As an electrician I cringe when watching videos and reading comments of people describing their interpretation of how electricity works and safe practices… problem is this isn’t art so it’s not open to anyone’s interpretation... if you know a little bit about electricity congrats, that means you know enough to be dangerous. Unless you have a real understanding of electricity and the electrical equipment used to manipulate it then you probably shouldn’t mess around with it… because you will find out
1: that 40 amp fude will not do anything, if you get electrocuted your body will work as a load and limit the current and i even have my doubts the current would go past 40 amps on the on a short circuit since hot wires also limit current. 2: he said "ten gauge wires because it's rated for 2000 volts", just because it's a ten gauge wire it doesn't mean it's rated for 2000 volts in fact most wires are rated to 600-700 volts and also there's the fact that even if it WAS rated for 2kv a microwave transformer can output between 2000-3000 volts so you would be still really unsafe with a magical 10 hauge wire that had insulation for 2kv
i left this out because I don't understand avout electronics in specific but that statement that the voltage will drop with more current is really sketchy, you don't choose the current coming from an outlet, it's the circuit that will determine how much current will pass through the live wire through the circuit to the neutral wire
The fuze won’t save you. The 2000 Volts on the business end of this device isn’t directly wired into your mains power. It’s completely possible to get 2000 volts flowing through your body and that fuze will not blow. 😳 This is the most dangerous hobby I have ever seen. “This is very dangerous” is underselling it. “One tiny mistake and you will die” should be the warning label for this.
That thing looks scarily lethal, I strongly suggest no-one messes with these microwave transformers. Such voltages and currents can so easily do you serious damage.
@@paulphillips675 The breaker panel in on the input as well and more than likely has a 15 amp breaker. The 14 amp fuse he used is also on the input side inside the microwave.
@@SmokieTheOneBecause in a microwave there are other parts fed by the power supply that could go faulty and the input fuse prevents this fault from overloading the supply. In this use there is just the primary winding, the fuse would not protect you if you accidentally touch the very high voltage secondary side
@@KadenDaya the thing to remember is, while the MOT might output 350ma-500ma at its rated power of 800-1100w and 2100v that's an expected continuous power rating, there is no limiting circuitry and it can and will pull more current if what it connects to has a low enough resistance. The body's resistance is variable, at lower voltages like 240 and under the skin offers enough resistance to limit current though the body to about 30ma, but 15ma though the heart for enough time to deliver about 50j energy can stop it, once you go over 500v electricity punches though the skin and if sweaty or covered in water with salts body resistance is very much lower, and a MOT has no current limiting, it'll dump as much as it can while obeying ohms law on both sides of the transformer until it burns out / trips overcurrent, but, either before then it will dump WAY more than 15ma and 50j energy in milliseconds (a joule is 1watt for 1 second, so 2000watts in 25ms(1/40th of a second) is 50j)
This, as shown, is a death trap. You have exposed wires and terminals on both sides. There are no safety features that make it safe. The fuse will only blow if the high voltage side is shorted out. If you come into contact with the high voltage side, you will look like another piece of wet wood, the fuse won't blow, and it'll do to you what it does to the wood. You will be burned on the outside and on the inside and you will probably die in seconds. If you do survive be prepared to have debilitating injuries. If you risk building this, you need it to be inside a sealed high voltage proof case, proper high voltage wiring, multiple safety and dead man switches, and indicator lights to show it is on. Even then it is only a little bit safer. After that it should only be operated when you are well clear of the whole thing. Set your probes, clips in position, step back and then activate it using the dead man switches, stop deactivate and repeat as needed.. Never ever manipulate the probes while it is on. People have died from using these DIY fractal wood burners, others have had life altering injures.
@@DG-kr8pt No, you will die. The reason is because the transformer has two or more isolated windings, which transfer power via induction. This is the physics that lets transformers transform voltages. The GFCI plug can only sense faults with the input winding. So it can't protect you against shorts, or anything else, happening on the output side.
@DG-kr8pt Careful, some people may believe the gfi will protect them. A gfi on the supply side will do nothing. But I of wonder if you could build or purchase a 2,000 volt gfi for the high voltage side though.
Hey man. Im a physics doctor and I appreciate this video. People giving you shit just dont understand that free information is paramount, and that science is not some "scary science" that must be secretly kept. So many people here talking about how you are being dangerous by posting this video, literally none of them talking about how you were saving lives of people who are going to do this project anyway by posting this video. Science cannot operate off of being afraid of people having knowledge, completly stupid. 1:23
I highly recommend you to disconnect the body of the transformer from the ground wire. This way you wont get electrocuted if you touch it one handed. In your configuration, you are also part of the ground and you can close the circuit very easily if you touch it by mistake.
You should really not give anyone advice on Electrical Items,, because,,,, you just identified yourself as a "FOOL"!! You always Frame Ground something with Voltage.. AC or DC.. Don't be STuPIxD!! You ground the house wire to the Transformer Frame,, PLUS,, run the Ground Clamp to the Wood to the Frame... It's one thing to say something that YOU KNOW.. Another to Spout Ignorance where someone following your advice could add risk to their project... You would be better off sticking with your Video games.. You don't know when to be quiet and when to ask questions.. You have ZERO business commenting on these types of videos.. BTW.. Did you ever wonder for a minute why there was only one wire coming out of the High Voltage Coil?? If you did,, you would not be so stupixd!!!
