Absurdly dangerous is an understatement, those things will kill you in short order if you ground yourself out with it.Even with those redundant safeties in place he should be wearing eye protection and welding gauntlets or other insular gloves at the bare minimum. Even my science teachers from my school years wore the gloves and eye protection at least in electricity related experiments/demonstrations. And for anyone curious, the apples were conductive due to their water and electrolyte content, a citrus fruit, particularly grapefruit, lemon, lime, etc., would have displayed greater conductivity.
That's what the electric chair does, 2000v. If you must do HV stuff, avoid mots. Get a neon sign transformer. Hugher voltage for better jacobs ladders and a fraction of current. Mine was 15kv at 30ma which is on the higher end for an NST.
Why is the Neon Trafo safer ? is it current ? or are the HV coils autonomous to the transformer core ? and are there ways to make the MOT safer ? or is it frequency ? I thought the bigger NEON units were also 60 hz ? any answers welcome thanx
That's because it traveled around the skin of the apple.Says it's AC voltage AC travels by skin surface.If you wanted to actually cook through the apple, you have to convert it to d c
Someone with his understanding of electricity should not be doing experiments like this for both his sake and the viewers. This is extremely dangerous and the slightest mistake can be instantly lethal
Your explanations in this video were superb. I actually learned a lot, especially with that sword demonstration/example. I passed through high school science but a lot of it I ended up forgetting, or really never interacting with. This was a super fun way to explore electricity and microwave transformers. Thanks!
Just wanted to come in to say R.I.P Grant. He was a huge part of my childhood i loved this channel so much. Thank you guys to much for continuing his legacy 🙏.
so cool. i saw that every time i went to my state fair when they demonstrated the power of power lines. now i want to see what happens to the potatoes.
I remember in the late 80s we use to find broken tvs and take out the transformers and have like 10 of us hold each other hands in a big circle and connect a 9v battery and shock everyone😂😂
Understanding how a transformer works isn't hard. Electricity is converted to electromagnetic waves in the first coil, and the secondary coil picks the waves up and converts them back into Electricity. The secondary just reverses the process of what happened to the Electricity in the first coil. How much voltage it produces is determined by the ratio of the coils. If there's 100 turns in the primary coil, and 300 in the secondary, the ratio is 3:1. So if you put 120 volts into the primary, there would be 360 coming from the secondary coil. Microwave transformers are around 18:1, so the final voltage at the Jacob's ladder is 2200+volts
@@TheKingofRandom Without going overly deep into it, It works because of the electromagnetic force. It's essentially a quantum effect that sums to a greater whole. Electricity is the shifting of electrons in response to a charge disparity at the atomic level. Magnetism is a result of many like charges building up into something noticeable at a human scale. The two are related because flowing electrons create enough of a cumulative charge to be measurable. If the disparity is constant, as in DC current, then the resulting magnetic field is constant as the electrons shifting are just many like charges. When the disparity is not constant, as in AC current, the resulting magnetic field is actively changing over time. What this means for transformers is that with DC and a constant magnetic field, there's no change to the secondary since the electrons in it would have time to adjust to the induced charge disparity and even out. With AC however, the fluctuating magnetic field doesn't give the electrons in the secondary time to balance the disparity and thus they continue to shift, generating a current.
current flows into the primary coil and generates a magnetic field which usually gets channeled through a iron core to the secondary coil and the more turns you have on the secondary coil means more area emf can induce into- and a change in magnetic field strength means a change in magnetic flux which induces EMF into the coils…
@@TheKingofRandom Is this really an appropriate response to a very clear safety violation? No responses to the recommendations of safety gloves and dead man switches? It seems like TKOR hired some 15 year old TikTocker under minimum wage to respond to video comments. Never once did Grant, Cali, or Nate make me feel even 1/10th as nervous as this video did across multiple occasions. Even worse were the edits that cut out the times Jake didn't follow his "3-Step safety system", this dude is going to fry himself.
@@TheKingofRandom - If you have family that would take you to or visit you in the hospital, their suffering will be worse than having to wear an eye patch.
Electricity is made when something moves through a magnetic field. With the 2 coils, neither object is moving, but the magnetic field is. The 60hz AC electricity going through the primary coil is constantly creating a magnetic field, then bringing that field down to nothing, and then reversing it's polarity. The secondary coil is within that magnetic field and is energized. The steel around the coils help direct the magnetic field since copper itself isn't magnetic. The more windings of wire on coil in the field, the higher the voltage it creates. Output will be less than the input. If your using a transformer that draws 10 amps at 120 volts, then your looking at 1200 watts of electricity. If you've got a 2000 volt arc from 1200 watts, then your amperage will be closer to 0.6 amps.
