Started working at an energy company this week, spent all week learning about meters and shit and had to rewatch this video to get my frustrations out.
@@RedDread_ he is isolated, electricity tries to find the fastest way to ground, which in this case, is the other wire. The glowing hot steel rod was interesting though
@RedDread_ you need 10-12 volts of electricity to get a shock, anything less in not enough to be conducted by your skin. That is why you can touch car battery terminals without getting shocked. (Unless your hands are wet)
I love this bloke so much. Two middle aged men giggling like schoolkids over the neighbors lights. The fact the he's doing this on a carpet. The fact the only "safety" gear he has on is his trainers. The scissors to try pop the Stanley knife back on. I discovered this channel a just a bit late but going through his old catalogue of videos has kept me thoroughly entertained the last few weeks.
Skunkdog Gro lol, that was really great, too. I love how he's all, "no, don't do that again." and then his boy's like, "let me see it one more time!" ::happily obliges:: lol, I wonder wtf the neighbors were thinking!
i dont onow much and im pretty stupid but how the hell were you able to hold metal in between the cabbles wouldnt that have electrocuted you i saw that it shocked you a couple times.
+Jeremiah Suarez Volts must be really low too. It would be crazy to rely only on lower resistance because if you closed the circuit faster with you than the other wire it would be only able to go through you. You can calculate the voltage he gets if you aren't as lazy as me. Pretty easy to do. Edit: no need to calculate, it's 0.5V so the amps going through you are probably really really close to 0mA
+Im Chuck he will not get electrocuted simply because the winding of the copper wire on the core is 8 turns that will only gives a very little amount of voltage but the diameter is quite thick and will give you a high amount of current or AMPS, were the hell you learn your basic practical electricity?
My old man was a mechanical engineer, and he always used to say that the electrical engineers he used to work with were all a bit fucked in the head given the amount of times they had been zapped from industrial machinery. You prove his theory correct good sir. Love this guy & love the channel by the way!
Well here's our electric motor why that correctly [electric meter wired up correctly] put it about items [pulling about 8 amps] which is probably a couple of phrases and phrases [fridges and freezers] and a few lights. Just about say to me today [see the meter there] and then I come home from work and I put the cap on a little bit you [kettle on, so that uses a little bit more, don't it?]. Only that start swinging [The ol' meter starts whizzing] ...
Let's run some numbers He said that at 250A on the primary he could get 20kA on the secondary, which on a 240V supply means there's about 3V across the secondary (P=IV, P=250*240, P=60kW, V=P/I, V=60000/20000, V=3V). Estimating for about 10m of cable, there's a resistance there of about 50μΩ, which, when shorted, makes for a current draw of around 64kA. I licked my fingers and measured the resistance between them with my multimeter (accurate and scientific I know) to be about 50kΩ, which at 3V, would draw around 0.6mA. (I=V/R, I=3/50000, I=0.0006A) If my brief googling is correct, this shouldn't even be a tingle, though if you've recently exfoliated your hands and dip them in saline you might feel more of a tingle, but not a painful sensation. In conclusion, my haphazard googling and back-of-the-envelope maths shows that holding the leads should be perfectly safe. You first though...
Not in a shed, not in a basement, not even in the backyard. In an attic, on a carpet with a piece of tile as a 'work' surface.. Well, Emperor Palpatine had to start somewhere too.
For those who don't understand why the guy isn't getting shocked when touching the bare metal of the box cutter when shorting it out, it's because the circuit is from an isolated transformer. If you normally touch bare wire like in a service panel, that uses earth to complete the circuit so touching it completes the circuit through you. But a circuit from an isolated transformer, you touching the bare metal does nothing because the circuit cannot be completed through you unless you hold both ends of the wire.
This is the way. I came to say this and thankful you did because I am feeling lazy and didn’t want to type out the answer I always look for someone else who has answered the question.
That's not the only reason tho. The voltage is super low because of the low number of turns, while the current is very very high. A transformer is like a differential but for electrons :D
I only understand the video on level of he built cage for the electricity, got a considerable amount of heat wrapping thick wire around transformer magnet widget and I guess he's a ghost cuz looks like he does insane stuff.
Dylan Collins because when your lights are flickering the first thing you do is look around to see if your neighboor's is doing the same. ofcourse not moron
callum barbra I know this, but if you're having a brown out every 15 seconds you'd look out the window to see what's going on wouldn't you? And I do know that lights flicker, I'm in Ireland, we use 50Hz too...
It is persists for any major length of time, I'll drop my house off the grid by firing up my generator and then a throwover of my transfer switch. In my neighborhood, there's around 8 houses riding on a padmount transformer out at the street. So, if someone's stick welding at a high working current, your lights flicker.
This quote of Hank Hill comes to mind: " Do you know how to start a man's heart with a downed power line?" Bobby Hill: "No." "Well, there's really no wrong way."
gregistopal Not sure the episode title but it was the one where LouAnn was living in the trailer park and a tornado was coming. Hank had his pants blown off by the tornado.
