lizard heater, without the ceramic part
Orange overalls are prison wear here. Wearing those in public would make people think you escaped.
+John King I do actually have a HUGE set of American prison overalls that I bought on ebay. But orange overalls here tend to indicate railway workers as opposed to the high vis yellow of the road workers.
Just a kettle element. I have pulled one out of a cheap kettle myself to use it as a pool heater.
its kinda crazy you don't have hot water.
People do dangerous acts because of the rush or high they get from living dangerously! We all have done crazy things because we are human.
I think if i was making that, i would get a short threaded nipple,, use the 3 screws and a disc to mount the nipple along with sealant to the element, then add a coupler and a pipe as a handle (including more sealant), you then have a sealed element on a stick, a bit like those portable (12 volt) heaters.
Alternatively do away with the element, just drop the wires in the bath for an electrode heater.
btw, the live water should be stopped at the cold inlet because of bonding between pipes and ground point so your neighbours should be safe
+Sparky Projects even if the bath was plastic , the drain part is still metal and is still earthed! so a metal ring around the plug is grounded, no live water!
+jusb1066 Not in the UK it's not - the waste pipe itself will be ABS, PVCu or PP on anything modern. It's the taps you'll have to be wary of as most likely they'll be connected via earth-bonded copper pipe.
Graham Langley
im in the uk, but maybe my plumbing is old, but i have one that is metal from the kitchen sink, it is tied to earth, oh well , either way im not gonna bath with my kettle!
+Sparky Projects I'd have had to add a modest amount of salt to get the electrode heater to work. Scottish water is actually quite pure and not very conductive.
+bigclivedotcom is Matey bubble bath not conductive enough? i mean , what else do people put in their bath water?
Lol... poor brits without proper hot water systems. I still find it shocking how people in developed countries actually turn their hot water systems off, and / or have such small tanks they can't fill a bath... and think it's okay!
why all the dislikes? You just cannot kill anybody with that, it is not normally leaking current. And even if it was, the low conductivity of the water and the absence of the conductive path and so on... What about the open leads heating element, arent' those dangerous then?
It is actually shady. Any contamination in the water soap/dirt will make it conductive and if water seeps into the live connection current will flow through any route it can find to ground.
2.5k thumbs down? Wow lots of angry triggered trolls.
Yeah..... weird.
Yeah would it not make more sense to fill the bath with the electric shower? if its not in the same place you could attach a hose to one and fill it up with that. That would be faster and a hell of a lot safer than sticking an uninsulated 240v element into a bathtub.
+Stephen Gibb I did actually try filling the bath with a hose connected tot he electric shower, but it took forever and wasn't that hot. The element chucked in recklessly like a death-toaster did a better job.
"Deathtrap, but quite fun anyway!"
It looks like a stove but I'm 5 yrs too late watching this 😂
Boiler heater?
Unearthed boiler sounds like fancy way to kill someone 🤔
Clive : "Giving my neighbors up the road an electric shock because I wanted a hot bath, was a risk I was willing to take" 😂
"Lived up the plumbing and killed all my neighbors"... Hahaha.
How long did it take to heat the filled bathtub?
It would be great if you could make of video of it operating with the light source shining through the convection currents!
Good electrocution hazard .Bad design but can be used to distil alcohol .switch temp control through an SSR set for 84 to 86 °C and your cooking alcohol !
I remember seeing pics of this old dude who'd died in the bath with a DIY heating element running. When they found him, he was soup
Reminds me of a bath I stepped into in sunny scunthorpe. A lesson in bonding preceded
What is that transparent sleeving on the input wires. It looks like ordinary sleeving. If you used adhesive lined heatshrink (and some over the junction of the inner and outer insulators) that would improve the waterproofness of the connections. Still very dodgy though.
"It could've lived up the plumbing and electrocuted the neighbours but that was fairly unlikely - it was a calculated risk" hahahaha
Put it in a slick white plastic case and call it the iFry.
Why couldn't you heat up the water, turn the element off, and then hop in?
I did. The element was unplugged and removed before bathing.
So the Isle of Man has Norwegian Bachelor Famers as well... who knew?
It was a calculated risk. Phrase of the day!
Is it to stop a big vat of water from freezing over (that would be watering animals on a farm perhaps )
Its a heating element for a pool or Jacuzzi or maybe even an on demand water heater. ;)
back in the Communist era my parents had a thing like this for our bath. It was a a heating element from a washing machine.