Thank you so much for watching! If you are interested in seeing my reaction to more of Styropyro's experiments, please check out my reaction to the URANIUM CRAYON: ruclips.net/video/GuoAQ4SXtv4/видео.htmlsi=JsAK8a3-3SXAT0o3
This is someone who has never cooked with his microwave on any setting but 100%. If he had, he would have heard the magnatron turning on and off, and you can see your food alternately frying and then cooling.
You obviously don't know anything about electronics. Those "D batteries" are enormous electrolytic capacitors. The mayonnaise joke is about how heatsink thermal paste looks exactly like mayo. There's a blue glow because they're blue laser arrays...😩
"Someone in the comments tell me why mayonnaise makes lasers--" It doesn't... welcome to styropyro's channel with the host who is able to combine insanity and genius so much that the universe just lets him do whatever he wants scientific wise with little consequences
@@maxx1o1 If you replace the cooling paste on your CPU with mayonnaise it will increase temps maybe 2-5 degrees C over a high quality paste. I don't care if you have nano-diamonds or silver particles in there; it won't really matter since the rest of it will be some kind of silicone oil and it will be about the same as the mayonnaise. Give it another day or two and the mayonnaise will be complete crap; it will separate, seep and the water will dry and it will no longer be thick and viscous and just runny like cooking oil. The only way to beat freshly applied mayonnaise by a large margin is liquid metal cooling paste and it has a bunch of problems (corrodes aluminium, they won't let you bring it on an airplane, it is conductive and will short a motherboard if you slop it around somewhere it's not supposed to be etc).
@@soylentgreenb look, it may only be "2-5C dif" but the thing is that it'll corrode your CPU's IHS and damage your heatsink when a tube of thermal paste cost less than a jar of mayonnaise and will last longer too. this has been a running joke for decades now.
just because you can doesn't mean you should is not always good advice. If that was always the case humanity would have never progressed and we wouldnt get to see what something is capable of. Innovation happens at the bleeding edge of technology.
The mayo is a computer geek joke. Back in 2011 Hardware Secrets tested a whole bunch of thermal compounds and a bunch of alternatives like lipstick, butter and toothpaste, and the mayo actually performed reasonably well.
Maynaise is OK cooling paste between the heat sink and the laser diodes. It wouldn't tolerate years of operation like proper cooling paste (even the white ceramic crappy kind) but for hours of operation it is surprisingly not that terrible.
@@goldenfox334 The emulsion gives it that thick, viscous consistency so it doesn't run and fills the space evenly. It also means the water will dry and it will stop being useful.
@@user-le8ul4nr5t Normal mayo starts to separate if it just gets old sitting in the fridge in an opened jar and the egg will eventually spoil if there's water. I wouldn't eat mayo if I knew it could withstand 3 years under a heat sink without separating. That implies it's not realy mayo but some kind of barely edible fuckery with xantham gum, lecithin, propylene glycol, modified starch etc.
@@soylentgreenbit’s a combination of molecular physics at the thickness the “thermal paste” is, and the fact that at that scale the mayo cooks into a really greasy egg which is a surprisingly good thermal conductor remember you’re applying heat through it because you’re using it to transfer heat
welcome to styropyro, this dude is your textbook definition of mad scientist, anything that typically looks ridiculous like that mayo part is usually a joke XD as is his tendency to destroy stuff in those montages
Yeah, he really should have his own category of laser safety categories, and considering he said that it draws 700 Watts and at full power, it would fry the cameras sensors it's got to be ridiculously powerful and considering that his laser surpasses category 4 in laser safety that means he needs to add more categories to that laser safety list because he can just create lasers that surpasses category 4 that means you can just create lasers that can start burning things and he can also create lasers are so powerful that they vaporize things faster than they can heat them so he should definitely make his own laser danger categories because of the ridiculous power of the lasers he can create! 😂🎉🎉🎉🎉😊
@@DavidMuri-rm4ym work on your punctuation mate, thats a run on sentence x3 lmao yeah no, category 4 is 500 milliwatts, MILLIWATTS, and styro constantly makes lasers that go above 5-10 watts in power. There is a very good reason he always states his lasers will blind you just by looking at the spot on the wall, let alone the laser itself. Also goes to show he's an expert in that field, one of my favorite videos from him was his ruby laser, which one pulse was able to crater a chunk of black plastic
@@DavidMuri-rm4ymThere is a similar thought about hurricanes. Storms are getting stronger to the point they would be reaching into "category 6" if one existed. The weather service has explicitly avoided the creation of such a new category with the idea given that it may "dilute" the meaning of a category 5. Since a category 5 is already "wiping the earth's ass with its face", a 6th category is pointless for destruction purposes. The same is likely going to apply to lasers. Beyond 4, you're already playing with shit that you better have more than glasses (or even walls) between you and the beam. A 5 or 6 classification would only mean "goes thru the wall quicker"... not really adding much to the "safety factor" 🤷♂️
Interesting bit about the fluctuations in the power draw of microwaves. I remember watching a documentary where an analyst from a power plant spoke about how they have to anticipate societal trends to ensure there's enough power on the grid, like "Oh, there's going to be a soccer match starting at 7pm so the half-time is going to be around 7:50pm so let's make sure the grid has enough juice for all those microwaves and fast boils".
there is pretty much ZERO storage of electricity on the grid so it's not a trivial problem. generation has to balance with demand . if demand suddenly increases they have to also increase generation instantly. hard to do. only battery storage can do it.