This is a long post, please don't bother telling me I have no life to post something like this on youtube, I already know that :) I feel like a lot of people don't understand current and voltage and I feel like the people who do understand never explain it very well. So here it goes: This video is an example of a low voltage/high current power supply. The voltage is so low that he can touch both contacts with bare hands and probably not feel anything. "BUT ITS AMPERAGE THAT KILLS!" is what you might want to scream at me. This is very true, but also VERY misunderstood. Many people don't like this analogy, but I personally think it's awesome. Electricity is very similar to water. Pipes are the conductors (think wires), and how constricted the pipes are is resistance of the conductors. In this analogy, the pressure of the water in those pipes is the same thing as the voltage of electricity. The current of the water is... you guessed it, the current of the electricity (measured in amps). Now imagine that you have a constricted pipe (it has some arbitrary resistance), and you have no pressure on either side. You can guess that most likely, no current will flow. Now imagine you have equal high pressure on either side. Even though the pressure is high, it's the same on both sides of the pipe, so again, no current will flow. In order to create flow, we need a PRESSURE DIFFERENCE. Similarly, for electricity to flow across some conductor there must be a voltage difference. Notice, that in this analogy, the current of the water is induced by the pressure difference. It is the pressure difference that forces the water to move. Electricity is very similar. Also notice that you can increase current in two ways, one is by applying more pressure (voltage), but the other way is to reduce the constriction of the water pipe (reduce the resistance). This can be seen by the following equation: voltage = current x resistance. This is ohm's law. Death by electrocution is very often caused by the electricity screwing with the "wiring" of your heart and causing your heart to stop beating. The most relevant number to measure in such a situation is the current going through you heart. There is a certain amount of current, that when induced directly through your heart, has some high probability of stopping your heart. When people say IT'S NOT THE VOLTAGE THAT KILLS, IT'S THE AMPS, this is why. Notice, however, that there are two very large pieces of information that get cut out when people say something like the above: 1) It is very important to know WHERE that current is crossing. If 20 amps of current are crossing your hand, and ONLY your hand, you are not going to die. Your hand will be extremely damaged, but if no current is crossing the rest of your body, you'll probably be fine. 2) You CAN NOT HAVE CURRENT WITHOUT VOLTAGE. A 2V power can cause hundreds of amps of current to cross a copper bar. But the same voltage will do barely anything applied to any parts of the human body. Why? Because the copper bare has very little resistance. Again, think about water. You can have a very small pressure difference, but if you apply that pressure difference across the mississipi river, you will have MASSIVE current. If you apply the same pressure difference across a straw, it will be a trickle. Your body is a straw. Notice, also, that when I say 2V of voltage applied to your body it is actually not very specific. 2V of voltage applied where? across your finger? across your tounge? across two electrodes jabbed directly into your heart? All of these situations will cause different resistances, and therefore will induce different amounts of current between the two chosen points. All of this should naturally lead you to a very important question. If the only thing that dictates current is 1) voltage (property of the power supply) and 2) resistance (property of the material the electricity is passing through), then why on earth do power supplies have current ratings. A current rating on a power supply does not tell you what current will be supplied by that power supply. The current rating on a power supply simply tells you the MAXIMUM that power supply can reliably provide and still be within some sort of specifications. As you begin to approach that current rating, the voltage may begin to drop, or the device will begin to degrade (rapidly!) or some combination. Similarly, other voltage sources, like batteries, may not have current ratings, but none the less they have some sort of internal resistance. You will notice a very large difference between attaching a wire between the terminals of a 3V battery, and doing the same to the terminals of a 3V industrial transformer. Why? The 3V battery has internal resistance, and that means that as the current gets high the 3V battery will actually stop delivering 3V. It will drop to a very low voltage when shortcircuited. A 3V transformer, on the other hand, could very well continue to provide insanely high currents and still deliver 3V. Imagine two water pumps (I love water analogies!). Both are rated to pump up to 14 PSI of pressure. However, one of them can deliver that pressure up to 5 gallons a minute, and the other will be able to deliver that same pressure up to 50 gallons a minute. When they are given static conditions (like say blocked pipes) they will both pump up to 14PSI. You will not be able to measure a difference. However, give them both a very wide unrestricted pipe to pump through and you may find that the 5gal/min pump is pumping 6gal/min and is now providing only 7PSI, but the 50gal/min pump is maintaining that 14PSI and delivering a nice 12 gal/min. I hope that this may have helped at least some people out there.
That was a great post Serjio Pretuniliy. It annoys me beyond measure when people argue about what they don't understand (especially if both sides of the argument are incorrect), which is what this entire comments section seems to be about on this video. I wanted to say what you have said but you beat me to it. Good work.
Dude f* ck that guy shit I wanna see what the whole dam grid looks like too flashing on and off that's pretty impressive dangerous.....but impressive 🤔🤣 .... population control
God-dam! I was on the floor laughing at these guys. Their accent and the way they talk is hilarious. I am a power systems engineer in Houston, Texas. Fuck safety. Keep going! I want to see more sparks, more smoke and more power!
Ya, I am. So What? I don't care what other people do as long as their actions don't hurt me. I always wanted to throw an aluminum pole across the A phase and B phase of a 235KV transmission line! Hell ya! I love big power!
