Electrical Arcs at 1,750,000FPS - The Slow Mo Guys with ElectroBOOM

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  • Опубликовано: 24 окт 2022
  • Gav and Dan team up with Mehdi from @ElectroBOOM to film electrical arcs by cranking this camera to the fastest speed it can possibly go. 1,750,000 frames per second.
    Make sure you watch ElectroBOOM's video too! - • Slow-Mo Experiment Dis...
    Instagram - / theslowmoguys
    Filmed with the Phantom TMX 7510 at 1,750,000fps
    Electrical Arcs at 1,750,000FPS - The Slow Mo Guys with ElectroBOOM
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  • @ElectroBOOM
    @ElectroBOOM Год назад +20887

    I don't know if Dan will speak to me after going through so much pain!!😈

    • @hackerman1752
      @hackerman1752 Год назад +319

      bro 💀

    • @leewolf6434
      @leewolf6434 Год назад +409

      He should’ve expected nothing less. It’s the price of working with a legend like you!

    • @SpectralonWhite
      @SpectralonWhite Год назад

      @UCxZHI-uH9LZ_OygPLFHH0BQ go eat dirt.

    • @SeanBZA
      @SeanBZA Год назад +44

      Well, you get ionisation switches that go into the MHz repetition range, used for some military radar systems, so expecting less of air is no problem. Also some gas filled tubes would be quite happy oscillating at over 30MHz, so the gas ionisation must be capable of being quenched as fast.

    • @american.psycho
      @american.psycho Год назад +47

      The legend of comedy and knowledge 😂

  • @theslowmoguys
    @theslowmoguys  Год назад +8915

    There is actually a very handy image search feature in the phantom software that would have helped us scan the images for significant changes in pixel values and found the arcs much quicker at 1,750,000. Just need to connect the phantom via ethernet to a laptop. Guess who forgot their usb to ethernet dongle for their USB-C only laptop? Heyoooooo.

    • @anoobis117
      @anoobis117 Год назад +467

      (phantom) pain

    • @fast_and_curious9144
      @fast_and_curious9144 Год назад +37

      yea the pain

    • @fast_and_curious9144
      @fast_and_curious9144 Год назад +58

      sweaty palms that a blink of eye can miss the frame
      in 19 hr video!

    • @Yeetghor
      @Yeetghor Год назад +48

      I was wondering why you were sifting through all of those frames manually :D

    • @logion567
      @logion567 Год назад +24

      @@anoobis117 why are we still here?

  • @billypatterson4983
    @billypatterson4983 Год назад +2322

    This is why I love ElectroBOOM. The fact that he knows so much about electricity and is willing to put himself (or Dan) in the line of fire for our entertainment.

    • @budderguy2128
      @budderguy2128 Год назад +86

      I’m impressed by his knowledge, yet amazed at how often he almost kills himself just making a video. I aspire to be just like him someday…

    • @joshh2410
      @joshh2410 Год назад +26

      @Auschwitz Soccer Ref. you seem very mature with that name

    • @wickedraptor2651
      @wickedraptor2651 Год назад +2

      @Auschwitz Soccer Ref. there's some irony here

    • @masterclass3941
      @masterclass3941 Год назад +1

      ​@@AuschwitzSoccerRef.you're the 12 years old kid

    • @xenadu02
      @xenadu02 9 месяцев назад +12

      The reason he can mess around so much is precisely because he is so knowledgeable. He knows exactly how far he can take it.

  • @pixelmentia
    @pixelmentia Год назад +1590

    It's so cool how nature provides you with a relaxing soundtrack whenever you're in slow mo.

    • @giangtruc3376
      @giangtruc3376 Год назад +12

      ok

    • @bluebaconjake405
      @bluebaconjake405 Год назад +17

      @@giangtruc3376 ko

    • @JoseNovaUltra
      @JoseNovaUltra Год назад +95

      most of the sounds at these speeds are edited in by gav, as usually they make no sense at all to human hearing.

    • @bluebaconjake405
      @bluebaconjake405 Год назад

      @@JoseNovaUltra omg are you sherlock?

    • @pupper42
      @pupper42 Год назад +72

      ​@@JoseNovaUltra is joke

  • @LyokoisGreat2
    @LyokoisGreat2 Год назад +1539

    I swear Mehdi is on a quest to see how many RUclipsrs he can trick into getting shocked

    • @smoker4188
      @smoker4188 Год назад +39

      Tis the job of all us electrical engineers

    • @vitorschultz9892
      @vitorschultz9892 Год назад +23

      him and Michael Reeves

    • @talkingdot
      @talkingdot Год назад +7

      it is all for science, it is fine

    • @sedontane
      @sedontane Год назад

      Has Tom Scott been zapped yet?

    • @smoker4188
      @smoker4188 Год назад +1

      @@sedontane not yet to my knowledge at least but we will get him

  • @K-leeca
    @K-leeca Год назад +2623

    dan is that guy who agrees to do everything no matter how dangerous it is

    • @turbosnail413
      @turbosnail413 Год назад +50

      I mean just looking at the difference in lab coats, Gav clearly chooses who goes in the lion's den.

    • @zhou_sei
      @zhou_sei Год назад +7

      like when he dropped in on the halfpipe and almost shattered his ankle! what a badass

    • @Mateus_Coutoo
      @Mateus_Coutoo Год назад +3

      @@zhou_sei His wrist, right?

