Popping a 5000A Fuse
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2021
- Full making of the video popping a 5000A fuse.
Most of the components came from authorized scrap and recycling merchants.
Thank you to my close friends for pointing out the companies that deal with this scrap.
Even dirty old cable from the scrap wire bin can be cleaned and reused.
General public may be prohibited from purchasing such equipment unless they have a business associated and authorized to make purchases of potentially hazardous equipment.
The fuse itself was purchased from eBay from the U.S.
Some consumables are from RS Components, Cable and lugs are often from Cleveland Cables and BICC Cables. eBay is great for many things too. 
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Dude's backyard is like the size of a postage stamp and he's discharging 200K amps. Bravo, nice!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Glad I’m not a neighbour!
just the comment i was looking for hahaha
Ok, so now he's got this bank of ridiculously huge capacitors... there's no way he's just gonna put them away in the back of his garage. I predict that there will soon be another "experiment" based on an over-exaggerated application of Ohm's law.
@@tfk5853 lol that's probably the neighbor hanging out with him and having a few beers
"Marty, I'm sorry, but the only power source capable of generating 1.21
gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning. However.. there is this guy in the UK..."
Going back to the future
jigawatts*
him: hold ma cup of tea
🤣🤣🤣👍
Yea he's halfway to time travel power levels. That sounds like a challenge...
The best part of this is the idea that there are circuits that can handle 5000 amps, but still need protection for over currents.
The higher the current the circuit can handle the more dire things get if there is too much, so of course there is over current protection. Also 5kA isn't the highest things go, multiple fuses can be wired in parallel.
I once worked in a magnesium factory (in Porsgrunn, Norway) and the ampmeter on the wall was steady on 240.000 Amps, but voltage was only around 6 v. The "wire" for all this power had a cross section of 1.2 m2 (13.5 sqft). We used the same amount of electrical power as a city of 60.000 people. The magnetic fields in that factory was quite powerful. At certain places my quartz watch would stop (the second hand) in 1.5m (5 ft) distance from the "wire". One of my work spots (for 45 minutes) regularly reached 125 degrees C (257 F), and we had to wear heavy/thick clothing and rubber boots. The working conditions were quite horrible. Wet floor all the time (due to salts). On top of that we had to wear a kind of gas"masks" due to all the chlorine gas in the air. I drank up to 8 liters of water per shift and ate salt tablets. We only worked 3 x 45 minutes per shift.
Insane. What were the salt tablets for? Electrolytes?
@@ConnorHammondWe lost a lot of salt. Drank up to 8 liters of water per shift. You could see the salt on our clothes.
Звучит как будто это связано с радиацией
@@ArnsteinBjone do you know why? just from sweating a lot?
If a "wire" for 240K A is so huge then how tf do they manage the Megaamperes in those Railguns they always test? Or can they be much smaller because it is only extremely short? O.o
Grid management: easy day ay?
*massive surge*
Grid management: what was that?
In the distance: "Ahhhhhh popped it"
Grid management: oh no, hes back
There isn't any massive surge. All the energy is stored in the capacitor bank. And charging the capacitors takes time.
@@syntaxerorr lets not forget he did once take down power to his block.
@@oscodains could honestly use him in my city, to teach my power company a lesson about the importance of maintaining the equipment (which they don't do, they just wait till the last minute or after a big storm blows through to actually fix things. This past winter they did rolling outages despite having the ability to handle the capacity needed, they can handle it during the summer when everyone is running ac and everything.
Ground control to @Major Tom...
Bet he heard the same thing! XD
@@syntaxerorr yeah but the rf hes throwing out will probably show up on the iss as noise
Never underestimate a British chap with Scientific knowledge and a high garden fence.
Yes indeed.
I wonder if his neighbour knows what's going on lol
Time to call in Scotland Yard! 😂😂 Moriarity is at it again!
British men in sheds are the most powerful beings on the planet
I could tell he was English before the video played 😅
50 dollars says this guy is on at least 3 government watch lists.
$50 is cheap enough for me I’m in
Give me 10:1 odds and I’ll wager $500
@@thedeplorable8370 i stroke my pickle 🗣🚨🔥
He's british, they're born that way
7 I imagine if you count England, Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland as having separate watchlists!