He's still alive and well,(hopefully still after a year), he did a vid with Wayne's electrical in the playroom th-cam.com/video/1-AW-bFAEp8/w-d-xo.html
Samuel Seidel haha yeah. Well I guess Tesla must have really done a nice job educating their customers on power electronics. Else TH-cam would have had a lot of "Oh my Tesla just blacked-out my street/house videos"
They hate him as what he does places intense loads on the system but for brief and intermittent periods of time. Trust me, it ain't costing him a whole lot ;)
I wonder what size of capacitor bank would be enough to compensate for his reactive power. Also wise choice to stay with the electromechanical meter, it can't read reactive power like the solid state ones :D
You get a sense that the educational system is heavily flawed and compromised when you read the comments here. Almost no one knows anything about electricity.
+Flower of Life Even a number of folk who think they do. But I'd better not get started off on education. I'll end up all bent out of shape, and ranting like a loon.
+Flower of Life I learned a lot about electricity in school, but none of it would have made much sense without my crazy desire to play with electricity. To understand electricity, you must experiment with it. Once you play with it, you'll realize there are so many myths floating around.
+TheAnubis022 Please do not bash important subjects like gender studies in favor of other important subjects like physics. As an engineer I wish I had the opportunity to take gender studies when I was younger. It would have been extremely valuable for me, and I'm certain it would be valuable for society as a whole.
Aw Photon man, hope you're holding up good and still getting in some playtime. You're the original TH-cam electrical destroyer/genius and inspired so many others to do cool stuff.
I'm not an expert, but if I had to guess, I would say that the circuit is extremely low voltage. A transformer will either increase the volts/decrease the amps OR it will increase the amps/decrease the volts. If the volts were low enough, even the rubber of his shoes would isolate him.
People who say that what he is doing is dangerous: Yes, while playing with high voltage high current power supplies has the potential to lead to a disastrous situation, this is usually not the case with Photonic as he takes many precautions that may not be so obvious to the untrained eye. Notice that most of his videos involve making things explode or glow red hot or "pop" or burn or whatever the outcome may be. What is actually happening is that he uses conductors to "close the circuit" on his beefy power supplies. This causes a massive surge of current which would otherwise be impossible to obtain without his equipment due to the unavailability of high voltages, fuses, limitations in household circuits, etc. The massive current and subsequent resistive heating (friction) of the material and then finally the "pop" or whatever is just damaging to whatever he is heating (e.g. a kettle pot, dildo, iron rod, coconut, etc.) If the power supply is rated to handle the power, everything else is fine. He is also usually ok to handle these massive wires without gloves or any other protective gear because electricity follows the path of least resistance. The current will flow through the conductor he is trying to explode and the wire rather than his body (as long as he doesn't touch the wire and yes this may happen accidentally). Now, flying projectiles, resulting fires, etc. may be dangerous, but the actual electricity is not in most cases. But then again, so is crossing the street or going down a flight of stairs or playing a game of football. All of you take relatively pretty big risks every day without noticing so please refrain from criticizing an expert electrician for being "stupid" or "incompetent" for sacrificing a small amount of personal safety for entertainment. Michele Romeo
How this video doesn't have a billion views is beyond me. THIS MAN USED A NEIGHBORHOOD'S-WORTH OF ELECTRICITY! Craziest vid on TH-cam. Andy is such a legend.
Your bloody nuts but in the good way, never laughed so much, I had accident with 125A 3 phase supply running from 2 diesel generators synced up, (main and backup) 125A connector went into meltdown, then short circuit 1st generator stalled, 2 reved right up to max rpm in secconds and exploded shooting con rods and pistons through engine block, oops.
***** So that's why he didn't die when he shorted the cable? It looked extremely dangerous to me, but if it was just couple dozen volts... Does a thicker cable equal less resistance?
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"We've exceeded our electrical supply"
"For the street?"
"Nah for the whole f***ing neighbourhood" lol.
Best channel ever.
Worth it is... Yeah... Urgh! 😣
was about to say the same thing! i love these guys!
He needs a fuckin powerstation to play with Jesus Christmas this guy is a Legend of electrics
lacika861 lol true
9:57 Where are those clips from?
Guy from electric company visits them for electrometer reading.
"What the F**** happened??!!!"
"It popped."
Tell them you had the ac and microwave going at the same time or something 😂
10:19
Awww, we popped it!
"I don't know, I was only pullin' 2 volts."
"Ohno we can't keep doing that, the neighbors lights are flashing! Just one more time go on!" 😂
LAMOOOOOOO..
🤣
Fucking hilarious
There went my Power...
“I’m usin’ i’all are’n’ I!”
The power company must love you.
he uses batteries but charges them at night at a lower price.. i'm sure he made a ton of money on youtube though
But not the fire department !!!
@Castle Bravo he's their best customer
@@boris2342 He's not as green as he is cabbage looking mate.
@@punker4Real does he have this on his channel? I'm guessing he's using lead acid batteries then? This dude seems to have so much cool shit
"yea tha whole fahkin neighborhood's droppin like a sack o' shit" lol
Mum, the neighbor is torturing his electrical system
"Gerald get away from the window"
lol
+Skycaptin Ben I always wanted to have a beer with photonicinduction
+fritzbuild3r me to
+Skycaptin Ben LOL
+fritzbuild3r same here
2020: Photonic single-handedly restarts UK steelmaking with the arc furnace upstairs in the loft
Except when it's classed as a Blast furnace, it really makes it pop.