    • @CrafterVSWild
      @CrafterVSWild Год назад +5

      Totaly Grian with Mumbo Jumbo

    • @justineloi1234
      @justineloi1234 Год назад

      Yes it is

  • @Dad......
    @Dad...... Год назад +238

    Mehdi's excitement is palpable. Working with this every day and now knowing the secret slow motion world buried underneath must be so exciting.

  • @Deper91
    @Deper91 Год назад +367

    Electrical engineer here; My guess on why the marx generator lights up all at once would be that Mehdi IS technically correct, they are filling up from left to right. However, once the first stage is fully charged, my guess is that the impedance between the two discharge nodes is effectively infinite (acting as a perfect open), because there is another path of least resistance within the circuit, going to the next stage capacitor. Once that next stage capacitor fills up, rinse repeat down the line until you finally fill up the very end one. When that one fills to its max capacitance, there is nowhere left for the current to 'freely' move, so everything 'overflows' all at once.

    • @wildavis3016
      @wildavis3016 Год назад +13

      New student here, I thought a capacitor was an open? How come a capacitor fills up? If the impedance makes it effectively an open, I get how the current goes through the short, but if the short leads to another capacitor (open), how is it a short path? Thanks
      (Again, just took circuits 1 so I might be missing something)

    • @Deper91
      @Deper91 Год назад +42

      @@wildavis3016 You are correct, in a DC system, a capacitor will eventually behave as an open, once it receives enough charge to 'fill it up'. Once full, the capacitor denies any further charge, acting as the perfect open (infinite impedance), forcing all the current elsewhere (down the line to the next sets of capacitors). However, if there is sufficient enough voltage potential between the positive and ground/negative sides, the the voltage can actually break down a medium (in this case, by ionizing the air between the two discharge nodes). This arc acts as a very brief short, which totally drains the capacitors, resetting the system.
      This is why capacitors are only rated to certain voltage limits, as exceeding these thresholds will cause this same breakdown within the capacitor itself, resulting in the wonderful "pop" we all know and love Mehdi for.

    • @wildavis3016
      @wildavis3016 Год назад +6

      @@Deper91 ok that makes sense thanks

    • @MadScientist267
      @MadScientist267 Год назад +4

      Fact of the matter is, it *must* be a cascade effect, but much like glass breaking, propagates so fast that it is all but impossible to see the behavior.
      The giveaway here is that all the gaps have to "close" for anything to jump out of the output (as these are series switches)... But clearly one has to reach potential before all the others, if for no other reason than there will be slight differences in the gaps.
      My guess here is that it just so happened that the end gap was the closest, but it could have been anywhere in the chain. Once the first one goes, the others are immediately "over" and fire off in an order relating approximately to the gap sizes.
      This may actually be random in appearance, *IF* one could record all of the time in between. Obviously this is extremely difficult.
      Once they are all bridged, the output goes hot and an arc is ready to jump if something is close enough.
      You'd therefore see the output spring to life after all of the chaos in the gaps is resolved and they are all conducting.

    • @MadScientist267
      @MadScientist267 Год назад +1

      @Kynan That's only true IF there's no reactive components present.
      Sorry buddy but been doing this a LONG time and know how it all works. 🤷‍♂️

  • @7head7metal7
    @7head7metal7 Год назад +1164

    Mehdi switching between awkward nerd and evil genius is the perfect portrayal of an engineer‘s emotional range :D
    Thank you guys for this collab, it was so fun to watch!

    • @kentozapater8972
      @kentozapater8972 Год назад

      @Edline Nannencia no one waited you to be born

    • @SandrA-hr5zk
      @SandrA-hr5zk Год назад +5

      Now they just need to pack up that camera and go to Sweden. I want to watch the new monstrosity by Mattias Krantz light up.

  • @Fsilone
    @Fsilone Год назад +678

    Medhi: "let me increase the power a little bit..."
    Dan: **concerned stare**

  • @micheltenvoorde
    @micheltenvoorde Год назад +823

    At that framerate, light travels at about 170 m/s. That's just astounding.

    • @teik
      @teik Год назад +78

      That's still 620 km/h, incredibly fast

    • @Turnip420
      @Turnip420 Год назад +33

      What great point. I thought how awesome it would be for them to capture that in a wide view then remembered the needed brightness for indirect illumination that goes into the camera 💀💀

    • @edwardcarpenter8277
      @edwardcarpenter8277 Год назад +6

      Strange? I always thought light (and electrons) travel at 300000000 m/s (in a vacuum). So even in air light is still quite a bit faster than 170 m/s.

    • @samcan9997
      @samcan9997 Год назад +48

      @@edwardcarpenter8277 pff xd time in refrence to the cameras footage

    • @Wmann
      @Wmann Год назад +43

      I don’t know about you but those numbers look off. If you replay the clip from 1.75 million fps to just 25 fps, that’d be 70,000 times slower than real time.
      Doing some calculations… the speed of light would just be going about 4.29 km/s in that clip, which is still incredibly fast to our eyes.
      If I’m wrong, do call me out.