As a former electrician, I just have to thank you for this video. The highest fuse I’ve ever popped was a 250 amp fuse. Incredible!
i popped a 500 amp in a 24v tank once. big bang
A sentence you don't hear to often: "If you put 5000A though this, nothing will happen"
damn
I mean, it'll get... warm.
As a lineman i heard a lot of why that 500amp fuse aint burn with 1200amp passing through it
@@ZE0XE0 Because most fuses cary their rated load, and if needed, a bit more, with no problem. Good quality fuses can handle quick peaks of power that are 3-5x their rated nominal power. Depends on the circuit, the components, and the loads.
@@ZE0XE0 The diagram in the video explained just that. Time is a factor together with the amps.
I learned that I have no desire to be that close to anything that powerful. Thanks for the lesson. I'll stick to machining.
it's not powerful, it's insane, we speaking about 600MWatt, we are in the energy production number, just for a really short time
machining the miniature lathe
Hey, don’t underestimate those machines. All it it takes is a split second to ruin your day. Stay safe my friend!
Then you don't want to be near me???
Shit will kill a town dead
Reminds me of what my dad used to do. My father was lead physicist for a hypersonic wind tunnel for Lockheed back in the 60s and 70s. It was called the "hot shot wind tunnel". The way it was powered was with a large tank, (maybe 12' long, 3 or so feet in diameter with many inches thick walls) that was filled with a noncombustible gas under high pressure. The tank walls were very thick. The nozzle, at one end was directed into the wind tunnel. When they wanted to take a "shot" they powered up a room (about the size of a secondary school classroom) filled with 1 farad capacitors. I don't know how many, but the banks filled the room. From that room to the tank, there were something like 12 copper buss bars, with a cross section of 1" by 6". I think there were 12 going and 12 coming back. The coming and going bars were separated by dozens of feet, going in separate hallways. (I was told, never saw them actually). The capacitors would be charged up, overnight I guess, and when all was ready, a switch was thrown which released inside the tank, one end of a piano wire that would spring from one internal wall electrical contact to contact the other side of the tube. When it got close to the other wall, the discharge was incredible. the spark was one (huge inches across (my memory)) spark that would instantly ionize the metal piano wire, and of course instantly heat up the gas inside the tank, such that the pressure became immense and would blow out the nozzle and simulate a jet stream of air that was something like 25,000 miles an hour. (for testing models of rockets and such). Like most boys, I was suitably impressed and thought it was the coolest thing. Of course they had their share of "accidents" up there and we always were a bit worried about him, but fortunately no one was every seriously injured to my memory.
😮 holy shit
Yeah, this is crazy intense, and I can barely understand it to be honest, but I would love to see that “piece of equipment” (for lack or a better word) in use!!!
I have a snake man. I once gave it some beer man. It slithered this way and that
I was watching tv and turned on the fan. You never know if a skunk might spray you so I drove a car. Cat wanted to cop coke so I said naw brotha. But you can't wear white after Labor Day. For Christmas I saw the North Pole. A polar bear drunk some coca cola and I was floored. Then a man riding a unicycle was juggling some cans and I was like holy moly Batman. You dig it? Sure you do. Now go run after horses.
@@ImBeeKeepingAge
Damn, who knows what they're doing now
That’s a SCARY amount of power in a relatively small package! I am amazed and terrified at the same time! 👍🏻
250000A * 3000V = 750 megawatt
Terrifying
And 480 3phase makes me nervous. Tha hell with this shit
@@jamesjackson4224 ^ fuckin same. workin motor cabinets on 3 phase motors with 208 v sf 1.25 and it fucking scares me. transformer steps down from 208v to 120v for control circuit
This is absolutely mad. I love it
I love how this man emanates "British man in his shed" energy which is the highest form of chaotic neutral there is.
I remember from one of his other videos he works as a risk analyzer of some sort. And he’s always wearing a dress shirt. I get more of a... I know exactly what I’m doing but I just don’t know how much fun it will be yet
“British man in his shed energy” indeed. Almost as much as the two guys that started Accuracy International. They were making long range sporting rifles in their garage when the English army put out a trial for a new sniper. They made a rifle and entered it in the trial to see where they could improve their designs. They ended up beating all of the major manufacturers that spent millions on engineering teams and machinists to manufacture a rifle to win the government contract.
