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  • Опубликовано: 20 июн 2018
  • I find ozone quite an interesting gas. It can be generated on demand electrically by either plasma or UVC and has a bleach-like odour and a very strong oxidising effect.
    The oxidising effect is used to neutralise airborne odours like cigarette smoke and undesired odours in public toilet facilities. It has to be used in moderation, since too much ozone can cause irritation.
    Ozone is not a fix for the mouldy smell associated with furnishings that have been damp for a period of time. The best fix there is to remove the affected material.
    Ozone is also used as an alternative to detergent in some laundry equipment due to its ability to clean and sterilise fabrics when diffused in water. Some machines offer a dry cycle too that tumbles the clothing in ozone to freshen it up.
    The gas is controversial in that some people believe that low levels are safe, while others believe that any level is harmful. It does occur naturally in nature, notably after a thunderstorm.
    Some materials like rubber can be damaged by overexposure to ozone through rapid oxidation. Laundry equipment using the gas has to be made from materials like stainless steel and silicone.
    If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
    www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm
    This also keeps the channel independent of RUclips's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.

Комментарии • 467

  • @JerryEricsson
    @JerryEricsson 6 лет назад +213

    About 20 years back, I was working on the Police Department. One of our squad cars had been used to transport a skunk to the vet after dispatching him with the scatter gun. Well it was supposed to go to the vet but it was near the end of shift and the officer left the body of the skunk in the trunk. The car sat in the shed for over a week before it's rotation came up once more. I was the unlucky one to discover the officers screw up. Man that stench was so bad it nearly gagged me, made my eyes water it was just horrid. Needless to say that car was not used that night, the next day I had the City crew remove the skunk and dispose of it, then called a fellow who steam cleaned carpets and such. Well he had an ozone machine, much bigger then the one you disassembled. He brought it over and placed it in the passenger seat of the squad then left it for a day. The next day, the car was completely clean, not a bit of dead skunk remained, it smelled as fresh as a springs morning on the lake. Wonderful devices these ozone makers.

    • @WineScrounger
      @WineScrounger 6 лет назад +10

      Jerry Ericsson Shawn Woods, trapper and hunter extraordinaire, tried cooking and eating a skunk to see if it was any good.
      Spoiler:
      It’s not good at all

    • @johnpossum556
      @johnpossum556 6 лет назад +32

      "Skunk in the trunk" would be a good name for a rock band.

    • @McNair1952
      @McNair1952 6 лет назад +1

      In this case, it would be helpful to other bigclive fans if you would mention the country you are in, it is the world wide web after all. From Scotland, thankfully a skunk free zone.

    • @johnpossum556
      @johnpossum556 6 лет назад

      LOL! That reminds me we once had the family pet dog slide under the electrified fence of the nearest farm and roll in cow pies and skunk. We washed him down in the lake in lemon dawn and later tomato juice. It still barely touched the stench of having to ride home 6 hours with the dog right in between me and my sister. Uff Da!

    • @rich1051414
      @rich1051414 6 лет назад +4

      Tomato juice only somewhat works as the volatile chemicals don't get fully neutralized by reacting with acid. I think they even had a mythbusters episode about it. Concentrated citric acid doesn't work either, and will only made all your minor cuts burn like the surface of the sun.
      Ozone is different, ozone is a super oxidizer, and oxidation will always reduce the potency of volitile smells. It only 'smells fresh' because it is actively neutralizing all the smells in your nose, leaving you with essentially no smell, which the brain interprets as a 'fresh smell'. Kind of like how you can taste water. You are actually tasting 'no saliva'. Kind of like if you stare at a bright yellow image, then look at a white wall, it will look purple.
      You really don't want to breathe the stuff. A powerful oxidizer has to kill sensitive lung tissue.

  • @BlargKing
    @BlargKing 6 лет назад +7

    I work at a hotel that has one of these to deodorize the rooms. Apparently up until I started working there, they would put the machine in a room and run it while still cleaning inside the room. Nobody working there knew how bad ozone is until I told them all. Workplace safety is apparently non-existent.

  • @ALAPINO
    @ALAPINO 6 лет назад +11

    I remember in the 90s when ozone generators were all the rage... with lovely innocuous plastic wood enclosures for gran's living room. ;)

  • @savirien4266
    @savirien4266 6 лет назад +6

    My older than dirt ozone "filter" only uses air between the grid-like electrodes. No sparking, but in the dark you can see the corona. These are really nice for keeping your clothes closet and the clothes inside smelling fresh. It's also really nice for keeping that fear in the back of your head that it might burn your house down someday.

