After 10 years I am glad you are still alive and making videos. Honestly I have learned a lot from you, I am a mechatronics engineer and I love electronics and electricity but you have tried things that I would have loved to try back in school.
Hey, Mehdi, you should cover "electromagnetic field welding" EMW. They use a high power magnetic field to slap metals together so fast they weld. There's very little coverage of it. But it's cool enough to share!
@@soupisgoodfood42 Supposedly it works by charging large capacitor banks and dumping them in an EM coil. The resulting field is so ridiculously powerful, the metal is accelerated to supersonic speeds (i.e. mach 1) and causes even dissimilar materials to weld. There's obviously some disadvantages like embrittlement but it's still the tits!
They used to use explosives to do this (probably still do) with large sheets of metals in order to make otherwise impossible composite laminates. Search 'explosion welding'
I started when I was 23. im turning 26 this year and I still watch all his content sometimes just rewatch it for the laughs or to catch back up on my knowledge 😅 🙃 😂
@@Decebal825 exactly what I was gonna say. I can imagine him electrocuting himself on a live stream one day. It would be horrible. a two hour live stream of a sparking, burning skeleton only stopped by his lab bursting into flames. People like this rarely die as you expect tho. Steve Irwin, killed by a Stingray, not a crocodile... Ken Block killed by a snowmobile, not a rally car.
At about 8:20 you had the cable going through the transformer and It looks like you could easily pass it through at least one more transformer. So I’m wonder what would happen if you did? Would the voltage double like having a second turn? If so the draw for each primary would be reduced right? Maybe you could chain a bunch of them to get to the million amps.
Yes he could and that's what many builders do when making a DIY arc welder. It will double the voltage as it will make the part of wire trough the new transformer act as a new voltage source in series. To increase the current you reduce the number of turns trough each transformer.
I feel like we need to send every time he used the elevator music to DankPods (particularly that first one) since it's the same song he uses in his headphone comparisons, and I feel like he'd get a crack at seeing Medhi getting scared by a sparkly spoon to the sound of the infamous elevator music.
@@javieralejandrotrianapaz6343 yup, the whole "i before e except after c" thing really only applies half the time, there's a reason as to why people have competitions to see if they can spell English words correctly, and why the contestants have to ask what time period, society, and language the word originates from before they even have a chance at spelling the word correctly.
Hi mehdi sir! I'm an aspiring electrical engineer from India... currently preparing for entrance. 90% of my knowledge in electrical physics has come from your videos. You are the one who turned me from a hobby-less person to a person who now has a goal in life. Just wanted to say thanks.
3. Semester german electrical engineering bachelor here, you can do it. If you have a decent ability to pick up technical stuff, and are somewhat good at math, it should be fine. And don't worry about lows in your learning curve, everyone has them sometimes. Keep it up and going :)
Thanks Medhi for inspiring me to go to Electrical School and become an apprentice. I feel your pain trying to bend 3/0 (three-ought) wire. Now that I have started school, I am actually starting to understand the equations you lay out in your videos. Thanks for being an inspiration to me, and for many people in the comments, stay safe and keep up the awesome work.
Its not that hard to bend if you're using the right kind of 000 as not all 000 is the same. Thes tuff he's using is mains gauge wire as made obvious by the thiccc strands, automotive 000 has a finer core makeup and weldflex even more so whilst still haveing the ability to carry the same current but being more flexible. In saying that the stuff he has would be 10x cheaper than weldflex so it makes sense why he went with it.
I started watching your videos as someone who wasn't even interested in physics. Now I return as electrical engineer. Shocking. Thank you for inspiring my curiosity in the field!
start with basic stuff, about 10 years I started by making "DIY" guitar effects pedals and fixing simple electronic devices, I learned a lot about basic electronics and soldering techniques, 2 years later I had to give up because I went broke and I could not afford doing more stuff, I probably would be a self-taught electronic technician by now, but life sucks.
Start with DC voltage 12V or lower. I can not warn you enough. Get a proper education. Do a lot of research before you attempt anything else! I have 25 years of experience and no longer mess with transformers and the likes. Make sure you are safe, always!
@@gtidave06 well that sure doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence haha. My late brother had a small transformer on his belongings. seems to be "off-the-shelf", if that even applies to those. I mainly know transformers as the things that go boom on those power poles so I hadn't touched it since hahaha
You would think so and probably is guaranteed!! He got 5.5 million views just on this one video. RUclips pays $20,000 for that. If he got 5 other videos like that an still maintains a day to day job. He's just absolutely killin it then.
@@ElectroBOOM WHERES THE ALARM CLOCK?!?! I THOUGT AFTER THE LATITY VID U WOULD MAKE AN ALARM CLOCK NEXT VID BETTER BE THAT ONE OR ILL UNSUB UR CHANN3L11!!!1!!
Wow. As someone who's been doing a lot of work with power supplies and struggling a little with getting an intuition for how inductive circuits behave, this video was amazing. You can sit around with equations all day, but it only helps you refine an existing idea for solving a problem. It doesn't help you think outside the box - only an intuitive understanding can do that. You've completely re-written my intuitions for the relationship between magnetic flux and current, and it's already got me thinking about how to design the power supply I'm working on. Awesome as always. Thanks so much Mehdi!
Mehdi is like Photonicinduction in this video. Photonic did the same thing and even burned out a transformer on one of his videos. I loved this one! Good stuff.