@@TheAir2142 i dont know if thats the same one but there were these guys that set up a fake factory because the army wanted the guns thry made and they had to set it ip super quick to seem official
@@hambungers yep. ruclips.net/video/zVzRGS16OPU/видео.html
I wonder if his missus has the shed, he appears to have the entire house
As an EE major I am incredibly impressed that you pulled this off with zero fatalities.
I’m currently in my first year of EE which involves a lot of OHS… this has me low key freaking out 🤣☠️
Do they teach you to behave like the little angry WW2 Austrian in health and safety?
Connecting stuff with the voltage on is exciting
Seems collegiate life has done it’s new purpose, made you so terrified of potential consequences that you forget about your own knowledge. There’s almost always a relatively safe way to do ridiculously dangerous things without getting hurt. Half the fun of doing hooligan shit is finding ways to do it without dying so you can tell the tale.
@@ethos5639 exactly!
Standing 25 feet up on a forklift mounting something to a wall for example, then climbing down the back😂
I think it’s really safe that he’s doing all of this on carpet👍🏻. Looks really good from my house.
Y'all are crazy as hell, but as a electrician having worked on up to 600 volts, and as a 50,000 kV overhead line construction coordinator and inspector, that was freaking awesome. Well done. Even better seeing all the grounding and other safety precautions used after each hit.
Very nice job mate! I've been a high voltage electrician for 40 years, everything you built to achieve your goal was of a very high standard. Only people in the electrical industry can really appreciate the immense danger and instant death that commands respect from electricity, i loved the part where you put the steel wool in the fuse just for fun i probably would have gone further and stuffed a few more items in there to see how they react...
Every time this was set off the lights dimmed in Australia
He’s Brihish bro
@@Drewbyy it's a joke
@@Drewbyy nah man. I'm in Australia and can confirm, light have been dimming lately.
@@Drewbyy A joke is ruined when you have to explain it but... The joke is he is using so much power, that it dims the lights all the way to Australia.
It's not connected to the grid when this happens 😂
National Grid: "oh shit, he's back"
"George, spin up the secondary generator, Photon is back on the grid"
Bells are ringing and sirens are going off
Lol
Literally Everyone: "oh shit, he's back"
Quick isolate that house in it's own little power grid to avoid disruptions.
This seems like a video that some hobbyist in 2009 would have uploaded and got in everyone's recommended 14 years later
This man is the walter white of electrical engineering
Meanwhile PC people be like "hey don't build your PC near carpet you pillock"
This guy: "these capacitors make great coffee tables"
Funny enough, in his earlier videos he was playing with high voltage on carpet
Property damage vs people ‚damage‘
When the world needed him most he came back
you fucking bet he did
and then he popped iiiiittttttt
@Charles Vane the fuck are you talking about dude?
@@theodorekorehonen The general political situation in the West for the past ten or so years.
We miss your amazing videos very much and we all wish you the very best in life. I was so happy to see you come back for a few episodes. My friend josh and I had way too much fun watching your videos…. Again thanks for everything and god bless you
At my work we have a 126kA bus at 1000V and watching it go bang when we have a fault is a spectacular sight, shoots copper lugs metres in any direction and molten metal everywhere
I wasn't too sure about this guy then he shows a volt meter and says, "Analog, just as it should be." Yeah this guy is top notch.
💡 Tom Scholtz said something similar to that when he invented the "Rockman" in the early 80s. He was right as well! Who needed digital, when you could plug your cheap guitar into a Rockman in 1983 and sound like you were standing on stage in Madison Square Garden plugged into a top notch effects and mixing system, and played through an equally top notch PA system!
@@HighlanderNorth1 yeah but digital soundboards are waaaay easier to handle during a stage show. I press a button, and the sliders move themselves. Easy, but analog soundboards are way cooler looking just heavier. There's more work for analog to do during a show.
LOL
@@deadasfboi do you think you get the same feel for all the levels on a digital board? I’ve only ever worked sweet old analogue ones.