  • @citizensnippz470
    @citizensnippz470 Год назад +657

    it speaks volumes to what you guys are doing, the fact that that obviously brilliant electrical expert is still able to learn things about his own profession by seeing the footage you come up with. great video

  • @ethanhoward389
    @ethanhoward389 Год назад +1470

    After all these years of filming slo mo Dan probably actually is the world's most photographed man ever

    • @2ARM2
      @2ARM2 Год назад +85

      i have never thought about that that’s cool

    • @danieljensen2626
      @danieljensen2626 Год назад +85

      Yeah, they've talked about that before. Unless someone else does a lot of slow mo of themselves it's probably not even close.

    • @matthewalvarojr.2634
      @matthewalvarojr.2634 Год назад +25

      In terms of sheer length of footage, maybe. Turning 2.7 seconds into roughly 2 days sure helps.

    • @brainkrieg1423
      @brainkrieg1423 Год назад +54

      If you count each frame as one photograph, he definitely is.

    • @vanguard9067
      @vanguard9067 Год назад

      Y’all beat me to it.

  • @TimeBucks
    @TimeBucks Год назад +1436

    The arc pathfinding is really cool to watch

  • @CaymenLeP
    @CaymenLeP Год назад +42

    Aww! I like how you can tell the guest gets excited it the middle when he can actually see the AC frequency because he starts rocking back and forth ❤️

  • @arbiter-
    @arbiter- Год назад +17

    that is crazy. electricity is SO fast that even 1.75 million frames per second can't make it look slow. incredibly humbling if anything, who knows if we'll ever be able to perceive the true magnificence of it

    • @noahway13
      @noahway13 10 месяцев назад

      They have slowed light down to a crawl. Look up the MIT 1 Trillion frames a second.

  • @theslowmoguys
    @theslowmoguys  Год назад +1293

    The first Tesla coil experiment played the tune to the pink panther but the movie studio claimed the entire video so I had to cut it out. 😢

  • @theblindspot985
    @theblindspot985 Год назад +873

    I love Medhi. You can tell immediately how genuine he is and how much he absolutely loves what he does. So much fun to watch him with Gav and Dan

    • @moeinsp2027
      @moeinsp2027 Год назад +16

      Mehdi*

    • @DarthDimadome
      @DarthDimadome Год назад +9

      Best guest appearance on the channel if you ask me. And they've had Will Smith and Tony Hawk.

    • @CollinGerberding
      @CollinGerberding Год назад +2

      It really is a joy to see someone that both knows and loves what they're doing.

    • @AllenMemeson
      @AllenMemeson Год назад +2

      He's always a fun feature to see, his collab with LTT and static electricy was great as well!

  • @deiu9999
    @deiu9999 Год назад +158

    ElectroBOOM, such an awesome and humble guy.. great collab! 😁

  • @zion6680
    @zion6680 Год назад +23

    6 minutes and 20 seconds in and this is already the Slow Mo Guys video that feels the most like you guys are three legitimate scientists, the way you hover over the playback screen with these intense stares of fascination, so epic lol

  • @football75able
    @football75able Год назад +1099

    ElectroBoom and The Slow Mo Guys is the collaboration we didn’t realize we needed :D

    • @Enes-wj5xq
      @Enes-wj5xq Год назад

      Is he Jewish?

    • @makosen
      @makosen Год назад

      I like when how 3 of them meets

    • @GMPranav
      @GMPranav Год назад +6

      You mean *you* didn't realise? Because I have seen thousands of comments including myself waiting for this for years.

    • @RipleySawzen
      @RipleySawzen Год назад +4

      You mean the collab suggestion with hundreds of thousands of likes?

    • @nobreakingthepickle3452
      @nobreakingthepickle3452 Год назад +2

      Why is the top comment on every collab video some variation of this?

  • @PlasmaChannel
    @PlasmaChannel Год назад +705

    Working with Phantoms and searching for that one segment of spark is no joke. I was lucky to film with Phantoms a few videos back, and it gives me a huge appreciation for what Gav and Dan did for this video. What great footage you guys captured, resonant frequency and all.

    • @CD4017BE
      @CD4017BE Год назад +10

      I was also thinking, maybe they should automate finding the frame with a computer algorithm.
      The algorithm doesn't need to be very smart, just "Find all frames that are 50% brighter than the average" would probably be enough to detect the sparks.

    • @tippership
      @tippership Год назад +7

      It's crazy how much physics can be checked/confirmed from using cameras to see this- though as we see, you do need the cameras that can hit the nanosecond/billion frame per second range to play with lightning, (electricity), just like observing light propagating. We REALLY need you ELECTROBOOM and the Slow Mo Guys to get together and just check/mythbust things about both light and electricity- at the nanosecond scale range. It's a shame equipment that can keep up is so rare lol, at least at this point in time, you need other than a phantom to get to that nanosecond scale range. I really hope we get more opportunities to see these happenings like this resonant frequency example- it's one thing to know it's happening, it's another to be able to "see" fast enough to witness these nutty aspects of physics

    • @Lizlodude
      @Lizlodude Год назад +14

      @@CD4017BE Well they did, you just have to remember to bring the cable 😅 (See Gavin's comment above)

    • @Craftlngo
      @Craftlngo Год назад +3

      I was really hoping to find you here.

    • @dallynsr
      @dallynsr Год назад +2

      Now, if Electroboom and you and Steve Mould and Gav and Dan were all in the same place…
      We would have a real blockbuster science video,
      …and probably a new discovery of science.