@@bunnykiller my guess is that life possibly took a different direction for him i assume. I know he came back posted some videos than disappeared again a while ago. But I subscribe to his channel just waiting to see when we all get that upload notification so we can run back there and see what’s up.
When my physics teacher showed us this experiment, he actually used multiple smaller wires in parallel as his secondary, which apparently made building this a whole lot easier.
So you're saying (if I remember correctly from school that was WAY WAY long time ago), that if u have, let's say, 3 thinner wires, all the same length (let's say 1m) and you make them each at 2 turns (as Medhi has it in the end) and connect the ends together, you will get 3 times the voltage but all at the same amperage (since they're in parallel)? Do I remember it correctly? This is not necessary a technical question, but more of a curiosity to know if I remember stuff correctly.
@@Ygr3ku No, you actually get the same voltage and current, but the current is split between the multiple smaller coils. The only real difference is that multiple smaller wires are more easy to bend than one large wire.
@@OleJanssen Oh, I see. So it's not like having 3 parallel wires to multiply the voltage, because all those loops "feed" from the same transformer. And if I understand it right, in order to have more voltage, you'll need another transformer that feeds the same loops. Did I get it right this time? :D (hopefully) Also, ty for the explanation, it made me remember some school lessons!
@@Ygr3ku No, the voltage is never increased if the windings of any transformer are connected in parallel. In order to do that, they would have to be connected in series. When doing that, one would basically turn for example three coils with two turns into one coil with 6 turns. However, having them in series also means that the current is no longer split between the coils, so all the current has to flow through all the coils. In this case, a system like that would probably go up in smoke and flames pretty quickly.
@@OleJanssen I think I've explained it badly. Imagine 1 transformer, 3 wires, all separated, each with 2 coils, with ends connected to eachother (technically 3 parallel connected) Now, what I've meant to say, was to make those coils larger and in that extra space include another transformer, feeding the same loops that transformer 1 feeds. Will that increase current or voltage?
I have made one of these, and I can confirm that two turns of 0/3 AWG is the way to go. Hard to wrestle it into place, but that's kind of nice because you use the full space inside the transformer with minimal turns to keep the amps high
I use 0 to 4/0 awg wire for car audio. The cables are a bit more expensive, but they are much more flexible than any welding cable and are over sized. If you need more flexible OFC check out knukoncepts. They have the highest amperage capacity and flexibility in the industry. Careful though, they sell both CCA and OFC so make sure you get the right one.
I have one with 0/3, but I went to local welding supply store and got flexible cable with copper lugs on the ends. Being able to bring the cables to wherever you're trying to use them instead of the other way around is nice. ruclips.net/video/pD34Zv1zKq4/видео.html
Now that I am doing electronics engineering, all this makes so much sense to me now. Thank you so much, I used to watch your videos before for the fails and now it's legit more educational and it's still fun. Thank you so much!
@@stewbaka4279 I'm no expert but i'm guessing there was no path for the current to enter his body, so it only went from the copper wire, through the spoon, back to the copper wire. I'm assuming electroboom is sitting on something insulated, so there couldn't be a path for any current to go through his hand and out his body.
@stewbaka4279 the voltage across those wires was 2 to 3 volts approximately, and we know that the human body has a very high resistance (Megaohm range I believe), so basically negligible current thru Mehdi
as a non electrical engineer that dropped out of highschool, this just leaves more unexplained than it explains. reflected impedances, transformer turns ratio, jacobs law, source to load resistance ratios, load matching... just a quick perusal of the comments show how badly people understand ANY of this. but dont you worry, as an EE, you have a career of doing the same old same old ahead of you. you will forever be too busy to actually think about what is actually going on in there, where we cant see, smell, taste, touch, or otherwise interact... but just rely on theory. did you become an EE because you actually enjoy this, as a hobby? or you making mummy and daddy proud, get a good job, good career, good wage?
Wow that was crazy how silent the transformer was after you superglued it together. I always associated that buzzing sound as "the electricity itself" somehow, but its literally just loose magnetic plates vibrating together. Super cool!
From my heart, no one of the greatest professors of the world's most famous universities has been able to explain the most difficult topics of electronics and even mechanic engineering so easily and fluently like you. As an associate professor of medicine, I am deeply interested in your videos and I wish to be able to teach medicine as impressive as you. good luck.
Man, I love this dude's mad scientist vibe! It's particularly evident when he gets shocked and/or scared, then laughs like a lunatic. So good! This is also one of the rare RUclips channels which I actually learn from as well as being entertained.
@@jonathaningram8157 dude it’s literally a character that helps him sell electronics to people. He makes stuff pretty easy to learn as well. This new generation is going to need electrical engineers you know. Very entertaining stuff anyways.
I'm a 35 year old electrical engineer from the UK and have been watching your videos for years and still laugh and learn from them to this day! I'm half Iranian my father came to the UK to go to university here.
@@davey6024 maybe data center production and infrastructure is a better bet when renewable energy hype must come back down to baseline eventually. it's equation needs there prices or lower to hold while no country can dig up >700% or more ores while keeping these bargain prices. but i could be wrong.
I have to say thank you for letting me know I am not the only one that shocks the hell oneself. It's a fun hobby that I've used to teach my kiddos, including the shocks to allow them to laugh at dad while they learn. Hats off to you Sir!
