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Try clipping your probe on to a diagram and see what you measure🤣 But seriously, if you can measure it then that’s always likely to be the best way (as long as it’s safe to do so), but it’s not always an option though. Also most clip on current meters are designed to work at DC/mains frequencies, would need some kind of current probe and oscilloscope to measure other frequencies. Thanks for watching, I’ll hopefully be posting more videos soon!

No way, she’s as real as you and me!!

No way, she’s as real as you and me!

@@thecircuithelper Gotta escape the Matrix 🙏

No way man, she’s as real as you and me!

I’m also dislike inductors! 😵‍💫

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You could now… but when I made the video the chatgpt app was text only!

@thecircuithelper bro some people are making them with ollama and with no internet attached so that the NSA can't spy on you. Super 😎 cool.

I’ve seen those, that is pretty cool, bit limited at the moment but no doubt will get better!

Amazing, glad it helped thanks!

Yes!

No way, she’s as real as you and me!

Should work fine, the programming will be largely the same, there are many examples for PID, PWM and temperature sensors for the ESP8266. I’m not sure the Arduino cloud works with the 8266, you’d have to check, but you could just send the sensor data and control signals via serial or WiFi to a computer. Thanks for watching!!

@@thecircuithelper okay thanks for the explanation

Nice one, glad it helped!

Similar buddy.

Hey!

You’re joking, that’s a real person, don’t hurt her feelings!

Get over yourself

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Interesting questions… for AI to be truly useful it would need to do more than just analyse a circuit. As experienced electrical engineer can look at a circuit and intuitively know what it does and what’s critical. For example, looking at a real audio amplifier circuit there might be hundreds of components, most have a very minor impact on performance, an experienced engineer can recognise this and focus their analysis on the key parts of the circuit. An AI would need this level of intuition, if not it would simply calculate all the currents and voltages in all the components (i.e decoupling capacitors etc) and you’d be bombarded with information, most of which is not useful. AI might be better at creating circuit designs by adapting existing circuits. For example it could be trained on 100 different amplifier circuits and then you could provide a specific set of operating parameters and it would design an excellent circuit. It shouldn’t be too difficult to achieve this, but it would only ever be able to design circuits it had been trained on. I’m Generating spice netlists is useful, but it would be great if it could make a proper circuit diagram. I’ve tried a few times to get it to do this but it’s basically a joke… just gives a random collection of components stuck together!

@thecircuithelper That makes sense. I would think circuit analysis would be useful as well because AI essentially helps do calculations for non-experienced people with electronics. For example, someone who is learning electronics as a hobby can use AI to help them by asking it questions before it makes a circuit for their needs. The AI can maybe help them with calculations as well. I would assume the best AI for everyone would be one that can analyze and discuss a circuit (for beginners) and then create circuits based on parameters (for engineers). It would do this via netlists. As for the schematics, yes AI is notorious for being hard to develop for analyzing images. There is actually a subdivision of AI called Computer Vision which usually requires PhD and extensive experience needed to develop AI models that can analyze images and understand them. Generating images is a whole new world of difficulty as well, especially circuits. That's why making the AI generate accurate diagrams would be a lot heavier task than just netlists.

Awesome! Good luck building it, you should have no problems, it’s super easy. If you buy the same LED strip I didn’t (i.e 5V) then just get a USB C breakout board, rather than the power delivery board I used, they’re like 1/10th the cost!

I think this is the wrong video, but the proportional gain is the ratio of a change in the output to a change in the input, while the proportional band gives the total range of the controlled output that can be produced within the controller’s 0% and 100% limits.

In the video it is quartz, but it doesn’t need to be. When using helium almost any dielectric material will do (normal glass, even the tube from a plastic pen 🤓). This isn’t the case with other gases, Argon is hotter, any glass or ceramic would be fine, maybe not plastic!

Thank you ! 😊 I tried a zvs circuit with a flyback, positive inside and negative outside, and it broke the glass, then I tried like you with two rings of nickel around the glass tube, and it broke the glass too. I used argon and argon/co2 (80/20). The only thing that works is with a Tesla coil with positive inside the glass tube, but there is a lot of electric arc, that’s not a smooth flame. I can only drive my Tesla coil at 50khz. Do you have any advices ?

You’ve a few things going against you there! The co2 addition massively increases temperature, you’d probably be fine if you just used argon. Also, the frequency of operation has an impact on temperature, the lower the better, but things compositions is likely to be the bigger factor in your case. Good luck!

Thank you ! I bought two quartz tubes to try, and i go back to argon only 😉

Great, good luck with it! Let me know how you get on….

Thank you 🙂

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That’s a good suggestion, OTA updates are so convenient, I use them for my coffee machine. Annoyingly, on Arduino cloud the OTA programming feature is something you need to pay for 😡! This is another reason not to use it, but on the flip side, it is easier than trying to setup a web server on the esp32 with web sockets etc…

Awesome, thanks for watching! I have quite a few projects like this on the go at the moment, hopefully get those videos uploaded soon! I’ve also been watching a few videos on how to roast coffee beans, so I’m going to revisit this project in the near future!

Interesting, I’ll check it out! It was quite a while ago when I made this video, so there’s probably loads of interesting updates and enhancements to be made, things are developing so quick! Thanks for watching!