@@fartpluswetone8077 : yes, I know the difference.
Well you were only a year out
Started working at an energy company this week, spent all week learning about meters and shit and had to rewatch this video to get my frustrations out.
Chris Price now she thinks shes a spark
"We can't keep doing it" ... "do it again" .. "and again".
This is awesome.
I would love to hang out with these guys. XD
yeah shaco
Shaco Clone- its a lot safer watching it on TH-cam haha
This lad's bloody mental.
+Ken Knerr I think he is sexually attracted to electricity.
+ARGHHHHH! Weirdly I feel like saying there's nothing wrong with that.
+ARGHHHHH! hahaha
+ARGHHHHH! Aren't you?
+ARGHHHHH! he is electrosexual, a word invented by the youtuber s7ormy, he is italian.
I love how this guy will bend glowing hot steel rods with his bare hands without even flinching.
How does he not die from that, wouldn't he get a shock?
@@RedDread_ he is isolated, electricity tries to find the fastest way to ground, which in this case, is the other wire. The glowing hot steel rod was interesting though
@@RedDread_ it's very low voltage on the secondary winding (the big wire) but it can supply high current.
Wtf!! I just noticed that
@RedDread_ you need 10-12 volts of electricity to get a shock, anything less in not enough to be conducted by your skin. That is why you can touch car battery terminals without getting shocked. (Unless your hands are wet)
It is a shame you didn't record the neighbors lights flickering, that would have been awesome!
to much identifiable.
@@JAKOB1977In the electric scooter video he rides his scooter up and down his street so I don't think that's why he didn't record it.
Can't because it didn't happen.
It because it will leave evidence at least he could say he was messing around and faked the breaker LEDs for effect he just need denialbilitiy
Jovet yes it did
The accent makes this perfect.
Ow yeah
Wallace but not
@@BenjaminRodandwhoopi the heavy ish British accent
Geezer power, activate!
@@BenjaminRodandwhoopi yeah, and I'm not american, I'm from north carolina
5:20 "The neighbor's house lightly fucking flashing" "No" "Swear on your fucking Christ!"
I love this bloke so much. Two middle aged men giggling like schoolkids over the neighbors lights. The fact the he's doing this on a carpet. The fact the only "safety" gear he has on is his trainers. The scissors to try pop the Stanley knife back on. I discovered this channel a just a bit late but going through his old catalogue of videos has kept me thoroughly entertained the last few weeks.
He is beyond crazy! But I love his technical knowledge!
It's just a testament to his confidence in his wiring skills because his house hasn't burned down
A child only Nicola Tesla could love.
+jserra17 R.I.P. David Bowie
+jserra17 lol
Nikola Tesla* How dare you ruin his name?!
+NikolaJXPL your name?
+NikolaJXPL A thousand pardons! Not really ruined, just a little c/k substitution...
"Well I'm using it all, aren't I?"
Fucking dying.
Made me crack up haha "I swear on your fucking christ"
+LocoMitch678 makes me laugh every time
+LocoMitch678 my favorite is "rEally? That's fuckin Baad"
Skunkdog Gro lol, that was really great, too. I love how he's all, "no, don't do that again." and then his boy's like, "let me see it one more time!"
::happily obliges::
lol, I wonder wtf the neighbors were thinking!
+Mike Mitchell "tha whole fahkin neighborhood's droppin like a sack of shit"
idk why, but I died laughing when he "put the kettle on."
"whys that happenin"
"WELL IM USIN IT ALL AINT I!"
and all this on a carpet floor.
a wonder his house is still there!
It's fire proof carpet
Do you think a man as smart as him would set his house on fire?
+Zoink We'd have the whole-house pop video :-).
Yes.
DESCENT I bet it's that umm special asbestos carpet...? ;)
Fuck me, wait till this guy gets his electricity bill.
i dont onow much and im pretty stupid but how the hell were you able to hold metal in between the cabbles wouldnt that have electrocuted you i saw that it shocked you a couple times.
+Im Chuck current travels on the lowest resistance. Metal has lower resistance than his hand.
+Jeremiah Suarez Volts must be really low too. It would be crazy to rely only on lower resistance because if you closed the circuit faster with you than the other wire it would be only able to go through you.
You can calculate the voltage he gets if you aren't as lazy as me. Pretty easy to do.
Edit: no need to calculate, it's 0.5V so the amps going through you are probably really really close to 0mA
+Im Chuck he will not get electrocuted simply because the winding of the copper wire on the core is 8 turns that will only gives a very little amount of voltage but the diameter is quite thick and will give you a high amount of current or AMPS, were the hell you learn your basic practical electricity?
Sorry, they cannot tell how much they used. Their Energy Meter Popped
Kids, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME
go to your mates house instead!
Cyber MacGyver it's bad when you watch thus cause it's happening at your house
Your mate who has a different power company than you
Your mate is a stripper
Thats good idea tho
50v voltage drop at the neighbors'? MORE POWER! UNLIMITED POWER!!