He is saying that thing your standing on is ground so when you bond the negative side of the secondary to the thing your standing on it make you a far more attractive target for the grim reaper.
@@213BRANDONP I certainly get what Mr. Stark is saying. I'm a retired electrical engineer and wasted time doing a bit of a video on this particular (widespread) problem.
Fractal burning poses a significant hidden risk of electrocution. The American Association of Woodturners Safety Committee and Board of Directors strongly recommend woodturners avoid the risk altogether, by refraining from the use of Lichtenberg burning techniques. This type of art has become increasingly popular and deadly due to exponential popularity in the use of RUclips type video teaching. THIS CAN BE DEADLY!!!
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Its not that dangerous, you just have to test the current is working correctly the first time you turn it on by holding the metal ends in each hand. Also recommended you do it barefoot in the grass out side because is smells a little funny.
@@paulschuebel5487 but it’s the voltage that produces the amps - I used to work in telecoms, the power supply could supply 3,500 amps but at 50 volts you could hold positive in one hand and negative in the other and not feel it because the voltage was not high enough to push high current through ur body. Had it been 2000V then it would kill. Current in amps equals Voltage divided by resistance therefore for a given resistance of the human body, the higher the voltage, the higher the current so IT IS the voltage that causes the current to kill
lol good way to die. If you need to look up a youtube video on how to build one of these things, you don't know enough about electrical theory to not be killed messing with this.
@SmokieTheOne . The problem with most people is they lack basic understanding of electrical. Hell any electronics can kill. Some more then others. People yank ext. Cords not realizing they could break them. Even time you wrap up a cord that it's slowly breaking the wires. U can only bend metal so many times before it breaks. Just practice electrical safety. Make sure there is Insulation barrier and your no where near where it can ark, keep clear, do outside.. remember Electrical and wood. Fire. Have a fire Extinguisher. Not water. That will kill you and it will hurt the whole time your dieing..
@@СНСАЛЕКСАНДАРВУЧИЋ It's not even vaguely safe. Microwave transformers turn can turn 120 volts into WELL over 2000 volts. Literally brush your leg heir up against it and you are dead before you have time to hit the floor.
What a lot of folks do not realize about high voltage electricity (say 2,000 V or so) is that it can go where you might least expect it. Like flow along the surface of a table top or a PVC pipe. It will go through the insulation of a set of jumper cables with ease, and through electrical tape as if it's not even there. The wire used in residential housing is only rated to 600 V in most cases, so the insulation on that wire will not protect you. It might as well be a bare wire. As of January 2024 there have been at least 33 documented cases of people getting killed doing this woodburning trick. And every last one of them thought they knew what they were doing. -Old dude, not a safety nazi and not a pussy either.
people get blackmailed by having their channels shut down by saying some stupid swear words and having fake reports while people killing other people with shit like this is making money
That fuse is false safety. That fuse only protects the small red wire and the primary side of the transformer. That transformer has galvanic isolation.
So as others have mentioned and pointed out. Don’t do this!! I can’t overstate how dangerous this is!! Homeowners have zero business messing around with high voltage!
Another dangerous know-nothing project showing every bad way to do it and which is promptly defended by those knowing even less. Prior avionics tech here. Even phools have next of kin who might miss them. Decide how desperately important making marks in wood REALLY is.
Should you connect the ground from the power cord to the base of fhe transformer or not? I have seen variations of this device where the ground wasn't connected to anything
Connecting the ground from the power cord to the base does nothing for safety, do you understand that this is like russian roulette!!!!!!!! Hope you are still a live.
( Your ) contact with the high voltage IS LETHAL , YOU WILL DIE , better to use them as heavy weights to hold down various woodwork projects ( while the glue dries ! ) ..... DAVE™ 🛑
@@SmokieTheOne one single lapse in judgement. one split second distraction. someone calls your name. you get nudged. you forget. your dead. you will die before even realizing what you have done.
@@graphicality3737 I am aware of the danger and I am willing to accept the risk. One time about 7 years ago I made a mistake and I got zapped. From my right hand down to both feet it felt like my bones were crushed. I still understand the risks and I am a bit more cautious but I continue to burn. Sooner or later my life will end. Whether that day is today or 30 years from now, time will tell. This is not the most dangerous thing I've done in life and I am sure it won't be the last. Some people are risk takers, some are not. I made my mind up many years ago. You and others like you comment with dire warnings telling people not to do this. It's more annoying then helpful.
I have been working with this and the smartest advice I've received is to keep a safe distance away as this owner can jump from the unit to the individuals that's not putting it in a rubber mat and not wearing rubber boots.. be safe
The one thing I find fascinating (just to use a Spockism)... You make a machine to burn patterns into wood by mounting the most dangerous component(s) to a piece of wood...