It's the other way around: a magnetic field is made when an electric charge is moving. A magnetic field cannot exist before you move an electric charge because magnetic fields have no source (2nd Maxwell's equation).
@@TimeFadesMemoryLasts magnets exist, on their own. Yes, electrons moving also make a magnetic field. Generators can use permanent magnets Alternators use an electro magnet
@@RubberSalt no, they don't exist on their own. Magnetic fields have, like I said, no source. That's the second Maxwell's equation. Look it up. Any magnetic field has moving electrons at their base. *For permanent magnets it's the movement and spin of electrons around the core of atoms.* So even permanent magnets have moving charges from which their magnetic field is being created. *Laws of electromagnetism:* - The source of electric fields are electric charges (1st Maxwell's eq). - Magnetic fields have no source (2nd Maxwell's eq). - Changing (moving) electric fields yield magnetic fields (3rd Maxwell's eq). - Changing magnetic fields AFFECT electric charges and fields in return (4th Maxwell's equation) - but magnetic fields can't exist before having moving electric charges first. These 4 basic rules (which I simplified a bit for the explanation's sake) make up and describe all of electromagnetism. *Another way to look at it:* Magnetic effects are just electric effects that have the special theory of relativity applied. If you look at it like that it makes more sense that magnetic fields have no source. Magnetic fields can be described as just electric fields which appear different because of a moving observer relative to the electric field (relativistic effects make electric fields look like magnetic fields because of time dilation and length contraction). In that sense, magnetic fields are an "illusion" because how they appear and look like depends on the observer, if that makes sense to you. It's hard to imagine though if you are not familiar with the special theory of relativity.
@@RubberSalt No worries :) At the end of the day it's just a detail that is not important for electrical engineering. You have electric fields and magnetic fields vice versa, like you said. But if you ask about "what was first, the chicken or the egg?" then the electric charge was first because the electron "spawns" an electric field which then in return gives you a magnetic field as soon as you move the electron. That in return affects the electric field again, which then affects the magnetic field again etc... but at the source it's always the electron (or electric charge) that "kicks off" these EM effects.
I'm amazed that you went through and made a video about this even after saying you thought it too dangerous. I give you mad props for doing it anyway. There is one thing you can change for future reference though. Instead of using salt water, use baking soda and water. The salt isn't conductive enough to get the proper looking effect you were trying to achieve when you burned the wood directly. Unless you used salt on purpose in order to tone down the reaction for the camera sake. That would make sense.
@TheKingofRandom the perfect ratio you want is 2 tablespoons of baking soda to one liter of warm water. Let it soak into the wood for about 10 seconds. You want the wood to be uniformly damp all over. Not soaked. One you got it where you want it to be wet, place your points on the wood and start the power. Trust me, you'll love what it produces.
@TheKingofRandom if you decide to revisit this, maybe have a neon sign transformer version as a comparison for safety features. The NST version of this art is far safer than the MOT.
Take two of them mount back to back and wire the primary windings complementary. You now got 7200V at up to 2A to play with. Made a bigger tabletop sized tesla coil with it. Mount it in a pail of oil if planning to run for a while. A transmissian oil cooler fed with a miniature pump and a fan is good enough for cooling. ❤
Just catching this in my feed now. Amazing video! And that is one way to cook a steak 🥩! If this experiment doesn’t scream or scare you to not try this at home then I don’t know what will. ☠️☠️☠️☠️💀💀💀
So the reason it art is because the water provided a current point like a wire does, or much like your Jacob's ladder did, with the Gap between the tip of the screwdriver and the water, it was doing pretty much the same thing as the Jacobs ladder, and creating an arc to bridge the gap
I make Lichtenberg art myself and it can be quite fun and fascinating, but PLEASE do NOT use a MOT for it. It is so much safer to use a NST (neon sign transformer) as they are current limited. I have found that they produce better results too. I personally use a 6kv NST and can get tracks up to 3-4 feet in length (depending on how damp the wood is) all that being said, I do not recommend you try this, but if you do, just please be safe about it and make darn sure you have a thorough understanding of and deep respect for electricity. And always, always, always have redundant safeties along with a friend with you just in case something does happen.
I make the same art myself as of these last few months. Also using an NST, however, mine is the 10k variant. I have to agree with you on the sentiment of DO NOT USE MOT'S FOR THIS ART.