  • @frostrime1419
    @frostrime1419 Год назад +29

    Going to school for engineering atm, this actually helped me make sense of some stuff I have been having trouble visualizing!

  • @FSAPOJake
    @FSAPOJake 5 месяцев назад +5

    Mehdi is one of the best entertainers on this whole website, and that's not mentioning his almost unmatched ability to educate.
    As for the Slow-Mo Guys, I love that you actually were decently knowledgeable and properly curious on this subject. So many people that do stuff like this just try to inject stupid dumb comedy every 2 seconds which gets really annoying, but is meant to cater to the lowest common denominator. This is a breath of fresh air.

  • @Lord_Baphomet_
    @Lord_Baphomet_ Год назад +2078

    I love how Medhi turns socially awkward as soon as he’s around people… he truly is the mega nerd.

    • @makosen
      @makosen Год назад +31

      When 3 GOAT meets

    • @pizzaclock9732
      @pizzaclock9732 Год назад +57

      I mean he did mention he's an introvert in his presentation

    • @pizzaclock9732
      @pizzaclock9732 Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/ZxBF7WC0TQk/видео.html here's the vid of his presentation

    • @hohohodrigues
      @hohohodrigues Год назад +15

      You should watch his video with Linus tech tips

    • @RumleKjaer
      @RumleKjaer Год назад +79

      I disagree, I don't think he is awkward at all

  • @BenzGarner
    @BenzGarner Год назад +1564

    This is the greatest collaboration. These two channels have deserved each other for far too long.

    • @cryostatcells5642
      @cryostatcells5642 Год назад +13

      The most obvious collab I never would have thought of. Maybe 10-20 years down the line, these guys should do another one, with improved equipment, because the last one was pretty much anti climatic.

    • @RaptorNX01
      @RaptorNX01 Год назад +8

      I also hope one day to see him collab with Nilered and Cody's Lab.

    • @YoursUntruly
      @YoursUntruly Год назад +2

      Jeez, keep your fan fiction to yourself 🤣

  • @voidgods
    @voidgods Год назад +8

    Lightning/Electricity was always my favorite physical phenomenon. In any RPG games I'll make a lightning wielder. The idea of the speed and sheer power involved in it is mindblowing.

  • @wunkskorks2623
    @wunkskorks2623 3 месяца назад +4

    “So, the camera and the testicle aren’t broken.”
    - Dan

  • @alexi4829
    @alexi4829 Год назад +381

    I love how Mehdi's instantly like "enough of this x-hundred thousand nonsense! show me a million!"

  • @TheWtfanime
    @TheWtfanime Год назад +1110

    Medhi is a legend of an engineer, he's so knowledgable even when they're talking about the frames in slow motion. It was nice to see him on here, the engineering material he does works so well with the slow motion stuff.

    • @Funny-Cobra
      @Funny-Cobra Год назад +22

      It's Mehdi

    • @ruffusgoodman4137
      @ruffusgoodman4137 Год назад +1

      too bad most got wasted during his flight...

    • @michakrzyzanowski8554
      @michakrzyzanowski8554 Год назад

      eh not a legend. Still good though

    • @ryanolsen294
      @ryanolsen294 Год назад +1

      facts

    • @mobbmikeyy
      @mobbmikeyy Год назад

      @@michakrzyzanowski8554 who are you to say someones not a legend, this guy may look up to Mehdi and considers him a legend, thatll take this guy far in life. thnk before you say something. opinions are okay but not meant for everyone to agree

  • @dav8119
    @dav8119 4 месяца назад +1

    a flash of lightning to feel out the terrain, a moment to calculate the route, a flash to see how far it leads, and so on.

  • @TheMrbamido
    @TheMrbamido Год назад +6

    The collab that I didn't expect to see on this channel, but i'm really enjoying it so much

  • @ocksie
    @ocksie Год назад +414

    I'm only at 4:13 but it's lowkey terrifying to see where the area around the strike on Dan's finger is glowing yellow from the shock. It's like a miniature version of how people can survive lightning strikes because the absurd temperature only lasts for such an insignificant amount of time

    • @tomhsia4354
      @tomhsia4354 Год назад +42

      It also shows how terrifyingly powerful lightning is, the extremely high temperature (as in, much hotter than the surface of the sun) only lasts for an insignificant amount of time but can still cause third degree burns and fuse sand into glass. Lighting can literally flash-fry you.

    • @Antek1234l
      @Antek1234l Год назад +7

      I think that sodium contamination also plays a role here

    • @3nertia
      @3nertia Год назад +2

      @@Antek1234l Is there any sodium in the air? Where would the sodium come from? I mean, it's certainly reactive enough, but ...

    • @Antek1234l
      @Antek1234l Год назад +6

      @@3nertia Well, my theory is that they had sodium - contaminated hands. It may come from a table salt, or maybe even water, because tap water contains small traces of this metal.

    • @tomhsia4354
      @tomhsia4354 Год назад +22

      @@Antek1234l What about sweat?

  • @kes6628
    @kes6628 Год назад +465

    I love when guests are so genuinely curious and into what they're doing as well. Watching all three of them learn and discover at the same time was very neat.