@@MrDavo511 Yes it's the same like analog, but simply easier to handle, just imagine seeing a small screen up top near the sliders. Thats where you look at the presets for something you setup before a show. Even the Digital Lightboard got the same looks, and feeling as the soundboard itself. I was doing all this for stage shows at my Highschool. I took Career Tech for Entertainment Technology, I just wanna tell you this but I miss doing all that. I graduated and didn't go to college for it :(
I"VE BEEN WAITING YEARS FOR YOU TO COME BACK!
I've been waiting for years to see someone pop one of these sized fuses
I've been waiting years to read this comment
I was standing on a bridge when I got the notification (Joke)
I legit thought he died
I feel your excitement. So good to see a video from this channel after so long
Whenever I watch one of your videos, I take a few minutes to add more insulation to my monitor leads, as well as the main supply for the computer. This has worked, and instead of my monitor flashing into a pile of expensive burn remnants, I just get some lovely smoked insulation.
Win-win!
As a boilermaker, hearing 200,000 amps got the heart RACING
“It’s not the right tool, but it works.”
My grandfather warned me about people like you xD
We're going to have another Damascus incident on our hands here!
these were my bff's as a kid!!
Good enough for Jazz
Welcome to Australia the land of “yeeaaahh she’ll be riiiggghhhttt”
@@hvrbros8730 Well in Turkey when we stayed together as three engineering students, we used a fork as an antenna for TV, used iron to cook eggs, boil water and make noodles, used dumbells as door holders, everyone had one bowl and one cup each. I can't even remember all the things we did back then.
An an electrician who works in live switchgears occasionally, videos like these always remind me to respect the invisible force
Yeah, this is scary dangerous. Wouldn't want to overload anything with 5k amps.
Absolutely
Working with high amp gear sucks the calorie rating for the ppe is ridiculous. Medium voltage is nicer, higher voltage less amps. Less explosion
@Adam Silva Heh, to the ones who say "it's dangerous 'coz you can't see it, hear it, smell it or taste it" I say, you can see the coronal arc, hear the ionization, and smell the ozone, and I think it always tastes metallic down the sides of my tongue (or that could be adrenaline after the fact;-)
Agreed 1 second of not paying attention............
This guy has to have fruits of steel, unprecedented amount of knowledge and a whoooooole bunch of respect and confidence! Lol
That was awesome!
Man, you are the kind of "good crazy people" that we need in this world!
You've done a great job of keeping the old feel, but with updated filming equipment and camera angles. Love it
This video has been stored in his computer drive for a long time
soo true, i was about saying the same thing
@@mr.k.9019 Same
just missing the purple dots on the lens 😂
@@WELLINGTON20 Right. I thought he moved to India.
"I paid for 5000 Amps of fuse and I'm gonna use them goddammit!"
As an EE expert I'm suprised you did this without creating a black hole in the universe
This guy is actually a genius. Please come back.
I'm assuming he had to warn his neighbors before this one like:
"Hey, you might hear explosions tomorrow, it's alright, it's just me getting back to popping things"
probably not just the neighbours needed warning lol i reckon the whole street needs a heads up
He doesn't get along with the neighbours.
Can imagine half of Hornchurch need to be pre warned
@@johnmann7502 I wonder how many brown-outs he causes in the local area ;-)
@@johnmann7502 remembers me on his "electro meter pops" vid where the whole street was loosing power due to his shenanigans xD
This is the only man can be gone for 4 years, and come back, get 140,000 views in a few hours, and then whisper 'I popped it' in your ear.
lol
Haha haha. Truth
1 million now :)
@@TheAudioCGMan 2.1M now!!
Love the update video from the OG back 9 years before this video 😂 loving that you wont be burning your carpet no more.
I used to have fun showing people how to pop a 60A fuse. That just became so mundane hahaha! Stellar video sir!
Ah, yes the 5000A fuse that I remember seeing 8 years ago in a video expecting it to be blown back then, but the sequel took 8 years, no complaints though, it was worth it. 💗💗💗
Man, Ive seen a lot of crazy experiments with electroboom and styropyro, but this
This takes the cake
those guys are also awesomely dangerous and fun to watch.
I watch them too LMAO.
Photonic is the original and best.
@@halcyondaystunespretty sure quite a lot of electrobooms stuff especially later is fake.