@@spartanband12 be sure when you are using it, don't touch any metal part of it while it's on. I've done that a few times with the 10k one. It hurts a bit, but the one you want will be stronger. Make sure to always wear the gloves the system comes with.
I installed a new thermostat one time without bothering to turn off the electricity, and I was able to touch and lick the bare exposed copper wiring because it was only 750 millivolt DC, and I couldn't feel a thing.
I am sure you have someone standing there to pull the plugs in case anything goes bad but still these high voltage experiments are way more dangerous than we can anticipate. The more you know about it, the more It haunts you. 2KV at 50Hz or 60Hz can burst the heart valves even before doing any apparent damage to the skin. When through the heart, 50 to 60hz powerful pulse will try to pump it at 50 to 60 times per second which will be impossible for it and the heart will damage its own valves. The pipe you are grabbing, if you or someone else have grabbed it with sweaty hands from between or below, it can complete the circuit enough to pass a few milliamps through your heart. If there is too much humidity in the environment and the pipe becomes cold due to direct air from your air conditioner, it can form a light layer of condensation enough to pass a few milliamps. The wood you have used as the isolation for the transformer won’t isolate it at such high voltage. So, you shouldn’t assume that touching a single live wire won’t complete the circuit. It will still allow small but enough current which can be dangerous. And lastly, you are not using any isolation gloves, when you are standing in front of the Jacobs ladder, its was probably very unsafe because the Jacobs ladder could fall on you or worse you could fall on it (Live and neutral wires together). Stay safe buddy! I know that you are a professional and you realize the dangers involved but still there are a lot of variables that a human being can overlook and such high voltage at such high current will only take one of them. I am saying this because I care for you! Stay safe buddy!
Some good points. There's no humidity in Utah, so no need to worry about condensation or sweaty hands. The wood as an isolator was really just an extra extra safety as the whole table its sitting on is also made of wood. I made sure to not touch the table OR EITHER WIRE at all when using it regardless. And again its Utah, the weather here is very dry so there is no moisture in the wood. For all practical purposes the wood is entirely non conductive. Gloves would be a good added safety measure, but regular welding or rubber gloves are not insulating enough for this high voltage and high voltage gloves are NOT cheap. The Jacobs ladder had a solid base and was in no danger of falling over, I made sure of that. The safety measure I really should've added was a dead mans switch. Frankly the only reason I didn't have one is I ran out of time before we needed to film this episode. If I was planning on doing high voltage experiments regularly I would optimize the safety of my setup a bit more, because obviously the more you do something the odds of making a mistake go up exponentially. But with some caution and for only doing this once, the safety of this setup was sufficient.
You didnt even connect any capacitors to it yet. At least add the one that came with the oven. Double the Voltage. 4400V Caution: If you dont know about capacitors, they store juice. So even if you turn everything off, they still can kill. ALWAYS ARC THE CAP WHEN FINISHED.
You went back to your old style for all of 3 months, had good success, then went right back. Stop making TKOR corporate. Either let grants project rest or make it live up to his legacy. I can't imagine he'd be happy with this sort of content when his content was random projects, not rinse and repeat the last thing that made money. Corpo behavior on a channel we loved for it's relatable and cool projects we could do ourselves breaks my heart to see.
It was pretty stupid not to use a dead man switch for this. The power should go through a second switch that you stand on with your toes and that way if you get electrocuted or fall it shuts the power off
I dont like how close this man is waving that screwdriver infront of his face. Even if he is isolated, such a high voltage can still give you a strong electric shock due to capacitive coupling if he came into contact with it
these electric microwave oven transformers are scary and dangerous and as much as fun as these look tempting to play with i still advise people to not try this at home ever !
AC power actually makes your muscles contract relax contract relax contract relax contract relax. Most people end up flying across the room on AC current because their muscles push them away. High voltage DC current wheel lock you up for sure
Grant use a modified version of that type of transformer to make a DIY spotwelder. I wonder if you can make a more safe DIY version of that project, it would be awesome!!. Greetings from Chile
What if your light bulb fails, but the power is still on to the MOT? I would make a relay circuit that makes a light come on when power to the MOT is off/disconnected, safe when lit. Gaz UK
😂 when my microwave broke, I took it apart. I used this heavy coils/steel box to make a custom leather and fabric-covered weight to use in my bookbinding. Has any1 ever built an old school tattoo machine? They use 2 coils too. 😉
I think you are doing electrolysis to the water, and then the heat from the electric arc and the screwdriver is immediately causing the newly formed gases to burn and turn back into water.
well this is the kind of content id see from grant , well done . though wear your safety glasses, and if its giving off light like a arc welder you should definitly be using properly tinted googles
Technical error, 2,000 Volts is NOT a lot of "Current" it is a lot of Voltage.! Please stop confusing Voltage and Current. Please get it right if you are going to do an educational video, even if it is for fun.