It's basic on/off regulation. Your typical heater at home, your oven, and a lot of other appliances use it. The duty cycle, how often it is on versus off, dictates the average power draw over some period of time. One thing to consider is that there is a certain (though negligible) amount of energy storage as parasitic induction/capacitance in the grid infrastructure that helps smooth some of this out, though this is often minimized to achieve the highest power factor (capacitance/induction can cause phase differences between the voltage and current, resulting in differences between real and reactive power, and thus wastage). The most important thing to understand though is that such on/off regulation becomes averaged out over many homes/loads. If you consider each home a load, each load is varying in their power draw due to on/off regulation, each one will do so randomly relative to the other loads. The result is that the power companies do not see a bunch of on/off fluctuations in the power draw, they see a smooth-ish demand curve. So, while grid balancing is indeed a non-trivial matter, it isn't as crazy as having to deal with every tiny fluctuation like a microwave's on/off duty cycle.
I just found Styropyro's page today and after watching about a dozen of his laser & electrical videos, I found it not only accurate and educational, many parts I found absolutely hilarious. Obviously the guy is a genius in the field, but he also has the ability to entertain educationally which is a fantastic way to teach kids who have to listen to a boring teacher. He even debunks those flashy clickbate free energy & perpetual motion videos. This guy is fantastically gifted, whoever he is!
I never realised how much the FCC was focused on radio wave pollution until I started working for a cable company. I learned that the majority of internet and cable in homes and businesses is still coax cable and that the frequency signals travel on those lines is the same frequency as radio waves. So if a coax cable has a tear in the insulation, some of that signal can leak off as actual radio waves into the air. As such every cable and internet company has an agreement with the FCC to minimize signal leakage from their cables below a certain threshold so it doesn't fill up the air with noise. So yeah. Running an open microwave pointed into the sky is a good way to get the attention of the feds.
Every part of the spectrum has rules about who can use it, how much power they can broadcast at, etc. Microwaves run at 2.4 GHz, the same as older wifi standards. But wifi is limited to very low power levels. Far below what a microwave would broadcast without any shielding. And yes, the FCC will track you down and go after you for unlicensed broadcasting, even if all you're broadcasting is random noise from a microwave.
The air waves are a clusterfsxk. In the analog TV days, running a microwave in the house would cause 2 static bars to roll on the screen while the magnetron was emitting RF. It's a very dirty "transmitter" that splatters the entire band with noise. Ovens are typically designed so that this is minimized but it's not as easy as one would think to keep that kind of power *totally* boxed up in the unit, and they leak. Everything electronic today emits RF to a degree, even when that is not the goal, and whether they use it for communication or not. The power supplies these days are *all* noisy as hell because chinesium designs typically omit the filtration that helps contain it. It is what it is.
@@MadScientist267 I mean, any wire with electricity running through it is an antenna, whether you intend it to be or not, and that goes for both transmit and receive.
If you replace your coolant paste on your CPU with mayonnaise you'd notice about a 5 degrees C difference. It's surprisingly good thermal paste, but it can't withstand years like even the crappiest off-brand silicone oil and ceramic white paste. For a few hours of testing mayonnaise would do fine.
Styro could say "95 watt handheld laser" and any trained professional would say "do you mean miliwatt?" No, no he does not. And yes, he did build one of those
I found the spec sheets to the other laser diodes this company makes (they have a shitty webpage, wasn't fun to find the pdfs). They have two similar named diodes available, both of them have the same data sheet, the only differences are the serial numbers and the ratings. Both models are perfectly suited for his 3.2A current. One for 3.3(110W) and one for 3.5(135W), and all three models (his and these two) look almost identical. His is probably an older version someone found in a warehouse (would also explain the lack of data sheets online). Also, buying them is easier than I'd like it to be (no matter how much I want them)
I think the algorithm is picking this up and I couldnt be happier! Love content like this especially with qualified people reacting who can offer input and more in depth thoughts than a layperson
7:17 the sound of a crappy camera’s microphone being bombarded with microwaves goes so hard. This is exactly the type of noise Death Grips would sample.
The mention of a rectifier with a partially dismantled microwave on screen made me consider how awesome a collab between Styropyro and ElectroBOOM would be.
"Yes, Bob, I'm reporting to you live from what emergency personnel are calling the minimum safe distance. As of yet, we do not have a source for the anomaly, but it is believed that an attempt at a RUclips video was involved."
Absolutely. I'm an amateur at electronics, but the capacitor bank and the sheer size of the toroidal transformer in that thing had me twitching with pure fear.