@@bobdeslob8768i can assure you it isn't
So I worked in a factory doing sandblasting and high temperature metal coatings. One of the ovens that the company was using had three fuses as safety precautions, they were rated for 200kA. Yes, 200,000 amps. These ovens were the size of rooms and could get up to a couple thousand degrees inside to bond the metals chemically at the surface and basically weld whatever coating we were applying. At one point I took a vacation, came back to everyone saying there had been a fire. Talked to the boss and turned out one of the fuses blew and started a fire, their response to the situation? Jumper the fuse and keep things going. I’m so glad I left 😭 that thing was a bomb in the making
Public 👏 service 👏! Love to see it. Thank you for building.
for anyone who’s wondering, just ONE of these Fuses costs $2600 (USD). Extreme is one word to describe these fuses.
Brand new. In a refurbished state they're 700-1,000, still a shitload for a fuse lol
What makes it so expensive? It doesn't look very complicated and surely e.g. the copper alone doesn't cost quite that much.
@@seneca983 maybe the capacity of the fuse?
@@seneca983 Each end of the fuse would need to be machined from large blocks of copper, I would think the material cost would be significant before you even consider machining and assembly cost.
How much do all those capacitors cost ?
"where's ma hamma", "I've popped it", my god I was waiting to hear those phrases again, this is like the christmas present we've never expected
Yeees, popping a ‘hamma’ would be a great one - Many amps while beating something with it would make good entertainment…
don't forget, "i'm not havin it" I actually use that one regularly
as someone who like to simulate small circuits, and doesn't like amperage over 75mA (usually not even over 3mA), this gave me a fucking heart attack. It is also really nice to see someone who actually uses caution around large supercapacitors
75mA is still able to kill you
@@ikat_tracer Well yes, but to overcome the impotence of the skin and other flesh, you would need incredibly high voltages, as well as high amounts of energy to apply this shock for long enough for it to effect the heart. Neither of these are present very often in small circuits, as it would likely use a lot of power, and in small circuits with less surface area this could easily lead it to overheat. a super capacitor or battery would likely not supply enough power and/or energy for this to kill you. This could only really be the case if it has a high power external power source (such as electric grid), and would need to operate at incredibly high voltages, and be capable of consuming very large amounts of power without frying themselves.
PS: when I started typing I was not expecting to start gushing so much about electronics and electricity, but I just got on a roll lol.
Is 5 lines of text "gushing"? @@Term-0
As someone who welds I can't even imagine not liking amperage over 75mA.
Seriously try it sometime just for your own piece of mind while working with low power.
Come back mate we miss you, hope you’re all good 👍
This man is the perfect mix of sketchy and professional i love it
Holy crap you just described the non-stop feeling I have watching this guy. Like I'm always going "This guy is legit...I think...holy crap this guy is sus....but I trust him?"
@@nateo200 amogus
100% accurate. None of us would be at all surprised if he showed up in the news as a long time electrical contractor for organized crime, nor would we be surprised if he turned out to be a senior building inspector of some major UK city.
susfressional. sketchfressional?
@@NobleNobblerwhere did the "r"s come from. Susfessional. Sketchfessional
I love how he always speaks in a manner that wont spook or scare away any angry pixies.
I would be soft spoken around those amps. Caress those volts. Makes my butthole pucker just thinking about that many angry pixies. Is angry pixies an AvE reference or much older?
I never even knew Alex DeLarge was such a handyman
Bri'ish
Honestly and truly appreciate the "hold for bang"
Angry pixies? Someone’s been watching the dangerous comedy of AvE.
I used to work in an IT facility for a steel maker. The large machine room got it’s power from the neighbouring rolling mill. We had these huge transformers to step down the source to our needs. I saw an electrical engineer using a huge spanner to loosen and disconnect some prime cabling. Even though he checked multiple times to make sure the power from the rolling mill was off, he hands shook as he moved the spanner towards the bolt holding down the cabling…. The 3 of us watching took a few steps back before the spanner touched the bolt.