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Rip to THE king himself.
He will remembered every single day.
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@@fathanE0 paramotoring incident
Please just let this channel rest, its getting depressing watching my childhood channel fade into irrelevancy
Absurdly dangerous is an understatement, those things will kill you in short order if you ground yourself out with it.Even with those redundant safeties in place he should be wearing eye protection and welding gauntlets or other insular gloves at the bare minimum. Even my science teachers from my school years wore the gloves and eye protection at least in electricity related experiments/demonstrations.
And for anyone curious, the apples were conductive due to their water and electrolyte content, a citrus fruit, particularly grapefruit, lemon, lime, etc., would have displayed greater conductivity.
not an understatment if done correctlyy
Oh man this channel went down even more
As fascinating as it is, so many people have died playing with these transformers.
One of the main reasons I wanted to do this video is to spread more awareness about how dangerous these are
Wow, it's like he didn't say that 15 times throughout the video...
Music is distracting and really makes no sense.
Womp womp
Apologies, it is too loud on this vid
@@TheKingofRandomno it is not it is perfect
@TheKingofRandom - The high frequencies, like the cymbals are really loud
I often find the background music on TH-cam videos, super annoying.
That's what the electric chair does, 2000v.
If you must do HV stuff, avoid mots. Get a neon sign transformer. Hugher voltage for better jacobs ladders and a fraction of current. Mine was 15kv at 30ma which is on the higher end for an NST.
Much safer
Why is the Neon Trafo safer ? is it current ? or are the HV coils autonomous to the transformer core ? and are there ways to make the MOT safer ? or is it frequency ? I thought the bigger NEON units were also 60 hz ? any answers welcome thanx
Well this is the earliest I've ever been to a video
Should have put that steak between two stainless steel plates for a few seconds for a char grilled juicy cook.
Nate from the Internet already did that.
Steak electric chair lol
Need a deadmans swirch playing about with MOTs!
Whoa first time seeing this channel in a while. I love the new host!
Thank you!
2000v into salt water sounds like a good way to make chlorine gass to me.
It probably made some very small amounts... that would be interesting to find out
Add salt to water, run a current through it, capture the gas and bubble it in biologically contaminated water. Simple water purifier.
That's because it traveled around the skin of the apple.Says it's AC voltage AC travels by skin surface.If you wanted to actually cook through the apple, you have to convert it to d c
"How do you want your steak?"
"Read it's last rites and sent to the electric chair."😊
Leo, Angel and Guga would not approve.
That would be my last meal if I were on death row.
Someone with his understanding of electricity should not be doing experiments like this for both his sake and the viewers. This is extremely dangerous and the slightest mistake can be instantly lethal
Agreed
Your explanations in this video were superb. I actually learned a lot, especially with that sword demonstration/example. I passed through high school science but a lot of it I ended up forgetting, or really never interacting with. This was a super fun way to explore electricity and microwave transformers. Thanks!
Just wanted to come in to say R.I.P Grant. He was a huge part of my childhood i loved this channel so much. Thank you guys to much for continuing his legacy 🙏.
Great video, I was able to watch the whole thing keep ot up
so cool. i saw that every time i went to my state fair when they demonstrated the power of power lines. now i want to see what happens to the potatoes.
I remember in the late 80s we use to find broken tvs and take out the transformers and have like 10 of us hold each other hands in a big circle and connect a 9v battery and shock everyone😂😂
hehehe awesome
Just a question, how would a 9 V battery work with a transformer if it’s direct current.
He has the same type of curiosity as Grant. I think I'm going to start watching again.
Thank you! I really miss this kind of thing!
The literal definition of a DIY electric chair
so glad you guys went back to the roots so to say, to what tkor actually means and the essence of grant in the show
Understanding how a transformer works isn't hard. Electricity is converted to electromagnetic waves in the first coil, and the secondary coil picks the waves up and converts them back into Electricity. The secondary just reverses the process of what happened to the Electricity in the first coil. How much voltage it produces is determined by the ratio of the coils. If there's 100 turns in the primary coil, and 300 in the secondary, the ratio is 3:1. So if you put 120 volts into the primary, there would be 360 coming from the secondary coil. Microwave transformers are around 18:1, so the final voltage at the Jacob's ladder is 2200+volts
Yeah but WHYYYY does the coil turn electricity into waves and why does electromagnetic waves hitting a coil induce current? That's the science magic.