@@sylviaisgod6947yes he is correct. Voltage is not what kills you its the current. High voltage gives you a potential to have high current but there are other factors. The transformation limits the current. The guy in the video is correct when a transformer steps up the voltage the current goes down. That said this is still dangerous and should be handled very carefully. Stay clear of those clamps when turning on the power and the whole thing should be placed in something container.
“It’s not the volts that kill you it’s the amps” is a major misconception. In fact, neither can kill you yet both can kill you. Voltage is the driving force (potential) that pushes an amp (current/ flow). They share a direct relationship. Power is what kills, Power = Volts*Amps. For example, 100v at 1amp has the same power as 10v at 10amps. 1/2 amp is nothing to worry about on a 12v system, yet at 2000 volts it absolutely has the potential (driving force) to break the non conductive (insulating) organic skin barrier and kill you
You mention "Less than an amp at 10kv". More like 500 MA at 2,500v. Voltage isn't important. But the current is wicked at 2.5KV plus (electric chair levels). Be careful.
How are you, a creator, going to feel if one of your viewers dies because they watched this video? Are you cool with having a human death on your hands?
@@sylviaisgod6947the fuse is on the input side, rendering it useless in the event of an accident (it's the output side that's danger and a fuse on the input side won't matter). it seems you have no idea how a transformer works, so i would encourage you NOT to mess with one, ever.
@@sylviaisgod6947 And how are you gonna break the circuit? Again, when not having an idea how electricity works, it's better to refrain from messing with it when you are putting your life or other's at risk
This hobby is lethal. If you want to persue it seek more information than this video. 1. You should have a foot operated momentary on-off switch located far enough away that you can't reach the wood. Meat grinder foot pedal switches work well for this. 2. You must stand on an electrical insulator wearing rubber soled shoes. 3. Wear electrically insulated gloves, preferably high voltage rated. 4. Never hold an electrode. 5. Never spray salt solution while the transformer is energized. 6. Make sure you have lots of space in all directions including up with no tripping hazards. 7. Place the work on a non conducting table. 8. Ensure nobody can enter the area unaware of what you are doing. 9. Have an Estop or unplug before aproaching the work. 10. The ground must remain dry. Do not spill salt water. 11. Be in fear of your life the entire time.
Reported on what grounds? Please tell me it's cause it's SOOOOO dangerous that a whole whoppin 33 people have died, but yet there have been a lot more automobile related deaths and none of you pansies reporting cars as unsafe and deadly
@@DIYBuddyGuyA 120V lightbulb socket and a few _kilo_volts from a transformer are mathematically not at all the same potential, literally WHAT ARE YOU BABBLING ABOUT?!
If you're gonna make one of these things For the love of God cover it so you can't touch it. And use a dead man's switch. So no power can go to it and if you want it to.
hello, I have built a burner as shown. the transformer has a turns ratio of 1:10, therefore 240v 10A input and 2400V 1A, out. the unit does burn a bit (1-2 inches) but no way as impressive as yours. additionally I have to continually wet/spray. My questions are. 1. is 2400V 1A sufficient? 2. Does the wood type make a difference, I've used white oak (Oregon)?
Anyone who’s considering trying this should know that one hit from the output will probably kill you. This is an interesting video, but I would like to hear more about the safety measures being used. That would necessarily involve discussing your process, which you might have left out to discourage casual viewers from trying it themselves. IMO, it’s better to provide more information, because otherwise people who *do* attempt this may just make up their own (bad) process.
i aint an electrical engineer, and i dont want to be a safety geek, but that looks at least moderately dubious but also, you cannot really die without touching the thing (electricity does not usually have range), so I suppose it IS safe if you don't accidentally touch it and that you dont let it leave your sight while on, but also somehow i doubt that is how it is going to be used
@@sayori3939 yeah that could be a problem, but if he managed to stay aware of that and not touch the insulated wires (or at the very least bulk up the insulation), there is zero mcfucking way electricity can just pierce through a table into his arm
Seriously, for those out there saying to take these videos down, or just have some issue with it in one way or another, stfu. If someone decides to make a fractal burner, or anything that could potentially be dangerous, and does so without taking the proper safety precautions, like building something from the instructions of one YT video, or doesn’t do ample research, doesn’t consult with a professional of some sort, and doesn’t know what they are doing in the slightest, than it’s no one’s fault but their own, and even if they didn’t end up making something because the video wasn’t available for them to access, i guarantee that their own stupidity would have eventually taken them out some other way. Saying videos should be taken down because of other people stupidity is like saying library’s or the internet should be shut down because someone got some information from them that ultimately got them killed, or that fast food restaurants should all be shut down because people let themselves get fat by eating too much of it. It’s not the spoons fault that someone stuffed their face so much they became morbidly obese, nor is it the guns fault that someone or multiple people got shot, nor is it the cars fault that people got ran over, the only difference here is that instead of it being an inanimate object that some stupid person wields and gets someone or themself killed, it’s information. Whether or not aspects of it are incorrect or could have been explained better or whatever the case, it’s still simply information. What someone decides to do with said information is completely and entirely on them, regardless of age, experience, knowledge, training, etc... so if someone ends up getting themself killed due to information they gathered, regardless of the source, them and only them are the ones at fault. Honestly, when it comes down to it, if someone gets them self killed by building something potentially and OBVIOUSLY dangerous in one way or another, without the proper knowledge,experience, training, advice, research, etc... then they deserved it, and same goes for myself. Even someone who knows what they’re doing can make stupid mistakes, it happens all the time, like forgetting to discharge the capacitor, or disregarding it thinking it’ll be fine because they’ve done this hundreds of times before, professionals get themselves killed every day, sometimes doing things extremely dangerous that no one should ever consider doing without proper training, and other times doing things that are relatively simple, but got careless. Ultimately, it’s the same, someone did something using information they had (where said information came from is irrelevant), and applied this information incorrectly, insufficiently, or whatever, ending in them getting unalived, the details of the situation and the outcome are the same and can only be blamed on the person who analived themself. It’s not like they got shot by someone else holding a gun, they had the ability to choose to watch a video and make a dangerous machine, multiple times during the process, no less, so get tf out of here with the idiotic “take this video down” or “my so and so died making one of these from RUclips videos, he was only (insert random sad age here)”, you are the problem with this country and the direction it’s going regarding censorship, information removal, cover ups, etc. it’s that kind of close minded thinking that will bring upon the end of “freedom” (or what little of it is left). “Oh no, I know someone who died from Covid, so everyone needs to wear a mask for my safety and comfort so that I can die in some random car accident caused by someone using a fractal burner they made watching RUclips videos while they were driving in the oncoming lane on the highway.” Give me a break.