I'm just in absolute awe of the capacitors...🤤🤩
Used to work for GE in US. Went to what they called their “high voltage test facility” to test lightning protection devices. They were trying to produce man made lightning. But of course, that is not possible. They had a high voltage generator, 2 actually. One was charged to plus 15 million volts, the other to minus 15 million. They would draw an arc across the 2. These generators were in a big building that looked like a giant airplane hanger. The spark would go,from one end of the building to,the other. But what I liked best was current generator. At max capacity it could output 250,000 amps, just a short pulse. When it went off the whole building shook. We made devices that could handle that peak current. Impressive to see.
whatchu mean man made lightning is impossible? the process isnt able to be reproduced due to the massive scale of it, but lightning in itself is just a static discharge no? are you referring to the magnitude of the lightning's power perhaps?
Bro why does it feel illegal to have read this 😂
what year was this? I wonder what kinda damage that EMI would do to modern day electronics?
@@aone9050 recreating the voltage and current a real lightning can produce is not yet possible in the lab. we can indeed make small ones as he stated, but when he sais "cant make real ones" it referes to the scale nature can offer
@@latenttweet All are equipment was in a small room that was fully screened, a Faraday cage. Without that the EMP would fry everything.
Gotta love this guy, dissapears for 4 years straight (some forums saying he was even dead) and comes back like he uploaded yesterday
He had to wait until his electric bill stabilized. 😂
Came back with a vengeance
He did upload yesterday. Well, the day before.
@@drewsoraci5368he uses generators and also he charges huge batteries at night (cheaper electricity)
That’s the fuse I needed for my car stereo back in the 90’s.
That’s crazy amount of power you played.. a true madlad can pull this one 😱
The amount of power this dude is playing with is insane lol
In his bloody backyard too
Unimaginable amounts! I think a large, pro sized welder is like 200 or maybe 300 amps max...
@@woodworkerroyer8497 I did commercial electrical work for a few years and I always hated messing with the large feeder cables that ran out to the transformers. I believe they were anywhere from 200-400 amps depending on the building. And half the time they weren't even powered yet lol just the size of the cable was intimidating
@@woodworkerroyer8497 way more than that
He’s back for real, this is what we needed.
The hero has returned when we needed him
The messiah has returned
And he has gained lot of weight too 😅
I love your channel and the awesomeness of poping stuff like a champ, pure awsomness 😂 🤘⚡🔌🇬🇧❤
This is absolutely insane, I love it.
I love how he’s speaking a bit hushed, like he doesn’t want his wife to find out what he’s meddling with.
or the neighbours... jesus. Can you imagine having a neighbour setting that up just on the other side of that tiny fence?
@@alabrrmrbmmr The whole village has been knowing what he does for years. I suppose his neighbour has left due to increasingly high insurance police though. xD
@@lolilollolilol7773 And the wife!
@@alabrrmrbmmr Never mind the fence, bloody bang from that bank discharging would shake the neighborhood.
@@jds355 Inside every foreigner is an American dying to get out.
Those capacitors seem like they could drive a pretty insane railgun contraption.
Unfortunately that might be very illegal to make in the UK....UK government doesn't like fun things xD
It's my drone launcher 🤔
We need this to become a reality
I smell a team up with the furze..... That would be SLICK
@@Chris47368 the country that thinks mean posts on Facebook are worse than theft or assault? Surely they'd be okay with a rail gun..
Nice play room!
Thanks a lot for your time and for the demonstration my friends!
Subscribed!!
Thank you for showing us this awesome experiment
Never clicked on a video so quick, so glad to see you back!
We have been waiting years for this so why wait another second
same
Same here👌
I know, right!
You know, you really have to appreciate that even though he's doing all of this at home? There's no skimping on the fabrication, safety labeling, or procedures being used to ensure not only a success but a safe environment. Insanely professional.
This guy's voice gets reaaally terrifying when he monologues.
Well when what your working on could literally vaporize anything made of squishy human you would hope so XD.
Dangerous u fool
dude has a book of SOP's lol. showed it in a old vid.
@@danp7174 EE doesn't mean much I've got 6 months and I wouldnt try this
One of youtubes greatest channels still.
In 45 years of working in heavy industry I've seen my share of sparks, explosions and puddles of molten copper.
I think my favorite was the fork lift hitting the ganged buss bars at the barrel electroplating line. That shut the plating shop down for two days while we waited for all kinds of electrical equipment to come in.