  • @180bst
    @180bst 6 лет назад +45

    Being a TV serviceman the strong smell of ozone was always present in a dusty/damp TV at the EHT on the tube when working on them. Also during a still thunderstorm you can sometimes catch a whiff of it and is so refreshing as you say clean and sterile smelling

    • @LongPeter
      @LongPeter 6 лет назад +12

      I remember seeing an unplugged CRT tv flashing during a lighting storm when I was a kid. Rather disconcerting, being too young to understand why it was happening.

    • @stonedsavage7814
      @stonedsavage7814 6 лет назад +4

      Peter Charlton same here except that when i touched the glass it was giving me tiny miniscule static shocks that felt great and made my hair stand up oh man those were the good days.

    • @LongPeter
      @LongPeter 6 лет назад +12

      Oh man, wiping the layer of static off of the monitor and then lightning bolting the person next to you was the best part of anything computer-based in early highschool.

    • @crystalsoulslayer
      @crystalsoulslayer 6 лет назад +4

      Be sure to supercharge your zappy powers by degaussing the monitor before collecting the static. Also, if the jerk who sits next to you leaves it unattended, be sure to take the ball out of his mouse.

    • @crystalsoulslayer
      @crystalsoulslayer 6 лет назад +2

      Excellent. :D I was in high school in the late 00s, so they'd pretty much figured out how to keep the student computers from doing anything too interesting by then. Though they couldn't really restrict USB devices much because people would bring assignments on them... a certain amount of mischief was made using wireless mice and keyboards.

  • @jawr1215
    @jawr1215 6 лет назад +29

    Have one of these 'industrial' units, but with the plate not the tube. Absolutely fantastic. Stops mould problems, gets rid of smells completely. Great for vintage clothes too. I set it for an hour with fans on for circulation and it does my whole flat while I'm at the pub. Lend it to friends and family often ('new' cars, new houses etc). Id consider it as essential as a hoover.
    Just dont be in the same room when its on, and give it plenty of time to dissipate before entering the room/area. Combined with a hepa air filter has massively helped my partners athsma symptoms.

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  6 лет назад +16

      In Japan you get the clothes freshening machines that tumble the clothing in ozonated air.

    • @nw8000
      @nw8000 5 месяцев назад

      What model do you have??

  • @LatitudeSky
    @LatitudeSky 6 лет назад +12

    I've owned a similar machine and it works well but the ozone is very damaging to rubber and plastics. It makes them extremely brittle. Where I work, we have a number of machines that emit ozone in the course of operation. They have extensive filters to control the emissions however... We use a lot of rubber bands in our work. Every machine has a tub of them. New rubber bands out of the package stay new for less than a day. They age immediately. By two or three days, they are dried out and becoming brittle and will snap easily. After a week, they've changed from rubbery gold to brown, much tougher. Very little rubber flexibility. After a month or two, they look like they are 100 years old and shatter. The ozone just wrecks them. Worker's shoes also take a huge hit. A new pair of shoes will last maybe three months and it's just done. Soles crumble. And this is with suitable filtering! The machines themselves only survive it because we have constant maintenance to replace affected parts. And still, they regularly break down due to plastics and rubber parts disintergrating.

    • @mikeguitar9769
      @mikeguitar9769 6 лет назад +1

      Have you tried silicone rubber, either as a substitute or as a coating?

    • @deaultusername
      @deaultusername 4 года назад +1

      If it had such a rapid effect on materials in such low concentration from being filtered, what was it doing to the workers under continuous exposure to it.

    • @NinoJoel
      @NinoJoel Год назад +1

      Sounds like there is something else besides the ozone.
      Im using high concentrations of ozone regularly to clean my house or cara and I never had any problems with plastics or rubber seals.

  • @EpicATrain
    @EpicATrain 6 лет назад +4

    I'm so glad you did this video!!! We bought an Ozone generator last week and started using it for a few projects. :)

  • @cadburybunny
    @cadburybunny 5 лет назад +1

    Used to work with ozone machines in my previous jobs and it's kind of neat to see the insides of them now.

  • @CLaw-tb5gg
    @CLaw-tb5gg 5 лет назад +4

    Something Clive missed: oxygen (provided it's not been ionised) makes two bonds with other things, like in water, H2O, where each of its bonds is made with a hydrogen atom. The more bonds an atom has with another atom the more stable that bond is - because it's like more glue between them, meaning it's harder to pull them apart - and usually oxygen shares both its bonds with something (unless that something can only form one bond, like hydrogen in water), like another oxygen atom, because that's oxygen's most stable state.
    Atoms always want to become more stable; think of stability like gravity, with things always falling downwards into more stability unless some energy is put into them from below, pushing them upwards towards less stability. This is what kind of happens with ozone: electrical discharge, or oxygen being hit with high-powered cosmic ray photons in the upper atmosphere, imparts enough energy into O2 to rip the atoms apart. This means they go into a high-powered unpaired state, which then "falls down" into bonding again into O3. This only has single bonds, with each oxygen paired to two other oxygens, so it then "falls down" again into O2, where it has a more stable double bond with only one other oxygen.
    Before everyone picks this itself to bits I know this is a little overly simplified, because I don't want to write an entire essay here.