@@TheKingofRandom not sure of the "why" I'm just glad they DO! So much technology wouldn't exist without our knowledge of this effect.
@@TheKingofRandom I actually used to wind coils for powerline transformers. Biggest coil I ever wound was a 833 kva transformer with a ratio of 2:1.
@@TheKingofRandom Without going overly deep into it, It works because of the electromagnetic force. It's essentially a quantum effect that sums to a greater whole. Electricity is the shifting of electrons in response to a charge disparity at the atomic level. Magnetism is a result of many like charges building up into something noticeable at a human scale. The two are related because flowing electrons create enough of a cumulative charge to be measurable.
If the disparity is constant, as in DC current, then the resulting magnetic field is constant as the electrons shifting are just many like charges. When the disparity is not constant, as in AC current, the resulting magnetic field is actively changing over time. What this means for transformers is that with DC and a constant magnetic field, there's no change to the secondary since the electrons in it would have time to adjust to the induced charge disparity and even out. With AC however, the fluctuating magnetic field doesn't give the electrons in the secondary time to balance the disparity and thus they continue to shift, generating a current.
current flows into the primary coil and generates a magnetic field which usually gets channeled through a iron core to the secondary coil and the more turns you have on the secondary coil means more area emf can induce into- and a change in magnetic field strength means a change in magnetic flux which induces EMF into the coils…
Dude. Eye protection.
But what if I want to wear an eyepatch?
@@TheKingofRandom Wear one, but with eye protection you'll also be able to take the patch off in public.
@@TheKingofRandom Is this really an appropriate response to a very clear safety violation? No responses to the recommendations of safety gloves and dead man switches?
It seems like TKOR hired some 15 year old TikTocker under minimum wage to respond to video comments.
Never once did Grant, Cali, or Nate make me feel even 1/10th as nervous as this video did across multiple occasions. Even worse were the edits that cut out the times Jake didn't follow his "3-Step safety system", this dude is going to fry himself.
@@TheKingofRandom - If you have family that would take you to or visit you in the hospital, their suffering will be worse than having to wear an eye patch.
Joking aside, I wear eye pro whenever its needed. It wasn't needed in this video.
Electricity is made when something moves through a magnetic field. With the 2 coils, neither object is moving, but the magnetic field is. The 60hz AC electricity going through the primary coil is constantly creating a magnetic field, then bringing that field down to nothing, and then reversing it's polarity. The secondary coil is within that magnetic field and is energized. The steel around the coils help direct the magnetic field since copper itself isn't magnetic. The more windings of wire on coil in the field, the higher the voltage it creates. Output will be less than the input. If your using a transformer that draws 10 amps at 120 volts, then your looking at 1200 watts of electricity. If you've got a 2000 volt arc from 1200 watts, then your amperage will be closer to 0.6 amps.
It's the other way around: a magnetic field is made when an electric charge is moving.
A magnetic field cannot exist before you move an electric charge because magnetic fields have no source (2nd Maxwell's equation).
@@TimeFadesMemoryLasts magnets exist, on their own. Yes, electrons moving also make a magnetic field.
Generators can use permanent magnets
Alternators use an electro magnet
@@RubberSalt no, they don't exist on their own. Magnetic fields have, like I said, no source. That's the second Maxwell's equation. Look it up.
Any magnetic field has moving electrons at their base. *For permanent magnets it's the movement and spin of electrons around the core of atoms.* So even permanent magnets have moving charges from which their magnetic field is being created.
*Laws of electromagnetism:*
- The source of electric fields are electric charges (1st Maxwell's eq).
- Magnetic fields have no source (2nd Maxwell's eq).
- Changing (moving) electric fields yield magnetic fields (3rd Maxwell's eq).
- Changing magnetic fields AFFECT electric charges and fields in return (4th Maxwell's equation) - but magnetic fields can't exist before having moving electric charges first.
These 4 basic rules (which I simplified a bit for the explanation's sake) make up and describe all of electromagnetism.
*Another way to look at it:*
Magnetic effects are just electric effects that have the special theory of relativity applied. If you look at it like that it makes more sense that magnetic fields have no source. Magnetic fields can be described as just electric fields which appear different because of a moving observer relative to the electric field (relativistic effects make electric fields look like magnetic fields because of time dilation and length contraction). In that sense, magnetic fields are an "illusion" because how they appear and look like depends on the observer, if that makes sense to you. It's hard to imagine though if you are not familiar with the special theory of relativity.