11:29 | IIRC most of the copper in pennies was replaced with zinc because at one point copper was so valuable that some people would melt down pennies to get more than one cent out of them. You'd probably have to look up the history of pennies though; I _might_ be missing a step...
I have also made a high current microwave oven transformer (MOT) with 2/0 THHN wire and compression lugs, with the lugs shorted with some thick ground braid I was able to reach 2023 amps, measured with my HVA-2000 I got on sale a while back. I too wanted to save the secondary, so I cut the welds. I currently use trigger clamps to hold it together but I have designed a threaded rod and unistrut clamp thing to hold it together better. I also might upgrade to 3/0 XHHW and NEMA 2-hole pad copper compression lugs. It's a fun project to burn, test, and destroy various things, and having access to very high currents without the need for large quantities of power is nice. The output voltage of mine is 1.87vrms.
Hey Mehdi, I’ve been watching your videos for years. I’m now going to school for electrical engineering and it’s super cool to see the stuff I’m learning in action on your channel, and understand the math behind it!
Just when I felt it had been too long since ElectroBOOM's last upload , you come to the rescue. I will never get over your love for electronics and the pure joy you are in while working with them.
I did 2 turns of 2/0 gauge nickel clad copper with crimped lugs on the ends and got 1.8v @ 1900A with the lugs bolted. I used switch gear wire with hundreds of strands so it would be very flexible, but large car audio wire would also work well. It would trip a 20A breaker after about 5 seconds, so ended up powering it with a 30A breaker and 10 gauge. Eventually made a contact welder with it using an interval timer and a large solid state relay (on the primary side obviously).
Mehdi, we love you and support you in everything that you do! You are the single reason I’ve gotten into electronics, now I have an oscilloscope, function generator, a few power supplies and am designing my own circuits !! Thank you Mehdi
Part of my job involves testing industrial circuit breakers with a high current test set. It works off the same concept shown in the video. Our largest test set is capable of 50kA if you can get the resistance low enough.
@@Sentient-cassette-player i mean, isn't it obvious what I tried to say with emojis? Emoji spammers are the ones who leave replies like this: 😭😭😭😶😬😋😗😗😪😗🙂😏😶kanwid😊😊😊 I didn't do that.
The smoke coming from the lock at 12:05 contains arsenic, when you burn galvanised steel that's what happens, hence why you can't weld galvanised steel before grinding the coating off. Do be careful
Why would there be arsenic in zinc plated steel? Sure zinc fumes are toxic, so that is an issue, but where is the arsenic in this story? Is the zinc impure or?
I once worked in Norsk Hydro's magnesium plant in Porsgrunn, Norway. One factory hall used 400.000 Amps (and 6 volt). The crosssection of the "wires" (massive aluminum) was 1.2 sqm. The magnetic field stopped the second hand on my quartz watch when I got closer to the "wire" than 1.5 m. We wore rubber boots (wet floor due to salts), long underwear plus full work clothes. Airtemps up to 125 degrees C. I drank up to 8 liter each shift (2.5 hours effective work time) and ate salt tablets. Filter with mouthpiece most of the time. Thick, yellow chlorine gas was a byproduct, and some of it leaked out.
I love how every time he goes "...what if I-" everything immediately turns to chaos, like I'm already screaming "NO!" before anything happens even though I don't know what'll happen just because I know it's not going to be good, all within' a fraction of a second of thought, lmao
I still watch this videos and see that he always gets shocked by electricity and somehow he's still not permanently damaged like no neurons or anything damaged how is that possible
I am going to an Energy Tech class in high school currently so not only are these videos super helpful and entertaining, but I am so proud of the fact that I know exactly what he’s talking about
You holding the bear leads of that transformer is terrific I know it’s low voltage but still the fact that theirs that much current going through it is wild
@@robsonalmeida5045 The high current is only through the low-resistance wire. His body has much higher resistance, so much less current passes through his body.
You are probably the only person who can teach me something complicated while being funny
@Don't Read Profile Picture get a life :D
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@DontReadMyProfilePhoto_4 get an existance
@Don't Read Profile Picture get a life :D
Complicated?
I love that you are doing the derivations on the whiteboard while you are talking - extremely helpful!
10:28 that was the funniest
After 10 years I am glad you are still alive and making videos. Honestly I have learned a lot from you, I am a mechatronics engineer and I love electronics and electricity but you have tried things that I would have loved to try back in school.
Hey, Mehdi, you should cover "electromagnetic field welding" EMW. They use a high power magnetic field to slap metals together so fast they weld. There's very little coverage of it. But it's cool enough to share!
Cool. Never heard of it before. FYI "Magnetic pulse welding" gave better google results.
@@soupisgoodfood42 Supposedly it works by charging large capacitor banks and dumping them in an EM coil. The resulting field is so ridiculously powerful, the metal is accelerated to supersonic speeds (i.e. mach 1) and causes even dissimilar materials to weld. There's obviously some disadvantages like embrittlement but it's still the tits!
Sounds like high frequency welder
@@dimitar4y, it seems like ultrasonic welding achieves the same results, while being an efficient, established technology.
They used to use explosives to do this (probably still do) with large sheets of metals in order to make otherwise impossible composite laminates. Search 'explosion welding'
Dude I remember being obsessed with this channel when I was like 14. I'm 23 now and am very happy to still see that you're still at it!
I wish I was 23 again. More than words can do justice.
