Power Outlets in United Kingdom
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- Опубликовано: 12 янв 2025
- I’ve heard that electrical system in UK is super safe, but how super?
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As a brit, I'm weirdly patriotic about our awesome plugs and sockets. I've never seen better ones. One extra feature that doesn't necessarily leap out is that the exit wire from the plug is always at right angles to the socket. that means if the wire of the device gets pulled then the plug doesn't fly out of the socket. you could argue that's a bad thing but it means you have a more reliable socket device connection. That said plugs have gripper bars at the entrance so if the cable is pulled that is where the force will act, the shortest wire being the live is a layered approach to safety. The people who designed these things really gave everything they could to make them as safe as possible. Thanks for the vid as ever. Hope you enjoyed Cambridge (near my home)!
I work in an aquarium, this feature comes in very handy as it creates a drip loop, in case water comes into contact with the cable.
Normal People on vacation: this place is so nice let's go to the gift shops!
Electroboom: where the hell is the breaker box
F.B.I And the fbi is here. Are you going to arrest him?
Tyson Jordan no
Oh shit its the fbi
Is illegal to use mp3 converter?
Lmao
They switched to gas street lighting as back up in preparation for your arrival.
haha actually those are protected historic artefacts lookup.london/london-gas-lighting/
@@molybdomancer195 thanks for the link, fascinating reading and a link to an interesting British Gas article chatting with the lamp lighters. I'd always assumed these historic lamp posts had some sort of led mock mantle in them not still running on gas. Good to know!
@@molybdomancer195 so stupid, yeah let's just continue burning gas for lamps that don't even illuminate 5m²
@@LuluTheCorgi it's probably for aesthetics rather than utility.
@@dominicjose1116 which is stupid, there is no need to burn gas just for a shitty street lamp what the fuck
A lot of people always say "bulky british plugs". But I always argue against that. Ok, they're a little wider and taller than for example North American, and from my own experience, Australia too. However! Pretty much all UK plugs have the wire come directly down rather than sticking out perpendicular to the wall, which means is actual practice, they take up LESS space, because you can get your furniture closer to the wall, and you don't have an annoying wire sticking out the wall to trip over easily. UK plugs are a lot more shallow and that completely offsets the width and height.
This is actually twofold. The downward direction of the cable ALSO means it tends to lock when it's pulled away from the wall. It puts a lateral load on the plug and the pins bite into their holes and don't just pull out. So not only is it neater, but also MUCH harder to pull out accidentally. In fact, I never have!
What he said about standing on a plug though, he's right. Lego, step down, you are not the foot pain king, the British upturned plug is. Ouch!
@@ChrisThomas-lt8jd Every time I hear something about foreign plugs I have a mild panic attack, not having switches (do Americans not get the ritual OCD from their parents about turning off the damn socket!?!), not having a longer ground pin to stop electrocution, not having fuses in the plug, I never even thought about the size and shape, I have never accidentally pulled a plug out of the wall or extension, I have never had to worry about furniture being in the way.
I did once trip and fall onto a pile of old cables once and landed on like 6 of the fuckers though...
Also, we don't generally have plugs lying around on the floor because we can just turn the socket off instead of pulling it out.
@@pdgiddie Good point. We're also not, you know, stupid 👍
@@ChrisThomas-lt8jd Haven't trodden on an Irish/UK plug yet but I have done it on a kiwi [NZ] plug - when I was much much younger - and it hurts, A LOT. Same plug but without the fuse and upside down pins.
"Hey cousin, long time no see! Where's your breaker box??"
LoL
His cousin my absolutely love him haha!
Hey cousin. Want to go bowling?
What was the music name?
@@skuula They are called torches in the UK, not flashlights.
*Blows all outlets in room*
"So basically, I just ran away"
Nitro Gaming lel
So anyway, I started running
Not just his room all of the rooms in the area, they share the RCD.