    • @tythanh4708
      @tythanh4708 Год назад

      ok

    • @snackentity5709
      @snackentity5709 Год назад +3

      It's cool to compare the actual raw detailed physics to what is often just theory on paper or data abstracted through measurement

  • @anikethdesai
    @anikethdesai Год назад +10

    The collaboration we didn't ask for but needed the most

  • @michaelfrancis3558
    @michaelfrancis3558 Год назад +4

    This is my favorite thing about RUclips. When RUclipsrs get together and create hybrid content.

  • @khoda81
    @khoda81 Год назад +378

    That camera is so fast that light moves only 170 meters every frame. You might actually be able to capture some wicked light speed slow-mo with it. Its crazy!

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn Год назад +40

      Well. It would require some really funky lenses to capture that distance lol. But they do have a planet slo-mo video showing a stupidly fast laser-based camera that can actually show you like moving across stuff.

    • @johndododoe1411
      @johndododoe1411 Год назад +24

      @@5peciesunkn0wn At a distance far enough to keep 170m objects in frame, optics will be less of a problem. Making a voltage large enough to draw a 400m arc will require equipment from a different lab. Not even sure the ABB lab in Sweden can do that, and that entire lab is built for testing giant arcs.

    • @moos5221
      @moos5221 Год назад +7

      The funny thing is, that if the technology gets even better and the footage surpasses lightspeed it will rewind itself and start playing instead of recording. I think. Yeah, nah, yeah, sure thing actually. We are so close to timetravelling right now.

    • @Turidus
      @Turidus Год назад +4

      Yeah, you could do some cool stuff with a laser and some mirrors, for sure.

    • @Call_Upon_YAH
      @Call_Upon_YAH Год назад +1

      Jesus Christ is the propitiation for the whole world's sins. They that believeth and are baptized (with the Holy Spirit) shall be saved; but they that believeth not shall be damned. Those led by the Holy Spirit do not abide in wickedness.
      *God is ONE manifesting himself as THREE;* the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit! Bless him! *For these three are one.*
      As I am led by the Holy Spirit, nothing I state is a lie, but the truth of God. Anyone who tells you differently is misinformed or a liar. They do not know God, nor led by him.
      Anyone who *claims* to be a Christian and is against what I am doing, and where I am doing it; the Holy Spirit does not dwell within them, they lack understanding. They know not God, read his word, and their religion is in vain. Do not hear them, they will mislead you, the lost cannot guide the lost.

  • @Zaqinabox
    @Zaqinabox Год назад +319

    I love how nice Electroboom is in this video and how dangerous and crazy he makes himself seem in his channel.

    • @BlueScreenOfDead
      @BlueScreenOfDead Год назад +9

      as a electro guy my self, i know how freaking dangerious it is, but it is a risk we take so that other DONT try it them self without the knowledge.

    • @suicidalbanananana
      @suicidalbanananana Год назад +18

      To be fair a lot of what he does on his channel is just "acting dumb for comedic value" plus copious amounts of capacitors, i doubt he ever puts himself in actual danger :)

    • @sirspamalot4014
      @sirspamalot4014 Год назад +2

      That's just how Engineers are

    • @jeetsupa4362
      @jeetsupa4362 Год назад +1

      Yeah he has masters in electrical engineering

    • @tyrannicpuppy
      @tyrannicpuppy Год назад

      @@suicidalbanananana I dunno, sitting on a heating element seems unwise. But he knows what we all come for. It's the copious amounts of knowledge that keep us all coming back time and again.

  • @falcon1378
    @falcon1378 Год назад +4

    I’ve been watching since I was 6, glad to see you guys are still rocking to this day!

  • @MedlifeCrisis
    @MedlifeCrisis Год назад +598

    Genius collab, awesome results. Mehdi is such a legend

  • @Cazammaf
    @Cazammaf Год назад +249

    Okay being able to see the ACTUAL unedited resonant frequency of a tesla coil arcing is insane!!! That is crazy fast. But yes, I would love it if Mehdi comes back in a few years to revisit this idea with Gav and Dan when they have an even faster camera!

  • @Minib34ts
    @Minib34ts Год назад +25

    Hi! Sound guy here! The arcs following the same pattern in the air due to the heating of the particles within the trail also explains the tonal nature of the tesla coils noise that it makes when discharging. You could hook up a MIDI clock output to the frequency regulation, effectively letting you play MIDI music through the tesla coil!
    I do hope that little idea turns into a video for you guys! Leave an upvote if you've read this and you'd like to get the idea to Gavin, Dan and ElectroBOOM!Loving this video a lot and I'm only at 2:51
    Hope you guys are doing well! Been a massive long time fan for years.

  • @lunamaria1048
    @lunamaria1048 Год назад +3

    This taught me that lightning does in fact strike the same place twice, because it prefers to follow the path of the first strike lol

  • @NoelJrComia
    @NoelJrComia Год назад +203

    Mehdi's laugh of excitement at 15:15 just radiates his passion on electricity!!

  • @lawrencewinter
    @lawrencewinter Год назад +47

    "You're imediately one of the most photographed people in history" What a profound thing to say on a whim. And true. Lol

  • @dustinscheller7795
    @dustinscheller7795 Год назад +8

    As a welder this is something I've always wanted to see, thank you for this

  • @matlabsolidworkstutorials431
    @matlabsolidworkstutorials431 Год назад +9

    The Phantom 7510 has an input port that allows you to trigger the camera via the emi generated from the Marx generator. I’ve done that before and it allowed me to find the exact point where the spark event happened without sifting through the video at all.