As an electrician I cringe when watching videos and reading comments of people describing their interpretation of how electricity works and safe practices… problem is this isn’t art so it’s not open to anyone’s interpretation... if you know a little bit about electricity congrats, that means you know enough to be dangerous. Unless you have a real understanding of electricity and the electrical equipment used to manipulate it then you probably shouldn’t mess around with it… because you will find out
don't touch the shocky end.
well the problem is, most people won't know that a transformer from an electronic they use daily is capable of turning 127v to over 2000v
So explain what he did wrong in this setup to warn people about what can and will happen
Extinguish the curiosity and doubt
1: that 40 amp fude will not do anything, if you get electrocuted your body will work as a load and limit the current and i even have my doubts the current would go past 40 amps on the on a short circuit since hot wires also limit current.
2: he said "ten gauge wires because it's rated for 2000 volts", just because it's a ten gauge wire it doesn't mean it's rated for 2000 volts in fact most wires are rated to 600-700 volts and also there's the fact that even if it WAS rated for 2kv a microwave transformer can output between 2000-3000 volts so you would be still really unsafe with a magical 10 hauge wire that had insulation for 2kv
i left this out because I don't understand avout electronics in specific but that statement that the voltage will drop with more current is really sketchy, you don't choose the current coming from an outlet, it's the circuit that will determine how much current will pass through the live wire through the circuit to the neutral wire
The fuze won’t save you. The 2000 Volts on the business end of this device isn’t directly wired into your mains power. It’s completely possible to get 2000 volts flowing through your body and that fuze will not blow. 😳 This is the most dangerous hobby I have ever seen. “This is very dangerous” is underselling it. “One tiny mistake and you will die” should be the warning label for this.
O relax we all have the right to die as we see fit.
@@africanelectron751Yeah but he’s not feeling you what to do he’s just making you informed on the risks of what you doing which I respect.
Amps kill not volts.
@@billygourley1989 Both will. When the voltage goes up your resistance goes down.
@@billygourley1989"Amps kill not volts" .... Last words of someone who doesn't have a clue how electricity works and gets electrocuted.
That thing looks scarily lethal, I strongly suggest no-one messes with these microwave transformers. Such voltages and currents can so easily do you serious damage.
@Jason A. He has added a 14A fuse on the input, not sure what the point of that is 😂
My stepson was killed by one this week
I showed this to my loudmouth, drunk neighbor; he ain’t loud no more…
@@paulphillips675 The breaker panel in on the input as well and more than likely has a 15 amp breaker. The 14 amp fuse he used is also on the input side inside the microwave.
@@SmokieTheOneBecause in a microwave there are other parts fed by the power supply that could go faulty and the input fuse prevents this fault from overloading the supply. In this use there is just the primary winding, the fuse would not protect you if you accidentally touch the very high voltage secondary side
A microwave transormer has the same voltage as a low overhead primary distribution cable DONT MESS WITH THEM
But the distribution transformer are well in the thousands of amps whilst an MOT is 35-1000mA still I agree very lethal.
@@KadenDaya the thing to remember is, while the MOT might output 350ma-500ma at its rated power of 800-1100w and 2100v that's an expected continuous power rating, there is no limiting circuitry and it can and will pull more current if what it connects to has a low enough resistance. The body's resistance is variable, at lower voltages like 240 and under the skin offers enough resistance to limit current though the body to about 30ma, but 15ma though the heart for enough time to deliver about 50j energy can stop it, once you go over 500v electricity punches though the skin and if sweaty or covered in water with salts body resistance is very much lower, and a MOT has no current limiting, it'll dump as much as it can while obeying ohms law on both sides of the transformer until it burns out / trips overcurrent, but, either before then it will dump WAY more than 15ma and 50j energy in milliseconds (a joule is 1watt for 1 second, so 2000watts in 25ms(1/40th of a second) is 50j)
Birds sit on those wires all the time with no problem.