You and Styro make a great duo. I don't know how to explain it, and he is a big and succesful youtuber so he obviously makes content that is well done and therefore is easy to react to, but you do put some very nice finishing touches on the lines of thought and your humor is perfect. I had some great laughs watching this video even though I had already watched styro's video
I think I like watching these reaction videos, because it feels like i’m just watching the video myself but with my nuclear physics friend who always has some good validation or input
The reason a microwave always cooks at the same power level and can only be turned on or off is that it uses a cavity magnetron, where the output signal is determined entirely by the physical size and geometry of the cavities surrounding the cathode Curious Droid has a great video on this... /watch?v=CbTWzC86R4Y
I love how you laughed at the build montage, and Styro is well known for it zany laser stuff. I lost it at his wisecrack "you won't be seeing these in stores anytime soon" :)
@@tfolsenuclearyeah he should make his own category of laser Danger because he can create lasers that can burn paper and wood and he can even make lasers that vaporizer food faster than they can cook it so he should make his own category of laser Danger because of the stupidly powerful lasers see can create! 😂🎉🎉🎉🎉😊
Went into this video thinking I was just going to see a person in the corner making random faces and a styropyro video I haven’t seen yet- pleastly surprised that I’m learning twice as much as I would’ve in just half the time
As I am a dumb guy that likes to look at smart guys explain things, having a smart guy react and explain things that another smart guy is explaining is overwhelming in the best way! I am so happy I found this channel! Plz sir, don't ever stop making videos! 😀
13:00 the mayonnaise is probably there as thermal paste to couple the laser diodes to the heat sink. Water makes for a very efficient heat transfer. You just shouldn't use watery substances, such as foods, as a long term solution, as the water will evaporate and the food will rot.
I'm pretty sure it was just a joke and cleaned off afterwards and a proper paste was put on it it's place. The amount of heat those lasers produce is more than a CPU and CPU's pump out a good amount of heat lol.
2:55 Not all microwave ovens are the same. When set to lower power settings, most microwave ovens cycle on and off, but Panasonic microwave ovens actually run continuously at varying power levels.
They're not "somewhere close" to communications, they literally run on 2.4Ghz, that's bang on in the WiFi frequency, also most wireless computer peripherals. Try bringing a wireless headset close to a microwave, it doesn't even have to have the door open, it'll start immediately making weird noises and disconnect from the base station xd
Lol , no idea why this came up on my YT but it’s cool . How this dude lived past his 10th birthday is quite remarkable. One can imagine his mum is not impressed 😂 . What people don’t necessarily appreciate is that it’s guy’s like this with curiosity, passion and interest for a subject that have helped the clones survive who have no talent or interest in anything useful and a drain on humanity , natural resources and consume oxygen. Nice content ❤
I just have to say this video has a very retro look, like pre internet days, but his voice is so smooth as he pulls off this extremely crazy modification.
Yes, Styro is one of a kind. He by education is a chemist yet he is stunningly adept with respect to electronics as well as other specialized areas all while having a tremendous sense of humor. After having completed a graduate program in pure mathematics the process including time spent entirely focused on becoming adept led to I lost all desire to deep dive into any other area yet he seemingly has.
I like your channel. Many of the "dual" videos with you and creators, I have also already viewed the "others creators' and now I can view them again and get your added prospective. Really quite informative and entertaining at the same time.
Styropyro's lasers are purple/ultraviolet his camera can only pick up the blue parts of the light i purchased a apparently unregulated laser pointer originally marketed towards pet owners turns out i purchased a pointer that was 20 times over the legal limit and had to purchase special googles to use said laser safely
Electric stoves do the same thing on the burners. This is a very common way to control power or voltage, this is also how dimmer switches work and DC to DC converters. Turn the power on and off at different speeds and this controls the power output and basically the voltage the load sees.
The way Styro is assembling his laser microwave made me think of The A-Team, lol. They just smack a bunch of pieces together and that should make it obvious of what they are doing. I like me a throwback moment like that :)
I noticed the microwave only being on partially a long time ago. If you set it to a lower power, you can actually hear (on cheaper models is more noticeable) that the transformer turns on and off while the microwave is cooking. Really, try it. One thing I love about my newer microwave is that it actually cooks at a lower power, not just 50% on and 50% off. Cooks food way more evenly and never more do i have a half frozen half molten burrito!
Yep this is what "inverter" microwaves [partially] address. There's a minimum power that any given tube needs to operate at but it can be taken down to that level from 100% without using bang-bang (yes that's the technical term for what an old school microwave uses lol). The bang-bang technique is in use in many places within the home... among others a traditional electric stove/oven, heating/air conditioning, water heaters etc. The "active" part of the device gets turned on and off all the way to maintain a nominal target (average) value. This method is simple and cheap, and "works well enough" for many things. Microwaves as originally designed suffered a bit from this however because the energy can only be absorbed by the food at a given rate... and even tho the *average* is lower, the *spontaneous* value is the full design power of the magnetron. Hence hot and cold spots and the issues that result from them. Side note, I have a similar issue with driving LEDs with PWM (which is essentially just a *really* fast bang-bang)... it [unnecessarily] stresses the LEDs as commonly implemented (buck converter drive is better and doesn't add *that* much to the cost)... I digress 🤷♂️ Anyway, in the case of an inverter microwave, the tube can be used at true partial power continuously but below the cutoff level for operation, the control system reverts to bang-bang at a reduced power (typically just above the cutoff power for the tube, usually around 50% of maximum). So defrost for example (typically "10% power") will still be bang-bang with a 5-15% duty cycle (depends on how it is set up to operate) at about 50% spontaneous tube output instead of 10% duty at 100%.
Had a friend who's microwave was cursed. Every time they turned it on it would jam the wifi over most of their property and hurt the neighbor's signal.