  • @krpp
    @krpp Год назад +323

    The arc pathfinding is really cool to watch. I wonder if you can set up a small insulated maze and see if it can solve it.

    • @loganatori6117
      @loganatori6117 Год назад +8

      This would be an awesome experiment. Maybe see how long you can make it

    • @piergiorgio919
      @piergiorgio919 Год назад +5

      if you filled the maze with water it can

    • @GuyNamedSean
      @GuyNamedSean Год назад +4

      You totally can. It's kind of what a Lichtenberg pattern is.

    • @karlharvymarx2650
      @karlharvymarx2650 Год назад +2

      Heck of a lot faster than slime mold.

    • @Ewr42
      @Ewr42 Год назад

      solving it is literally the only option for it to short out between both ends.
      there's no way not to solve it unless it doesn't get inside the maze in the first place(which would be a fluke and not a valid test)

  • @BIGSTANK1983
    @BIGSTANK1983 Год назад +79

    That's nuts you can actually see the AC current actually alternate between on and off. That's really something.

    • @BIGSTANK1983
      @BIGSTANK1983 Год назад +1

      @Edline Nannencia I've not been waiting for any video sorry.

  • @Roclaph
    @Roclaph Год назад +7

    Just love how it's a bunch of dudes having fun staring at electricity move very slowly 😂♥️. Love you guys!

  • @c4hI0fo2p
    @c4hI0fo2p Год назад

    Awesome video indeed! Definitely cool af seeing all three of you guy’s together on a project.

  • @meridias561
    @meridias561 Год назад +62

    Dan's reactions are hilarious. :) "let me increase the power a little bit." the head whip is like "wait, what?"

  • @kedo
    @kedo Год назад +148

    Medhi's laugh of excitement at 15:15 just radiates his passion on electricity!!

    • @rafakordaczek3275
      @rafakordaczek3275 Год назад +1

      Thanks, I was looking for the timestamp to not watch the entire video.

    • @tarantulamadness6191
      @tarantulamadness6191 Год назад +1

      Omg really that's so cool my guy!

    • @stickiedmin6508
      @stickiedmin6508 Год назад +1

      @@rafakordaczek3275
      You're weird.

    • @liam3284
      @liam3284 Год назад +1

      He is mehdi *meh* and *di*

    • @dex_9781
      @dex_9781 Год назад

      Mehdi or Mahdi
      not medhi

  • @bdubbs
    @bdubbs Год назад +1

    This is the best video you've ever made in my opinion! I love it.

  • @360lootgoon3
    @360lootgoon3 Год назад

    Awesome. The slow mo lightning capture was one of my favorite vids.
    Electrical arcs are cool.

  • @dallonperry3639
    @dallonperry3639 Год назад +72

    I would love to see a slo-mo guys' episode of electricity and welding! Like striking an arc, plasma cutting, torch cutting, flux core shooting splatter, sheers and iron workers punching holes and cutting! I think you could see lots of interesting stuff! And it's super lit and easy to film! Also, a Laser engraver would be sweet!

    • @Lucianrider
      @Lucianrider Год назад +3

      Yes that would be amazing!

  • @Jam-Beat
    @Jam-Beat Год назад +137

    Love this collaboration, very glad to see some scientific pursuit.

  • @Gabonidaz
    @Gabonidaz Год назад +6

    this video is pure art of nature, it was amazing to see nyquist's theorem proved in such a visual way

  • @mattmmilli8287
    @mattmmilli8287 Год назад +1

    Loved this collab. Slow mo guys always staying fresh

  • @EchoNoctua
    @EchoNoctua Год назад +47

    So funny to hear them say "We are starting at 100k" after all of these years of watching them.

  • @PosyMusic
    @PosyMusic Год назад +145

    There's always something faster, regardless the framerate 🤯 What a great video, I'll rewatch this several times the coming year(s)...

    • @IShowVelocity.
      @IShowVelocity. Год назад +2

      Sup posy.
      Just wanna say I am a big fan of your lcd display video. I also liked you hdr video :)

    • @Dubstone
      @Dubstone Год назад

      Love you Posy

    • @nightstar6179
      @nightstar6179 Год назад

      I keep going back to the sabering video

  • @PedroRafael
    @PedroRafael Год назад

    Thank you for the attempt! The speed on this one is electrifying :D

  • @flymachine
    @flymachine 10 месяцев назад +2

    The ethereal music you play on slowed footage is from a meditation and sleep aid channel that I listened to in a long loop for 6hours uninterrupted so when I watch your videos I get put into an immediate state of zen and want to sleep - thus your channel is calming

  • @lars3509
    @lars3509 Год назад +155

    Do you guys remember the Veritasium riddle on how long it takes for a lightbulb to turn on, if the cables are extremly long, but the bulb sits next to the source? If your camera records at 1,5 million FPS light would travel only 200 m during two frames. So maybe if you use a km of cables and lamps that switch on incredibly fast it could be possible to actually visualize this effect. For example: 3 lamps (or any other device visually reacting on current), one at the middle of the cable and one at the start and end, but all are equally distanced from the source. All should switch on at the same time.