Lol
Wow
Normal people vacation : "wah! This place is amazing!"
Electroboom: "wow! This plug so wierd"
😂😂😂😂
"yeah yeah, this city is very nice. where is the breaker box in my hotel room"
Wired*
You were asking for a pun with that shocking misspell
Do the European socket next!
UK plugs are widely known to be the safest electrical outlets and connectors in the world.
It's the one thing we do right!
another safety feature of UK plugs that is often missed is that the screws to open the plug is wall side so they cannot be unscrewed when plugged in
Back in the early 90s, I was about 6-7. I had an electric organ piano thing I loved. One day, I decided to see if I could remove the pins of the plug while still on. I removed the back of the plug and managed to wedge the plug in to the socket and turn everything on. Went to remove a pin and shocked myself like a looney toon character. So lucky to be alive.
@@speedhorn1 that's how you learn and I bet you never tried it again🤣 today that would be called that neglectful parenting in our day it was FAFO those of us that survived quickly learned what you could poke with a stick and what you got someone else to poke instead of you
Normal people visiting oversea familly: Hey, how are you? Let's have a drink so we can talk!
Electroboom : WHERE THE BREAKERZ BOX?!
Do you think there's a full bridge rectifier in that breaker box?
Perfect! You win!
The most impressive thing was that damned squirrel!
😂 love it
Thomas Nagy: let me open this and see how it's wired, because they do it differently to what we do in UK.
uk: has one of the safest plugs in the world
electroboom: still manages to nearly kill himself and trip the breaker of his hotel
They look safe until you step on them
@@sebastianrakowski1583 can you base that on fact or is that just your opinion?
@@sebastianrakowski1583
You are a disgrace to your nation. Many brave Poles fought alongside the UK in WW2. And all you do is make fun. Our economy is much bigger than yours and always will be!
codprawn What's WW2/1 got to do with a argument with power plugs
Sebastian Rakowski Idiot!
*And he was never invited back to his cousins house ever again.*
:( Stitch
Who said he was invited in the first place?
D.A. Syam r/wooosh
@@durkdaberkferkderkfuck9178 that's most stupid whoosh I've seen till date
Maximal Crazy I know lol
In the UK houses are usuall wired in a "ring" circuit with a 32A breaker which is feasible since the plug has a built-in smaller fuse. When you shorted that plug on the end, you caused a 240V 32A short! No surprise it got black :)
Ring circuits are a throwback to a lack of copper after WW2. They’re not really common in new builds.
@@geedon1 I've never seen any other circuitry in any house, including multiple houses built in the last 10 years. Not that a change to radial wiring wouldn't be welcomed.
I rewired my house using ring circuits because 1) less copper means less expense and 2) I'd rather work with 2.5 sq mm copper than 4 sq. mm (especially in outlets). That's not to say that rings are always the answer, of course.
It also better evenly distributes load and allows things like having a high draw heater basically anywhere in the house. A brief Google search shows the multiple advantages to this.
@@geedon1 They most certainly are!
Mehdi at his cousins: What do you want, tea or coffee?
Mehdi: "Power Socket"
Still, I'm glad he managed to gain access to the breaker box.
Breaker box
Hi
capacitor electrolytes
consumer unit
I like how this entire video is: "Wow, nice safety, now let me get around it"
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@Robot Man HOW DARE YOU! Lol
@Robot Man Lolololololol
@Robot Man But I mean I’m not 1,000th anymore
**shorts hotel circuitry**
“Well I basically ran away”
Lol
*Shows footage of surroundings* that was such a perfect moment 😂
*shorts entire hotel*
"Well, that certainly wasn't me."
So anyway I started running
"Hotel has to fix that for me" lol
Missed perhaps the biggest key safety feature of British plugs; they are flush to the wall and the wire points downwards, so it is almost impossible to knock them out or half out. US 2 pin plugs easily get knocked or bent sideways or downwards, exposing the live parts or just really annoyingly losing connection.