I started when I was 23. im turning 26 this year and I still watch all his content sometimes just rewatch it for the laughs or to catch back up on my knowledge 😅 🙃 😂
Oh Sh*t so he's been around that long and hasn't killed himself. wow thats impressive
@@Decebal825 exactly what I was gonna say. I can imagine him electrocuting himself on a live stream one day. It would be horrible. a two hour live stream of a sparking, burning skeleton only stopped by his lab bursting into flames. People like this rarely die as you expect tho. Steve Irwin, killed by a Stingray, not a crocodile... Ken Block killed by a snowmobile, not a rally car.
yeah lol I remember my cousin showing me an old video 8 years ago!
At about 8:20 you had the cable going through the transformer and It looks like you could easily pass it through at least one more transformer. So I’m wonder what would happen if you did? Would the voltage double like having a second turn? If so the draw for each primary would be reduced right? Maybe you could chain a bunch of them to get to the million amps.
Cody slab in the wild
Yes he could and that's what many builders do when making a DIY arc welder. It will double the voltage as it will make the part of wire trough the new transformer act as a new voltage source in series. To increase the current you reduce the number of turns trough each transformer.
last time i check, this guy was on Mar? What ISP do you use Cody ?
In the words of the great Chancellor Palpatine, "Do it!"
Cody on a mission to kill Electroboom 🤣
2:00 he pulls a Jeremy Clarkson like "I'll fix it won't a hammer!" 😂
11:00 just look at his face/ its so full of joy/ i cant help but admire. hope anyone can love theirs work so much
I feel like we need to send every time he used the elevator music to DankPods (particularly that first one) since it's the same song he uses in his headphone comparisons, and I feel like he'd get a crack at seeing Medhi getting scared by a sparkly spoon to the sound of the infamous elevator music.
Congratulations! Medhi has reinvented the light bulb.
Theirs?
@@javieralejandrotrianapaz6343 yes, theirs. Eng is not my native sooooo....
@@javieralejandrotrianapaz6343 yup, the whole "i before e except after c" thing really only applies half the time, there's a reason as to why people have competitions to see if they can spell English words correctly, and why the contestants have to ask what time period, society, and language the word originates from before they even have a chance at spelling the word correctly.
Hi mehdi sir! I'm an aspiring electrical engineer from India... currently preparing for entrance. 90% of my knowledge in electrical physics has come from your videos. You are the one who turned me from a hobby-less person to a person who now has a goal in life. Just wanted to say thanks.
cute
Let me guess, you found free energy?
3. Semester german electrical engineering bachelor here, you can do it. If you have a decent ability to pick up technical stuff, and are somewhat good at math, it should be fine. And don't worry about lows in your learning curve, everyone has them sometimes. Keep it up and going :)
If you learned it from Mehdi, be prepared for when things start to burn...
JEE ?
Thanks Medhi for inspiring me to go to Electrical School and become an apprentice. I feel your pain trying to bend 3/0 (three-ought) wire. Now that I have started school, I am actually starting to understand the equations you lay out in your videos. Thanks for being an inspiration to me, and for many people in the comments, stay safe and keep up the awesome work.
12:40 He's such a generous god.
Its not that hard to bend if you're using the right kind of 000 as not all 000 is the same.
Thes tuff he's using is mains gauge wire as made obvious by the thiccc strands, automotive 000 has a finer core makeup and weldflex even more so whilst still haveing the ability to carry the same current but being more flexible. In saying that the stuff he has would be 10x cheaper than weldflex so it makes sense why he went with it.
Don't contact these telegram accounts they are not the RUclipsr
They are SCAMMERS.
The electric bill:
A bro probably pays 10000 dollars with these experiments
It won’t be affected that much as he probably does these experiments for only a few hours
the same as running a microwave oven? lol
Oh yeah? How much is his electric bill
Oh no, under a kilowatt power and for a few seconds. RIP 1 penny.
He's like the Mr. Bean of electricity. Especially when melting the spoon 🤣
Nikola Beansla🐱👍🏿
Exactly what i thought lmao
More like Howtobasic of electricity
Someone who does something incredibly dangerous, but continues to live (mostly) unharmed is either lucky or knows *exactly* how not to die.
Perfect comparison
The fact that he knows how to hurt himself without killing himself proves how smart he really is
He said in one videi he died atleast once. He just respawns
@@glorpri he must have great editing skill, the transition before and after the respawn happens is seamless
That’s mehdi
that's because he's the cameraman.
Finally somebody with some wisdom
11:50 the lockpicking lawyer is definitely somewhere sensing a disturbance in the force.
Hello guys, lockpickinglawyer here
And today, I just felt something in my heart
If it's a master lock, McNally is having the opposite reaction
Hearing "Walk in the Park" play while the spoon shocks is honestly an experience that has made me laugh so hard
8:15 I like how the camera angle matches perfectly with the receiving point of view while youre making such motions
I'm ready to receive his thick wire
I hate my mind. 😂😂
i like how you stated it this way lol
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Calm down lol
I started watching your videos as someone who wasn't even interested in physics. Now I return as electrical engineer. Shocking. Thank you for inspiring my curiosity in the field!
Don't contact these telegram accounts they are not the RUclipsr
They are SCAMMERS.
@@jimshreve83 I have a feeling that they are Indian again, am not racist but most scammers are Indian, i am Indian though
@@ricky8545 They are e not.