  • @UpLateGeek
    @UpLateGeek 6 лет назад +1

    I bought a cheap Chinese ozone generator off ebay for experimentation porpoises. It consists of a similar "transformer" which powers an enclosed corona discharge unit that has hose barbs moulded into plastic body of the unit, which is connected to an aquarium air pump via silicone tubing, and also an outlet hose. When I first powered it on, it rattled and vibrated very noisily, and when I opened it up I found the aquarium air pump had become dislodged. It was only held on with hot melt glue, so I just gooped some more on and pressed it back in to place. It seems to work ok, but produces a highly noxious emanation.
    Anyway, I was going to use it for experimentation in retrobriting some vintage computers and stuff, as an alternative to hydrogen peroxide. The 8-Bit Guy had some limited success with sealing the item to be retrobrited in a ziplock bag with ozone, so I was going to try bubbling it through water. Unfortunately my experiments will have to wait until spring. Apparently heat plays a big part in the chemical reactions, but it's only reaching around 16-19°C during the day here in Sydney.

  • @ninjamaster3453
    @ninjamaster3453 6 лет назад +36

    We use heavy duty ones to mitigate after water damage and clean up. Helps a whole lot.
    Don't stay in the room with one though

  • @zackstewart4109
    @zackstewart4109 4 года назад +1

    Excellent! I've been wondering about those. Nice sound on this one, as well!

  • @TheFurriestOne
    @TheFurriestOne 6 лет назад +7

    Ozone is also used in some cleaning units for use with CPAP/BIPAP machines, keeps down infection and lengthens times between manual cleaning with soap and water (which can't be used on the main unit anyhow). Thanks for the look inside!

    • @christianuy5791
      @christianuy5791 4 года назад

      TheFurriestOne interesting. I wondered how the big machines are cleaned since soap water and chemicals can’t be sprayed in the machine. Ozone is awesome

    • @astrangeone
      @astrangeone 4 года назад

      I've seen that on CPAP machines. Looks neat.

    • @mattc9009
      @mattc9009 2 года назад

      Funny enough Phillips have issued a recall of their cpap machines due to lose foam, cleaning with an ozone generator makes the problem worse they say.

  • @drteeth7054
    @drteeth7054 6 лет назад

    Another fantastic video from BC productions!

  • @MadScientist512
    @MadScientist512 6 лет назад

    I love the smell of ozone in the morning! Seriously though, I used to build all manner of high voltage generators back in high school, scrounging car coils, TV flyback transformers and disposable camera flash units, so the smell of ozone brings back some old memories for me.

  • @TheGreatAtario
    @TheGreatAtario 3 года назад +1

    When I was a kid, I had a toy electric train set - O-scale, three-rail. It sparked quite a lot, so the scent of ozone always reminds me of that set

  • @Meteora125
    @Meteora125 6 лет назад

    I remeber the old video about this, but I appreciate this new version anyway!

  • @Rapscallion2009
    @Rapscallion2009 6 лет назад +22

    I remember the smell of Ozone from early laser printers. When, the stunk of it when they didn't small of melting plastic, burning paper, charred flesh or burning electronics.....

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  6 лет назад +7

      Yeah, the early photocopiers and laser printers were exciting beasts.

    • @lazaglider
      @lazaglider 6 лет назад

      Rapscallion2009 Ahh, now a memory from childhood makes sense. There was a photocopier in the school library that always produced an interesting smell when in use. We always used to say it was ozone, without really knowing how or why. Sounds like we were on the money.
      Nice smell from what I recall.

    • @WaltonPete
      @WaltonPete 6 лет назад +2

      lazaglider
      Maybe I'm REALLY old, or perhaps my early schools were crap, but our school copier used carbon paper, smelly volatile chemicals and man / woman power to produce paper copies! I always loved the distinct smell coming from freshly minted copies, which probably made us all as high as kites!

    • @Demolishionist
      @Demolishionist 5 лет назад +2

      I used to love the smell of mimeograph copies. That pungent purple ink, a smell you can't forget.

    • @millomweb
      @millomweb 4 года назад

      @@WaltonPete Prob not 'carbon paper'. It'd be a duplicator - with a 'master' affixed to a drum and a handle on the side to crank the machine. Posher ones were electrically driven. I've seen the results in 'pink' and 'blue' and reasonably pungent !

  • @bub_lite_6361
    @bub_lite_6361 6 лет назад +1

    Very informative, and amazingly simple. 👍

  • @Pistoletjes
    @Pistoletjes 6 лет назад +1

    Earlier version for reference: ruclips.net/video/yvhRNBOQ6oE/видео.html

  • @anonone2175
    @anonone2175 6 лет назад

    Cheers to you and your brother for entertaining and informative videos!