I'm betting that forklift operator didn't last long after that
This is what happens when electricians have nothing to do in the lockdown
Seriously funny. 🤣
Specifically electricians with the credentials to work on high power systems. You have to get licensed to operate on different powered systems. As far as I can recall from my schooling basic low power 120 volt and 240 volt systems don't require extra licensing in the states; but require licenses for the type of systems you're legally allowed to service.
@@davisbradford7438 Not across the Pond here :-)
We know you mean low voltage (not low power) but over here once you pass your exams to work on regular low voltage installations (upto 1000VAC/1500VDC) you don't need additional "licence" to work on specific equipment (regardless of what "power" that equipment uses), you do need to demonstrate competence (knowledge and relevant experience) as part of a "Safe System of Work" (to comply with the Electricity at Work Act, and several reg's under the umbrella Health and Safety at Work Etc. Act)
I'd hate to be somewhere that was still doing lockdowns in July
Lmao RIGHT!😂😂
Hearing Photon’s unique enunciation once again on the word “amp….ssss” is a shot of serotonin to my brain.
Edit: he referenced my comment! (I think.) either way, made my day!
Like ASMR, but much better and much more satisfying...knowing that e's gonna pop iittt.
I could listen to that man speak about transistors and capacitors forever, you actually learn shit from the way he explains things I love it
@@ThePolandball and definately not cringing like ASMR :D
Your attitude is your dads deterministic attitude about high current work
Guy says he's going to blow up a 5000 amp fuse, I automatically hit the like button and watch😂
When you have to use suspension bridge cables to handle the power, you know you're doing it right.
Great, now you're going to give him the "great idea" to turn a suspension bridge into a 15GA capacitor or something equally insane.
@@phydeux I fail to see the downside lol
@@ruthlessadmin - Neither do I, as long as I'm not driving over said bridge any time soon.
@@phydeux 𝘽𝙕𝙕𝙕𝙕𝙏
As styropyro said:
"If you touch this, these or any of those you will be a corpse before you hit the ground"
need source on that , sounds hilarious
You wouldn't just hit the ground, you'd hit the walls and ceiling too. Cause you exploded.
You turn into light.
@@francobuzzetti9424 styropyro on RUclips Video about the plasma lighter
Lol he said yiur body will literally implode if you touch teh output on a single big boy compacitor yet he bought two stacks that's getting close to building a railway maybe get another 2 stacks lol and then eletric will be crying you need that much power a puny rectecifier and a bench supply is not enough you need current for a rail gun lots of it
I've seen a lot of power, But this guy has a lot of guts! He is doing some scary things.
I have always wanted to see a mad scientist with his minions at work in his lair. Thank you very much.
I've been an electrician for over 40 years my work had me setting up large mining equipment with monster fault potential what you have just shown us was truly scary it should be used as an industry training aid
You my good sir are the voice of reason in a sea of idiots
Might be a good idea to pitch that as an idea to a higher up on the chain of command, might land you a raise or promotion.
I love the amount of natural chaotic energy displayed by this lad
Five thousand aaampss. 😈
Up the reserve capacity of the incoming air to your pneumatic switch and pipe it to the switch from the reserve tank. Do not use hose. You will achieve the full speed the switch is rated at and eliminate the arc flash at the contacts. Great Video!
Only very special buddies have I shared that “off the scale” laugh you guys shared . That shit is sacred .
"No one man should have all that power"
This shit is legit scary
he is scary in behavior, but not the tools
He knows what he is doing. He's an electrical engineer
Bro, I'm an electrical engineer and I would have killeD myself long ago trying the stuff this guy does.
I honestly wonder what his neighbors think of him. He's had to have called the cops on him, though I imagine if he was polite, and sat down with each of the neighbors, explained what he was doing, and addressed any concerns or questions they might have, they might be cool with it.
Agreed 200K amp load is just bonkers. But I just laughed at the wire wool😂
Better believe that bell icon is on! Glad to see you back and well Andy! Long live Photonicinduction!
Bell icon was on for a long time ready and waiting for this lol
On of the very few channels i use the bell for.
This is what I lift everyday and I told you it's much better than any dumbbell I ever lift.
I really do miss this guy.......hope all is well for you brother.
I was excited when he showed up on my feed again, I thought something new was posted.
Imagine how terrifying yet exciting it would be to be this guy's neighbour.