@@jimshreve83 no it's not i scam. I just DMed him and now I am a biliionaire millionaire. True and real.
@@CuTTsLaYeR hey dumbass if you you just met him and a are now a billionaire millionaire means your loosing money.
I think the most impressive part of this video is that Medi still had a penny kicking around
They have little other utility than to be sacrificed in one of his experiments.
"It's MEHDI!!!" - _electroboom_
@@retromodernart4426 Yeah I got hosed by autocorrrect
@@screwball69 Your joke was still funny though, LOL
tons of people do!
2:47 "How does it work without the top on?"
*CHAOS ENSUES*
*Joker laugh*
😂😂😂😂😂
10:28 it feels wrong when that song doesn't turn into garbage at that point
The pure joy on your face when that spoon melted was awesome! Thanks for sharing this with us
This inspires me to do electronics/electrical projects of my own but at the same time I feel like that's a very very bad idea 😅
start with basic stuff, about 10 years I started by making "DIY" guitar effects pedals and fixing simple electronic devices, I learned a lot about basic electronics and soldering techniques, 2 years later I had to give up because I went broke and I could not afford doing more stuff, I probably would be a self-taught electronic technician by now, but life sucks.
Playing with transformers from microwaves kills a lot of inexperienced electronics hobbyists.
I had my phase of playing with electricity. Thanks mehdi 😂😂.
Start with DC voltage 12V or lower. I can not warn you enough. Get a proper education. Do a lot of research before you attempt anything else!
I have 25 years of experience and no longer mess with transformers and the likes. Make sure you are safe, always!
@@gtidave06 well that sure doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence haha. My late brother had a small transformer on his belongings. seems to be "off-the-shelf", if that even applies to those. I mainly know transformers as the things that go boom on those power poles so I hadn't touched it since hahaha
This dudes electric bill must be over 100k
You would think so and probably is guaranteed!! He got 5.5 million views just on this one video. RUclips pays $20,000 for that. If he got 5 other videos like that an still maintains a day to day job. He's just absolutely killin it then.
Nothing if compared to his medical bill and waster disposal bill.
Its only under one kw one hour this isnt expensive, 1 dry hair without hairdryer
12:11 This is the PockLickingLawyer.
Underrated comment, made me feel the funny coming inside of me
LickPockingPawyer 😂
THE WAT
Truly the LickerLawyer of all time
@@skelebro9999 I am lawyer who licks
Mehdi: Today, I will do something that will not shock you! Or me
Also Mehdi: 10:27
Well it didn't shock me, just scared me!
@@ElectroBOOM hello mehdi
@@ElectroBOOM fair enough
El humor está bien pero es muy exagerado,quizás porque somos de culturas diferentes 🙈👍
@@ElectroBOOM WHERES THE ALARM CLOCK?!?!
I THOUGT AFTER THE LATITY VID U WOULD MAKE AN ALARM CLOCK
NEXT VID BETTER BE THAT ONE OR ILL UNSUB UR CHANN3L11!!!1!!
11:59 “This is the lockpicking lawyer and today we are going to point out some flaws in this master lock”
Ok, but besides that, the music at that timestamp had me thinking of dankpods
I think I have seen Lockpicking Lawyer do that video
1:50 Song
Splashing Around - Green Orbs
I never had much interest in electronics until I discovered you and Big Clive. You guys are awesome. Keep it up and stay (mostly) safe.
And John Ward, eFIXX and Artisan Electrics if you are more into electrics.
Also EEVblog!
you still dont have, you just like funni videos
@@JacobsKrąnųg what a weird and provocative comment.
Whatever man. You do you.
and photonicinduction, †aussie50(rest in peace), rodalco2007
Wow. As someone who's been doing a lot of work with power supplies and struggling a little with getting an intuition for how inductive circuits behave, this video was amazing.
You can sit around with equations all day, but it only helps you refine an existing idea for solving a problem. It doesn't help you think outside the box - only an intuitive understanding can do that. You've completely re-written my intuitions for the relationship between magnetic flux and current, and it's already got me thinking about how to design the power supply I'm working on.
Awesome as always. Thanks so much Mehdi!
Mehdi is like Photonicinduction in this video. Photonic did the same thing and even burned out a transformer on one of his videos. I loved this one! Good stuff.
Photonic did it on a carpet.
ElectroInduction?
PhotonicBOOM?
MehdInduction?
@@_BangDroid_ lol. I agree to all three! very Nice! 😄
whatever happened to him, he had such an awesome site.... its been a bit over a year since his last upload....
@@bunnykiller my guess is that life possibly took a different direction for him i assume. I know he came back posted some videos than disappeared again a while ago. But I subscribe to his channel just waiting to see when we all get that upload notification so we can run back there and see what’s up.
11:05 was my favourite part
When my physics teacher showed us this experiment, he actually used multiple smaller wires in parallel as his secondary, which apparently made building this a whole lot easier.
So you're saying (if I remember correctly from school that was WAY WAY long time ago), that if u have, let's say, 3 thinner wires, all the same length (let's say 1m) and you make them each at 2 turns (as Medhi has it in the end) and connect the ends together, you will get 3 times the voltage but all at the same amperage (since they're in parallel)? Do I remember it correctly?
This is not necessary a technical question, but more of a curiosity to know if I remember stuff correctly.