@@sylviaisgod6947 this is a joke right?
You ever see a bird that came in contact with more than just that wire? Fried chicken
This, as shown, is a death trap.
You have exposed wires and terminals on both sides. There are no safety features that make it safe. The fuse will only blow if the high voltage side is shorted out.
If you come into contact with the high voltage side, you will look like another piece of wet wood, the fuse won't blow, and it'll do to you what it does to the wood. You will be burned on the outside and on the inside and you will probably die in seconds. If you do survive be prepared to have debilitating injuries.
If you risk building this, you need it to be inside a sealed high voltage proof case, proper high voltage wiring, multiple safety and dead man switches, and indicator lights to show it is on. Even then it is only a little bit safer.
After that it should only be operated when you are well clear of the whole thing. Set your probes, clips in position, step back and then activate it using the dead man switches, stop deactivate and repeat as needed.. Never ever manipulate the probes while it is on.
People have died from using these DIY fractal wood burners, others have had life altering injures.
Nah, if you have it plugged in to a gfci plug, even if you hold both ends youll be fine.
@@DG-kr8pt No, you will die. The reason is because the transformer has two or more isolated windings, which transfer power via induction. This is the physics that lets transformers transform voltages. The GFCI plug can only sense faults with the input winding. So it can't protect you against shorts, or anything else, happening on the output side.
@DG-kr8pt Careful, some people may believe the gfi will protect them. A gfi on the supply side will do nothing.
But I of wonder if you could build or purchase a 2,000 volt gfi for the high voltage side though.
Probably but it'd be more than $2000😂
@@DG-kr8pt really
Don't try this at home. In fact don't try it anywhere, it's frikkin lethal.
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Hey man. Im a physics doctor and I appreciate this video. People giving you shit just dont understand that free information is paramount, and that science is not some "scary science" that must be secretly kept.
So many people here talking about how you are being dangerous by posting this video, literally none of them talking about how you were saving lives of people who are going to do this project anyway by posting this video. Science cannot operate off of being afraid of people having knowledge, completly stupid. 1:23
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I highly recommend you to disconnect the body of the transformer from the ground wire. This way you wont get electrocuted if you touch it one handed. In your configuration, you are also part of the ground and you can close the circuit very easily if you touch it by mistake.
You should really not give anyone advice on Electrical Items,, because,,,, you just identified yourself as a "FOOL"!! You always Frame Ground something with Voltage.. AC or DC.. Don't be STuPIxD!! You ground the house wire to the Transformer Frame,, PLUS,, run the Ground Clamp to the Wood to the Frame...
It's one thing to say something that YOU KNOW.. Another to Spout Ignorance where someone following your advice could add risk to their project...
You would be better off sticking with your Video games.. You don't know when to be quiet and when to ask questions.. You have ZERO business commenting on these types of videos..
BTW.. Did you ever wonder for a minute why there was only one wire coming out of the High Voltage Coil?? If you did,, you would not be so stupixd!!!
Dumb this down. If you disconnect the ground wire, where is it going?
@@ThenZ6 It's quite a challenge to dumb this down enough. I think we need pitchers (sp?) pichurs?.
He is saying that thing your standing on is ground so when you bond the negative side of the secondary to the thing your standing on it make you a far more attractive target for the grim reaper.
@@213BRANDONP I certainly get what Mr. Stark is saying. I'm a retired electrical engineer and wasted time doing a bit of a video on this particular (widespread) problem.
Fractal burning poses a significant hidden risk of electrocution. The American Association of Woodturners Safety Committee and Board of Directors strongly recommend woodturners avoid the risk altogether, by refraining from the use of Lichtenberg burning techniques.
This type of art has become increasingly popular and deadly due to exponential popularity in the use of RUclips type video teaching. THIS CAN BE DEADLY!!!
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Its not that dangerous, you just have to test the current is working correctly the first time you turn it on by holding the metal ends in each hand. Also recommended you do it barefoot in the grass out side because is smells a little funny.
@@DG-kr8pt "its not that dangerous"
33+ people dead
@@marrriiiiI guess you're right, I assumed it would be way more than that. Maybe people are smarter than I thought
@@geoiselin well, those are just documented cases. Theres probably way more than that
@@geoiselin those are just documented, theres probably way more
2000-3000V and no safety - DEADLY
I have made a fractal wood burner with dual microwave transformer, and it works perfectly and safely. I will also teach my children to use it..
@@СНСАЛЕКСАНДАРВУЧИЋ Future Darwin award winner.
It's not the voltage that kills you, it's the amps.
@@paulschuebel5487 but it’s the voltage that produces the amps - I used to work in telecoms, the power supply could supply 3,500 amps but at 50 volts you could hold positive in one hand and negative in the other and not feel it because the voltage was not high enough to push high current through ur body. Had it been 2000V then it would kill. Current in amps equals Voltage divided by resistance therefore for a given resistance of the human body, the higher the voltage, the higher the current so IT IS the voltage that causes the current to kill
@@СНСАЛЕКСАНДАРВУЧИЋ why do u want to kill ur kids?
