Hello everyone! Here's the winners of the MEEETTTAA / Scope / function generator draw below. They have been contacted already. Thanks and have fun! - Marshal Hor. - Henrik Dan. - B. Donl. - Joanathan Wel. - Jort Deb. - Mati Les. - King 123... - Kevin Rod. - Digit Sla.
So, my thoughts as an Electrical Engineer from Brazil: It's pretty rare to get a shock from the shower head directly even if installed incorrectly due to the fact that the tap water in droplets doesn't conduct a lot of water and the shower head is made out of plastic. In properly installed residences, it has its sole running circuit from its own breaker to the shower and uses 220V power (we have both 110V/127V and 220V over here) to dissipate less heat in the wires. It is way more common that due to not installing the ground wire or the resistance correctly that it contacts the pipe (in older houses made out of steel) and give you a shock on the handles when opening or closing the water. In that case, a quick fix that most Brazilians do is either use a rubber mat or a rubber flip-flop (which is ubiquitous over here). To conclude, here the houses are made from brick and mortar and it's way more resistant to electrical fires compared to places like the US or Canada, where the insulating materials can be a hazard for high powered electrical appliances. In my opinion, having a gas pipe installed only for the shower is more hazardous than the solution we've got here, since heat is rarely a problem in a tropical country like ours.
The "grounding 220VAC" thing sounds insane, but otherwise it sounds like you guys have it locked down on these things. i would agree that a gasline is usually more dangerous than a 220VAC connection, especially when run through a GFCI or while operating in a home with RCI. Atleast there are those omnipresent fail safes that pop automatically, and electricity doesn't linger and present a massive fire hazard.
@@toilet_cleaner_man the electric shower I have as a backup to the solar assisted boiler I have in my house is a the same brand as his but it is a much much larger and has a maximum load of 7800w lol so it is connected to a 220V and a 50A breaker with thicker gauge wiring.
I just ground my new shower head with an eight foot copper rod buried in the ground. Ah, the happiness of opening and closing without the slightest fear of those inconvenient shocks when our nail is excessively cut. In time, you totally summed up the situation. And yes, I can bet that there are more accidents in the US and Canada due to gas leaks, or even the explosion of the water tank than we have fatal victims of shock from that shower. I've lived in a building whose builder was from Canada, it was an old building but they used a gas heater in each apartment that heated a 100-liter tank, one day the manometer gave out, and if my father hadn't gone to check it (he had started making noises), probably an accident would have happened. It's like the engineer already said, for each place the more they use it, the more they become experts in that subject and mitigate the risks.
@@toilet_cleaner_manIn Brazil we use RCD, which is almost a GFCI, except that it goes together with the circuit breakers, if there is any current leakage it trips, in Portuguese this piece is called Disjuntor DR.
We have two of these showerheads in our house. The first one was installed by an (unauthorized) electrician. It shocks me occasionally when I touch the faucet. I don’t like using it lmao. The second one was installed by my mom who is definitely not an authorized electrician either, but she still managed to make a better job with the second one. It does not shock me! Although the ground cable is definitely just hanging out in the air. It terrifies me still. Thanks mom!
I would shit myself cuz I'd zone out for 5 seconds and then he'd touch a wire and a godamn boom would ring out, the lights would go out and then I'd have a heart attack
I just renovated the electric installation in my bathroom here in Brazil, and I had to run 6mm wires for the shower into a 32A circuit breaker. You definitely DO NOT plug these into a regular outlet.
Actually in Brazil most of the house's are made of bricks and concrete, and not wood like in the US and Canada. So is more difficult to it actually burn in a fire.
@@arthurizando the wires can still catch on fire though. It happened to me, but luckily where they caught on fire was where the wires connect to the meter outside the house.
As a brazilian, providing you install it according to the specs, I can tell you it's super safe and more eco friendly than gas shower. Also, pretty much every brazilian I know got a few electrical discharges from "suspicious" places, like when you go to some sketchy air BNB, or some hostel in the middle of nowhere, or some high poverty area. I've got a few of those myself from the shower faucet, and it's not "terrible". Not pleasant, but def not gonna kill you or anything. PS: Also in those sketchy places we would shower using rubber sandals to prevent that lol.
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Mehdi: "So if this is installed absolutely correctly by a professional..." We, brazilians: "Lemme look on youtube how to fix my shower without powering my house down..."
@@KamuiPan 1.in eastern Europe, if you've got enough money, you can even buy your doctors degree. A title means nothing, if it's holder can't do shit he's supposed to 2. Power outlets right next to shower pipes would be a total nightmare for ne as a learned electrician. 3. As he demonstrated, these things pull a shitload of current even when heating just a little. Normal house wiring is rated for 19.5A (breaker at 16) when installed inside walls or a max of 29A (breaker at 25) when placed inside a double ceiling or similar, where there is air around the cable, meaning it has a very good potential of setting your whole damn house on fire with burning cables if you're not careful enough. To be clear, I'm talking about usual 2.5mm² wires, usually used for outlets. There are some applications (like in everyday European bathrooms WITHOUT a outlet or inside most campers/ trains/ buses where they only use 1.5mm² changing this to 16.5/16A to 21/20A
@Joshua M Generally speaking, most sinks don't have the option for hot water(maybe because here is so hot that it warms up by itself), however, the few that actually have it work pretty much the same way as the shower heads. This video is pretty nice, even though it's in portuguese: I'm sure sure you will at least be able to see how the user end works. ruclips.net/video/4P9W9hDZZgg/видео.html
I'm from Brazil. Here, most houses use an electric shower and accidents rarely happen. The showers reach 7,500 Watts and most of the time copper cable of 6 mm² is used.
@@scotts1668 i did the math, Watts are Volts * Amps so for 220V, its 220*19= 4180Watts, and for 150V (idk if the amps may change but) 150*19=2850Watts. If yours is 7000W that means you are dealing with 31Amps. (suposing a 220V AC) lol thats a pretty ineficient sh1t
@@scotts1668 It could be 7500W, he's 5000w so im not surprised if you find a little more powerful one, but i think it would burn the electric wires therefore. unless you have your instalation with 8mm^2 copper wire, wich is very expensive and useless for your bathroom. Just think a normal house needs 4.5KW and you are spending 5kW in a fking heater lol
Let's also remember that water is a poor conductant. If it was salty water then it would be a whole diferent story. Here in Brazil we have the majority of showers eletrically heated and a minority heated by a buthane/methane mixture. It is common to read about asfixiation accidents related to gas heating, but in 53 year I've never heard of a deadly accident involving eletric showerheads. The wire gauge and breaker are highly regulated when you build a house.
i have all three types. the main building in my house has central heating for water, the annex uses suicide showers, and i have an apartment in rio de janeiro that uses butane, which is by far the worst and most dangerous type. oh, i actually have a fourth type. at one of my farms there one which uses iron piping that goes through the fireplace's chimney and get heated that way. it also has a suicide shower on top of that but since it's the middle of nowhere it's exclusively powered by gas generators since power lines don't go there, so it doesn't get much use.
I could be wrong, so feel free to correct me, but I'm not aware of anything called buthane. Butane would be closest, but is typically only used in lighters and not for home heating. Usually, "natural gas" (at least that's what it's called where I'm from but I'm sure it varies country-to-country) is usually methane and ethane. Water is heated differently in different countries, and I don't know what the benefits and downsides are in each case. In terms of water heater tanks, the risk is always a steam explosion or Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion (BLEVE). It doesn't matter what the heat source is, but they are absolutely devastating. In terms of that, it may be smarter to heat smaller amounts of liquid directly at the source; similar to these shower-heads or on-demand heaters rather than a huge vat of water that could, if enough safety systems fail, reach the boiling point. I'm not particularly for or against any of these systems, but thought I'd add my two cents; maybe someone will teach me more!