@@Ygr3ku No, you actually get the same voltage and current, but the current is split between the multiple smaller coils. The only real difference is that multiple smaller wires are more easy to bend than one large wire.
@@OleJanssen Oh, I see. So it's not like having 3 parallel wires to multiply the voltage, because all those loops "feed" from the same transformer.
And if I understand it right, in order to have more voltage, you'll need another transformer that feeds the same loops.
Did I get it right this time? :D (hopefully)
Also, ty for the explanation, it made me remember some school lessons!
@@Ygr3ku No, the voltage is never increased if the windings of any transformer are connected in parallel. In order to do that, they would have to be connected in series. When doing that, one would basically turn for example three coils with two turns into one coil with 6 turns. However, having them in series also means that the current is no longer split between the coils, so all the current has to flow through all the coils. In this case, a system like that would probably go up in smoke and flames pretty quickly.
@@OleJanssen I think I've explained it badly. Imagine 1 transformer, 3 wires, all separated, each with 2 coils, with ends connected to eachother (technically 3 parallel connected)
Now, what I've meant to say, was to make those coils larger and in that extra space include another transformer, feeding the same loops that transformer 1 feeds. Will that increase current or voltage?
Seeing you try to bend 3/0 makes me smile as an electrician
That's what happens when you try to divide 3 by 0
I was chuckling as he was struggling to bend the 3/0 wire, it reminded me of the last time I ran service conductors.
why do all the jobs that use hevey guage wire always happen on the hottest of days
I have made one of these, and I can confirm that two turns of 0/3 AWG is the way to go. Hard to wrestle it into place, but that's kind of nice because you use the full space inside the transformer with minimal turns to keep the amps high
I use 0 to 4/0 awg wire for car audio. The cables are a bit more expensive, but they are much more flexible than any welding cable and are over sized. If you need more flexible OFC check out knukoncepts. They have the highest amperage capacity and flexibility in the industry. Careful though, they sell both CCA and OFC so make sure you get the right one.
I have one with 0/3, but I went to local welding supply store and got flexible cable with copper lugs on the ends. Being able to bring the cables to wherever you're trying to use them instead of the other way around is nice. ruclips.net/video/pD34Zv1zKq4/видео.html
This is that science teacher that got fired and all the students cried...
Coming from a Dank Pods video to an ElectroBOOM one, I did not expect to hear the same tune in both.
Me too :D i was sure that I've accidentally switched back somehow :)
@@prymus141 Was half expecting max whack to make an appearance as well.😅
@@TrevorMugoya Max Whack? I do not know that name.
I was looking for this comment the moment I heard the song 😂😂😂😂
@@plumokin5535 sameee! haha. when worlds collide.
10:53 The Headphone comparison song! Next he should play Scarlet Fire.
Dankpods 😂
I can't stop laughing in 10:28. Jaja I love the way that he risk his life for just a little bit of knowledge.
2:10 huh ? Is it what i found in my childhood everywhere! Also known to me as "Fancy E". But it has much lesser thickness
It’s weird listening to 10:23 without seeing a pair of headphones being tested on some white plastic ears. Very Dank from you :)
Was searching for the comment. You sir did not disappoint
As soon as that song kicked in i insta locked on dank haha, glad too see you here mate
samee
Dank pods and mehdi need to do a colab an electric drum kit would be off the charts
Dank pods reference
Now that I am doing electronics engineering, all this makes so much sense to me now. Thank you so much, I used to watch your videos before for the fails and now it's legit more educational and it's still fun. Thank you so much!
how come he was able to touch the spoon without being electrocuted
@@stewbaka4279 I'm no expert but i'm guessing there was no path for the current to enter his body, so it only went from the copper wire, through the spoon, back to the copper wire. I'm assuming electroboom is sitting on something insulated, so there couldn't be a path for any current to go through his hand and out his body.
@stewbaka4279 the voltage across those wires was 2 to 3 volts approximately, and we know that the human body has a very high resistance (Megaohm range I believe), so basically negligible current thru Mehdi
as a non electrical engineer that dropped out of highschool, this just leaves more unexplained than it explains.
reflected impedances, transformer turns ratio, jacobs law, source to load resistance ratios, load matching...
just a quick perusal of the comments show how badly people understand ANY of this.
but dont you worry, as an EE, you have a career of doing the same old same old ahead of you. you will forever be too busy to actually think about what is actually going on in there, where we cant see, smell, taste, touch, or otherwise interact... but just rely on theory.
did you become an EE because you actually enjoy this, as a hobby?
or you making mummy and daddy proud, get a good job, good career, good wage?
@@paradiselost9946 goddamn you're an angry person.
9:49 Just close your eyes on this part and let your imagination set the scene
My mind pondered Mrs Boom for a moment
Making of ElectroCute
sorry
@@SudeepJoshi22 🤡
8:15 is even better
@@2superlinkbros "wow this is terrible"
Wow that was crazy how silent the transformer was after you superglued it together. I always associated that buzzing sound as "the electricity itself" somehow, but its literally just loose magnetic plates vibrating together. Super cool!
From my heart, no one of the greatest professors of the world's most famous universities has been able to explain the most difficult topics of electronics and even mechanic engineering so easily and fluently like you. As an associate professor of medicine, I am deeply interested in your videos and I wish to be able to teach medicine as impressive as you.
good luck.