Only way you should EVER do this is with a dead mans switch which has built in redundancy. Even then i would never wanna mess with this
I was thinking the same thing as you could stand back and watch it from a safe distance
lol good way to die. If you need to look up a youtube video on how to build one of these things, you don't know enough about electrical theory to not be killed messing with this.
Stop trolling , this is a safe , I will make a fractal wood burner with dual microwave transformer
I built my first one without the aid of a RUclips video and I know nothing about electrical theory. That was over 8 years ago.
@SmokieTheOne . The problem with most people is they lack basic understanding of electrical. Hell any electronics can kill. Some more then others. People yank ext. Cords not realizing they could break them. Even time you wrap up a cord that it's slowly breaking the wires. U can only bend metal so many times before it breaks. Just practice electrical safety. Make sure there is Insulation barrier and your no where near where it can ark, keep clear, do outside.. remember Electrical and wood. Fire. Have a fire Extinguisher. Not water. That will kill you and it will hurt the whole time your dieing..
@@СНСАЛЕКСАНДАРВУЧИЋ lol good luck buddy. Just have your affairs in order before you start.
@@СНСАЛЕКСАНДАРВУЧИЋ It's not even vaguely safe. Microwave transformers turn can turn 120 volts into WELL over 2000 volts. Literally brush your leg heir up against it and you are dead before you have time to hit the floor.
There are thousands of ways very slight variations in what was done here can get someone killed.
What a lot of folks do not realize about high voltage electricity (say 2,000 V or so) is that it can go where you might least expect it. Like flow along the surface of a table top or a PVC pipe. It will go through the insulation of a set of jumper cables with ease, and through electrical tape as if it's not even there. The wire used in residential housing is only rated to 600 V in most cases, so the insulation on that wire will not protect you. It might as well be a bare wire.
As of January 2024 there have been at least 33 documented cases of people getting killed doing this woodburning trick. And every last one of them thought they knew what they were doing. -Old dude, not a safety nazi and not a pussy either.
people get blackmailed by having their channels shut down by saying some stupid swear words and having fake reports while people killing other people with shit like this is making money
well at least he said it's dangerous ._.
That fuse is false safety. That fuse only protects the small red wire and the primary side of the transformer. That transformer has galvanic isolation.
What???
Galvanic isolation ?🫥
You're looking for attention right ? 🤣
the fuse won't save you it won't be too fast
@@DIYBuddyGuy
here you go buddy, galvanicly separated transformers
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@@DIYBuddyGuy dont listen to em keep burnin your wood!! do it all the time! Rock on bud!!!
@@DIYBuddyGuy No one is trolling or looking for attention, you made a death machine and people are terrified.
I'm pretty sure this is the same way Doc manipulated spacetime and got Marty back to the future.
FINALLY A GUY THAT SHOWS THE SIMPLEST BUILD! Yes you get a like and follow!
So as others have mentioned and pointed out. Don’t do this!! I can’t overstate how dangerous this is!! Homeowners have zero business messing around with high voltage!
Do you or can you draw up a quick wiring diagram for building a fra tal burner. Thanks
Dude is playing with fate so hard.
Dude take this video down. Could literally cause people to kill themselves by accident.
Another dangerous know-nothing project showing every bad way to do it and which is promptly defended by those knowing even less. Prior avionics tech here. Even phools have next of kin who might miss them. Decide how desperately important making marks in wood REALLY is.
Shame on you for sharing this
Shame on you for not wanting to share.
This video will kill someone. It needs to be removed.
A video is incapable of inflicting physical harm to anyone.
I've seen you making ludicrous claims all across the comment section you should be treated
Should you connect the ground from the power cord to the base of fhe transformer or not? I have seen variations of this device where the ground wasn't connected to anything
Doesn't matter, either way it's going to kill you.
Connecting the ground from the power cord to the base does nothing for safety, do you understand that this is like russian roulette!!!!!!!! Hope you are still a live.
@@peterm.holland6228 They why are people utilizing the ground wire on most vids? SHould we just cut it off?
This is how mine is set up so far but have not completed this project yet where as looking for al ittle more info
This is going to fucking kill someone
( Your ) contact with the high voltage IS LETHAL , YOU WILL DIE , better to use them as heavy weights to hold down various woodwork projects ( while the glue dries ! ) ..... DAVE™ 🛑
The secret is, don't touch the high voltage parts.
@@SmokieTheOne one single lapse in judgement. one split second distraction. someone calls your name. you get nudged. you forget. your dead. you will die before even realizing what you have done.
@@graphicality3737 I am aware of the danger and I am willing to accept the risk. One time about 7 years ago I made a mistake and I got zapped. From my right hand down to both feet it felt like my bones were crushed. I still understand the risks and I am a bit more cautious but I continue to burn. Sooner or later my life will end. Whether that day is today or 30 years from now, time will tell. This is not the most dangerous thing I've done in life and I am sure it won't be the last. Some people are risk takers, some are not. I made my mind up many years ago. You and others like you comment with dire warnings telling people not to do this. It's more annoying then helpful.