@@massdefect1 Butane in mixture with propane happens to be used for heating, though in my area (Poland) pure propane is more popular as there are problems with butane when it's stored in negative temperatures (it doesn't evaporate or something like that). Natural gas is used when you have access to gas pipleine, but otherwise you install one of those huge white tanks in the backyard, which gets refilled with propane, or mixture of propane and butane. Maybe some countries (e.g. in warmer regions of the world) use pure butane. Mixture of propane and butane is used in those small 11kg gas cylinders to which you can connect the kitchen stove (if it's gas powered and you have no access to gas pipeline, or to that huge backyard tank).
I can imagine this guy's phone conversation with his wife: "Honey, why is the fire squad at our home again?" "Oh, I was trying to see if I could electrocute myself with a shower head. Turns out, no, it won't electrocute you, but it may set your house on fire." "Uh-huh." " Oh! And I got a new sponsor, too!"
Greetings, I'm Brazilian and really here in Brazil 90% of households use electric showers, and there are very few reports of accidents involving electric showers. Few residences use gas showers, in buildings and buildings it is more common to use showers with gas heating due to the number of residents, if they were electric showers the installations would not support such an electric current. Our electric showers range from 5,500W to 7,800W with very high currents. Our houses are prepared with their own installations and exclusive for this equipment, copper wires of up to 10mm² and circuit breakers of up to 50A are used to support it! Hugs!
It's called testing your hypothesis. He assumed it would be dangerous, and he tested it out. It's science-y.... I have to give him credit that he actually tests out his hypothesis as opposed to just assuming it's unsafe without testing it.
I live in Brazil and never heard of someone being electrocuted in shower, even though most houses do not ground their showers. Always wanted to know how the hell it is possible. Great video!
My grandmother was eletrocutd once, but she has survived. The place used to be 220v (Santos-SP) and not grounded. In all houses that I know the electrical shower is always grounded
I've always been freaked out by the exposed wiring over the shower heads here in Brazil. It's just kinda creepy to have that in the shower. Also it was common to be shocked when turning the knobs
@@DinnerForkTongue yup, this problem is caused more by the "we finish it later" attitude that Brazilians have, everything is temporary, forever, not an inherent problem with the showers
@@devforfun5618 O negócio é que o ditado "não existe nada mais permanente do que uma solução provisória" é *_global._* Não é exclusividade de nós brazucas não.
@@DinnerForkTongue é, mas ironicamente na terra da liberade é mais facil voce levar uma multa por uma instalação que não segue as normas do que no Brasil
8:15 ElectroBOOM: “When the water comes to your eyes or your mouth, it can really hurt” Also ElectroBOOM: *_lets try it out_* Its like he _wants_ to die
Although it doesn't seem like it, these electric showers are very safe nowadays (I say nowadays, because in the past, in the first electric shower models, the piping was all metal, so the risk of getting shocked when turning on the valve was high, and the the shower was activated using a disconnector switch and the risk of you turning on the shower while wet was also very high) they are even safer than gas showers, here in Brazil it is very rare for accidents involving electric showers, when it does happen, it is usually because the person forgot to turn off the circuit breaker to change the resistance, or else, for some reason, probably incorrect installation, it caught fire, on the other hand, every year when winter arrives, cases of people who died of asphyxiation due to monoxide are very common. of carbon that leaked from the gas heater,
@@mtulio-t9z Also if you think any news site is going to have a breaking news section because of an electric shock accident, you are very naive, there are worse things happening on the world.
Actually not, if overheating starts by the lack of neutral the element will just melt together with the plastic connections it's design to do it, the place will probably smell of burned plastic but that' it, I never have heard of any fire cause by a shower like this. Actually there's more deaths linked to fires or accidents in home boiler installations then with these eletric showers.
Dad : “What were you watching” Brain : “don’t tell him you are watching an electrician electrocute himself. Huh, what other videos are available on internet ?” Me : “It was a pornography video”
Gianluca Ghettini well it deepens, it seems to me that it changes the frequency not the duty cycle like in PWM where there is a fixed frequency and changes the on and off duration (or it just has a thermostat)
Afaik, it wouldn't be a PWM because it's turning off and back on (i.e. 0hz->normal hz), right? You'd be better off just making an timer based on the clock of the oven that ticks it on and off.
Using an electric shower requires some care that we learned as a child in Brazil. The shower should not be close to the head; the temperature selector switch must not be touched while it is on; taking a shower using rubber slippers is recommended in places where the electrical installation is precarious; and there must be a circuit breaker just for the shower. Electric shocks in the bathroom are common, but they are usually minor. I believe that the main risk of electric showers is the fires they can cause. We already had a shower that caught fire in my house, and it has also occurred to me that I was in the bathroom on a day of hydraulic instability and the shower element turned on by itself, causing a near fire that I managed to prevent by turning it off immediately (if I hadn't been there seeing it, it would have caught fire).
Here in Brasil (HUE-land) we use these showers everywhere with no problems because: 1- the power grid of our houses are made with this kind of shower in mind (50+ amps). 2- we don't use them this close to our body, it's a hot country and we install our showers higher, close to the ceiling, the power outlet usually come from the ceiling, far from most people's reach. PS: our standard ceiling is 9~10 feet tall, again, hot country.
@@Shadownrun2 another huehuehue here. I think there's something more to it, many Brazilian homes (including mine) haven't got ground circuits and yet nobody gets electrocuted.
This guy is awesome! I have to keep pausing videos, laughing too hard. I'm going through a rough patch , this is my therapy. Thanks so much. Stay well my friend
Here in Brazil about 90% of the houses do not have grounding and we connect the ground wire in the neutral. edit: taporra tem BR pra caramba aqui kkkkk
@@JoseFerreira-nk5kq Yeah exept if the connection of the neutral conductor is loose and it's not grounded, or you touch a bad isolated phase (wet and only isolated with scotchtape), you gona die. Change the conductivity of the water (Drop salt or dirt in the tank on the roof) and it will kill you too. In fact there is a lot of science behind.
0:56 "Since you can buy these in Canada, you would assume that it's tested and safe." Only if it's approved by CSA, cUL(us) or cETLus. Almost certainly the unit you bought has no government oversight and is being sold illegally. For some reason Amazon seems to get a free pass for selling unlicensed products.
Not gonna lie, I'm brazilian and this shit exploded over my head and it was brighter than the sun lol Edit1 jeez how many likes, thank you like and subscribe this is story of my life. At the end of day I bought another shower as dangerous as the previous one, peace pray for me ✌️
Well, it's not too bad. These videos are informative so you can actually use this knowledge in school and get a decent grade in physics class or something
The only reason I gather courage to see his video is because I know he is really a smart man that wouldn't do anything that will seriously hurt himself. He knows a lot about this to make it look more dangerous than it actually is. With that said, I would hate to know he got his calculations wrong and done himself right in. But I doubt anyone would upload that video if it did happen. A "bad news" update from someone maybe? But not the actual video, RUclips will demonitise and remove it straight away.
Well I Installed and replace the resistance in a bunch of these back in Brazil. We do have thicker wires running for those, and there were some older models that the case was made of metal and would give you a little shock when installed improperly and touched. Even 110v house would usually have a second phase to run things like this in 220v, specially in the south where it gets really cold in the winter. Houses in Brazil are not made of paper like here so that helps with the not setting everything on fire as well. A funny comeback is that other countries are the brave ones for running piped gas everywhere and within their house. Either way I have never heard of anyone gettin hurt with these showers, and Brazilians alone probably take daily showers equivalent to the rest of the world together.