It takes a lot of effort and imagination to overcome a UK plug and nearly start an electrical fire. My congratulations...
@John Ashtone In fairness, it depends how old it is - they might be on fuse wire, plenty places here significantly pre-date modern breaker boxes! (And yes, I mean fuse wire, not just pre-made fuses. It's a whole different world of ways to mess up :D )
There safe until u step on the prongs
@@asharak84 Fuse wire in a hotel? I very much doubt it.
Best plugs in the world
@@jondonnelly3 you can run two heaters off a double socket no problem. Off one, well adverts are run not to do that.
"hey cousin, thanks for having me. ...where's the breaker box?"
cousin:...what?
Cousin: I don't know. But I have one on my crotch, want to try it?
you can't read the quote without Mehdi's voice in your head... at least for me though
UK: Yeah our plugs are pretty safe
Electroboom: "I have shorted the plug, Hopefully nothing happens" *explosions*
"I have now run away from the Hotel"
*intentionally shorts power outlet*
*is shocked that the outlet explodes*
*demands that hotel staff fixes it*
“I have to run from hotel now!”
What was the music name?
0:30 "I brought so many test equipment, security was very suspicious"
2:44 [proceeds to blow up the hotel outlet]
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That gas street light is the only one left in the UK powered by sewer gas!, that is why it is lit 24 7. They used to be common in cities but with the advent of washing detergents and cleaning bleaches much less gas is produced in our sewer systems. Great vid as usual.
"...but with the advent of washing detergents and cleaning bleaches much less gas is produced in our sewer systems."
Interesting.
@@markylon There's over a thousand gas lamps in the UK, but there is only one sewer gas-powered one remaining.
It´s not entirely fuelled by sewer gas. It has a regular gas supply to keep it burning 24/7.
Wow, I live 30 mins from London and love history yet didn't know this! Thank you for the knowledge :)
@@5pr1nk57 the Victorians thought the best way to get rid of sewer gas,and make it useful,was to use it to power streetlights. It was too unreliable,though. The water seals on pipework stopped the gas explosion problem.
Hey can i get a room
Service:yes heres your key sir
"10 min later"
*power goes out in hotel*
"Man runs out of the hotel"
Service: wtf
LMAO
A man trying to short all power outlet in hotels hahaha
That did make me Laugh out Loud, that was so funny.
I thought you were joking and then I watched the video.
Plz don't die
You blew up the hotel socket? I guess that explains the recent power outage at kings cross station.
Really?
@@nowneothanielverse it's called a joke
No, that must have something to do with wizards visiting it all the time
@@gudadada I'm not updated with world news and apparently some of us forget other countries exist.
@@nowneothanielverse you still missed the joke. the joke is the hotel socket affecting a station. obviously there's no correlation
“I better not make any shorts!”
*THIRTY SECONDS LATER*
*SHORTS EVERY HOTEL BREAKER*
Lmao
#Oof #Whoops
*london instantly knew electroboom started hacking electricity*
now all of UK knows you're here
Yes we know... we watch the video!!! Why do people like you have to make comments like this??
The British outlet is considered “the safest plug in the world” because of its many safety mechanisms
Hotel emplyee: *Having a chill day at work*
ElectroBOOM: *Enters lobby*
Hotel emplyee: *Starts sweating*
Lmao
ElectroBOOM : ** books room and blows a breaker **
Hotel employee : shet i knew it
2:44
Takes out power plug :sweating intensifies
Those shaver sockets also have isolating transformers inside, which is why they are so big
True
Very true. The isolating transformer prevents a electric shock from occurring if one of the electrical contacts is touched.
They are also fed from a 3A fused-spur located outside the bathroom, so that limits the power of what devices can be plugged into them.
But then there is no RCD protection?