16:40 Just a heads up for anyone confused by "the neutrons effectively break the light barrier in water," the speed of light as you typically see it (approximately 300,000,000 meters/sec) is the theoretical max speed that photons would move if there are absolutely no barriers in it's way. Light in water flows much slower, approximately 0.75c (or ~225,000,000 m/s), which particles can achieve in these kinds of situations. As such, the wavefronts generated by these re-emitted photons overlap just as sound waves do in a sonic boom, leading to constructive interference and in effect a visual sonic boom in the form of a flash of blue light. When you have this happening extremely rapidly, you get a steady blue glow, kinda like how the constant explosions inside your car's engine lead to a steady sound. Cherenkov radiation is cool as heck.
Mayonaise are just eggs in an oil suspesion, the oil is a good at transferring heat and sealing and the shape of an egg makes it a great lens which helps focus the energy of the laser so you get a good two in one from the grocery store.
Ah the old Phasotron meters. I loved it when they were all wildly spinning in different directions while I cursed and tried to get them to all synchronize with each other. Then I'd set them to link, one by one until I could get the computers to recognize their CT outputs.
You can hear the microwave shift into and out of powered mode on an intermediate setting. I can also see the lights blink a little dimmer :) So I figured that out a while ago and it makes sense, resonance is resonance, it's on or off.
Hey Tyler, an idea for content (more of the serious kind, not the goofy kind): you could talk about the 1987 Goiânia's radiological accident. In addition to being the worst radiological accident outside a nuclear power plant in history, it is also quite dramatic (literally people eating sandwiches with cesium). And with a little bit of brazilbaiting in the title/thumb you could even have a boom in Brazilian views on your channel :D thanks for the cool videos so far :)
Mayonnaise can actually be used as an effective cooling paste. The RUclipsr Life of Boris actually built and used a gaming PC using only Mayonnaise as paste
(at 4:49) Actually, the reason that the magnetron only produces power half the time is that the anode supply circuit in a mocrowave oven uses a half-wave voltage doubler. In this circuit, the capacitor is charged via the diode during one half cycle and it is in series with the transformer on the other half cycle. This gives roughly twice the output voltage, but only on every other half cycle
The developers early on used Miracle Whip doped with Chinese mustard. It proved too acidic and affected the crystals. Mayo was found to be a better static insulator and heat transfer medium.
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Thank you so much for watching! If you are interested in seeing my reaction to more of Styropyro's experiments, please check out my reaction to the URANIUM CRAYON: ruclips.net/video/GuoAQ4SXtv4/видео.htmlsi=JsAK8a3-3SXAT0o3
wait . . radioactivity is not green but blue?
COMICS AND MOVIES AND GAMES AND CARTOONS HAVE LIED TO ME!
This is someone who has never cooked with his microwave on any setting but 100%. If he had, he would have heard the magnatron turning on and off, and you can see your food alternately frying and then cooling.
You obviously don't know anything about electronics. Those "D batteries" are enormous electrolytic capacitors.
The mayonnaise joke is about how heatsink thermal paste looks exactly like mayo.
There's a blue glow because they're blue laser arrays...😩
Microwave Oven's do not emit ionizing radiation, they emit electromagnetic radiation. Very different.
Btw, I am pretty sure StyroPyro loves Bananas , LOL!
"Someone in the comments tell me why mayonnaise makes lasers--"
It doesn't... welcome to styropyro's channel with the host who is able to combine insanity and genius so much that the universe just lets him do whatever he wants scientific wise with little consequences
Never heard of thermal grease?
Well mayo is mostly oil, so it's definitely one of the thermal greases of all time!
It'll work.
good? hell no but it'll work...
@@maxx1o1 If you replace the cooling paste on your CPU with mayonnaise it will increase temps maybe 2-5 degrees C over a high quality paste. I don't care if you have nano-diamonds or silver particles in there; it won't really matter since the rest of it will be some kind of silicone oil and it will be about the same as the mayonnaise. Give it another day or two and the mayonnaise will be complete crap; it will separate, seep and the water will dry and it will no longer be thick and viscous and just runny like cooking oil. The only way to beat freshly applied mayonnaise by a large margin is liquid metal cooling paste and it has a bunch of problems (corrodes aluminium, they won't let you bring it on an airplane, it is conductive and will short a motherboard if you slop it around somewhere it's not supposed to be etc).
@@soylentgreenb look, it may only be "2-5C dif" but the thing is that it'll corrode your CPU's IHS and damage your heatsink when a tube of thermal paste cost less than a jar of mayonnaise and will last longer too. this has been a running joke for decades now.
@@soylentgreenb now at least it's not chocolate, that shit is worse than no thermal compound at all
This is no longer a microwave its a macrowave
Maybe miniwave would be more accurate
@@controlequebrado4455 Well, nanowave would technically be more accurate lol.
@@6root91more like Godzilla microwave
actually.... light has a shorter wavelength than microwaves. It's the same thing essentially, but higher frequency.
Underrated! 😂
We love some styropyro! Dude’s _unhinged._
But like, in the best way possible lol
@@picax8398
Like the jaw of a constrictor!
We want more! We want more!
A true mad scientist and I’m here for it
I always ask "why does his cat only have one eye? "
styro is the embodiment of "just because you can doesn't mean you should but i'm doing it anyway cause it sounds cool"
Just because you can doesn't mean you shouldn't.
just because you can doesn't mean you should is not always good advice. If that was always the case humanity would have never progressed and we wouldnt get to see what something is capable of. Innovation happens at the bleeding edge of technology.
”We did it because we could, but we probably shouldnt have.”