Speaking truths! Americans freak out when they see those shower heads but forget they have open flames sometimes on 20+ year old boilers in their basements and piped, pressurized gas running within their walls, and that added to the fact that homes here in the US are built out of wood. 😅 but those showers are the dangerous ones. Go figure!
@@guedesfhp both are dangerous, it's just a matter of time before one baboon messes with things they don't understand and KAPOOF, they're with Jesus. They're playing Russian roulette but with their House
The "House in Brazil are not made of paper" made me giggle 😂 One problem when I see with this kind of video, is that even the most technical ones seems to ignore the fact that safety regulations do exist outside of north America. Like, there as a bunch of rules and regulations to make sure that the wiring of the house are done correctly, even if we have to admit that most people want to ignore that, but electricians have to follow the guidelines regardless. I'll be -hopefully- a electrical engineer by the end of this year, and a lot of my dally activity is read those boring norms to not kill myself in the future. lol
@@Marcos_Tired Of course there's safety regulations outside of the US, but I do question how many people ignore those considering even in the US, I've seen some.. Not very legal wiring (Hell, I live in one of those houses right now loll). Early congrats on becoming an Electrical Engineer btw! Electrical Engineering is the field I want to go into, but I'm only 18 and at the very VERY beginning of even learning what anything means haha! Hope life serves ya well, take it easy and have fun!
Hey, im from brazil and we use this kind of shower a lot. The biggest problem is not being eletrecuted by the water itself. The major problem is on the faucet. When we touch it, we get shock.
@@ritzevespa i belive its a matter of cost and simplicity. No need for pipes for hot water, neither a stead supply of gas or wood. Just a simple pipe for water, a proper wire for the outlet. Its a elegant solution imho
So I'm from one of these countries that use a shower like that. Here's some insights: 6:10 - There is no live wire with you in the shower here because the bathroom is already adapted to such showers - just to show how ubiquitous those showers are. Shower heads are installed much higher than Mehdi's (I needed a ladder to install my shower) and there's no loose wires whatsoever, they all go through the wall. 7:39 - Yeah, those things draw a lot of current. Long hot baths could mean a significant raise in your electrical bill. Pretty much everyone here had a parent that got really mad for their kids taking too much time in the shower for that very reason. 7:41 - Yup, but bathrooms' wiring around here are all adapted to this kind of shower. Mehdi's isn't, but in Canada this kind of shower head isn't common there. 9:03 - Actually, installing shower heads like these is something electricians around here do a lot. Also, shower manuals are many times good enough that a person can do the installation themselves (I do it). 9:06 - The only recurring problem people actually have with their shower is improper grounding, but that affects the whole house, not just the shower. I once suffered a mild shock while turning the metal cross handle in the shower of a friend's house. I then noticed that she had already covered the handle with electrical tape, but she missed some spots. So even in those cases, those showers are pretty safe. 9:34 - Why is Mehdi questioning the quality of the shower head? Those things have been around for ages, their design has been optimized over the years, their manufacture is regulated (believe it or not, the government can still do a few things right), houses are all adapted to them and the companies that make them really don't wanna be sued over someone's death. The only problem I find in some showers is low water pressure, but I've never had problems with the heating element. 9:45 - Well, where I live we have 110V AC but I've been to a town in my country that not only uses 220V but also metal pipes, their tap water has a metallic taste so I figure it has some metallic ions on it making it more conductive (I guess, I'm no chemist). I've visited that town many times and took hot showers there, and I felt nothing. No even a slight shock. Maybe the current is double or more, Idk, but it's still safe. Electrical showers may be intimidating to someone who's not used to them and it can actually be dangerous if you install if you leave loose hanging wires in the shower stall like Mehdi did, but other than that, it's pretty safe.
Its been waaaaay to long since I’ve come across such an interesting and thoughtful RUclipsr, he not only keeps his content factual correct but also interesting and he cares about the smaller RUclipsrs in the community. A breath of fresh air that this god forsaken site so desperately needs.
I love how in order to cross the 10 minute mark he goes off on random tangents when something unexpected happens, like him getting confused from the oven, but unlike other channels it's 1) really fucking funny to watch and 2) still kind of educational and related to the main topic in a way
Good on you for again promoting Bigclivedotcom's video. I agree, he covered the topic very well. (I'll have to look into diodegonewild, sounds interesting) gestures like this are why I am happy to support you on Patreon. Keep up the great work!
lol Bigspazdotlame channel has nothing on electroboom. B Clive disrespects viewers and involves them in arguments they have no idea he is referring to. I commented on one of his videos years ago and received a bunch of backlash that had nothing to do with my comment and was all about him talking about how smart he was 😂 I will never watch a Big Clive video again
I'm brazilian and I never heard about death in use of eletric showers. In Brazil is more common to see news about deaths in bathrooms that use gas heated showers (because of gas leak)
Poor installation or failing units will make anything dangerous, however, does the gas there not have an added odor? In the U.S. if there's a gas leak you can smell it.
TheKingHostile In China, it is required to install a gas detector which connects to an electrical valve. Once gas detector detects gas the system will automatically switch off. The main system has a pressure valve as well. Also with the odour I just don’t see how anyone can die from gas...
@@rockbandandghmaster it's a bit trickier than that. Of course gas has added odor in it. I'm from Argentina but i've been in Brasil. Because of the terrain, it is way too hard and expensive to get master natural gas pipes on the neighborhoods. They even have trucks selling compressed gas as if it was icecream. But it's mostly used for other stuff. They're quite strange people most of them doesn't even know what a bidet is hahahaha
Hello everyone! Here's the winners of the MEEETTTAA / Scope / function generator draw below. They have been contacted already. Thanks and have fun!
- Marshal Hor.
- Henrik Dan.
- B. Donl.
- Joanathan Wel.
- Jort Deb.
- Mati Les.
- King 123...
- Kevin Rod.
- Digit Sla.
OMG 🖤 i already replied :p thanks!!!
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_How Safe Is the Shower Head of Doom_
5 minutes later: disassembling oven
My favorite part is when he realizes it's just on a timer
Stove top burner, not oven.
John Pythagoras I mean, we wasn't so wrong. It's still PWM, just at a very slow frequency lol.
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@@YourMJK but with feedback
I like how you're concerned about other channels. Truly gentleman
the other channels need more explosions and sparks.
truly i approve
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Cyka CheekiBreeki unibrow you mean. Grammar Nazi.
Your videos are always so funny and informative. I also liked your consideration to the other channels (now send me one of those testers! 😀 🙃)
ElectroBOOM: "If this is installed correctly by a professional..."
Me: laughs in Brazillian
eu tava aqui pensando a mesma coisa kkkkkk
Kk eu que instalo essas coisa em casa, tô vivo ainda, acho
@@Mark_40_ instalo descalço e com o chuveiro ligado inclusive kkkkkkkk
@@toshiopb ai é A+ KKKKK
As vezes quando ligo o chuveiro pé descalço da choque kkk aí tenho q lembra de usar os chinelos pra n tomar choque kkkk
So, my thoughts as an Electrical Engineer from Brazil:
It's pretty rare to get a shock from the shower head directly even if installed incorrectly due to the fact that the tap water in droplets doesn't conduct a lot of water and the shower head is made out of plastic. In properly installed residences, it has its sole running circuit from its own breaker to the shower and uses 220V power (we have both 110V/127V and 220V over here) to dissipate less heat in the wires. It is way more common that due to not installing the ground wire or the resistance correctly that it contacts the pipe (in older houses made out of steel) and give you a shock on the handles when opening or closing the water. In that case, a quick fix that most Brazilians do is either use a rubber mat or a rubber flip-flop (which is ubiquitous over here). To conclude, here the houses are made from brick and mortar and it's way more resistant to electrical fires compared to places like the US or Canada, where the insulating materials can be a hazard for high powered electrical appliances. In my opinion, having a gas pipe installed only for the shower is more hazardous than the solution we've got here, since heat is rarely a problem in a tropical country like ours.