Samuel Seidel On an isolating transformer, RCD protection on the incoming side is redundant by the nature of transformers, and RCD on the output isn't generally required since they're current limited to 200mA and there's no reference between the output line and the earth back to the isolating transformer, meaning a shock can only be achieved between Line and Neutral
@@frankiesparkes3947
What if one of the outputs of the isolating transformer comes in contact with the earth? Seems like there is no way for detecting that. Then isolating transformer is no more isolating, and you have no protection from shock.
Electroboom: I'll wait until I get to my cousin's house.
*RIP cousin's house*
RIP cousin's entire neighbourhood
@@Javierm0n0 RIP the supplying powerplant
You have never seen photonic induction have you? Now he can pull down the national grid easily.
@@metalhead2476 he has his indian wife now.... Us viewers mean nothing to him in my eyes. I also miss him he was a legend.. WE POPPED IIIIT!
0:14 that one didn't age quite so well
Can you give context?
@danek_hren Boyinaband got a little too close to the first part of his name
@@RickSandwichRoll... He's gay?
If you're new here, he's immortal.
MrSis
Thank you for telling me, I got genuinely worried for his health,,
Oh ok
What was the music name?
MrSis 😂😂😂😂 100% correct
@@full5339 The Soviet National anthem, if you're talking about the music at 0:02
(As a Brit I am shocked and in tears with laughter at this)
Everyone else: It's a very nice hotel
Some random electric guy: WHERRREE DZEEEE BREAKERRR BOXXX!?!?!!!
LOL
Lmao
bwahahahahahah
Electrician instinct
go to UK for holiday (X)
go to UK to check their Power Outlets (✓)
Like 600! WOOHOO! FUCK ALLAH FUCK MUHAMMAD FUCK ISLAM!!!!!!
@@mahrufurrahman9759 Huh
Mahrufur Rahman
I'm really not sure I follow. I mean, its your opinion, but voicing it in this situation was so unexpected, its almost like it was entirely unrelated to the original comment.
@@dafoex lol
@@mahrufurrahman9759 Hey, don't forget to add the terrorists in the "Fuck list"!!! :)
At 5:40, you talked about stepping on a plug. Did you say "May God have mercy on your soul", or was it "May God have mercy on your sole"?
Yes.
Also as someone who has been victimised by upturned UK plug faces: I would rather carpet my entire house with Lego than ever step on one again.
Fr it's the most pain I've ever been in
@@MrAkaiduAustralian plugs beckon you.....
UK: safest plug type, with RCD protection
ElectroBOOM: challenge accepted.
As a North American citizen, I can say that in my childhood I have touched both prongs of a plug while pulling it out. It was an uncomfortable zap where I could feel the alternating current, but I was fine. Needless to say it was a good lesson and I've been more careful since then. The UK plug is a good design, but how else will the children learn to not mess with electricity before they move on to harder stuff? Little Timmy might cut open a transformer to harvest the copper for drug money and be shocked with transmission voltage!
@@Maptologist While you were touching your north american plugs, Little Timmy in UK doesn't want to do that 'cause double voltage
@@Nikkizzz Under the same circumstances, Little Timmy wouldn't have been able to complete such a circuit, as his thumb and forefinger would only touch plastic. You all (y'all) in the UK have deadly house voltage because the infrastructure couldn't handle more amps at lower voltage. Therefore, complicated plugs and other safety standards were constructed around such an unsafe system.
@@Maptologist most of the world uses 240v, we just do it best. The UK invested a huge amount of money to change the plug design after the war to make things much safer. Very few people ever get electrocuted in the UK because it's very hard to do so. American wiring is awful and is an incredibly old design which they have never bothered to replace.
@@JamesGrogan2 Most of the world use 220v UK is one of the only places that uses 240/250v
By now I'll bet he's been blacklisted by the hotel industry.
And black listed by his cousin too...😛😂😂😂
@UNIX Man you from Lincoln too?
He killed a power outlet in a hotel. Now, he is "Excommunicado".