[indecipherable British chatter]
"What 'else can we stick across it?"
This channel is fantastic
this guy's electricity bill must be ridiculous
LOL
The Light Bulb You gave me an idea! :D
Cool!
EggwardPolska ᴰᵉˢᶦᵍᶰ what's yo idea?
MinecraftRocks999 To make a sandwich :D
My old man was a mechanical engineer, and he always used to say that the electrical engineers he used to work with were all a bit fucked in the head given the amount of times they had been zapped from industrial machinery. You prove his theory correct good sir. Love this guy & love the channel by the way!
"Im going to pour 500 eggs thru my electric meter."
I love auto generated captions.
It’s the equivalent of what he really does, with how much smoking it’s doing
Well here's our electric motor why that correctly [electric meter wired up correctly] put it about items [pulling about 8 amps] which is probably a couple of phrases and phrases [fridges and freezers] and a few lights. Just about say to me today [see the meter there] and then I come home from work and I put the cap on a little bit you [kettle on, so that uses a little bit more, don't it?]. Only that start swinging [The ol' meter starts whizzing] ...
Let's run some numbers
He said that at 250A on the primary he could get 20kA on the secondary, which on a 240V supply means there's about 3V across the secondary (P=IV, P=250*240, P=60kW, V=P/I, V=60000/20000, V=3V). Estimating for about 10m of cable, there's a resistance there of about 50μΩ, which, when shorted, makes for a current draw of around 64kA.
I licked my fingers and measured the resistance between them with my multimeter (accurate and scientific I know) to be about 50kΩ, which at 3V, would draw around 0.6mA. (I=V/R, I=3/50000, I=0.0006A)
If my brief googling is correct, this shouldn't even be a tingle, though if you've recently exfoliated your hands and dip them in saline you might feel more of a tingle, but not a painful sensation. In conclusion, my haphazard googling and back-of-the-envelope maths shows that holding the leads should be perfectly safe.
You first though...
Finally someone with some sense
Finally, another person who knows what they're talking about!
Finally someone we don't understand because of the ridiculously long comment XD
Super everything you said is correct
r/theydidthemath
"We're gonna need a bigger house!"
+Brian Whitney your profile picture goes well with your comment.
+Reegareth indeed it does haga
brian Whitney he will bring Frankenstein back to life next awsome videos
+Brian Whitney I heard that in the video as soon as I scrolled down and saw this.
Did that come from each that crappy jeep advert
Not in a shed, not in a basement, not even in the backyard. In an attic, on a carpet with a piece of tile as a 'work' surface.. Well, Emperor Palpatine had to start somewhere too.
For those who don't understand why the guy isn't getting shocked when touching the bare metal of the box cutter when shorting it out, it's because the circuit is from an isolated transformer. If you normally touch bare wire like in a service panel, that uses earth to complete the circuit so touching it completes the circuit through you. But a circuit from an isolated transformer, you touching the bare metal does nothing because the circuit cannot be completed through you unless you hold both ends of the wire.
This is the way. I came to say this and thankful you did because I am feeling lazy and didn’t want to type out the answer I always look for someone else who has answered the question.
That's not the only reason tho. The voltage is super low because of the low number of turns, while the current is very very high. A transformer is like a differential but for electrons :D
I only understand the video on level of he built cage for the electricity, got a considerable amount of heat wrapping thick wire around transformer magnet widget and I guess he's a ghost cuz looks like he does insane stuff.
Thanks I was wondering that
XD wait a second you are draining so much power that the neighboor is getting power dips?
Dylan Collins
because when your lights are flickering the first thing you do is look around to see if your neighboor's is doing the same.
ofcourse not moron
callum barbra I know this, but if you're having a brown out every 15 seconds you'd look out the window to see what's going on wouldn't you? And I do know that lights flicker, I'm in Ireland, we use 50Hz too...
It is persists for any major length of time, I'll drop my house off the grid by firing up my generator and then a throwover of my transfer switch. In my neighborhood, there's around 8 houses riding on a padmount transformer out at the street. So, if someone's stick welding at a high working current, your lights flicker.
BPM Productions of Colorado hillbilly
@@djscrizzle That should not happen normally. Your hood is not fed well then
This quote of Hank Hill comes to mind: " Do you know how to start a man's heart with a downed power line?" Bobby Hill: "No." "Well, there's really no wrong way."
Respect! For quoting Hank Hill!
What episode os thos
gregistopal Not sure the episode title but it was the one where LouAnn was living in the trailer park and a tornado was coming. Hank had his pants blown off by the tornado.
+Sam King classic episode. wasnt he hanging onto a pole?
Nyxi Yes!
I love that even though this video is 8 years old, the quality is still on par with most videos of now
Damn I need this wire for my next sound system build haha.