The "grounding 220VAC" thing sounds insane, but otherwise it sounds like you guys have it locked down on these things. i would agree that a gasline is usually more dangerous than a 220VAC connection, especially when run through a GFCI or while operating in a home with RCI. Atleast there are those omnipresent fail safes that pop automatically, and electricity doesn't linger and present a massive fire hazard.
@@toilet_cleaner_man the electric shower I have as a backup to the solar assisted boiler I have in my house is a the same brand as his but it is a much much larger and has a maximum load of 7800w lol so it is connected to a 220V and a 50A breaker with thicker gauge wiring.
mines shower is 300A 120V
I just ground my new shower head with an eight foot copper rod buried in the ground. Ah, the happiness of opening and closing without the slightest fear of those inconvenient shocks when our nail is excessively cut. In time, you totally summed up the situation.
And yes, I can bet that there are more accidents in the US and Canada due to gas leaks, or even the explosion of the water tank than we have fatal victims of shock from that shower.
I've lived in a building whose builder was from Canada, it was an old building but they used a gas heater in each apartment that heated a 100-liter tank, one day the manometer gave out, and if my father hadn't gone to check it (he had started making noises), probably an accident would have happened. It's like the engineer already said, for each place the more they use it, the more they become experts in that subject and mitigate the risks.
@@toilet_cleaner_manIn Brazil we use RCD, which is almost a GFCI, except that it goes together with the circuit breakers, if there is any current leakage it trips, in Portuguese this piece is called Disjuntor DR.
"Ok let me do a simple demonstration using my stove."
Dismantles it entirely in the process
got to love that determination
But foreal im glad i know if my stove ever just stays on it could be that relay. 👌👌👌
If he was a surgeon he would test surgeries on himself
Quantum slime!
gamer moment
"Why is he cutting his own appendix out?"
"It is practice"
A Soviet surgeon legit did that.
I agree
Ahmad Gamer i heard that lol!
ElectroBOOM: Safety First.
ElectroBOOM: *nearly dies every episode*
Safety is his number two, his number one is fun.
His body is highly resistive so he won't die
Pandoran Bias exactly.
not every episode only 2 or 3
Thats ac
We have two of these showerheads in our house. The first one was installed by an (unauthorized) electrician. It shocks me occasionally when I touch the faucet. I don’t like using it lmao. The second one was installed by my mom who is definitely not an authorized electrician either, but she still managed to make a better job with the second one. It does not shock me! Although the ground cable is definitely just hanging out in the air. It terrifies me still. Thanks mom!
Lmfao love how you casually destroy your oven and fix it.
Something tells me, this wasn't the first time he broke it.
@@Sypaka Something tells me, this wasn't the first time he broke anything.
...and then have the time and patience left over to sweep behind it.
@@diamondev1 Obviously
Hmm
LMAO.
You are a gift to the world. You are educating us, but we don't feel like we're being educated, we feel entertained. That's a hell of a skill.
Heck yeah 👍 this guy is literally the only reason I took my transformer out of a old microwave oven for lichten burning! I Love this community.
Very good entertainer. Love watching the videos
Cody be careful with that transformer.I got badly burnt working with 6v ac.
@Ralsei with a gun that's dedication education and stupidity all rolled into 1 he is a genius
Yeah, true!
He really needs to teach high-school kids. I would have loved to listen to him rant in a classroom
Yea i would know everything
I would shit myself cuz I'd zone out for 5 seconds and then he'd touch a wire and a godamn boom would ring out, the lights would go out and then I'd have a heart attack
He’s funny and intelligent
He's bad in social things. He is best in video's
When I was in high school our electronics teacher showed a lot of his videos.
I just renovated the electric installation in my bathroom here in Brazil, and I had to run 6mm wires for the shower into a 32A circuit breaker. You definitely DO NOT plug these into a regular outlet.
Well, he is using a GFCI, so it helps a bit in that case, as the GFCI is made for water situations in Canada.
“So I hate to say it but besides the *loose wires* and the fact that it *may set your house on fire* , it seems pretty safe”
*i agree with your logic*
Actually in Brazil most of the house's are made of bricks and concrete, and not wood like in the US and Canada. So is more difficult to it actually burn in a fire.
@@arthurizando the wires can still catch on fire though. It happened to me, but luckily where they caught on fire was where the wires connect to the meter outside the house.
@@jadonclegg8684 I know that, but here "most" of the people that have those showers have the proper wiring.
@@arthurizando does it draw 19 amps 😂😂
@@realcartoongirl yes
Everytime he teaches us something, his apartment power goes out
Everytime he teaches us something *my* apartment power goes out lol.
Its the opposite of the light bulb when you have a idea
People are usually shocked when they find out I'm a bad electrician.
Ah cha cha chaaah
G(old)
Har har har (cough,cough) 1980’s jokes age like fine cheese......
That's Punny
TIBA honest that was a funny joke and would be there till the end of tyme
As a brazilian, providing you install it according to the specs, I can tell you it's super safe and more eco friendly than gas shower.
Also, pretty much every brazilian I know got a few electrical discharges from "suspicious" places, like when you go to some sketchy air BNB, or some hostel in the middle of nowhere, or some high poverty area.
I've got a few of those myself from the shower faucet, and it's not "terrible".
Not pleasant, but def not gonna kill you or anything.
PS: Also in those sketchy places we would shower using rubber sandals to prevent that lol.
In fact, more eco friendly here in Brazil. In many places, like England for example, energy comes from burning oil, charcoal, whatever.
@@JoseClMezzaliraParaguay uses 100% renewable energy from the Itaipú Hydroelectric Dam, shared with Brazil. 🇧🇷🇵🇾
Also, we share some electricity of the Yacyretá Hydroelectric Dam with Argentina. 🇦🇷
GAS SHOWER
"if it goes into your eyes or mouth it could really hurt"
*"OKAY LETS TRY IT"*
The essence of this channel in 1 quote
Someones gotta do it
Mehdi: "So if this is installed absolutely correctly by a professional..."
We, brazilians: "Lemme look on youtube how to fix my shower without powering my house down..."
thiagots85 also we: how can I build a shower with a water gallon and an a “maybe not” isolated extension cord! HAHAHAHAH
SIM! hahahahahahaha
I installed the shower by myself and didn't bother to install the ground wire. In other hand, I always wear flip flops at shower, huehuehue.
@@KamuiPan 1.in eastern Europe, if you've got enough money, you can even buy your doctors degree.
A title means nothing, if it's holder can't do shit he's supposed to
2. Power outlets right next to shower pipes would be a total nightmare for ne as a learned electrician.
3. As he demonstrated, these things pull a shitload of current even when heating just a little. Normal house wiring is rated for 19.5A (breaker at 16) when installed inside walls or a max of 29A (breaker at 25) when placed inside a double ceiling or similar, where there is air around the cable, meaning it has a very good potential of setting your whole damn house on fire with burning cables if you're not careful enough.
To be clear, I'm talking about usual 2.5mm² wires, usually used for outlets. There are some applications (like in everyday European bathrooms WITHOUT a outlet or inside most campers/ trains/ buses where they only use 1.5mm² changing this to 16.5/16A to 21/20A
@Joshua M Generally speaking, most sinks don't have the option for hot water(maybe because here is so hot that it warms up by itself), however, the few that actually have it work pretty much the same way as the shower heads. This video is pretty nice, even though it's in portuguese: I'm sure sure you will at least be able to see how the user end works.
ruclips.net/video/4P9W9hDZZgg/видео.html
I bet his last words are gonna be “let’s plug it in”
@@ReviewBlogVlog "Let's see what happens when I touch the live wire."