  • @ovalwingnut
    @ovalwingnut 3 месяца назад

    5 years ago? A Big Clive "classic". What youthful hands!

  • @Akula114
    @Akula114 4 года назад

    Excellent video... not bad for a Weegie! Your explanations are so well done and interesting. Thanks for you help with my next project!

  • @skywave12
    @skywave12 4 года назад

    I remember the the glow off of my fingers around a old TV Cathode Ray Tube. The Smell was great :-)

  • @YbborUberAlles
    @YbborUberAlles 6 лет назад

    I am soo happy to see this because I always confuse ppl when I try to explain these

  • @AdmiralPreparedness
    @AdmiralPreparedness 6 лет назад +1

    The shipboard radar that I operated and maintained while in the US NAVY produced tons of Ozone because of the high voltage transmitter stages needed to radiate RF energy a very long distance!

  • @MichaelFlatman
    @MichaelFlatman 6 лет назад +19

    1:40 wow that's a very good drawing of a spark!

    • @WaltonPete
      @WaltonPete 6 лет назад +4

      Michael _Howto&tech
      Clive's had years of practice!

  • @williamthomasmi10
    @williamthomasmi10 6 лет назад +2

    Love you clive, so informative.
    I've had a moldy smell coming from my AC lately, was wondering if this would work. Right there in the description, no it will not, thank you very much ! :P

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  6 лет назад +1

      Some air duct systems do use UVC lamps for ozone sterilisation of the air.

    • @japonicaren
      @japonicaren 5 лет назад

      Look for UVC 253.7nm or 254nm bulbs/tubes. They are known as 'no ozone' UVC emitters on AliExpress.
      The same seller will often have an 'ozone' type UVC bulb which works at below 180nm (wavelength).
      Even the no ozone types give off a tiny amount of ozone but nowhere near as much as the ozone type bulbs. These would probably be safer to clean an air conditioner without degrading rubber/plastic parts.
      I had hoped to get one of the corona discharge open plate devices and sit it on top of the air conditioner intake with a timer set for 30 minutes to get rid of mold etc but reading through the comments it looks like a no no.
      Just understand that the no ozone type bulbs can only clean line of sight. So you won't be able to clean the tubing innards etc.
      I'm hoping you could at least clean the spinning drum and housing of the indoor end of the air conditioner system.

  • @redoverdrivetheunstoppable4637
    @redoverdrivetheunstoppable4637 6 лет назад +1

    my first non interrupted tesla coil, that made a blue flame the size of a tennis ball (or little smaller), made a huge amount of ozone, few seconds of operation and you could smell it distinctly, i used to open the door (no problem apparently anyways)... my ebay plasma globe (5 inch diameter) makes it also, but i get near to it on the table

  • @TrasteIAm
    @TrasteIAm 6 лет назад +46

    I wish i had an ozone room to deodorize!

    • @sgt4204
      @sgt4204 4 года назад +3

      Reno doesn’t get it. That’s funny.

  • @darkdelta
    @darkdelta 6 лет назад

    Another winner! Very interesting.

  • @twocvbloke
    @twocvbloke 6 лет назад +68

    Apparently they use these in used car sales places to remove (at least temporarily) the stench of smoke in cars they've traded in, so when they sell the car to a potential mug, erm, I mean customer, the car smells "clean"...

    • @calicantdrive
      @calicantdrive 6 лет назад +42

      Used properly, it's definitely not temporary, it actually oxidizes away the compounds creating the odor. Chemical deodorizers are temporary, or course.

    • @calicantdrive
      @calicantdrive 6 лет назад +3

      You think the solid particles that make up that smoke can penetrate the fabric more deeply than ozone, which is a gas? Mind you, it is helpful to get as much of that out of the fabric as possible before using the ozone generator, but the ozone will literally oxidize the smoke away.

    • @phils4634
      @phils4634 6 лет назад +14

      These are also used in Mortuaries, and Pathology Departments. I think they are also popular with the specialist teams who clean up houses after the occupant(s) have an "unwitnessed death" - the sort of event where no-one realises they have "departed" until things become "somewhat aromatic" (especially during the warmer months) . . . . . .

    • @eddiespencer1
      @eddiespencer1 6 лет назад +8

      They also use them in new-car dealerships and most other retail places because people really do stink.

    • @augmenseke6131
      @augmenseke6131 6 лет назад +6

      What? This odour destroying tool developed for detailing cars gets used to remove odours from used cars? Noooooo. That’s soooo shady.....

  • @28YorkshireRose12
    @28YorkshireRose12 4 года назад +4

    Hmm, old televisions with dodgy EHT connections, or in a damp room - no mistaking the ozone there!