Scrapyard m8. Pay pr. kg. Easy to find industrial copper cables there :X
" The whole neighbor hoods dropping like a sack of shit " " whys that? " " I'm using it all aren't i! " so fucking gold xD
This is a long post, please don't bother telling me I have no life to post something like this on youtube, I already know that :)
I feel like a lot of people don't understand current and voltage and I feel like the people who do understand never explain it very well. So here it goes:
This video is an example of a low voltage/high current power supply. The voltage is so low that he can touch both contacts with bare hands and probably not feel anything. "BUT ITS AMPERAGE THAT KILLS!" is what you might want to scream at me. This is very true, but also VERY misunderstood.
Many people don't like this analogy, but I personally think it's awesome. Electricity is very similar to water. Pipes are the conductors (think wires), and how constricted the pipes are is resistance of the conductors. In this analogy, the pressure of the water in those pipes is the same thing as the voltage of electricity. The current of the water is... you guessed it, the current of the electricity (measured in amps).
Now imagine that you have a constricted pipe (it has some arbitrary resistance), and you have no pressure on either side. You can guess that most likely, no current will flow. Now imagine you have equal high pressure on either side. Even though the pressure is high, it's the same on both sides of the pipe, so again, no current will flow. In order to create flow, we need a PRESSURE DIFFERENCE. Similarly, for electricity to flow across some conductor there must be a voltage difference.
Notice, that in this analogy, the current of the water is induced by the pressure difference. It is the pressure difference that forces the water to move. Electricity is very similar. Also notice that you can increase current in two ways, one is by applying more pressure (voltage), but the other way is to reduce the constriction of the water pipe (reduce the resistance). This can be seen by the following equation:
voltage = current x resistance. This is ohm's law.
Death by electrocution is very often caused by the electricity screwing with the "wiring" of your heart and causing your heart to stop beating. The most relevant number to measure in such a situation is the current going through you heart. There is a certain amount of current, that when induced directly through your heart, has some high probability of stopping your heart. When people say IT'S NOT THE VOLTAGE THAT KILLS, IT'S THE AMPS, this is why.
Notice, however, that there are two very large pieces of information that get cut out when people say something like the above:
1) It is very important to know WHERE that current is crossing. If 20 amps of current are crossing your hand, and ONLY your hand, you are not going to die. Your hand will be extremely damaged, but if no current is crossing the rest of your body, you'll probably be fine.
2) You CAN NOT HAVE CURRENT WITHOUT VOLTAGE. A 2V power can cause hundreds of amps of current to cross a copper bar. But the same voltage will do barely anything applied to any parts of the human body. Why? Because the copper bare has very little resistance. Again, think about water. You can have a very small pressure difference, but if you apply that pressure difference across the mississipi river, you will have MASSIVE current. If you apply the same pressure difference across a straw, it will be a trickle. Your body is a straw. Notice, also, that when I say 2V of voltage applied to your body it is actually not very specific. 2V of voltage applied where? across your finger? across your tounge? across two electrodes jabbed directly into your heart? All of these situations will cause different resistances, and therefore will induce different amounts of current between the two chosen points.
All of this should naturally lead you to a very important question. If the only thing that dictates current is 1) voltage (property of the power supply) and 2) resistance (property of the material the electricity is passing through), then why on earth do power supplies have current ratings.
A current rating on a power supply does not tell you what current will be supplied by that power supply. The current rating on a power supply simply tells you the MAXIMUM that power supply can reliably provide and still be within some sort of specifications. As you begin to approach that current rating, the voltage may begin to drop, or the device will begin to degrade (rapidly!) or some combination.
Similarly, other voltage sources, like batteries, may not have current ratings, but none the less they have some sort of internal resistance. You will notice a very large difference between attaching a wire between the terminals of a 3V battery, and doing the same to the terminals of a 3V industrial transformer. Why? The 3V battery has internal resistance, and that means that as the current gets high the 3V battery will actually stop delivering 3V. It will drop to a very low voltage when shortcircuited. A 3V transformer, on the other hand, could very well continue to provide insanely high currents and still deliver 3V.
Imagine two water pumps (I love water analogies!). Both are rated to pump up to 14 PSI of pressure. However, one of them can deliver that pressure up to 5 gallons a minute, and the other will be able to deliver that same pressure up to 50 gallons a minute. When they are given static conditions (like say blocked pipes) they will both pump up to 14PSI. You will not be able to measure a difference. However, give them both a very wide unrestricted pipe to pump through and you may find that the 5gal/min pump is pumping 6gal/min and is now providing only 7PSI, but the 50gal/min pump is maintaining that 14PSI and delivering a nice 12 gal/min.
I hope that this may have helped at least some people out there.
Nicely explained indeed, good job, just correct the "very large peaces" to "very large pieces".
AlphaArcticWolf
'i' before 'e', except after 'c', and also except when this rule doesn't apply. DONE. thank you.
That was a great post Serjio Pretuniliy. It annoys me beyond measure when people argue about what they don't understand (especially if both sides of the argument are incorrect), which is what this entire comments section seems to be about on this video. I wanted to say what you have said but you beat me to it. Good work.
Hello, my physics teacher!
This is why signs say 'Danger High Voltage," and don't say 'Danger High Amps"
"The whole fucking neighborhood's dropping like a sack of shit"
"Why's that?"
"Well, I'm using it all, aren't I?"