You never know if he’s just trying to mend something or creating an electrical bomb
10pm on a friday and you look over your fence to see a spectacle of fireworks going off through the window into his garage...
Reminds me of my Pops... He was Utlity Electric Lineman/Troubleman. 5000' elevation, important backup line from Nevada comes in over the mountains, also grids to Tahoe. Lots of excitement!
Before his passing, I'd send him your videos. Everytime he'd responded "Yeah, but ask him if he's every done a 640kv at 7200',in a 115mph blizzard. Top of the mountain. We had to sleep there, couldn't get down...."
Over the years, the kv fluctuated, 7200' was always 7200' and I think for a whole the blizzard was blowing up to 140mph. He would always tell me to" ask you if" as if I knew your personally, like we we're buddies.
Thanks for your videos. They bring my Pops back, if just for fleeting moments. I appreciate that. And you.
:)
Cool story, sorry to hear your Dad passed also.
Props to your pops for doing such a dangerous job. /salute
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A salute to your father, Sir
I bet the neighbors love this guy.
As the grid lights flicker. Vids are always great guy! Have fun!!
These dudes: 5000A
Meanwhile in the embedded electronics lab where I work: _5mA consumption? That's a lot, are you crazy!_
Andy's quiescent current is 5000A LOL
I know right, building devices rn aiming at a few hundred mA max, and then thinking about this guy being where it all started😂
Nice humblebrag. Looking forward to hearing you lie and claim it wasn't.
Welcome to the industrial side lol
Is like the original Mad Scientist
"Most of the components came from authorized scrap and recycling merchants."
*Most*
Glad I’m not the only one who noticed that distinction lol
If styropyro ever taught me anything then the rest came from ebay as Russian military surplus
He sounds really proud of himself which I find adorable
This right here, ladies and gentlemen, is why you *never* underestimate the power of a British man in his shed.
A great example here of how stored energy, released in a very small instant, causes spectacular results. Mathematically it's called a delta-function, which relates to an infinitely high amount of energy in an infinitely small time - not really ever achievable, but closely approached here!
And because the actual power to charge those capacitors is taken over a longer time, the grid never sees the thousands of Amps - only the capacitors and other part of the circuit.
A similar process is used for spot welding.
As other comments have said, would have been nice to have had some quality close-up slow-motion filming of the fuse elements blowing. But I guess that would require some expensive, protected, camera kit.
Its cool you have all that info in your head.
It seems to me, he is playing with some seriously expensive electrical components as is. I was trying to estimate the cost of this experiment in my head, but quickly gave up. It's a lot
@@rognio3 I hope it’s all secondhand salvage gear because it’s going to send him broke otherwise
Credits to Paul Dirac ! That’s a Dirac Delta function
So delta- function, is sort of like a Big Bang ?
I imagine Electroboom watching this and absolutely creaming himself. Holy shit, this is more power than man was meant to handle.
he'd definitely be excited to show how this thing goes boom
also hi manabender
This is a small amount of power to what we've handled in the past and daily xD
This comment! 😂
electroboom sees this 5, 000a fuse: proceeds to touch it
Yeah I want to see a reaction to this
As an electronics engineer, I'm amazed no one died during this
Nice practical experiment. Very illustrative on the safety and requirements for handling high voltage power applications. Of course this is just testing the limits of a high amperage fuse, normally engineers are designing within a kVA range and a safety factor...due to some abnormal event this may occur, and the equipment is meant to handle the situation anticipated, without further destruction of the power buss system.
If you ever start playing with chemistry sets, I'm moving to Antarctica and digging a hole to hide in.
Hmmmm, how many amps does it take to melt an icecap? Sorry, I think I made even Antarctica unsafe.
@@WolfTheWhiteVideos How many amps does it take to save Titanic 2.0
I think Mars would be a safer option, actually...
Yeah him cassually making a 70 metaton bomb
This dude's power company paying him when his bill is an integer overflow.
Its the funni number
@@omicron-prsnl9806 integer overflow
Why would they use a signed integer for billing purposes? :P
@@GeorgeHafiz With solar and stuff these days, they do sometimes pay you back.
Thank you, I was eating while reading this and threw a grain of rice through my nostril.
This showed up in my feed as "May 24, 2023" and I got excited.
Hats off to him , making everything in his house 😮