Can I use a Magnatron to power my burner??
don't do this :(
Remember, this is for entertainment only. Don't die like this at home.
I have been working with this and the smartest advice I've received is to keep a safe distance away as this owner can jump from the unit to the individuals that's not putting it in a rubber mat and not wearing rubber boots.. be safe
The one thing I find fascinating (just to use a Spockism)... You make a machine to burn patterns into wood by mounting the most dangerous component(s) to a piece of wood...
Hello Brother I just want to start what do I need as a beginner
an understanding of the risk and danger for starters.
RUbber gloves some tools and a microwave transformer. Make sure your microwave is electirically discharged using rubber handled pliers I believe.
Nothing worse than a false sense of security thinking that fuse is gonna save you.
2-hand dead man's switch may prevent you from becoming a dead man.
They found my uncle’s skeleton; his hand on the switch. He’d been dead for three years…
It's the amps that kill you, not the volts.
No
@@sylviaisgod6947yes he is correct. Voltage is not what kills you its the current. High voltage gives you a potential to have high current but there are other factors. The transformation limits the current. The guy in the video is correct when a transformer steps up the voltage the current goes down. That said this is still dangerous and should be handled very carefully. Stay clear of those clamps when turning on the power and the whole thing should be placed in something container.
“It’s not the volts that kill you it’s the amps” is a major misconception. In fact, neither can kill you yet both can kill you. Voltage is the driving force (potential) that pushes an amp (current/ flow). They share a direct relationship. Power is what kills, Power = Volts*Amps. For example, 100v at 1amp has the same power as 10v at 10amps. 1/2 amp is nothing to worry about on a 12v system, yet at 2000 volts it absolutely has the potential (driving force) to break the non conductive (insulating) organic skin barrier and kill you
that finger has had some fractal burning
Lol the fuse.
You mention "Less than an amp at 10kv". More like 500 MA at 2,500v. Voltage isn't important. But the current is wicked at 2.5KV plus (electric chair levels). Be careful.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
People. If you get shocked by this, you probably wont survive. This is nothing like when you get shocked at home from something. Dont do it.
How are you, a creator, going to feel if one of your viewers dies because they watched this video? Are you cool with having a human death on your hands?
It's perfectly safe, it has a fuse
@@sylviaisgod6947the fuse is on the input side, rendering it useless in the event of an accident (it's the output side that's danger and a fuse on the input side won't matter). it seems you have no idea how a transformer works, so i would encourage you NOT to mess with one, ever.
@@sylviaisgod6947Again?? Are you kidding?
@@ecanWell, maybe a circuit breaker would be better.
@@sylviaisgod6947 And how are you gonna break the circuit? Again, when not having an idea how electricity works, it's better to refrain from messing with it when you are putting your life or other's at risk
This hobby is lethal. If you want to persue it seek more information than this video.
1. You should have a foot operated momentary on-off switch located far enough away that you can't reach the wood. Meat grinder foot pedal switches work well for this.
2. You must stand on an electrical insulator wearing rubber soled shoes.
3. Wear electrically insulated gloves, preferably high voltage rated.
4. Never hold an electrode.
5. Never spray salt solution while the transformer is energized.
6. Make sure you have lots of space in all directions including up with no tripping hazards.
7. Place the work on a non conducting table.
8. Ensure nobody can enter the area unaware of what you are doing.
9. Have an Estop or unplug before aproaching the work.
10. The ground must remain dry. Do not spill salt water.
11. Be in fear of your life the entire time.
Great reply! Literally the only useful thing under the video.
Dumb ways to die, so many dumb ways to die...
what good is a 14amp fuse when you can be killed by far less, should have put a smaller fuse atleast but in general this is not worth it
To thoses who will do this anyways. Always treat it like its live.
This video is being reported, and anybody who came here is encouraged to do the same
I'm on thin ice with RUclips,I have no business reporting somebody else.
Reported on what grounds? Please tell me it's cause it's SOOOOO dangerous that a whole whoppin 33 people have died, but yet there have been a lot more automobile related deaths and none of you pansies reporting cars as unsafe and deadly
Awesome 👍🏽
This is deadly, do not attempt.
Dont do that. It can kill you!!!!
Turning on your kitchen light has the same potential...
But you manage to do that safely.
What's the difference?
A lot of things can kill you if you do them wrong.
What's the difference? About a thousand volts.@@DIYBuddyGuy
@@DIYBuddyGuyA 120V lightbulb socket and a few _kilo_volts from a transformer are mathematically not at all the same potential, literally WHAT ARE YOU BABBLING ABOUT?!
This video is already reported
Please lick it to test it for safety.
For science, of course...
🤣
I was told that The Wire needed to be high temperature wire for that many volts. I can't find it anywhere. Is this the facts?
If you're gonna make one of these things For the love of God cover it so you can't touch it.