@@TimeFadesMemoryLasts I'll do some more research.
@@RubberSalt No worries :) At the end of the day it's just a detail that is not important for electrical engineering. You have electric fields and magnetic fields vice versa, like you said.
But if you ask about "what was first, the chicken or the egg?" then the electric charge was first because the electron "spawns" an electric field which then in return gives you a magnetic field as soon as you move the electron.
That in return affects the electric field again, which then affects the magnetic field again etc... but at the source it's always the electron (or electric charge) that "kicks off" these EM effects.
Very interesting! Thank you for this video🌺🌹
10:17 “let’s talk about safety”
has not had safety glasses on the whole video
Despite the internet "experts" safety glasses are not needed for everything. Nothing in this video posed the slightest danger to my eyeballs.
@@TheKingofRandom sparks and potential spattering molten metal is a hazard to eyes.
I'm amazed that you went through and made a video about this even after saying you thought it too dangerous. I give you mad props for doing it anyway. There is one thing you can change for future reference though. Instead of using salt water, use baking soda and water. The salt isn't conductive enough to get the proper looking effect you were trying to achieve when you burned the wood directly. Unless you used salt on purpose in order to tone down the reaction for the camera sake. That would make sense.
No actually I never thought about baking soda. I'll have to experiment with that
@TheKingofRandom the perfect ratio you want is 2 tablespoons of baking soda to one liter of warm water. Let it soak into the wood for about 10 seconds. You want the wood to be uniformly damp all over. Not soaked. One you got it where you want it to be wet, place your points on the wood and start the power. Trust me, you'll love what it produces.
@TheKingofRandom if you decide to revisit this, maybe have a neon sign transformer version as a comparison for safety features. The NST version of this art is far safer than the MOT.
Take two of them mount back to back and wire the primary windings complementary. You now got 7200V at up to 2A to play with. Made a bigger tabletop sized tesla coil with it. Mount it in a pail of oil if planning to run for a while. A transmissian oil cooler fed with a miniature pump and a fan is good enough for cooling. ❤
"Never worry, I have a sword" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Grant produced a video titled “Make A Spot Welder For Cheap”. I believe he used a power supply from a microwave.
Thank you for sharing.
Yes he did, you have to modify the coil to turn it into from high voltage high amps to low voltage high amps
Just catching this in my feed now. Amazing video! And that is one way to cook a steak 🥩! If this experiment doesn’t scream or scare you to not try this at home then I don’t know what will. ☠️☠️☠️☠️💀💀💀
Very Cool Experiment ❤❤❤❤
12:35 Before you even got close to the socket , there was a flash 😮
That's really strange, why Where did the flash come from Was it just a reflection From the camera lights on the metal pins
He mentioned he doesnt know the reaction, and that hot water can possibly shoot out of the bowl and into his face. Yet he has no eye wear.
If water shot out of the bowl my eyes would be the least of my concern
So the reason it art is because the water provided a current point like a wire does, or much like your Jacob's ladder did, with the Gap between the tip of the screwdriver and the water, it was doing pretty much the same thing as the Jacobs ladder, and creating an arc to bridge the gap
I make Lichtenberg art myself and it can be quite fun and fascinating, but PLEASE do NOT use a MOT for it. It is so much safer to use a NST (neon sign transformer) as they are current limited. I have found that they produce better results too. I personally use a 6kv NST and can get tracks up to 3-4 feet in length (depending on how damp the wood is) all that being said, I do not recommend you try this, but if you do, just please be safe about it and make darn sure you have a thorough understanding of and deep respect for electricity. And always, always, always have redundant safeties along with a friend with you just in case something does happen.
I make the same art myself as of these last few months. Also using an NST, however, mine is the 10k variant. I have to agree with you on the sentiment of DO NOT USE MOT'S FOR THIS ART.
Im wanting to get a 12kv NST but just haven't gotten the money yet. Plus its hard to sell things like this when you don't want do list them online
@@spartanband12 be sure when you are using it, don't touch any metal part of it while it's on. I've done that a few times with the 10k one. It hurts a bit, but the one you want will be stronger. Make sure to always wear the gloves the system comes with.
Mine didnt come with gloves as I got it used, but yeah, I learned the hard way not to touch the case 😅
I installed a new thermostat one time without bothering to turn off the electricity, and I was able to touch and lick the bare exposed copper wiring because it was only 750 millivolt DC, and I couldn't feel a thing.
When the apple was hooked up, I was almost expecting bad apple to be played in the background.