Man, I love this dude's mad scientist vibe! It's particularly evident when he gets shocked and/or scared, then laughs like a lunatic. So good! This is also one of the rare RUclips channels which I actually learn from as well as being entertained.
I think he fake being scared or shocked. He exactly knows what will happen. How do I know that? He would be dead otherwise.
@@jonathaningram8157 Of course he knows lol.
@@jonathaningram8157 Oh he knows all right, but he still gets the same thrill
@@jonathaningram8157 dude it’s literally a character that helps him sell electronics to people. He makes stuff pretty easy to learn as well. This new generation is going to need electrical engineers you know. Very entertaining stuff anyways.
@@jonathaningram8157 there is one time he actually nearly died
it was the Jacob's Ladder video
he would've been insta-dead if it fell on him
11:35 Pennies are 5% copper, 95% zinc. You were right, Mehdi!
The spoon flying with the elevator music is peak entertainment
It never gets old and the idea that real electric principles are baked in is a bonus.
I'm a 35 year old electrical engineer from the UK and have been watching your videos for years and still laugh and learn from them to this day! I'm half Iranian my father came to the UK to go to university here.
How is the jobs market for eee in the UK-im studying it at Brunel right now
@Ahmed Adam Go in to renewable energy or data centre production and infrastructure in any 1st world country
@@davey6024 maybe data center production and infrastructure is a better bet when renewable energy hype must come back down to baseline eventually.
it's equation needs there prices or lower to hold while no country can dig up >700% or more ores while keeping these bargain prices. but i could be wrong.
Man why had not he died?
What was the volt?
In How many years you completed the engineering course ? 5 years?
5:30 is the best Mickey Mouse I've heard in a while.
😂😂😂
This guy must have it's own TV channel. It's not just a mad electronics guru, but also a funny actor!
2:51 laugh of wonder 😆 😄 🤣
Mad scientist laugh
fr
9:21 "Is it warm?"
Just one way to find out.
9:15 holding the spoon with his fireproof hand. Also 11:00
Stainless steel is apparently not a good heat conductor
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. Turn to him and repent from your sins today!
5:15 the Persian ascent 😂😂😂❤❤❤
دقیقا
انگار واقعا ایرانیه؟
@@ghasemiata ایرانیه اسمش هم مهدی هستش
میگم همه چیش به ایرانیا میخوره😉☺️
@@ghasemiata اره عینکریزس 😂
I have to say thank you for letting me know I am not the only one that shocks the hell oneself.
It's a fun hobby that I've used to teach my kiddos, including the shocks to allow them to laugh at dad while they learn. Hats off to you Sir!
I wish I had Teachers like you when I was learning electrical engineering
Adventures in ohms law ftw
You would if they survived :(
ElectroBoom is a lucky fella
100%
I just had 3 3.5v and a tiny 1cm bulb and some wires and all I got was a flicker
10:23 Waiting for DankPods HD600s to show up 😂
was thinking the same thing😂
😂😂😂😂😂
@@binishbabu810 dankpods viewers unite
It is not HD600. Its : Hurrrh Duhhh 600 :D
Dankpods : HURMMMMM Smelly headphones
11:29 | IIRC most of the copper in pennies was replaced with zinc because at one point copper was so valuable that some people would melt down pennies to get more than one cent out of them.
You'd probably have to look up the history of pennies though; I _might_ be missing a step...
In Canada You can melt down pennies but in America you cannot for some dumb reason.
I have also made a high current microwave oven transformer (MOT) with 2/0 THHN wire and compression lugs, with the lugs shorted with some thick ground braid I was able to reach 2023 amps, measured with my HVA-2000 I got on sale a while back. I too wanted to save the secondary, so I cut the welds. I currently use trigger clamps to hold it together but I have designed a threaded rod and unistrut clamp thing to hold it together better. I also might upgrade to 3/0 XHHW and NEMA 2-hole pad copper compression lugs. It's a fun project to burn, test, and destroy various things, and having access to very high currents without the need for large quantities of power is nice. The output voltage of mine is 1.87vrms.
Jesus, Jaiden. Dont burn your house.
2:53 , mehdi's laugh of evil electricity
Hey Mehdi, I’ve been watching your videos for years. I’m now going to school for electrical engineering and it’s super cool to see the stuff I’m learning in action on your channel, and understand the math behind it!
congratulations for a wise choice, Kipp!
Just when I felt it had been too long since ElectroBOOM's last upload , you come to the rescue. I will never get over your love for electronics and the pure joy you are in while working with them.
I did 2 turns of 2/0 gauge nickel clad copper with crimped lugs on the ends and got 1.8v @ 1900A with the lugs bolted. I used switch gear wire with hundreds of strands so it would be very flexible, but large car audio wire would also work well. It would trip a 20A breaker after about 5 seconds, so ended up powering it with a 30A breaker and 10 gauge. Eventually made a contact welder with it using an interval timer and a large solid state relay (on the primary side obviously).
The fact this channel has gotten the success it deserves proves there is some justice left in the world
AW, evereyone just wants him to slip up and have to call the EMT! Or the fire dept! :)
7:15 - the laughter of a madman 😮
Mehdi, we love you and support you in everything that you do! You are the single reason I’ve gotten into electronics, now I have an oscilloscope, function generator, a few power supplies and am designing my own circuits !! Thank you Mehdi
"After two hours of banging and smaching and sanding the glues away"😂😂
That's some dank elevator music. Makes me want to try out Sennheiser HD600s.
huh duh six hungeos
Mmmm buzzez like my dirty budz
Dankpods lmao
lmao
10:14 electromagnet fanfare 🎉
*demonic tada*
*incorrect buzzer*
From a 120V outlet to melting a lock, ElectroBoom is a genius. 😮
Thanks to the transformer
The lesson is, don't lose your combination!