  • @garyha2650
    @garyha2650 4 года назад

    Thanks for the ozone videos. By the way folks, the electrical discharge types also break apart N2 in the air, not good because nitrogen oxides result and mixed with water make nitric acid, or so I hear. Go for the UV type.

  • @steveroberts1861
    @steveroberts1861 6 лет назад +2

    I remember staying in a hotel where they had a large unit running in the hallway. The smell was very sickly.

  • @HockeyVictory66
    @HockeyVictory66 6 лет назад +1

    Came here via AVE channel. Great stuff. Thanks for your work.

  • @maysammirzakhalili4862
    @maysammirzakhalili4862 4 года назад

    Thank you very much.

  • @vaporainwaves
    @vaporainwaves 6 лет назад +2

    I remember as a kid I had all sorts of allergies, and we had a Quartz lamp, with a timer and when we would come back home, there would be this distinctive smell from the lamp. Mmmm memories.

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  6 лет назад

      The modern version of that will be coming up in a video soon. Readily available on eBay for about £10.

  • @pauljs75
    @pauljs75 6 лет назад +1

    Different than the home use "air cleaner" or "ionizer" devices I've seen. Those usually just have big flat plates (stainless?) and wires offset from them, or it's a big sheet of metal with holes cut out and then needles on the opposing side. Then again their claimed primary purpose is to capture dust or whatever, yet it seems when in operation they still seem to create a whole lot of ozone.

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  6 лет назад

      Those tend to use high voltage to cause air movement and do create a lot of ozone in use.

  • @millomweb
    @millomweb 4 года назад +1

    I have one but it's fancier than that. Mine sticks coloured dust particles to paper and then uses a heater to fuse the particles to the paper. I can get some quite good effects with it.

  • @manolisgledsodakis873
    @manolisgledsodakis873 6 лет назад +6

    Siemens used to use "Hellfax" fax machines that "printed" dots on the paper by applying high-voltage pulses to a needle that traversed the metal platten. The resultant corona discharge was efficaceous in removing old farts from the office. (I was one of them - it made me gag.)

  • @superdau
    @superdau 6 лет назад +2

    I was working in a government office for a short time. They had a cramped archive room that also contained two big copying machines. That room was really hard to stay in, because of all the ozone they generated. There was even a guy working in there who was also a heavy smoker (not in the archive). I guess he didn't notice the sting anymore anyway. I wonder if the ozone would damage the files (consisting of all types of documents including prints and photos) over time.

  • @MalleusSemperVictor
    @MalleusSemperVictor 6 лет назад +4

    I love the smell of O3 in the morning. Smells like... sanitation.

  • @gordonlawrence4749
    @gordonlawrence4749 6 лет назад +2

    I believe Tantalum was sometimes used for the electrodes. That said I have never been able to verify this.

  • @nosch43
    @nosch43 6 лет назад +5

    we have huge ones for deoderizing 3 bedroom apartment in an hour we use at the resort I work at, and it's freaking cool

  • @QF2653
    @QF2653 2 года назад +1

    My wife bought me one of those CPAP machine cleaners, glad I returned it, I wouldn't want to be breathing 'degraded plastic's. Might cause worse problems than snoring does.

  • @juncusbufonius
    @juncusbufonius 6 лет назад

    I was involved in some research into levels of pollutants in my county and being rural ozone was considered a problem as we do not have enough nitrogen dioxide from cars to cancel it out in low lying areas. In those areas crop and people damage can occur where low level ozone pools. Well that what the science said.

  • @brandonbenjamin9452
    @brandonbenjamin9452 4 года назад +3

    The same smell that static makes right? It can be smelled when sitting underneath a dry fuzzy blanket and rubbing ones hair across the blanket

  • @maicod
    @maicod 6 лет назад +1

    when I was a child we had a large glass garden sliding door with glazing behind it and when the sun was shining the UV passed through the window and I believe I could smell ozone.

  • @rollymaster16
    @rollymaster16 6 лет назад

    I can see the light and hear the noise as well sounds similar to a crt

  • @DavidGloverAoki
    @DavidGloverAoki 6 лет назад

    Here's the older, original video, for the morbidly curious: ruclips.net/video/yvhRNBOQ6oE/видео.html

  • @steviebboy69
    @steviebboy69 6 лет назад +3

    I was going to get something like this years ago for air cleaning and the like. Oh is it just me or does the symbol on the fan remind you of the old British Leyland symbol

  • @webchimp
    @webchimp 6 лет назад +4

    Older version must be de-listed, never seen it on your channel.

    • @millomweb
      @millomweb 4 года назад +4

      One moment please:
      Here it is - took 1 second to find it...ruclips.net/video/yvhRNBOQ6oE/видео.html
      One does marvel at the level of incompetence of some people.