"Fuck that"
Lmao
**Power meter buzzing rattling and smoking from it's last dying breath**
TH-cam subtitles: *[Music]*
lmao I so wish you'd pointed the camera out the window to show us your neighbors lights!
whats ur reaction to a reply to ur comment w/ no views from 4 years ago?
@@thedoeverything418 well what's yours then?
Dude f* ck that guy shit I wanna see what the whole dam grid looks like too flashing on and off that's pretty impressive dangerous.....but impressive 🤔🤣
.... population control
I grabbed popcorn hoping to see the lights flashing
@@thedoeverything418 stick to flying toy planes bud. 💀😂😂
God-dam! I was on the floor laughing at these guys. Their accent and the way they talk is hilarious. I am a power systems engineer in Houston, Texas. Fuck safety. Keep going! I want to see more sparks, more smoke and more power!
I WANT FLAMES!
Racist Texan bitch
"Fuck safety".. and you're a power systems engineer!?
Ya, I am. So What? I don't care what other people do as long as their actions don't hurt me. I always wanted to throw an aluminum pole across the A phase and B phase of a 235KV transmission line! Hell ya! I love big power!
+Impedancenetwork Yeah that's great, but maybe you need to look for a different job. Demolitions expert, or maybe something in the military lol.
I feel like I'm watching deep web style video when I watch this dude
Where is this Geeza?
I miss him and his videos lots.
Hes prolly gone to India now - very clever lad
His wifes with him the uk now. Theres a recent photo on Reddit of them looking happy together. No sign of new videos though.
@@martinfreekie7659 where? Link?
@@darthrevan2063 not reddit but here you go
www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/photonicinduction-passed-away-(unconfirmed)/msg2159500/#msg2159500
He's still alive and well,(hopefully still after a year), he did a vid with Wayne's electrical in the playroom
th-cam.com/video/1-AW-bFAEp8/w-d-xo.html
He's back now. Check the new video for an update.
(in a calm voice) "uhhhh!!!.....we've exceeded our electrical supply".
EPIC! (7:22)
How many people can ever say that? PI, you're the man.
haxkalibrr if you own a TESLA car and want to charge it at 100kw
Samuel Seidel haha yeah.
Well I guess Tesla must have really done a nice job educating their customers on power electronics. Else TH-cam would have had a lot of "Oh my Tesla just blacked-out my street/house videos"
the software must have some charging current limit
His power company either loves him or hates him.
They hate him as what he does places intense loads on the system but for brief and intermittent periods of time. Trust me, it ain't costing him a whole lot ;)
I wonder what size of capacitor bank would be enough to compensate for his reactive power. Also wise choice to stay with the electromechanical meter, it can't read reactive power like the solid state ones :D
He manages to get then 91 degrees out of phase hah
this guy is one of those people who gets sexually aroused about electricity isn't he.
xD
1:50 you might be right about that
Nabo00o 😂
2:27 it's been circumcised
2:00 !
5:16 that’s hilarious you’re making the neighborhood lights flash on and off probably giving a lot of people brown outs!!
No brown outs at 50v drop.
Working with sparks, high current and hot wires, and a carpet installed???!!!! you are nuts.
It's an anti-static carpet.
Also, it's hypoallergenic.
Carlos Matiz of course hes nuts, what does it look like?
+MrTubularBalls Also I hear it was installed by specialists in the field of carpet installation.
Well, there isn't much left of the carpet.
And *that's* what tipped you off?
You get a sense that the educational system is heavily flawed and compromised when you read the comments here. Almost no one knows anything about electricity.
+Flower of Life
Even a number of folk who think they do.
But I'd better not get started off on education. I'll end up all bent out of shape, and ranting like a loon.
+Flower of Life To be fair, they don't teach a nick of it in school. I never learned a SINGLE THING about electricity in Highschool.
yeh ikr guy above YOU DO IT ON CARPET
+Flower of Life I learned a lot about electricity in school, but none of it would have made much sense without my crazy desire to play with electricity. To understand electricity, you must experiment with it. Once you play with it, you'll realize there are so many myths floating around.
+TheAnubis022 Please do not bash important subjects like gender studies in favor of other important subjects like physics. As an engineer I wish I had the opportunity to take gender studies when I was younger. It would have been extremely valuable for me, and I'm certain it would be valuable for society as a whole.
Your Vids are the best! I just can't stop laughing at your antics. Awesome mate. Love it.
This is quite insane! Man, if he had all the amps he was seeking, he'd probably create a portal to another universe.
This is why aliens don't visit earth...
:D, I wouldn't doubt it.
we got dat power mmmmmm!
i can't tell if i want you on my side after the apocalypse or if you will be the guy that causes it
Probably both
You are the only person I know that is capable of putting your neighbors electricity out. Fantastic. I love your videos.
I haven’t laughed so hard. And to start 2020 off with a laugh this big. Thank you. :-)
When you saw the neighbors lights dim.
I would love to sell you a life insurance policy.
+Drrck11 I loled xD
Ether his insurance company loves him or hate him
How about a household insurance policy?