Or f***
“Let’s see what happens when I lick the nuclear power core”
@@erite_zx4499 "now let's see what happens when you touch 'the foot'"
Or let's measure it
I'm from Brazil. Here, most houses use an electric shower and accidents rarely happen. The showers reach 7,500 Watts and most of the time copper cable of 6 mm² is used.
As a Brazilian I can confirm his statement is true [but I don't remember if those values are correct], I'm 18 yo and I still am alive so...
I dont believe 7500 watts for a second.
@@scotts1668 i did the math, Watts are Volts * Amps so for 220V, its 220*19= 4180Watts, and for 150V (idk if the amps may change but) 150*19=2850Watts. If yours is 7000W that means you are dealing with 31Amps. (suposing a 220V AC) lol thats a pretty ineficient sh1t
@@javieraragongarcia8660 is there a message I'm not seeing?
@@scotts1668 It could be 7500W, he's 5000w so im not surprised if you find a little more powerful one, but i think it would burn the electric wires therefore. unless you have your instalation with 8mm^2 copper wire, wich is very expensive and useless for your bathroom. Just think a normal house needs 4.5KW and you are spending 5kW in a fking heater lol
8:26 that is my motto for my entire life. every day i wake up, i gag and say "bleagh. i feel nothing."
Same haha
Thought i was tha one babehh
he said "BLOP"
When I see this unibrowed almost bald man with a handsome face on my notification I click
It is strange how attractive he is
No need of this kind suicide shower in my country on summer 🤣,you get more than you want .😅
@@orochimaru1253 The tank water on the roof gets very hot ?
ikr vsauce rocks
He’s not bald his hair is just migrating from his head to the rest of his body
Keysight: Amazing new, affordable product.
Circuit specialists: hold my multimeter
LOL get this guy to the top
@@MISFITMANIAC working on it
still using the hold my beer meme ?
This is so last month.
Omg thanks, first time getting so many likes!
Let's also remember that water is a poor conductant. If it was salty water then it would be a whole diferent story. Here in Brazil we have the majority of showers eletrically heated and a minority heated by a buthane/methane mixture. It is common to read about asfixiation accidents related to gas heating, but in 53 year I've never heard of a deadly accident involving eletric showerheads. The wire gauge and breaker are highly regulated when you build a house.
I once heard about a fire involving electric showers, but I'm not sure if it was deadly
Yeah, it's mostly big apartments and fancy houses that have gas heating.
i have all three types. the main building in my house has central heating for water, the annex uses suicide showers, and i have an apartment in rio de janeiro that uses butane, which is by far the worst and most dangerous type. oh, i actually have a fourth type. at one of my farms there one which uses iron piping that goes through the fireplace's chimney and get heated that way. it also has a suicide shower on top of that but since it's the middle of nowhere it's exclusively powered by gas generators since power lines don't go there, so it doesn't get much use.
I could be wrong, so feel free to correct me, but I'm not aware of anything called buthane. Butane would be closest, but is typically only used in lighters and not for home heating. Usually, "natural gas" (at least that's what it's called where I'm from but I'm sure it varies country-to-country) is usually methane and ethane. Water is heated differently in different countries, and I don't know what the benefits and downsides are in each case. In terms of water heater tanks, the risk is always a steam explosion or Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion (BLEVE). It doesn't matter what the heat source is, but they are absolutely devastating. In terms of that, it may be smarter to heat smaller amounts of liquid directly at the source; similar to these shower-heads or on-demand heaters rather than a huge vat of water that could, if enough safety systems fail, reach the boiling point. I'm not particularly for or against any of these systems, but thought I'd add my two cents; maybe someone will teach me more!
@@massdefect1 Butane in mixture with propane happens to be used for heating, though in my area (Poland) pure propane is more popular as there are problems with butane when it's stored in negative temperatures (it doesn't evaporate or something like that).
Natural gas is used when you have access to gas pipleine, but otherwise you install one of those huge white tanks in the backyard, which gets refilled with propane, or mixture of propane and butane. Maybe some countries (e.g. in warmer regions of the world) use pure butane.
Mixture of propane and butane is used in those small 11kg gas cylinders to which you can connect the kitchen stove (if it's gas powered and you have no access to gas pipeline, or to that huge backyard tank).
6:38 this man has become so used to everything going wrong that he is fully confused when it worked right and didn’t explode.
9:32
Installed by a professional...Yes...Yes...
[laughs in brazilian]
@@KamuiPan I'm pretty sure he is suggesting that people usually perform the installation themselves instead of hiring a professional.
@@KamuiPan The electric outlet must be not below the shower pipe, but above it, otherwise you risk it to really be a suicide shower.
"Laughts in brazilian" eu ri kkkk
Laughs in brazilian 😅
profesionally electrocuted. Suicidal and stupid
I can imagine this guy's phone conversation with his wife:
"Honey, why is the fire squad at our home again?"
"Oh, I was trying to see if I could electrocute myself with a shower head. Turns out, no, it won't electrocute you, but it may set your house on fire."
"Uh-huh."
" Oh! And I got a new sponsor, too!"
And we may need a new spoon.
Greetings, I'm Brazilian and really here in Brazil 90% of households use electric showers, and there are very few reports of accidents involving electric showers. Few residences use gas showers, in buildings and buildings it is more common to use showers with gas heating due to the number of residents, if they were electric showers the installations would not support such an electric current. Our electric showers range from 5,500W to 7,800W with very high currents. Our houses are prepared with their own installations and exclusive for this equipment, copper wires of up to 10mm² and circuit breakers of up to 50A are used to support it! Hugs!
*_>Few residences use gas showers._*
Are those U-boat descendants?
Other people: "Installed by a professional..."
Brazilians: Hold my beer.
Hahahahaha this is soo true, everyone install that things here.
Hold my mão de obra*
@@TleafarafaelT kkkkk
@@robsonbaldissera4396 Kkkk
Hold my brahma
8:24 *gurgle gurgle gurgle spit*
AH
I FEEL NOTHING
Milo Szecket Kwast right at that part when i read this 😂
I don't know why, but he reminded me of Gru when he said it.
Mooicorn ??
This showerhead is dangerous because you may drown to death trying to be electrocuted.
300th like
You mentioned brazilians, not knowing this summons us.
Behold the upcoming swarm.
May Tesla protect you.
Atleast he didn't say India, in that case they would totally overrun the comments
Isso ae. É nois que voa.
Poor ElectroBoom channel, we will ruin it by overrunning the comments with "ele falou do Brasil kkkk" and "quem está assistindo em 2019?"
@@stormsurge1 now even edison wont protect, you're gone my friend behold as we summon in billions
Wait, which Tesla? The one that electrocuted you or the one that overrun you?
Both are tend to kill you
This is what i imagine a genius mad scientist IRL is like
"the voltage is not high enough to hurt you on skin but if it enters yours eyes or mouth it can be dangerous. Ok let's try it" LOL
Lmfao
It's called testing your hypothesis. He assumed it would be dangerous, and he tested it out.
It's science-y....
I have to give him credit that he actually tests out his hypothesis as opposed to just assuming it's unsafe without testing it.
@@joemann7971 well eye and tongue aremore conductive
I had to watch the video two times to catch all the jokes.
He just tested it, he knew full well it would be safe
Tittle: "How safe is the shower head of doom?"
Video: Mehdi playing with the oven for four minutes.
Four?
El_Nicovw321 yeah actually
6
Minutes
This man's sponsorship spots are so smoothly done and relevant. This is true content creation that I can respect!