StyroPyro is the exact type of person that you'd be terrified to hear he has a doctorate and an inspiration to us all.
I thought he just had a masters degree in chemical engineering
If he had a PhD. He could be a super villain!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@danielcarter305I pretty sure he either has one, or is working on one in his final years.
His website says bachelor's degree but ultimately the degree doesn't matter
Also would be terrifying to know that he was just moving to the house next to mine.
The mayo is a computer geek joke. Back in 2011 Hardware Secrets tested a whole bunch of thermal compounds and a bunch of alternatives like lipstick, butter and toothpaste, and the mayo actually performed reasonably well.
Maynaise is OK cooling paste between the heat sink and the laser diodes. It wouldn't tolerate years of operation like proper cooling paste (even the white ceramic crappy kind) but for hours of operation it is surprisingly not that terrible.
It's probably the oil in the mayo lol
@@goldenfox334 The emulsion gives it that thick, viscous consistency so it doesn't run and fills the space evenly. It also means the water will dry and it will stop being useful.
Depends on the mayo, someone used mayo as a thermal paste for 3 years and while it was absolutely disgusting, it did work fine.
@@user-le8ul4nr5t Normal mayo starts to separate if it just gets old sitting in the fridge in an opened jar and the egg will eventually spoil if there's water. I wouldn't eat mayo if I knew it could withstand 3 years under a heat sink without separating. That implies it's not realy mayo but some kind of barely edible fuckery with xantham gum, lecithin, propylene glycol, modified starch etc.
@@soylentgreenbit’s a combination of molecular physics at the thickness the “thermal paste” is, and the fact that at that scale the mayo cooks into a really greasy egg which is a surprisingly good thermal conductor
remember you’re applying heat through it because you’re using it to transfer heat
welcome to styropyro, this dude is your textbook definition of mad scientist, anything that typically looks ridiculous like that mayo part is usually a joke XD as is his tendency to destroy stuff in those montages
_HowToBasic, but _*_S C I E N C E_*
Yeah, he really should have his own category of laser safety categories, and considering he said that it draws 700 Watts and at full power, it would fry the cameras sensors it's got to be ridiculously powerful and considering that his laser surpasses category 4 in laser safety that means he needs to add more categories to that laser safety list because he can just create lasers that surpasses category 4 that means you can just create lasers that can start burning things and he can also create lasers are so powerful that they vaporize things faster than they can heat them so he should definitely make his own laser danger categories because of the ridiculous power of the lasers he can create! 😂🎉🎉🎉🎉😊
@@DavidMuri-rm4ym work on your punctuation mate, thats a run on sentence x3 lmao
yeah no, category 4 is 500 milliwatts, MILLIWATTS, and styro constantly makes lasers that go above 5-10 watts in power. There is a very good reason he always states his lasers will blind you just by looking at the spot on the wall, let alone the laser itself.
Also goes to show he's an expert in that field, one of my favorite videos from him was his ruby laser, which one pulse was able to crater a chunk of black plastic
*cough*
@@DavidMuri-rm4ymThere is a similar thought about hurricanes. Storms are getting stronger to the point they would be reaching into "category 6" if one existed.
The weather service has explicitly avoided the creation of such a new category with the idea given that it may "dilute" the meaning of a category 5.
Since a category 5 is already "wiping the earth's ass with its face", a 6th category is pointless for destruction purposes.
The same is likely going to apply to lasers. Beyond 4, you're already playing with shit that you better have more than glasses (or even walls) between you and the beam. A 5 or 6 classification would only mean "goes thru the wall quicker"... not really adding much to the "safety factor" 🤷♂️
Interesting bit about the fluctuations in the power draw of microwaves. I remember watching a documentary where an analyst from a power plant spoke about how they have to anticipate societal trends to ensure there's enough power on the grid, like "Oh, there's going to be a soccer match starting at 7pm so the half-time is going to be around 7:50pm so let's make sure the grid has enough juice for all those microwaves and fast boils".
there is pretty much ZERO storage of electricity on the grid so it's not a trivial problem. generation has to balance with demand . if demand suddenly increases they have to also increase generation instantly. hard to do. only battery storage can do it.
It's basic on/off regulation. Your typical heater at home, your oven, and a lot of other appliances use it. The duty cycle, how often it is on versus off, dictates the average power draw over some period of time. One thing to consider is that there is a certain (though negligible) amount of energy storage as parasitic induction/capacitance in the grid infrastructure that helps smooth some of this out, though this is often minimized to achieve the highest power factor (capacitance/induction can cause phase differences between the voltage and current, resulting in differences between real and reactive power, and thus wastage). The most important thing to understand though is that such on/off regulation becomes averaged out over many homes/loads. If you consider each home a load, each load is varying in their power draw due to on/off regulation, each one will do so randomly relative to the other loads. The result is that the power companies do not see a bunch of on/off fluctuations in the power draw, they see a smooth-ish demand curve. So, while grid balancing is indeed a non-trivial matter, it isn't as crazy as having to deal with every tiny fluctuation like a microwave's on/off duty cycle.
@@piisfun i wonder if they made it a new house code for every new house to have a battery backup to pull from, how much would that elevate that issue.
Pretty sure it was a tom scott video
I just found Styropyro's page today and after watching about a dozen of his laser & electrical videos, I found it not only accurate and educational, many parts I found absolutely hilarious. Obviously the guy is a genius in the field, but he also has the ability to entertain educationally which is a fantastic way to teach kids who have to listen to a boring teacher. He even debunks those flashy clickbate free energy & perpetual motion videos. This guy is fantastically gifted, whoever he is!