+Drrck11 no you wouldn't because you'd have to pay out probably pretty soon, losing money.
having the feeling of watching some psycho movie
awesome, dude
Lmao the neighbours lights... this was hilarious. Your videos are great. Looking forward to new ones :)
That transformer pulled down the neighborhood's power supply? 0.0
Seems as though it killed the neighborhood's power supply... LOL
That must have been fun to explain to the electric company
Aw Photon man, hope you're holding up good and still getting in some playtime. You're the original TH-cam electrical destroyer/genius and inspired so many others to do cool stuff.
I'd love to hang out with this bloke. He's absolutely mental!
And that proves that this guy can forge swords.
Whenever injury occurs, it is going to be written about in a medical journal.
5 mins into the video I was crying with laughter, love your work photon
We'll be seeing these guys star in a LiveLeak video in the near future.
Graphic content?
I'm not an expert, but if I had to guess, I would say that the circuit is extremely low voltage. A transformer will either increase the volts/decrease the amps OR it will increase the amps/decrease the volts. If the volts were low enough, even the rubber of his shoes would isolate him.
That's awesome. "I want more!" Damn electric meter spinning like a top.
This guy is Doc. Brown from Back to the Future when he was young.
No, he’s pretty much just Wallace who traded his dog for a power supply.
no he's Nikola Bellic
Back again in my recommendations. Pls come back
I loled when you brownouted the whole street.
People who say that what he is doing is dangerous: Yes, while playing with high voltage high current power supplies has the potential to lead to a disastrous situation, this is usually not the case with Photonic as he takes many precautions that may not be so obvious to the untrained eye. Notice that most of his videos involve making things explode or glow red hot or "pop" or burn or whatever the outcome may be. What is actually happening is that he uses conductors to "close the circuit" on his beefy power supplies. This causes a massive surge of current which would otherwise be impossible to obtain without his equipment due to the unavailability of high voltages, fuses, limitations in household circuits, etc. The massive current and subsequent resistive heating (friction) of the material and then finally the "pop" or whatever is just damaging to whatever he is heating (e.g. a kettle pot, dildo, iron rod, coconut, etc.) If the power supply is rated to handle the power, everything else is fine. He is also usually ok to handle these massive wires without gloves or any other protective gear because electricity follows the path of least resistance. The current will flow through the conductor he is trying to explode and the wire rather than his body (as long as he doesn't touch the wire and yes this may happen accidentally). Now, flying projectiles, resulting fires, etc. may be dangerous, but the actual electricity is not in most cases. But then again, so is crossing the street or going down a flight of stairs or playing a game of football. All of you take relatively pretty big risks every day without noticing so please refrain from criticizing an expert electrician for being "stupid" or "incompetent" for sacrificing a small amount of personal safety for entertainment. Michele Romeo
How this video doesn't have a billion views is beyond me. THIS MAN USED A NEIGHBORHOOD'S-WORTH OF ELECTRICITY!
Craziest vid on TH-cam. Andy is such a legend.
lol i hear a siren faintly in the background did u sag the police station power aswell ?
the people at the power station must love you
I cannot get enough of this guys personality and video edits lmao
I love you man, you know your shit and just straight up messing around. You deserve way more subs
10:17 That mad scientist laugh. xD
Guys sounds like captain jack sparrow
Your bloody nuts but in the good way, never laughed so much, I had accident with 125A 3 phase supply running from 2 diesel generators synced up, (main and backup) 125A connector went into meltdown, then short circuit 1st generator stalled, 2 reved right up to max rpm in secconds and exploded shooting con rods and pistons through engine block, oops.
I’m suprised the engine grenaded and didn’t hit the rev limiter!
What is your electricity bill
jonathan talor No one knows... Legend says the last meter the electric company was willing to sacrifice was featured in this video...
jonathan talor rising :)
You don't want to know.
Only £100000,000000,00000000!!!!!!! Per hour!!!!!!!!
Increasing.
You guys are insane. 😂 Your vids are great!
4:23 - 4:26 - the most funniest and epicness laugh in the universe xD
Famous quotes from photon;
"We're gonna crank it right up"
"WE POPPED IT"
you guy's are absolutely nuts. love the video.
Iv just stumbled onto this channel.. And I'm loving it.
Brilliant! When it got to the Stanley knife, I had to pause the video so I didn't die laughing!!!!!!! :D
Those video clips towards the end are from the movie, Pulse, one of favourite 'B' movies.
honestly, you make such awesome videos.
well done m8
NFS Gaming
Dude you are the funniest TH-camr I've seen mate. This channel is gold. Subbed.
Well I like that.
But I want more!
Just imagine the neighbours watching a scary movie or something and then their lights just start flickering out of nowhere.
just imagine his neighbours....watching THIS!! :-DDDDD
You're absolutely insane, I love it.
I think this is the most badass video of the entire Internet. I love ya.
this was probably a spare electric meter
this guy is the electrician version of jackass
Just popped up in my time line.
We miss you photon, come back soon 😁👍
As said there is a fine line between brilliant & insane and this man pogo back n forth
just out of curiosity, what's your average months' electric bill look like?
Sorry if I come across as ignorant, but I thought that the shilling hasn't been used in ages.
***** So that's why he didn't die when he shorted the cable? It looked extremely dangerous to me, but if it was just couple dozen volts...
Does a thicker cable equal less resistance?