I am sure you have someone standing there to pull the plugs in case anything goes bad but still these high voltage experiments are way more dangerous than we can anticipate. The more you know about it, the more It haunts you.
2KV at 50Hz or 60Hz can burst the heart valves even before doing any apparent damage to the skin. When through the heart, 50 to 60hz powerful pulse will try to pump it at 50 to 60 times per second which will be impossible for it and the heart will damage its own valves.
The pipe you are grabbing, if you or someone else have grabbed it with sweaty hands from between or below, it can complete the circuit enough to pass a few milliamps through your heart.
If there is too much humidity in the environment and the pipe becomes cold due to direct air from your air conditioner, it can form a light layer of condensation enough to pass a few milliamps.
The wood you have used as the isolation for the transformer won’t isolate it at such high voltage. So, you shouldn’t assume that touching a single live wire won’t complete the circuit. It will still allow small but enough current which can be dangerous.
And lastly, you are not using any isolation gloves, when you are standing in front of the Jacobs ladder, its was probably very unsafe because the Jacobs ladder could fall on you or worse you could fall on it (Live and neutral wires together).
Stay safe buddy! I know that you are a professional and you realize the dangers involved but still there are a lot of variables that a human being can overlook and such high voltage at such high current will only take one of them.
I am saying this because I care for you! Stay safe buddy!
Some good points. There's no humidity in Utah, so no need to worry about condensation or sweaty hands.
The wood as an isolator was really just an extra extra safety as the whole table its sitting on is also made of wood. I made sure to not touch the table OR EITHER WIRE at all when using it regardless. And again its Utah, the weather here is very dry so there is no moisture in the wood. For all practical purposes the wood is entirely non conductive.
Gloves would be a good added safety measure, but regular welding or rubber gloves are not insulating enough for this high voltage and high voltage gloves are NOT cheap. The Jacobs ladder had a solid base and was in no danger of falling over, I made sure of that.
The safety measure I really should've added was a dead mans switch. Frankly the only reason I didn't have one is I ran out of time before we needed to film this episode.
If I was planning on doing high voltage experiments regularly I would optimize the safety of my setup a bit more, because obviously the more you do something the odds of making a mistake go up exponentially. But with some caution and for only doing this once, the safety of this setup was sufficient.
At 60hz, electrolysis does not occur, but the plasma will beat the water.
@4:35 Voltage is potential, not current. Amperage is current. Also, 0.03 A is 30 mA, not 3.
I've been enjoying the revival of the channel. Keep it up!
I definitely screwed up a couple times lol. Appreciate it!
Wow I grew up with this channel, I remember being in middle school watching grant make bullets out of lithium😢
Do not touch the transformer to show its safe. This is the equivalent as showing that a firearm is safe by aiming at self and pulling trigger.
What happened to the other two people that used to make videos? Did they quit? Please let me know. No hate towards the new people though.
Nate has his own channel which is basically the old King of Random
You didnt even connect any capacitors to it yet. At least add the one that came with the oven. Double the Voltage. 4400V
Caution: If you dont know about capacitors, they store juice. So even if you turn everything off, they still can kill. ALWAYS ARC THE CAP WHEN FINISHED.
Be careful, I heard somewhere that the gray PVC has carbon particles for the color. You might be better off with white PVC in case that's true.
You went back to your old style for all of 3 months, had good success, then went right back. Stop making TKOR corporate. Either let grants project rest or make it live up to his legacy. I can't imagine he'd be happy with this sort of content when his content was random projects, not rinse and repeat the last thing that made money. Corpo behavior on a channel we loved for it's relatable and cool projects we could do ourselves breaks my heart to see.
How are you getting a corporate feel out of this?
This is the type of tkor content I like where they are doing science experiments and not diy building things
The reason plain tap water was conducting would be because of the treatment process involving chlorine gas and flourine gas to.
Probably
It was pretty stupid not to use a dead man switch for this. The power should go through a second switch that you stand on with your toes and that way if you get electrocuted or fall it shuts the power off
Yup a foot switch from a sewing machine is what I use.
Good job with the one hand rule.
Sword analogy..
Amps would be the mass of the sword..
Volts would be how hard you swing it..
Sharpness would be more like resistance..
I like that more in depth version
Next time, hold a fluorescent bulb in the Jacobs ladder, you may like using that to "ignite" the run
You should do this to any Apple devices !! Better use of Apple devices than their intended use !!