  • @davidlr97
    @davidlr97 6 лет назад +1

    I don't know why I watched this, but I enjoyed it

  • @nw8000
    @nw8000 5 месяцев назад

    Is this a good one to buy then?

  • @lostjohnny9000
    @lostjohnny9000 6 лет назад +3

    Stainless steel can be etched quite easily with ferric chloride - same as copper etchant warmer the better.

  • @J.F.K.O
    @J.F.K.O 2 года назад

    nice video i have just bought one to use in my cars, and was wondering how they works. It's going to be nice to see if it can remove the smell of old wunderbaums diesel smoke and cigarettes :P

  • @Io1564
    @Io1564 5 лет назад +1

    Hey Clive, just discovered your channel. Interesting af!
    I am in SE Europe and due to the climate my digs suffer from mold problems.
    I wonder if you know if ozone is sporicidal? I know it kills the smell but does it nuke the spores also? Do you have any experience with Ozone being used to kill mold?
    Cheers!

    • @NinoJoel
      @NinoJoel Год назад +1

      May be way late but ozone kills anything living / organic so mold and spores / bacteria etc is also destroyed

  • @lifttube6011
    @lifttube6011 3 года назад

    ozone video: ruclips.net/video/yvhRNBOQ6oE/видео.html

  • @agvulpine
    @agvulpine 6 лет назад

    I would like to build one of these, though I'm still on the fence about those ceramic panels or building my own glass cylinder.

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  6 лет назад +3

      Ceramic has a much higher electrical strength than glass.

  • @brianrogers7543
    @brianrogers7543 4 года назад

    Great video very thoroughly explained. I’ve been researching different ozone generators and with some it has been mentioned that for a unit to be effective it has to create enough ozone to eliminate mildew spores and different bacteria it requires what is referred to as a “punch like shock” of actual ozone. Would you agree with that? and if yes, what specific type of unit would you recommend? Thanks for your help. Brian

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  4 года назад +1

      Hi Brian. For mold spores it would have to be quite strong. Take a look at my video about the UVC lamp. It has a double effect of ozone and UVC, but poses a skin and eye hazard if in the same room. It's important to trace any source of damp to get rid of mold completely.

    • @brianrogers7543
      @brianrogers7543 4 года назад

      Thank you sir. I don’t have mold caused by water damage and there isn’t any visible signs on walls or concrete floor. Its powdery mildew on my plants leaves that I’m trying to eliminate. I’ve sprayed the whole room with hydrogen peroxide. But I’m still experiencing powdery mildew spores on the plants leaves and thought I’d try an ozone generator. Do you think the video you have suggested would cure the problem?

  • @johnrehwinkel7241
    @johnrehwinkel7241 6 лет назад +3

    I rented a hotel room once, and found one of these inside. Naturally, I took it to bits, had a nice look around, and put it back together before I called building maintenance to come retrieve it. That particular one had electrodes punched out of sheet metal into a forest of points on each side, with the usual ceramic plate between them. I powered it up briefly, and it produced a prodigious amount of ozone.

    • @astrangeone
      @astrangeone 4 года назад

      It's a great tool for hotels. And apparently kills bedbugs dead.

  • @restorer19
    @restorer19 6 лет назад +1

    Does carbon fiber, like the thin filaments used in modern ionizer emitters, react with ozone? I suspect not, but it'd be terrible if it combined to carbon monoxide or something like that. It seems that a mesh made of fine strands of carbon fiber would make a good corona.

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  6 лет назад +2

      I don't think carbon fibre is suited to ozone generation. But it seems good as an emitter in ionisers.

  • @midnightfoxxx8231
    @midnightfoxxx8231 4 года назад +1

    Ozone smells awesome

  • @shanekiely
    @shanekiely 5 лет назад +1

    The NHL use these to sanitise the hockey equipment as MRSA is a big risk.

  • @Nexfero
    @Nexfero 6 лет назад +4

    Honestly I prefer using quartz UV-C florescent lights to generate Ozone and the ultraviolet also has a sterilizing effect as well.

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  6 лет назад +8

      Video on my new 20W UVC compact fluorescent lamp coming soon.

    • @itsevilbert
      @itsevilbert 6 лет назад +2

      Which sterilizes by shredding DNA, which is a scary concept.

    • @yesihavereadit
      @yesihavereadit 6 лет назад

      Nexfero how does uv c generate ozone?

    • @Nexfero
      @Nexfero 6 лет назад +1

      +turnerchris1
      ionizing radiation does just that , it creates ions when it interacts with air. Ultraviolet is a form of ionizing radiation so when the UV-C lights strikes O2 molecules it breaks them up, those free oxygen atoms, ions, then recombine with existing O2 atoms thus creating O3 also called ozone.