    • @bertjesklotepino
      @bertjesklotepino Год назад +11

      Electroboom has a response video to that.
      Perhaps worth watching

    • @manabellum
      @manabellum Год назад +2

      Electroboom already did the timing with oscilloscope. Doing this with Phantom can be very challenge because in nano seconds you have to have some circuit to trigger the switch while sending the time to Phomtom and we are talking speed of light here which can go weird easily when we mess about timing.

    • @tbird81
      @tbird81 Год назад +4

      The influencer Veritasium is mostly full of it.

    • @AnimilesYT
      @AnimilesYT Год назад +1

      I would like to note that they would all turn on at the same if you count 'dimly lit' as being on. They'll only go fully on when the electricity gets to the lamp through the wire.
      I can't say anything about the ability of the Phantom to capture this though, but I'm concerned that the difference in brightness may be too much for the Phantom to show what is happening. This may make it seem like nothing is happening in the lamps until they all fully turn on one at a time.
      If they're able to film with different exposure settings then they could film both stages individually which would show how much or how little difference there actually is in the amount of power the lamps receive :D

    • @Unethical.Dodgson
      @Unethical.Dodgson Год назад +7

      @@tbird81 Full of it? Not really. But he can misrepresent things for the sake of getting a reaction. What he said about Electricity, for instance, was correct. He just made it sound like it was something nobody really knows. When any electrical engineer was well aware of everything he said.

  • @ArmyHumor
    @ArmyHumor Год назад +31

    It wouldn’t be a Slow Mo Guys video if there wasn’t something dangerous happening.

    • @MarioFanGamer659
      @MarioFanGamer659 Год назад

      To be fair, they did collab with ElectroBOOM so that one was actually expected.

  • @JoeAlFoBet
    @JoeAlFoBet Год назад +4

    Electroboom with the Slow Mo Guys,
    I had no idea I needed this in my life!

  • @burt0r155
    @burt0r155 Год назад +1

    For me the most amazing thing is the visualization that nature works the same in the small scale here as in the really big version back in the "slow mo guys around the world" series and their video lighting hitting the ocean in Asia.

  • @Pon1bcd
    @Pon1bcd Год назад +32

    Electroboom has been featured in quite a lot of videos these past few months and I love it, Electroboom is a great channel and great personality.

  • @Yog-slagunar
    @Yog-slagunar Год назад +16

    Medhi is a real solid guest, taking the piss and all. One of the most fun guests you'd had

  • @austindumler1604
    @austindumler1604 2 месяца назад

    5:24 Dan's face as the voltage goes up is hilarious cause he's just standing there taking it while his face is like "oh my god!!"

  • @alildaisy2180
    @alildaisy2180 3 месяца назад

    These three have such positive energy I want them to be collaborating permanently!! I love all of them knowledges combining! Seeing electroboom collaborate while they do a sharp charge video would be SOOOO fun!

  • @Cpt.Croissant
    @Cpt.Croissant Год назад +9

    The fact that the 875k and 1.75million shots look exactly the same, really shows how fast it really is

  • @Lucas_van_Hout
    @Lucas_van_Hout Год назад +59

    Honestly I think a 12 hour video about the best 631mS section of the 1,75M slo-mo of the tesla’s coil would be sick just because you can. Even if it isn’t much more then a good background video to play throughout the day if you’re into that sort of thing.

  • @Systomd
    @Systomd Год назад

    I don't understand, I'm a subscriber for years but I never see SloMoGuys videos when they come on RUclips. Typically I see them few weeks after. But I'm a huge fan of their videos, watching multiple time each one... In any case, thank you for sharing this very good job with us. 👍👍👍

  • @TinyWhoop
    @TinyWhoop Год назад +35

    So good to see you two together on the reg again!!

  • @hsmoscout
    @hsmoscout Год назад +31

    i'm not an electrical engineer but if that coil is creating music the way that an electronic instrument does i'd guess it flickers like that because all waves are made of smaller sine waves so we're basically seeing the small very fast rise and fall in charge caused by them which is also why the sounds produced by the coil are so rich in overtones

    • @Incompetent_Hero
      @Incompetent_Hero Год назад +2

      There was a video I stumbled across a couple years ago about what I believe is called Macrotempo, the concept of making a kick beat of upwards of 1 million BPM, and it had an extremely similar result to Tesla Coil music, where no matter the sound, the frequency increases did in fact make recognizable notes . I believe the spark/boom of the electrical discharge is doing the exact same thing.
      Basically, I'm pretty sure you're correct, or very near to it if not

    • @ripperplaysclon152
      @ripperplaysclon152 Год назад +1

      @@Incompetent_Hero Jesus Christ, speedcore’s evolving again!

  • @paulocarvalho7877
    @paulocarvalho7877 Год назад +29

    @5:54 is essentially how the lightning stepped leader coming from the cloud meets an upward streamer coming from grounded objects. It also demosntrates how the ionized channels first propagate in the air by following corona discharges and when the circuit completes, the unconnected branches discharge. Nice job.

  • @GetMoGaming
    @GetMoGaming Год назад

    This pushed me into subscribing. Phenomenal slo-mo stuff!!

  • @Capotey
    @Capotey Год назад +8

    OMG OMG OMG OMG
    Two of my most favourite RUclips-Channels do a collab? Awesome !! Thank you sooo much for this one.