You know when a video gonna be good when it's write "doom" in a electroboom video
I know it's gonna be good when it's a video on live wire water sources and he starts it by pressing his hand to a live stove
I surprise with lack of Englis in this coment
sadly there's only a little pain in the video
bruh dorifto
More like electrodoom :v
I live in Brazil and never heard of someone being electrocuted in shower, even though most houses do not ground their showers. Always wanted to know how the hell it is possible. Great video!
24 years using this thing and never been grounded... Its fine...
Probally because of rubber slippers.
@@geovanneteixeira100 I don't think so, cause I take bath without any kind of electrical isolation from ground and yet feel nothing
@@danteregianifreitas6461 This is why shower head is not so dangerous like most people think, i never see someone being electrocuted by a shower head.
My grandmother was eletrocutd once, but she has survived. The place used to be 220v (Santos-SP) and not grounded. In all houses that I know the electrical shower is always grounded
_“hi, in my previous video about getting electrocuted in a bath tub”_
😂😂😆😆😂😂 the flag of Lolostan
I briefly mentioned suicide
I've always been freaked out by the exposed wiring over the shower heads here in Brazil. It's just kinda creepy to have that in the shower. Also it was common to be shocked when turning the knobs
Specially if you have any kind of wound on your hands.
There are far better connectors than just insulating tape. And ways to hide it in the wall.
@@DinnerForkTongue yup, this problem is caused more by the "we finish it later" attitude that Brazilians have, everything is temporary, forever, not an inherent problem with the showers
@@devforfun5618
O negócio é que o ditado "não existe nada mais permanente do que uma solução provisória" é *_global._* Não é exclusividade de nós brazucas não.
@@DinnerForkTongue é, mas ironicamente na terra da liberade é mais facil voce levar uma multa por uma instalação que não segue as normas do que no Brasil
Hello Fam! if you have interesting ideas and suggestions, post it to ElectroBOOM subreddit: reddit.com/r/electroboom
You Destroyed the Oven and Fixed Lmaaaaoooo
I really want that meter...I guess I'm broke AF...
EPIK
Fam.
why do you have lights wired to the same breaker as the socket outlets??????
1:47
*Bold* of you to assume that i have brain cells.
It won't hurt us, we have no brain cells
Yes very *bold*
Same with me
I may not have a brain, gentlemen, but I have an idea.
8:15
ElectroBOOM: “When the water comes to your eyes or your mouth, it can really hurt”
Also ElectroBOOM: *_lets try it out_*
Its like he _wants_ to die
Don't we all want to at some level though?
"I feel nothing!"
Why is your profile picture gacha
@@XxchildpredatorxX good question
If he had tried the suicide shower that Diode Gone Wild has tested he could have died. Indeed the one he tries here does not have a so bad quality.
Although it doesn't seem like it, these electric showers are very safe nowadays (I say nowadays, because in the past, in the first electric shower models, the piping was all metal, so the risk of getting shocked when turning on the valve was high, and the the shower was activated using a disconnector switch and the risk of you turning on the shower while wet was also very high) they are even safer than gas showers, here in Brazil it is very rare for accidents involving electric showers, when it does happen, it is usually because the person forgot to turn off the circuit breaker to change the resistance, or else, for some reason, probably incorrect installation, it caught fire, on the other hand, every year when winter arrives, cases of people who died of asphyxiation due to monoxide are very common. of carbon that leaked from the gas heater,
8:23
"I feel nuffing!"
You and me both... you and me both...
You misspelled "boff". Twice.
DTX its spelled both
arazuhld44 r/wooosh
I didn't get the joke I need explanation
NG Otako r/ihavereddit
“Hi! In my previous video about getting electrocuted in a bathtub” is a sentence I thought I would never hear
Says “ill pick a different title“
Used shower head of DOOOOOOOOOOM
Here in Brasil we usually connect it to the 220. These are amazing and much less dangerous than EXPLOSIVE GAS
Sources?
@@cessnacitation-x have you hear any news about people dying in the bath?
@@mtulio-t9z No, because I don't tune into Brazilian news.
@@mtulio-t9z Also if you think any news site is going to have a breaking news section because of an electric shock accident, you are very naive, there are worse things happening on the world.
@@cessnacitation-x do you know Google?
3:55
" i mean for around 200V AC, *throws in an ad* i mean $200 dollars.."
this guy is the best.
At my home it's for 240 VAC Lolz
30%of this video: showerhead of doom
70%of this video: THE STUPID OVEN
"it seems pretty safe"
Unless neutral wire breaks. A great gift for a "favorite" relative.
WELCOME TO BRAZZZZILLLLLLL
yep. neutral wire breaking or melting is a real risk. We do mitigate that most cases by providing adequate wiring.
Actually not, if overheating starts by the lack of neutral the element will just melt together with the plastic connections it's design to do it, the place will probably smell of burned plastic but that' it, I never have heard of any fire cause by a shower like this. Actually there's more deaths linked to fires or accidents in home boiler installations then with these eletric showers.
Can confirm... in Tanzania (240v) these tingle, even when installed by a professional who also dug up and replaced the earth spike.
Imagine you click on this video and skip to 8:24 with no context 😂😂
Even with context.....I was at once scared, intrigued, and dismayed.
@@michaelfingers7726 I was reading comments before watching video and I can agree im confused now
*Gets demonitized
LOL
Audio only is even better
@8:20 my dad opened the door..
".. and bring my tongue as close as possible, nghghghnghggh I feel nothing"
My dad closed the door
Hahaha!
Dad : “What were you watching”
Brain : “don’t tell him you are watching an electrician electrocute himself. Huh, what other videos are available on internet ?”
Me : “It was a pornography video”
Who says dad was outside when he closed the door? O.o
Lmao 😂
"1 minute on, 1 minute off, 1 minute on, 1 minute off" -> a.k.a. very low frequency PWM
aka mechanical thermostat.
Wax on, wax off... and if it's still not cooking the omelet, do a crane kick
Gianluca Ghettini well it deepens, it seems to me that it changes the frequency not the duty cycle like in PWM where there is a fixed frequency and changes the on and off duration (or it just has a thermostat)
Afaik, it wouldn't be a PWM because it's turning off and back on (i.e. 0hz->normal hz), right?
You'd be better off just making an timer based on the clock of the oven that ticks it on and off.
More like a sine wave controlled by an lfo
Using an electric shower requires some care that we learned as a child in Brazil. The shower should not be close to the head; the temperature selector switch must not be touched while it is on; taking a shower using rubber slippers is recommended in places where the electrical installation is precarious; and there must be a circuit breaker just for the shower. Electric shocks in the bathroom are common, but they are usually minor. I believe that the main risk of electric showers is the fires they can cause. We already had a shower that caught fire in my house, and it has also occurred to me that I was in the bathroom on a day of hydraulic instability and the shower element turned on by itself, causing a near fire that I managed to prevent by turning it off immediately (if I hadn't been there seeing it, it would have caught fire).
8:24 (waterboards self)
"I feel nothing."
*FBI wants to know your location*
More like CIA noises
Oi
@@varenik_buzovoy3694 oi
Oh lord the feds
HIDE THE WEED
@@ithaca2076 Looks like that one Spiderman meme.
I love your videos they kept me sane whilst in hospital after a major operation always make me smile. Thank you from the UK
Here in Brasil (HUE-land) we use these showers everywhere with no problems because:
1- the power grid of our houses are made with this kind of shower in mind (50+ amps).
2- we don't use them this close to our body, it's a hot country and we install our showers higher, close to the ceiling, the power outlet usually come from the ceiling, far from most people's reach.