    • @yesihavereadit
      @yesihavereadit 6 лет назад +2

      Nexfero I never knew that, it's not as efficient apparently,but it does work

  • @DCBpower
    @DCBpower 5 лет назад

    Are you able to measure the output of the power supply? (I know the current is super low so you would need a long string of high value resistors in series with your probe or a special probe)

  • @metronomexxx
    @metronomexxx 6 лет назад

    Thanks

  • @sikos_2301
    @sikos_2301 3 года назад

    I feel so clever after this video.

  • @salmonline
    @salmonline 6 лет назад

    I'd REALLY love to view a video of you "Clive-ing" a valve amplifier.

  • @wimwiddershins
    @wimwiddershins 6 лет назад

    My first colour tv (very old crt) used to put out quite a bit of ozone. The smell is distinct and irritating after a while.

    • @martinda7446
      @martinda7446 6 лет назад +2

      Probably faulty, the eht connection to the tube may not have been secured properly. Too late to check now mind ))

  • @no1slisteninganyway
    @no1slisteninganyway 5 лет назад

    So is this setup more or less efficient than replacing the coil and power supply with a UV-C bulb?

  • @karoma7898
    @karoma7898 4 года назад +1

    I used a 20W UV-C lamp to kill mould that was stinking my room after some water damage, 2 hours, and i opened the windows for the rest of the day... Damn that ozone stuck to everything! Clothes bed, and weirdly, the inside of my school backpack. I didn't realize it penetrates everything.

  • @poptartmcjelly7054
    @poptartmcjelly7054 6 лет назад

    could it be the nitrogen dioxide that sanitizes, because it forms nitric acid when it bonds with water?

  • @chrisbysize
    @chrisbysize 6 лет назад

    Can you check the temperature with a IR-cam?
    I have a chinese version of this setup and it spits out ~2ppm for about 2min and drops down to 15ppb after 15min on time due to self-heating of the tube- Tube gets about 40-45°C hot, but the surface temperature seems to be enough to degradated O3 rapidly.
    Also be careful- O3 can cause a bloddy nose and you won't smell O3 after a short time.
    It works well to get rid of smelly shoes.

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  6 лет назад

      For smelly shoes check out my video called - fix your feet
      It will solve stinky footwear problems without ozone.

  •  4 года назад

    Hi, I have an ozone tube but not power supply. Would you mind giving more information on what the suppy does? Does it convert ac to ac for high votage or ac to dc? and two cables that are connected to tube are both phases or positive charged?

  • @JimFortune
    @JimFortune 6 лет назад +1

    I love the smell of ozone in the morning. It's the smell of Lionel!

  • @retromodernart4426
    @retromodernart4426 6 лет назад

    Hi Mr. Big Clive, would you kindly tell me what kind of camera you used to make the video? Thank you very much.

  • @pdrg
    @pdrg 6 лет назад

    How many volts/what frequency through that coil, I wonder?

  • @millomweb
    @millomweb 4 года назад

    2:26 Not many screwdrivers come with an on/off button. Is that for a light ?

  • @morosanuandrei4692
    @morosanuandrei4692 2 года назад

    Nice video, can you recommend a trusted vendor of this equipment, please

  • @JohnSmith-bb2np
    @JohnSmith-bb2np 6 лет назад +5

    What I've always heard is that, if Ozone is down here it's a respiratory hazard and pollutant, but if it's up there in the upper atmosphere, it's safe and beneficial UV absorbent. When indoor Ozone generators became popular, it was discovered they cause harmful pollution, and no one bought them anymore. I see them all the time at Thrift Stores.

    • @NinoJoel
      @NinoJoel Год назад

      Ozone falls apart after some hours on its own so what pollution are we talking about

  • @ThatGoth
    @ThatGoth 3 года назад

    I always find a lack of warnings on these things worrying because concentrated Ozone can cause Lung damage as we too are Organic Beings.

  • @kpkangaroo3745
    @kpkangaroo3745 6 лет назад

    so what happens to the nitrogen in the air? is it affected?

  • @raymondj8768
    @raymondj8768 6 лет назад

    kool video Clive but 1 thing the fan wount really pull any air threw the tube the middle of the fan is solid and wount move any air threw the middle so its all going around the tube thanks buddy for a nother vid have a great day thanks for the knolage

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  6 лет назад +1

      The ozone is being generated on the outside of the tube.

    • @raymondj8768
      @raymondj8768 6 лет назад

      yea thats why they dident worry about getting air on the inside . i learn so very much from you your one smart cookie dude lol

  • @nofider1
    @nofider1 6 лет назад

    Hi Clive. Is the cap possibly for PF correction being an inductive load ? . missed what amount of current it draws. C. :-}

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  6 лет назад

      I doubt it in this instance, since it's a low load and this type of manufacturer doesn't tend to bother with power factor correction.