I never realised how much the FCC was focused on radio wave pollution until I started working for a cable company. I learned that the majority of internet and cable in homes and businesses is still coax cable and that the frequency signals travel on those lines is the same frequency as radio waves. So if a coax cable has a tear in the insulation, some of that signal can leak off as actual radio waves into the air. As such every cable and internet company has an agreement with the FCC to minimize signal leakage from their cables below a certain threshold so it doesn't fill up the air with noise. So yeah. Running an open microwave pointed into the sky is a good way to get the attention of the feds.
Every part of the spectrum has rules about who can use it, how much power they can broadcast at, etc. Microwaves run at 2.4 GHz, the same as older wifi standards. But wifi is limited to very low power levels. Far below what a microwave would broadcast without any shielding.
And yes, the FCC will track you down and go after you for unlicensed broadcasting, even if all you're broadcasting is random noise from a microwave.
Can't wait till all network is fiber optic.
The air waves are a clusterfsxk.
In the analog TV days, running a microwave in the house would cause 2 static bars to roll on the screen while the magnetron was emitting RF. It's a very dirty "transmitter" that splatters the entire band with noise.
Ovens are typically designed so that this is minimized but it's not as easy as one would think to keep that kind of power *totally* boxed up in the unit, and they leak.
Everything electronic today emits RF to a degree, even when that is not the goal, and whether they use it for communication or not. The power supplies these days are *all* noisy as hell because chinesium designs typically omit the filtration that helps contain it.
It is what it is.
@@FeminalPandaFiber is indeed completely impervious to RF yep.
@@MadScientist267 I mean, any wire with electricity running through it is an antenna, whether you intend it to be or not, and that goes for both transmit and receive.
Pretty sure the mayonnaise thing was a joke, but he plays it so straight it's hard to tell
If you replace your coolant paste on your CPU with mayonnaise you'd notice about a 5 degrees C difference. It's surprisingly good thermal paste, but it can't withstand years like even the crappiest off-brand silicone oil and ceramic white paste. For a few hours of testing mayonnaise would do fine.
@@soylentgreenb until it gets burnt
Styro could say "95 watt handheld laser" and any trained professional would say "do you mean miliwatt?"
No, no he does not.
And yes, he did build one of those
I found the spec sheets to the other laser diodes this company makes (they have a shitty webpage, wasn't fun to find the pdfs).
They have two similar named diodes available, both of them have the same data sheet, the only differences are the serial numbers and the ratings.
Both models are perfectly suited for his 3.2A current.
One for 3.3(110W) and one for 3.5(135W), and all three models (his and these two) look almost identical. His is probably an older version someone found in a warehouse (would also explain the lack of data sheets online).
Also, buying them is easier than I'd like it to be (no matter how much I want them)
I think the algorithm is picking this up and I couldnt be happier! Love content like this especially with qualified people reacting who can offer input and more in depth thoughts than a layperson
7:17 the sound of a crappy camera’s microphone being bombarded with microwaves goes so hard. This is exactly the type of noise Death Grips would sample.
Just saw them on Sunday! Mind blowing
@@EthanRadell they did a live show on Sunday?????
I highly recommend his channel, mental illness+knowledge+free time is one heck of a combo
And Squirrels. Don't forget the squirrels!
I'm glad he went with RUclips instead of the supervillainy career track. Can you imagine if he decided to make an actual death ray?
@@artor9175 we would just die he could core the earth
The mention of a rectifier with a partially dismantled microwave on screen made me consider how awesome a collab between Styropyro and ElectroBOOM would be.
Why do you want to kill them both?
"Yes, Bob, I'm reporting to you live from what emergency personnel are calling the minimum safe distance. As of yet, we do not have a source for the anomaly, but it is believed that an attempt at a RUclips video was involved."
*F U L L BRIDGE RECTIFIER* intensifies
I think you can't use a rectum fryer because transformers don't work with DC? They need the alternating current to induce voltage into the second coil
@@CookingWithCows yes, a rectum fryer may have some deleterious side effects - with either AC or DC.
Styropyro is the living embodiment of when high concept phycisists/engineers have intrusive thoughts.
those arent D batteries, theyre big ol chunky capacitors
Absolutely. I'm an amateur at electronics, but the capacitor bank and the sheer size of the toroidal transformer in that thing had me twitching with pure fear.
Although they are roughly the same size, those are 2200 µF 100V Capacitors at 14:12, not D Batteries.
Quality microwaves advertise their use of an 'inverter', and those can actually run at partial power, without turning on and off.
Come to say same thing.
@@psychosis7325 They defrost so much better than older style microwaves.
Absolutely love the Styropyro reaction videos❤❤
Ah yes
The macrowave
Oh no I've commented the same thing without watching in comments
You and Styro make a great duo. I don't know how to explain it, and he is a big and succesful youtuber so he obviously makes content that is well done and therefore is easy to react to, but you do put some very nice finishing touches on the lines of thought and your humor is perfect. I had some great laughs watching this video even though I had already watched styro's video
It's so funny watching actual professionals watch these unhinged RUclipsrs
I think I like watching these reaction videos, because it feels like i’m just watching the video myself but with my nuclear physics friend who always has some good validation or input
Styro always does great stuff
Bro said “Fuck it. Macrowave.”