PS: our standard ceiling is 9~10 feet tall, again, hot country.
but faulty ground can make the water register(if made of metal, wich normally isn't) shock you
@@Shadownrun2 but this is really not a problem, just use flip flops in the shower. The whole country does this.
You misspelled "2.7~3 meters"
@@Shadownrun2 another huehuehue here. I think there's something more to it, many Brazilian homes (including mine) haven't got ground circuits and yet nobody gets electrocuted.
And chile aaaand Argentina aaand Colombia and some more (i think)
Mehdi is an absolute treasure. Thank God we have Mehdi to educate us on the fascinating world of electricity.
Im brazilian and i must say i was always scared to use the shower in my mom's house because i was afraid id get a shock from the faucet xd
Eu sempre tenho medo de usar chuveiro eletrico, ainda mais o meu que é grande mas muuito antigo.
Eu ainda NÃO SEI como eu não levei choque hehehehe
Tipo, os fios não tão expostos mas tem uns lugares q eu vejo q se eu meter a mão eu levo
@@zeKotako Eu ainda tenho medo, uma vez eu tava tomando banho e ele pegou FOGO!
I have seen you somewhere
Desculpa dizer, mas isso tá me cheirando a riquinho hahaha
Mas o chuveiro a gás esquenta melhor mesmo.
Welcome to Electroboom, where we dissect the oven during a shower head video
"Besides the fact that it may set your house on fire it is safe."
Thank you, sensei
sensei means a japanese karati teacher lol uur way off
@@kovanpulkinen8205 Sensei, is a japanese title, given to a teacher or an honoured individual, such as a doctor.
@@gjune36 Ok i was close enough and you probably searched it up atleast i didnt.
@@kovanpulkinen8205 I used to watch a lot of anime and used to like Japanese movies.
@@gjune36 simply writting "your right and i was wrong" hurts more than a 240V shock on the internet.
The oven shorting on his wires had me rolling!
"'K'Nob"
@@bom6330 No, it's Volume! Crank it up to 11!
In Brazil we usually use the -240V- 220V (typo) version because of the lower wire diameter needed and most houses doesn't have any grounding.
Sounds like a fun seizure for the babys that like sticking forks in stuff
that's why we don't let them do it
@@ironicman6731 here in brazil this is the least of our concerns as a child hahahahahhhha
Hey, when I was two I did it, now I'm standing here, seventeen and all, with only minor brain damage!
No ground... We Just wire It to the neutral!!!! Bang.. welcome to Brasil
"KUH-NOB" 🤣
Love your videos!!
R E T kah-nigets!
Make sure to pronounce knife as "KUH-NIFE" too.
after the oven i forgot that the video was about the shower lol
Same
Damn. You read my mind.
This guy is awesome! I have to keep pausing videos, laughing too hard. I'm going through a rough patch , this is my therapy. Thanks so much. Stay well my friend
7:58 The spoon is offered by CircuitSpecialists
ELECTROBOOM: We will explain about the suicide shower
Me: half of the video is that damn oven
suicide oven ;-)
Here in Brazil about 90% of the houses do not have grounding and we connect the ground wire in the neutral.
edit: taporra tem BR pra caramba aqui kkkkk
My grounding connection was actually a nail in the wall in my first house lol
@@justsomenerd8925 f you, i know so much people are rich, and they are my friends
@@FPSzky rich in Brazil is still a peasant in a proper, first world, nation.
@@justsomenerd8925 my uncle is in dubai bitch
@@FPSzky cool story. Dubai is a shithole too. Also, just because he's in Dubai doesn't mean he is wealthy. Nice potato brain you have.
"So, if this is installed by a professional..."
My grandpa taught me how to install them. No, he wasn't an engineer. He had no degree at all LOL
Back in college, I helped a friend install one of these in his room. Neither of us have any knowledge regarding electrical engineering
And did he.... 9:57
This is the essence of Brazil. Install shower without any knowledge about. A lot of gambiarras LoL
@@LucasLima-nj2hx usually you just grab the cables and connect them and use it. There is not a lot of science behind xd
@@LucasLima-nj2hx
Not gambiarras, they're _technical adaptations,_ than you very much :P
@@JoseFerreira-nk5kq Yeah exept if the connection of the neutral conductor is loose and it's not grounded, or you touch a bad isolated phase (wet and only isolated with scotchtape), you gona die. Change the conductivity of the water (Drop salt or dirt in the tank on the roof) and it will kill you too. In fact there is a lot of science behind.
0:56 "Since you can buy these in Canada, you would assume that it's tested and safe."
Only if it's approved by CSA, cUL(us) or cETLus. Almost certainly the unit you bought has no government oversight and is being sold illegally. For some reason Amazon seems to get a free pass for selling unlicensed products.
Probably because 80% of the internet runs on Amazon owned servers. You don't piss off Amazon. They are effectively Megacorp 1.
how safe is the SHOWER HEAD OF DOOM?!
its "eh"
COME TO BRAZIL
i gues that any latinamerican country is enough, they are pretty popular in Ecuador too
or mexico
or any shitty third world country
GAURON123: found the alt-rightist
@@randomaccount8009 Are you praising third world countries? I don't think constant famine, drought, and war is a good thing.
@@GAURON123 or usa
I'm more baffled to learn that Joule heating is an alien concept for so many people.
5:16
electro: both are dangerous
aslo electro: *turns it on*
The shower manufacturer to buyer ...
May your soul rest in peace
What
Not gonna lie, I'm brazilian and this shit exploded over my head and it was brighter than the sun lol
Edit1 jeez how many likes, thank you like and subscribe this is story of my life. At the end of day I bought another shower as dangerous as the previous one, peace pray for me ✌️
Really?!
Are you alive?
você tinha que ter enchido o chuveiro de agua antes de ligar kkkkkkkkk
@Dani RBXL rip
@@kaideos7558 no
Imagine surviving the streets of brazil and you die from taking a shower
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Beginning of the video: Let's look inside a heated shower head.
Middle of video: I broke my oven by sticking wires to it.
"$200 dollars" it's pretty affordable, not in Brazil, that is far more than our minimum wage
Milão num chuveiro, pqp
I'm pretty sure no country has a $200 minimum wage.
@@tylerbonser7686 many do.
Not talking hourly, but monthly
@@daeudu that would make a difference. Sorry when I here minimum wage I think hourly.
Why am i watching this, its almost 4am and i have school later, i dont even have this showerhead
This comment is 3 months but mate same here its 4 am and after 4h i have skl
@@kyrz2973 same
Same 3am, and finished school 15 years ago
Same but im watching at 5pm with no school class nothing blaahh blahh balhhhh ....lol
Well, it's not too bad. These videos are informative so you can actually use this knowledge in school and get a decent grade in physics class or something
"Besides that it has loose wires and may set your house on fire, it seems pretty safe" 😂
The only reason i gather courage to see his video because only if he is alive he uploads, so it should end well. anyways hats off man.
he has a family
they could upload it, too XD
@@goddamnmaddog2024 why would you upload a video where your family member dies?
Depends on the family member.. XD
His daughter is called 'electrocute'. Perhaps she will electrocute him AND upload for clicks..
The only reason I gather courage to see his video is because I know he is really a smart man that wouldn't do anything that will seriously hurt himself. He knows a lot about this to make it look more dangerous than it actually is.
With that said, I would hate to know he got his calculations wrong and done himself right in. But I doubt anyone would upload that video if it did happen. A "bad news" update from someone maybe? But not the actual video, RUclips will demonitise and remove it straight away.
5:48 OVERTHINKING... OVER-ENGINEERING A SOLUTION... Oh lord... You had me in stitches, man! XD
Well I Installed and replace the resistance in a bunch of these back in Brazil. We do have thicker wires running for those, and there were some older models that the case was made of metal and would give you a little shock when installed improperly and touched. Even 110v house would usually have a second phase to run things like this in 220v, specially in the south where it gets really cold in the winter. Houses in Brazil are not made of paper like here so that helps with the not setting everything on fire as well.