  • @alastairward2774
    @alastairward2774 6 лет назад

    Is that what you get from touching the contacts of a household ioniser with your finger?
    I remember being told not to, then immediately I could doing so and seeing a little spark and a strange smell that I remember as being "clean".

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  6 лет назад

      A standard household ionser will be harmless to touch and will simply provide a stream of fine sparks to your fingertip. Those sparks will create a small amount of ozone.

  • @d2sfavs
    @d2sfavs 4 года назад +1

    i like how you explain ozone.i was going to use a UV light on the air intake to my wood stove.will the ozone hurt the fan and the metal in the stove?i see they have UV lights that go into AC units to disinfect the air.

  • @TheSands1984
    @TheSands1984 6 лет назад

    Does this thing generate oxides of nitrogen as well?

  • @zh84
    @zh84 6 лет назад +15

    When I was in SYS Physics in my last year at school the teacher did some demonstrations of sparks and corona dishcharge with a van de Graaf generator, and I took some extraordinary long-exposure photographs of it. The silver dome lit by an eerie purple glow looked like a flying saucer coming in to land.
    Doesn't the discharge also generate nitrogen oxides? They are certainly generated by nature's high-voltage sparks, i.e. lightning.

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  6 лет назад +18

      It generates all manner of oxides. The ozone generators who claim theirs don't are usually either lying or have flawed tests where the test indicator is bleached out by the ozone.

    • @biggav5555
      @biggav5555 6 лет назад +7

      We use one at work that uses pure oxygen for generation. So only oxygen and ozone emitted. They are dangerous machines and you shouldn't be breathing it in.

    • @WineScrounger
      @WineScrounger 6 лет назад +1

      Gavin Turner a slow leak of pure, highly reactive oxygen.
      Nope. I’m out.

    • @MadScientist512
      @MadScientist512 6 лет назад

      I imagine you could apply the same idea to chlorine gas to make it even more reactive, wouldn't be surprised if they even use fluorine in this manner for industrial purposes.

    • @WineScrounger
      @WineScrounger 6 лет назад

      MadScientist512 I’m not sure what you’d use it for but it’s an interesting possibility.

  • @mentatphilosopher
    @mentatphilosopher 6 лет назад

    What is that orange putty on the screws for? It looks deliberately put on but not very well so it cannot be ozone protection and there is nothing that would cause enough vibration to loosen the nuts.

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  6 лет назад

      It was silicone to stop them working loose.

  • @danieljohnson8754
    @danieljohnson8754 6 лет назад +1

    Just wondering if this is better then a carbon scrubber fan thing for getting rid of smells. (Them Green Gases)

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  6 лет назад

      This is better used as a one-shot treatment in unoccupied areas. It gets rid of all airborne odours. Ozone generators are commonly used to mask plant smells in some industries, but unlike the carbon filters the ozone makes a distinctive smell of its own.

    • @danieljohnson8754
      @danieljohnson8754 6 лет назад

      Ah okay, thanks Clive

    • @mikeguitar9769
      @mikeguitar9769 6 лет назад

      It probably would, but you'd want to remove the ozone before breathing it. Interestingly, the carbon filter might remove the ozone.
      Wikipedia says: Ozone reacts with carbon to form carbon dioxide, even at room temperature:
      C + 2 O3 → CO2 + 2 O2

  • @jakp8777
    @jakp8777 6 лет назад

    Seems like most of the air is passing around the tube rather then in it. Wouldn’t a baffle help with the amount of ozone it produces.

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  6 лет назад

      The bulk of the ozone is being generated on the outside of the tube.

  • @bazrazin1
    @bazrazin1 6 лет назад

    y they cause the cracks in vehicle tires.

  • @dianaprudencio5748
    @dianaprudencio5748 4 года назад

    What is the specs of this ozonemachine you got?

  • @qatar8376
    @qatar8376 4 года назад +2

    سلام عليكم
    ilove this guy videos iwatched again and gain all of his video

  • @fins59
    @fins59 6 лет назад +1

    Do carbon brushed electric motors generate ozone by the small amount of sparking?
    If so I have a washing machine, fridge, air conditioner, vacuum cleaners, heater, fan, printer, desktop computer, laptop, power tools, shaver, toothbrush, all generating ozone inside.
    Signed Worried of Lindisfarne.

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  6 лет назад

      The amount of ozone produced by motors is tiny. Nothing to worry about.

    • @fins59
      @fins59 6 лет назад

      Thank you for your replies gentlemen. Signed Not so worried anymore of Lindisfarne.

  • @ataurus62
    @ataurus62 4 года назад

    will it get rid of the smell of overdone cologne?

  • @kubeek
    @kubeek 6 лет назад +1

    2:22 double bond, man!