And use a dead man's switch. So no power can go to it and if you want it to.
hello, I have built a burner as shown. the transformer has a turns ratio of 1:10, therefore 240v 10A input and 2400V 1A, out. the unit does burn a bit (1-2 inches) but no way as impressive as yours. additionally I have to continually wet/spray. My questions are. 1. is 2400V 1A sufficient? 2. Does the wood type make a difference, I've used white oak (Oregon)?
“I have to continually wet/spray”
A frightening thing to say when you’re dealing with this much current.
A friend I knew died doing this a few years ago. DO NOT TRY IT.
Deadly. My stepson was just killed by one in spite of me doing cpr for 20 minutes. It’s not worth it
My condolences for your family’s loss 💔
Pics or it didn't happen
@@deanminor1998 You're horrible.
I'm so sorry for your loss
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
Anyone who’s considering trying this should know that one hit from the output will probably kill you.
This is an interesting video, but I would like to hear more about the safety measures being used. That would necessarily involve discussing your process, which you might have left out to discourage casual viewers from trying it themselves. IMO, it’s better to provide more information, because otherwise people who *do* attempt this may just make up their own (bad) process.
Got it 👌
Don’t do this! It’s deadly
Death machine tutorials 🥲
That will smoke your drawers for you
Otherwise known as a suicide machine.
DONT, do this
What is the turns ratio of your transformer? I got a microwave transformer, its output is 480V, therefore a turns ratio of 1:2.
How to burn wood cheaply
i aint an electrical engineer, and i dont want to be a safety geek, but that looks at least moderately dubious
but also, you cannot really die without touching the thing (electricity does not usually have range), so I suppose it IS safe if you don't accidentally touch it and that you dont let it leave your sight while on, but also somehow i doubt that is how it is going to be used
you are forgetting that's 2000+ Volts, it can go through a lot of stuff, including regular house wiring insulation.
@@sayori3939 yeah that could be a problem, but if he managed to stay aware of that and not touch the insulated wires (or at the very least bulk up the insulation), there is zero mcfucking way electricity can just pierce through a table into his arm
RIP
Hey you think you can help me lol
I have a question. Are you still alive?
Are you?
Yes I am.
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take this video down
Delete your comment 😂
Това е опасно!!! Трябва да има диоди!!! Не се правят така видеа!!!
Are you still alive?
Seriously, for those out there saying to take these videos down, or just have some issue with it in one way or another, stfu. If someone decides to make a fractal burner, or anything that could potentially be dangerous, and does so without taking the proper safety precautions, like building something from the instructions of one YT video, or doesn’t do ample research, doesn’t consult with a professional of some sort, and doesn’t know what they are doing in the slightest, than it’s no one’s fault but their own, and even if they didn’t end up making something because the video wasn’t available for them to access, i guarantee that their own stupidity would have eventually taken them out some other way. Saying videos should be taken down because of other people stupidity is like saying library’s or the internet should be shut down because someone got some information from them that ultimately got them killed, or that fast food restaurants should all be shut down because people let themselves get fat by eating too much of it. It’s not the spoons fault that someone stuffed their face so much they became morbidly obese, nor is it the guns fault that someone or multiple people got shot, nor is it the cars fault that people got ran over, the only difference here is that instead of it being an inanimate object that some stupid person wields and gets someone or themself killed, it’s information. Whether or not aspects of it are incorrect or could have been explained better or whatever the case, it’s still simply information. What someone decides to do with said information is completely and entirely on them, regardless of age, experience, knowledge, training, etc... so if someone ends up getting themself killed due to information they gathered, regardless of the source, them and only them are the ones at fault. Honestly, when it comes down to it, if someone gets them self killed by building something potentially and OBVIOUSLY dangerous in one way or another, without the proper knowledge,experience, training, advice, research, etc... then they deserved it, and same goes for myself. Even someone who knows what they’re doing can make stupid mistakes, it happens all the time, like forgetting to discharge the capacitor, or disregarding it thinking it’ll be fine because they’ve done this hundreds of times before, professionals get themselves killed every day, sometimes doing things extremely dangerous that no one should ever consider doing without proper training, and other times doing things that are relatively simple, but got careless. Ultimately, it’s the same, someone did something using information they had (where said information came from is irrelevant), and applied this information incorrectly, insufficiently, or whatever, ending in them getting unalived, the details of the situation and the outcome are the same and can only be blamed on the person who analived themself. It’s not like they got shot by someone else holding a gun, they had the ability to choose to watch a video and make a dangerous machine, multiple times during the process, no less, so get tf out of here with the idiotic “take this video down” or “my so and so died making one of these from RUclips videos, he was only (insert random sad age here)”, you are the problem with this country and the direction it’s going regarding censorship, information removal, cover ups, etc. it’s that kind of close minded thinking that will bring upon the end of “freedom” (or what little of it is left).
“Oh no, I know someone who died from Covid, so everyone needs to wear a mask for my safety and comfort so that I can die in some random car accident caused by someone using a fractal burner they made watching RUclips videos while they were driving in the oncoming lane on the highway.” Give me a break.
Great family project. Fun for kids of all ages.
dis kan kil you worning
hai sir
I didn’t grow up around people like the ones in the comments section. I grew up around people like the person in the video.
There are a lot of dead people who thought this was a great idea #DarwinAward