I dont like how close this man is waving that screwdriver infront of his face. Even if he is isolated, such a high voltage can still give you a strong electric shock due to capacitive coupling if he came into contact with it
The camera angle is deceiving and makes it look like I'm closer/holding it closer than in reality
People are already making epoxy tables out of electrified wood. Always interesting seeing people discover things independently though.
Do some stuff with fly back transformers from older CRT TVs. Even do some stuff with cathode ray tubes too.
these electric microwave oven transformers are scary and dangerous and as much as fun as these look tempting to play with i still advise people to not try this at home ever !
Haven’t been here in a while.
AC power actually makes your muscles contract relax contract relax contract relax contract relax. Most people end up flying across the room on AC current because their muscles push them away. High voltage DC current wheel lock you up for sure
This thing has killed the most amount of youtubers .
dude i just make a wood burner out of the transformer like yesterday what a coincidence you posted this today
pls be extremely careful or just don't use it at all
I did need to know that.
Apple computer is going to want to license your apple zapping
Grant use a modified version of that type of transformer to make a DIY spotwelder. I wonder if you can make a more safe DIY version of that project, it would be awesome!!. Greetings from Chile
hope you guys collab with backyard scientist to do more of this experiment in future
That would be awesome
What if your light bulb fails, but the power is still on to the MOT?
I would make a relay circuit that makes a light come on when power to the MOT is off/disconnected, safe when lit.
Gaz UK
😂 when my microwave broke, I took it apart. I used this heavy coils/steel box to make a custom leather and fabric-covered weight to use in my bookbinding.
Has any1 ever built an old school tattoo machine? They use 2 coils too. 😉
To help better understand the transformer I suggest researching the following:
Michael Faraday
James Clerk Maxwell
Nikola Tesla
Note that the apples have a ton of conductive surface aria on the inside so it doesn't burn.
we can make flash powders by mixing aluminum/zinc/mg powder with KNO3
but by mixing gold powder can we make a flash powder?
Not only will it kill you, it will hurt the whole time you are dying 🙂
Quite literally
Time for an electroboom collab.
Question for you Sir! If you use rubber dish gloves or Nitrile Gloves and you still get a shock through them?
With voltage this high I wouldn't trust them
you should've try a bite of the apples lol
I think you are doing electrolysis to the water, and then the heat from the electric arc and the screwdriver is immediately causing the newly formed gases to burn and turn back into water.
That's what i was thinking. Maybe
The arc in salt water was yellow because of the sodium in table salt
Those transformers are great for driving Eimac 500Z tubes.
She’s got ya by the Jacob’s
Ladder!!!
I dont think u know electricity well enough to be messing with that bro
well this is the kind of content id see from grant , well done . though wear your safety glasses, and if its giving off light like a arc welder you should definitly be using properly tinted googles
It only gave off welding level light a couple times and only brief flashes otherwise I would've
With salt water you will get a sodium color in the arc.
14:30 Wood is conductive... idk how much that would change what it's doing there.. but just some food for thought.
Dry wood is not conductive. But the juices from the steak are conductive, which is why the wood was burning
wear a glove. The urge to touch is too damn high
His electricity bill: 📈📈📈
Some of the most unscientific explanations ive ever heard 😅
Demonstrating the lack of knowledge, or more shows how a little knowledge is dangerous.
I prefer to explain things in layman's terms. It makes for much easier understanding for the average joe.
@@TheKingofRandom good to see new videos...keep going.. safely
I trust this man's hair.
You haven't said it yet but I bet the Apple superconductive to the acidity in the fruit?
NEVER EVER TOUCH ONE OF THESE
NOW LET ME SHOW YOU THE COOLEST THING EVER
Make em closer with the Jacobs ladder it’ll constantly reignited
I tried, I had an issue where it would just arc in place and not rise up
@@TheKingofRandom wow I use to make em with 15,000 volt 30 Mille amp neon transformer
Works just like in a Frankenstein movie
Reason that the outside of the apple gets burnt and why it was cold to the touch with the inside looking fine is due to the Skin Effect.
I haven’t watched u guys in a minute but keep up the good work, im sure that’s what grant would have wanted despite whatever happens with the channel
"It produces A LOT of current, like 2000 volts!"
Does anyone want to tell him?
words are hard
Amazing video do not try this at home😢😮😅😊 😮😅😊
Where did these new people come from
Why is no one talking about the cursed title "High Voltage VS Human Flesh?!" where did bro get human flesh 😭🙏🙏
Technical error, 2,000 Volts is NOT a lot of "Current" it is a lot of Voltage.! Please stop confusing Voltage and Current.
Please get it right if you are going to do an educational video, even if it is for fun.