The elevator music made you being scared of the sparks ten times funnier
12:20 Use the MELT-INATOR to become the ruler of Tri-state area?
12:30 Not only that, but Mehdi actually became some sort of a demigod who can't be damaged by electric powers whatsoever.
Reminds me of Photonicinduction's high current transformer that made the street lights dim.
@@eventhorizon4795 he made new videos a few months ago
@@eventhorizon4795 In one of his last videos after long break he talked that he has family now and also that they had some financial problems.
Im glad to see you’re teaching people here. That’s awesome.
I’m hoping you can teach me what the number in the thumbnail is
Part of my job involves testing industrial circuit breakers with a high current test set. It works off the same concept shown in the video. Our largest test set is capable of 50kA if you can get the resistance low enough.
At 10:22 that's definitely some DankPods headphone test music. Not sure if it was purposeful or not but I love it!
I was thinking the same
The gentle elevator music paired with your expressions ARE BRILLIANT!!!😂
10:58 This part is so fricking funny, there is literal elevator music playing while you melt a spoon and burn a hole through your table
9:58 i knew my parents were making a transformer at 1am
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P.S. I'm not an emoji spammer
@@danek_hrenyou literally just spammed emojis
@@Sentient-cassette-player i mean, isn't it obvious what I tried to say with emojis? Emoji spammers are the ones who leave replies like this: 😭😭😭😶😬😋😗😗😪😗🙂😏😶kanwid😊😊😊
I didn't do that.
@@danek_hren ronal macdonal disappointed in you be better
@@localrobloxplayer-ij6zs what
The smoke coming from the lock at 12:05 contains arsenic, when you burn galvanised steel that's what happens, hence why you can't weld galvanised steel before grinding the coating off. Do be careful
wth
Its actually zinc in the smoke, which is still dangerous, but not nearly as concerning as arsenic
Why would there be arsenic in zinc plated steel? Sure zinc fumes are toxic, so that is an issue, but where is the arsenic in this story? Is the zinc impure or?
everyone knows arsenic is healthy to breathe in 👍
Arsenic doesn't magically appear when galvanized metals heat up lol there would have to already be arsenic in the galvanizing compound.
11:59 Does The LockPickingLaywer know about this?
If kts master lock i hope McNally sees this. It'll probably make his day
Good idea for april fools 25
I once worked in Norsk Hydro's magnesium plant in Porsgrunn, Norway. One factory hall used 400.000 Amps (and 6 volt). The crosssection of the "wires" (massive aluminum) was 1.2 sqm. The magnetic field stopped the second hand on my quartz watch when I got closer to the "wire" than 1.5 m. We wore rubber boots (wet floor due to salts), long underwear plus full work clothes. Airtemps up to 125 degrees C. I drank up to 8 liter each shift (2.5 hours effective work time) and ate salt tablets. Filter with mouthpiece most of the time. Thick, yellow chlorine gas was a byproduct, and some of it leaked out.
I love how every time he goes "...what if I-" everything immediately turns to chaos, like I'm already screaming "NO!" before anything happens even though I don't know what'll happen just because I know it's not going to be good, all within' a fraction of a second of thought, lmao
"I have a spoon in my stash... Let's add the spoon"
Everything you aren't supposed to do in the lab setting or anywhere....Electroboom goes ahead and does it for you. Awesome!
i love how electroboom manages to be funny without trying to only target his content to kids like most other electronics youtubers ive seen
I still watch this videos and see that he always gets shocked by electricity and somehow he's still not permanently damaged like no neurons or anything damaged how is that possible
always so happy to see he still uploads, i love seeing this stuff. hopefully will inspire kids to get into a cool career like this.
哟西
2:42 bro's losing his sanity
It shows that you really know what you are doing. I would have been dead 10 times already when doing stuff with electricity. Lovely video!
You are special guy with funny teaching, no more boring
12:40: Electrical Engineering moment
Your chaotic energy is absolutly awesome.
8:10 he has a pure evil smile💀
I am going to an Energy Tech class in high school currently so not only are these videos super helpful and entertaining, but I am so proud of the fact that I know exactly what he’s talking about
You holding the bear leads of that transformer is terrific I know it’s low voltage but still the fact that theirs that much current going through it is wild
I was asking myself how did he not die in 3:57
The wire heated up very quickly, which means a high current, so how did he not get electrocuted?
@@robsonalmeida5045
I think because of the very low voltage
I wonder too, often read that it is not voltage but current that kills
@@mnkp0x
No he proved that the voltage is the killer
@@robsonalmeida5045 The high current is only through the low-resistance wire. His body has much higher resistance, so much less current passes through his body.
9:00 Never forget the spoon.
😂😂🤣🤣🤣I wonder how many other people got that reference
Hi, today I want to crush some kid's dreams.
2:12
The Iron E!!! (Irony, Iron E, hehe funny joke go brrrrr)
I remember making one of these when I was a teenager. I still have it around somewhere, but it hasnt been touched in probably a decade.