The reason a microwave always cooks at the same power level and can only be turned on or off is that it uses a cavity magnetron, where the output signal is determined entirely by the physical size and geometry of the cavities surrounding the cathode
Curious Droid has a great video on this... /watch?v=CbTWzC86R4Y
I love how you laughed at the build montage, and Styro is well known for it zany laser stuff. I lost it at his wisecrack "you won't be seeing these in stores anytime soon" :)
These reaction videos are amazing. It’s also impressive how you are able use the topics of the videos to talk about nuclear science
Thank you!
@@tfolsenuclearyeah he should make his own category of laser Danger because he can create lasers that can burn paper and wood and he can even make lasers that vaporizer food faster than they can cook it so he should make his own category of laser Danger because of the stupidly powerful lasers see can create! 😂🎉🎉🎉🎉😊
14:45 😂 Don't give StyroPyro any ideas! He'll be wanting to build a nuclear power plant in his garage next lol
There's a steam powerplant near where I have that punches way above 30%. It's a super critical plant with 57% efficiency
Went into this video thinking I was just going to see a person in the corner making random faces and a styropyro video I haven’t seen yet- pleastly surprised that I’m learning twice as much as I would’ve in just half the time
yessss love the styropyro reactions!
As I am a dumb guy that likes to look at smart guys explain things, having a smart guy react and explain things that another smart guy is explaining is overwhelming in the best way! I am so happy I found this channel! Plz sir, don't ever stop making videos! 😀
I get happy for Styropyro video uploads because it lets me know he is still alive lmao
This man never fails to make me laugh, Keep it up!
I love how you put a professional spin on this nutty craziness... LMFAO!
Styropyro is obviously a highly educated engineer and highly intelligent, I have followed him for years...
love these styropyro reactions
13:00 the mayonnaise is probably there as thermal paste to couple the laser diodes to the heat sink. Water makes for a very efficient heat transfer. You just shouldn't use watery substances, such as foods, as a long term solution, as the water will evaporate and the food will rot.
I'm pretty sure it was just a joke and cleaned off afterwards and a proper paste was put on it it's place. The amount of heat those lasers produce is more than a CPU and CPU's pump out a good amount of heat lol.
2:55 Not all microwave ovens are the same. When set to lower power settings, most microwave ovens cycle on and off, but Panasonic microwave ovens actually run continuously at varying power levels.
Mayonnaise! The greatest thermal compound ever😂
They're not "somewhere close" to communications, they literally run on 2.4Ghz, that's bang on in the WiFi frequency, also most wireless computer peripherals. Try bringing a wireless headset close to a microwave, it doesn't even have to have the door open, it'll start immediately making weird noises and disconnect from the base station xd
This is actually really fascinating.
Absolute mad lad
Styropyro is the very definition of crazy genius.
it takes an absolute genius to pull off sketchy safely
Lol , no idea why this came up on my YT but it’s cool . How this dude lived past his 10th birthday is quite remarkable.
One can imagine his mum is not impressed 😂 .
What people don’t necessarily appreciate is that it’s guy’s like this with curiosity, passion and interest for a subject that have helped the clones survive who have no talent or interest in anything useful and a drain on humanity , natural resources and consume oxygen.
Nice content ❤
More power is always the answer!!!!
I just have to say this video has a very retro look, like pre internet days, but his voice is so smooth as he pulls off this extremely crazy modification.
Yes, Styro is one of a kind. He by education is a chemist yet he is stunningly adept with respect to electronics as well as other specialized areas all while having a tremendous sense of humor. After having completed a graduate program in pure mathematics the process including time spent entirely focused on becoming adept led to I lost all desire to deep dive into any other area yet he seemingly has.
such a madlad
This is what I liked about styropyro, that he did all the stuff that we might need to see for other experiments. Him and many many others
I love styropro he’s so insane but also careful
You earned my sub just based on your outro. I like the insight during the reaction too. Great channel!
Thanks so much! Welcome aboard!
I like your channel. Many of the "dual" videos with you and creators, I have also already viewed the "others creators' and now I can view them again and get your added prospective. Really quite informative and entertaining at the same time.
Thanks so much!
"like these..." *drags hand all over the deadly parts*
Styropyro's lasers are purple/ultraviolet
his camera can only pick up the blue parts of the light
i purchased a apparently unregulated laser pointer
originally marketed towards pet owners
turns out i purchased a pointer that was 20 times over the legal limit
and had to purchase special googles to use said laser safely
Styropyro is basically if the Nuclear Boy Scout had the bare minimum amount of supervision.
Electric stoves do the same thing on the burners. This is a very common way to control power or voltage, this is also how dimmer switches work and DC to DC converters. Turn the power on and off at different speeds and this controls the power output and basically the voltage the load sees.
The way Styro is assembling his laser microwave made me think of The A-Team, lol. They just smack a bunch of pieces together and that should make it obvious of what they are doing. I like me a throwback moment like that :)
More styro! 🤓 So much fun 🥽
Class M, maniac. This guy is good.
I noticed the microwave only being on partially a long time ago. If you set it to a lower power, you can actually hear (on cheaper models is more noticeable) that the transformer turns on and off while the microwave is cooking. Really, try it. One thing I love about my newer microwave is that it actually cooks at a lower power, not just 50% on and 50% off. Cooks food way more evenly and never more do i have a half frozen half molten burrito!