A funny comeback is that other countries are the brave ones for running piped gas everywhere and within their house.
Either way I have never heard of anyone gettin hurt with these showers, and Brazilians alone probably take daily showers equivalent to the rest of the world together.
Speaking truths! Americans freak out when they see those shower heads but forget they have open flames sometimes on 20+ year old boilers in their basements and piped, pressurized gas running within their walls, and that added to the fact that homes here in the US are built out of wood. 😅 but those showers are the dangerous ones. Go figure!
@@guedesfhp both are dangerous, it's just a matter of time before one baboon messes with things they don't understand and KAPOOF, they're with Jesus. They're playing Russian roulette but with their House
@@guedesfhp Eh, people fear what they dont know about, so it is not a weird reaction, silly though, yes.
The "House in Brazil are not made of paper" made me giggle 😂
One problem when I see with this kind of video, is that even the most technical ones seems to ignore the fact that safety regulations do exist outside of north America. Like, there as a bunch of rules and regulations to make sure that the wiring of the house are done correctly, even if we have to admit that most people want to ignore that, but electricians have to follow the guidelines regardless.
I'll be -hopefully- a electrical engineer by the end of this year, and a lot of my dally activity is read those boring norms to not kill myself in the future. lol
@@Marcos_Tired Of course there's safety regulations outside of the US, but I do question how many people ignore those considering even in the US, I've seen some.. Not very legal wiring (Hell, I live in one of those houses right now loll).
Early congrats on becoming an Electrical Engineer btw! Electrical Engineering is the field I want to go into, but I'm only 18 and at the very VERY beginning of even learning what anything means haha! Hope life serves ya well, take it easy and have fun!
I love that you acknowledged that your video might displace other good videos so you chose to give it a different title
Hey, im from brazil and we use this kind of shower a lot.
The biggest problem is not being eletrecuted by the water itself. The major problem is on the faucet.
When we touch it, we get shock.
True, but only if you dont have the ground properly instaled. Learn that from the beach house
Why not get a sentry gas boiler or something? Or maybe a 120l electro boiler, I made hot water with just a boiler and a woodstove
Ahh, the classic metal faucet. It remembers my grandmother's house; If we didn't use the flip flop, we get a BIG shock. Learned the worst way.. Haha.
@@ritzevespa i belive its a matter of cost and simplicity. No need for pipes for hot water, neither a stead supply of gas or wood. Just a simple pipe for water, a proper wire for the outlet. Its a elegant solution imho
Every time I shower at my father's house. Every single time. I now only turn the knobs with the hose.
So I'm from one of these countries that use a shower like that. Here's some insights:
6:10 - There is no live wire with you in the shower here because the bathroom is already adapted to such showers - just to show how ubiquitous those showers are. Shower heads are installed much higher than Mehdi's (I needed a ladder to install my shower) and there's no loose wires whatsoever, they all go through the wall.
7:39 - Yeah, those things draw a lot of current. Long hot baths could mean a significant raise in your electrical bill. Pretty much everyone here had a parent that got really mad for their kids taking too much time in the shower for that very reason.
7:41 - Yup, but bathrooms' wiring around here are all adapted to this kind of shower. Mehdi's isn't, but in Canada this kind of shower head isn't common there.
9:03 - Actually, installing shower heads like these is something electricians around here do a lot. Also, shower manuals are many times good enough that a person can do the installation themselves (I do it).
9:06 - The only recurring problem people actually have with their shower is improper grounding, but that affects the whole house, not just the shower. I once suffered a mild shock while turning the metal cross handle in the shower of a friend's house. I then noticed that she had already covered the handle with electrical tape, but she missed some spots. So even in those cases, those showers are pretty safe.
9:34 - Why is Mehdi questioning the quality of the shower head? Those things have been around for ages, their design has been optimized over the years, their manufacture is regulated (believe it or not, the government can still do a few things right), houses are all adapted to them and the companies that make them really don't wanna be sued over someone's death. The only problem I find in some showers is low water pressure, but I've never had problems with the heating element.
9:45 - Well, where I live we have 110V AC but I've been to a town in my country that not only uses 220V but also metal pipes, their tap water has a metallic taste so I figure it has some metallic ions on it making it more conductive (I guess, I'm no chemist). I've visited that town many times and took hot showers there, and I felt nothing. No even a slight shock. Maybe the current is double or more, Idk, but it's still safe.
Electrical showers may be intimidating to someone who's not used to them and it can actually be dangerous if you install if you leave loose hanging wires in the shower stall like Mehdi did, but other than that, it's pretty safe.
as if in brazil the electricty was really done correctly....
Its been waaaaay to long since I’ve come across such an interesting and thoughtful RUclipsr, he not only keeps his content factual correct but also interesting and he cares about the smaller RUclipsrs in the community. A breath of fresh air that this god forsaken site so desperately needs.
I agree
Well, there are soo many great channels here?
Of cause even more rubbish, but really, there are many great creators, ElectroBoom is one of them.
40 years here. Been taing baths with these all these years, at least once a day. Still alive...
Showerhead of DOOM
11mins later - Mehdi becomes DOOM Slayer !
The video isn't even 11 minutes long🤣
The video isn't even 11 minutes long🤣🤣
I smell pedantry in the air....
"E1M1-At Doom's gate intensifies"
There's always the thought in mind that there's a shock or trip coming in the next few seconds of the video.
same pitch
I watched one video of his and I KNEW it was going to happen and it still scared the shit out of me.
Or some fireworks 😂😂
"the knobb!! I've been calling it the volume all this time!! "
the kuh-nob
"not calling it that shit again...."
I love how in order to cross the 10 minute mark he goes off on random tangents when something unexpected happens, like him getting confused from the oven, but unlike other channels it's 1) really fucking funny to watch and 2) still kind of educational and related to the main topic in a way
Good on you for again promoting Bigclivedotcom's video. I agree, he covered the topic very well. (I'll have to look into diodegonewild, sounds interesting) gestures like this are why I am happy to support you on Patreon. Keep up the great work!
lol Bigspazdotlame channel has nothing on electroboom. B Clive disrespects viewers and involves them in arguments they have no idea he is referring to. I commented on one of his videos years ago and received a bunch of backlash that had nothing to do with my comment and was all about him talking about how smart he was 😂 I will never watch a Big Clive video again
@@916619jg by all means, I encourage you to produce better videos than he does!
"trust me, I'm a proffecional"
9:25
I'm brazilian and I never heard about death in use of eletric showers.
In Brazil is more common to see news about deaths in bathrooms that use gas heated showers (because of gas leak)
Poor installation or failing units will make anything dangerous, however, does the gas there not have an added odor? In the U.S. if there's a gas leak you can smell it.
@@rockbandandghmaster You can't smell it when you're dead.
TheKingHostile In China, it is required to install a gas detector which connects to an electrical valve. Once gas detector detects gas the system will automatically switch off. The main system has a pressure valve as well. Also with the odour I just don’t see how anyone can die from gas...
Maybe he mean carbon monoxide from the gas heater exhaust.
@@rockbandandghmaster it's a bit trickier than that. Of course gas has added odor in it. I'm from Argentina but i've been in Brasil. Because of the terrain, it is way too hard and expensive to get master natural gas pipes on the neighborhoods. They even have trucks selling compressed gas as if it was icecream. But it's mostly used for other stuff. They're quite strange people most of them doesn't even know what a bidet is hahahaha
2:50 - I don't know how in USA, but in Europe, there is just termostat inside, you never change actual power of electric cooker.