@@thecircuithelper True! Things are going so fast nowadays. But I love your channel and all your content! Thanks to you for making the interesting videos!

Very dramatic 👍

I’m an addict, what can I say….

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Awesome, glad it helped!

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!

I was hoping to use shorter screws and have them all from the inside, it’s better to have a rounder and smoother surface for consistent breakdown. However, soon realised that was never going to happen as there wasn’t enough space to do it that way! Putting both sides in from outside would have looked better, but it was so tough to screw in/out I didn’t want to change it!

You should!

Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it!!!

It’s a perfect insulator for both heat and electricity😆

This is definitely the way to go, with the addition of a 20 foot copper pipe hammered into the ground to make a decent earth!

And always only touch things with one hand. Speaking of deadly electricity, back in the day I worked in the oilfield as a pumper. Id check condensate tank levels alone and out in the middle of the plains. It's windy, and you often times generate a decent static electric spark. If we didn't ground ourselves when going up the ladder, we could accidentally spark the vapor as we open the hatch. Fun tumes and those sparks are nothing near what this dude will put out lol.

The idea of a spark igniting oil vapor is scary as hell, at least I didn’t have that to worry about! Thanks for watching!

Good idea about the Zener diodes, maybe even a TVS would be a good. I’m pretty sure it was the grounding arrangement that caused my issue, firing the output of the Marx directly into the ground terminal of the dc supply probably wasn’t my brightest idea! Thanks for watching!

@@thecircuithelper No problem :) things happen. Even if you think you are safe. Not very long ago a phase to my incoming power to the house blew while my 6KW 400v 3-phase was running it did not immediately stop so the heat pump acted like a generator on the now floating phase and my kitchen light exploded and it completely killed my PlayStation 2 as well. In the PlayStation there was like stupidly rare avalanche diodes that surely don’t exist anymore that was killed along with fuses and stuff. I had to convert the circuit to revive the power supply again by replacing the diodes with a suitable MOV instead and mount a fuse holder and new capacitor. Things sure can cause havoc when you least expect it. But my PlayStation been working perfectly since the incident I could not control

🤣 seriously though, don’t try this at home!! Thanks for watching!

@@thecircuithelper LOL Seriously though.... You know KNOW ONE is going to NOT to that . but..for the official record YOU ARE RELEAVED OF ALL RESPONSIBLITY AND ARE HELD COMPLETELY HARMLESS Now.. Let's crack out our scopes and have some fun :p

Thanks for watching!!

I was more worried about the caps in the Marx bank, they charge in parallel ultimately reaching the DC input voltage (assuming it doesn’t fire before fully charging), so 30 kV would be an issue. You’re right though, output from the multiplier definitely doesn’t look like 30 kV, I’m guessing more like 10k… not sure what was going on with the scope, probe probably needs calibrating or maybe I nudged the dial and accidentally set it to x500 rather than x1k. No idea what happened to PSU, very weird, Marx bank fired and immediately the power went off (like I’d removed the mains). Wouldn’t turn back on, changed the 13A fuse in the lead and the 3A fuse in the PSU, still totally dead. Completely opened it up and couldn’t see anything obvious (no burnt components etc). There might be some other internal fuse I’ve missed, but tricky to know without the circuit diagram. If I had to guess, I’d say the Marx output directly to the psu ground terminal probably sent a sufficiently high current pulse to raise the voltage of the ground up, that’ll destroy most things unfortunately! Better to use a battery and a separate earth, but I didn’t fancy clipping the battery by hand and I don’t have a decent Earth in that lab, unfortunately! Thanks for watching!

@@thecircuithelper as i said i would use a voltage divider. Also Car ignition coils opperate at low-ish frequencyes, so unless the capacitance is very high, the impedance is huge(u can see this when people use MOTs as a power supply). Discharging to your supply ground is never a good idea lol. And i realy think you should get good grounding in your lab. I realy dont know what happened to ur power supply tho... hopefully you can find a new one.

I dread to think! Quite a lot of stored energy, could be fatal, certainly not something to play around with!

Voltage multipliers with small sized caps are routinely used in bug zappers. Unless they are "super-sized" they can't do any real harm. OTOH, a microwave power supply can kill you if you just look at it hard.

The multiplier would hurt, but I guess such low current DC wouldn’t be a ‘show stopper’. I would not want to get zapped by the Marx generator though, caps are 1 nF and there’s 8 of them charged to somewhere between 10-20 kV, this gives 0.5 x (8nF)x (15k)^2) = 0.9J… in comparison a microwave oven cap has approx 2J of stored energy (assuming 1uF, 2kV), a defibrillator capacitor can be around 100J, an enormous amount of stored energy to release in a few microseconds! Of course the internal inductance limits how fast this energy can be delivered and the cheap caps used in the Marx here are pretty poor (although adding them in parallel helps)….

I didn’t, but for sure it would work in Helium and Neon (although both are too expensive to try these days!). Air might work in this configuration, but not with this power supply, it would need much higher voltages. Thanks for watching!!

@@thecircuithelper Interesting, thanks!

No problem, glad you enjoyed!

Glad it was helpful!

Great that you tried!! Sounds like you’ve made good progress too, stick at it with the other exam videos and let me know how you get on!