  • @RolandKontson
    @RolandKontson Год назад +6

    The "fluff" at 5:55 is quite cool. The resonance shot is at 10:10 - it manages to cool off enough in that time between pulse peaks to show up blinking and it shows up for both peaks within a period.
    CPU cache operational delays are measured in nanoseconds (billionth, 10^-9) and a clock cycle on a CPU is 1/3 to 1/6 a nanosecond nowadays, reliable on/off switching between the transistors , the gates they form and the operations those form. Quite nuts.

  • @chasepacker2416
    @chasepacker2416 Год назад +2

    This is the colab we have all been needing

  • @slh8505
    @slh8505 Год назад +32

    Really liked this one, one of the few things I truly get nerdy about is fractal structures and electrical arcs like this one are an amazing example of natural fractals and it sorta follows chaos theory because of that

    • @cunicularium5424
      @cunicularium5424 Год назад +4

      I hate to be the bearer of bad news but,
      The Chaos theory is an interdisciplinary area of scientific study and branch of mathematics focused on underlying patterns and deterministic laws of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions, and were once thought to have completely random states of disorder and irregularities..an electrical arc is in a controlled state in this video, if it were chaotic, it would be shooting arcs everywhere, and the static charge would be attracted to any metallic objects around, as well as zapping a human, these arcs are focused directly onto their hands, therefore it is a controlled arc which means it is NOT following chaos theory...but you gotta love it when people think they know everything 😂

    • @dylanmcadam8509
      @dylanmcadam8509 Год назад

      @@cunicularium5424 you must be fun at parties 😂

    • @teamreagan91
      @teamreagan91 Год назад +2

      I guess I should also add that “fractal” doesn’t equal “chaotic” either.

    • @cratermoney6941
      @cratermoney6941 Год назад +1

      @@dylanmcadam8509 come on dude, he does not go to parties

    • @dylanmcadam8509
      @dylanmcadam8509 Год назад

      @@cratermoney6941 hahaha fair

  • @justrelaxing1501
    @justrelaxing1501 Год назад +34

    This was fantastic! Imagine, not being able to slow down the electrical pulse down even at 1.75 million FPS

    • @katbryce
      @katbryce Год назад +8

      I think you would need multiple frames per nanosecond to slow it down.
      If the whole thing is about 30cm (1 foot), which I think it is, and it is moving at the speed of light, which I think it will, then it will get from one end to the other in 1 nanosecond. So that means billions of frames per second are needed.
      The Caltec camera they used in their "Filming the Speed of Light at 10 Trillion FPS" video, published 27th March 2019, would do it.

  • @robfruchtman4662
    @robfruchtman4662 Год назад +11

    Hydraulic Press Channel just did a video about exploding ball bearings. INSANE. Replicating this at the speeds you shoot would be incredible.

  • @ThePrufessa
    @ThePrufessa Год назад +1

    The lightning and the glass cracking videos were by far my favorite two videos so far on this channel.

  • @dahlavibez5726
    @dahlavibez5726 Год назад

    So cool... Imagine being the first ever to hear those step tones rise it's beautiful

  • @rootbrian4815
    @rootbrian4815 Год назад +1

    Seeing that in slow-mo. Glad I caught this video!

  • @ilikespagett1514
    @ilikespagett1514 Год назад +5

    ElectroBOOM after giving everyone 5 heart attacks: Your honor, it was merely a tiny but of trolling

  • @thehyperscientist1961
    @thehyperscientist1961 Год назад +27

    The collab we never knew we needed. And I believe Dan's found a new friend to blow up stuff I see 😂

  • @Stryke607
    @Stryke607 Год назад +2

    Mehdis skills feel like a combination of you two's, he fits into the team really well :D

  • @alves6465
    @alves6465 Год назад +4

    Mehdi is so used to it, he doesn't even flinch when a capacitor explodes next to his face 😂

  • @tollutollu
    @tollutollu Год назад +7

    the awkwardness was palpable immediately, and it made me love medhi even more

  • @wirelesmike73
    @wirelesmike73 Год назад +4

    I love how much fun this was for all of you. It's contagious. Great, and informative video. This was an awesome collab.

  • @moonstoretech
    @moonstoretech 2 месяца назад

    It's so cool that nature provides a relaxing soundtrack every time you slow down.

  • @jeremyortiz2927
    @jeremyortiz2927 Год назад +10

    This was a GREAT collaboration. Super fun to watch.

  • @dylanwashere1985
    @dylanwashere1985 Год назад +4

    This was amazing!! It’s so cool to see things in our world at such an obsurd frame rate. Just seeing the arc move instantly at 1.75 million is absolutely insane. I hope we can see more of this framerate, so coolll!

  • @eliotgillum
    @eliotgillum Год назад +4

    Medhi finally said what we knew from the beginning: a foot per nanosecond is faster than a frame per microsecond

  • @vomitkermit3446
    @vomitkermit3446 Год назад +1

    The storage capacity these men must have, and the internal bandwidth to move it around is astonishing.

  • @Anubis256
    @Anubis256 Год назад +14

    Easily one of the best collabs, guys. Well done and here's to more of The ElectroSLOW Guys

  • @Fsant
    @Fsant Год назад +9

    One thing I've been wanting to see for a long time is a macro shot of an HID bulb arc. It uses a roughly 20kv initial arc then levels out to 12v. And I think the way it kinda flickers for a split second would look pretty cool in slow mo