Yep this is what "inverter" microwaves [partially] address.
There's a minimum power that any given tube needs to operate at but it can be taken down to that level from 100% without using bang-bang (yes that's the technical term for what an old school microwave uses lol).
The bang-bang technique is in use in many places within the home... among others a traditional electric stove/oven, heating/air conditioning, water heaters etc. The "active" part of the device gets turned on and off all the way to maintain a nominal target (average) value.
This method is simple and cheap, and "works well enough" for many things. Microwaves as originally designed suffered a bit from this however because the energy can only be absorbed by the food at a given rate... and even tho the *average* is lower, the *spontaneous* value is the full design power of the magnetron. Hence hot and cold spots and the issues that result from them.
Side note, I have a similar issue with driving LEDs with PWM (which is essentially just a *really* fast bang-bang)... it [unnecessarily] stresses the LEDs as commonly implemented (buck converter drive is better and doesn't add *that* much to the cost)... I digress 🤷♂️
Anyway, in the case of an inverter microwave, the tube can be used at true partial power continuously but below the cutoff level for operation, the control system reverts to bang-bang at a reduced power (typically just above the cutoff power for the tube, usually around 50% of maximum).
So defrost for example (typically "10% power") will still be bang-bang with a 5-15% duty cycle (depends on how it is set up to operate) at about 50% spontaneous tube output instead of 10% duty at 100%.
Amazing video as always! The only suggestion I have is a link to the video in the description.
The link should be fixed now. Not sure what happened…
@@tfolsenuclear it looks like the bug also happened with the videos between this one and the one by veritasium about entropy.
Yes!! I suggested this video.
Had a friend who's microwave was cursed. Every time they turned it on it would jam the wifi over most of their property and hurt the neighbor's signal.
wait til you see his 100 battery video
The megawave
The invention of the first microwave oven is a very interesting story!
Gosh I love this dude so much lol
16:40 Just a heads up for anyone confused by "the neutrons effectively break the light barrier in water," the speed of light as you typically see it (approximately 300,000,000 meters/sec) is the theoretical max speed that photons would move if there are absolutely no barriers in it's way. Light in water flows much slower, approximately 0.75c (or ~225,000,000 m/s), which particles can achieve in these kinds of situations. As such, the wavefronts generated by these re-emitted photons overlap just as sound waves do in a sonic boom, leading to constructive interference and in effect a visual sonic boom in the form of a flash of blue light. When you have this happening extremely rapidly, you get a steady blue glow, kinda like how the constant explosions inside your car's engine lead to a steady sound.
Cherenkov radiation is cool as heck.
LOL Could you imagine the havoc and anxiety he would cause in an actual nuclear plant
Phase matching was the most fun part of EO when I was doing qualifications.
Mayonaise are just eggs in an oil suspesion, the oil is a good at transferring heat and sealing and the shape of an egg makes it a great lens which helps focus the energy of the laser so you get a good two in one from the grocery store.
Ah the old Phasotron meters. I loved it when they were all wildly spinning in different directions while I cursed and tried to get them to all synchronize with each other. Then I'd set them to link, one by one until I could get the computers to recognize their CT outputs.
I really love StyroPyro he is a super smart young man
Styro pyro has one of the coolest channels on RUclips. He’s got a video or two dealing with uranium as well.
i too came up with the same energy/cent theology with poptarts maybe at the car auction job i had
I've always been wondering why light makes a cute glow when exceeding C in water, but goes back in time when exceeding C in vacuum.
thank god this guy is exposing big micro
You can hear the microwave shift into and out of powered mode on an intermediate setting. I can also see the lights blink a little dimmer :) So I figured that out a while ago and it makes sense, resonance is resonance, it's on or off.
you ever look at someone and think," Yeah.. he's got some bodies in his basement."
That water pump seems ridiculously overpowered for the application
the mayo is him making a haha funny about thermal paste
Absolutely atrocious day to be an Opp when Styropyro rocks up with da laser microwave.
He's such an evil genius 🤣😂
Hey Tyler, an idea for content (more of the serious kind, not the goofy kind): you could talk about the 1987 Goiânia's radiological accident.
In addition to being the worst radiological accident outside a nuclear power plant in history, it is also quite dramatic (literally people eating sandwiches with cesium).
And with a little bit of brazilbaiting in the title/thumb you could even have a boom in Brazilian views on your channel :D
thanks for the cool videos so far :)
Mayonnaise can actually be used as an effective cooling paste. The RUclipsr Life of Boris actually built and used a gaming PC using only Mayonnaise as paste
It lasts for days!
"Unlimited POWER !!!!" - The Emperor
(at 4:49) Actually, the reason that the magnetron only produces power half the time is that the anode supply circuit in a mocrowave oven uses a half-wave voltage doubler. In this circuit, the capacitor is charged via the diode during one half cycle and it is in series with the transformer on the other half cycle. This gives roughly twice the output voltage, but only on every other half cycle
I should really be watching this on Styro's channel
I agree, and we can call it the styro class laser
The developers early on used Miracle Whip doped with Chinese mustard. It proved too acidic and affected the crystals. Mayo was found to be a better static insulator and heat transfer medium.
You need more recognition
Thanks, I appreciate that!
Bro you are so cool I love your videos
Bro is everything 💀