@@alpha5782 ok bud whatever u say
Ian Ferreira
He is
John Wick
ElectroBoom: “Hi, I’d like a room with breakers.”
Hotel Clerk: “God save us!”
Kakashimoto nice PFP, mind if i stole it?
@@NxVernxual
No I don't !
God save us? God save the Queen!
Call the Queen...
Hotel: _How can we help you_
E.B.: _I'd like a room_
Hotel: _Dear god no!_
Oh my god, this guy is hilarious 😂! Imagine going on a trip to a foreign country and the first thing you do is short circuit your outlet causing all the breakers to pop
He´s a menace to society! I like it!
@@Biden_is_demented So many tourist might spend nights under unsafe fire detectors or unsound cabling or without breaker boxes. It is important.
Not an electrician, not even a little bit, but when he put the plug with the wire “bridge” in the socket and it blew, he had the switch on. Then he complained that the switch was, “redundant, and not a proper breaker”. Wouldn’t you have to have the switch off to test it’s ability to stop a short? Nobody said the switch _was_ a breaker, but if you’re gonna test it, test it right, maybe?
Checking passport at the airport. "So what's your reason for visiting UK?"
"I'm gonna put some weird shit in your power outlets!"
Idk why i laughed at this so much
At the Airport:- Sir purpose of your visit?
Him:- Want to make a Boom in a hotel in your country. You know, just want to test safety out there.
airport officials must have been quite shocked...
Omg hahaha best comment here.
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ElectroBOOM : "Hi today we're travelling to United Kingdom"
Me : "So thats why the power went off!"
😂
LMAO. A wind farm and a power station failed almost simultaneously I see now their brakers tripped!
What a coincidence...
When was that big national power issue, 9th August wasn't it?
lol it's funny because of the blackouts a couple of weeks ago. www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/16/national-grid-blackout-report-avoidable-faults-blamed
I guess we should call him Avoidable Faults now.
When wiring a UK plug brown is live, because that's what colour your trousers go if you touch it.
-Tom Scott
webchimp Actually that wire was quite unusual for modern regs. Usually they follow the IEC or CENELEC rules: Earth is green/yellow striped. Neutral is light blue. Lives are any other color but usually first live is brown.
They may also be brown if someone with a weird fetish was playing around with them ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@ElectricityTaster That's...
Absolutely disgusting.
Brown bread = dead
my dad always used "charlie BROWN is a LIVEly chap" as a mnemonic. If you're wondering *why* so many people in the UK know how to wire a plug, it's because devices used to be sold without them and everyone was just taught how to do it in school. As far as I know it's still part of the GCSE physics syllabus, so everyone who had a standard-ish school experience should be taught it by the age of 16
You literally proved just how far behind North America is by technological standards. It's sad that there are so many shadow lurking dangers that people just don't know about and could possibly die from. North America needs to get its act together. I studied electronics and electricity in North America and I can definitely say I have seen flaws in safety standards.
In a 'totally unrelated' point: American Healthcare is very profitable for the companies involved.
@@RichardJRussell fair point indeed. There is money in death.
They don't lack technology, they just don't want to adopt the same safety standards and regulations. Building redundancy into your system costs money, but it saves lives. I know I prefer the UK approach, even if we don't have proper sockets in the bathroom.
@@Shyndree yeah. North America isn't interested in saving lives. A simple master GFCI for buildings in general would be safer, but nope. It's cheaper to cut corners and take risks without a care.
I really dont think Americans are behind UK in terms of tech. But there are some oddities, like them NEVER having chip and pin, or debit cards in general. Americans just have a different attitude to safety vs personal freedom. Whilst in the states (San Jose), I saw a nice sofa in a store, and a window notice read "This sofa's foam contains known carcinogens, you buy at your own peril" Now in UK, that foam just would not be allowed in anything if it was KNOWN to cause cancer.
This is also why shotguns, min-guns and so on are given away in cereal packets over there. So the little tiddlers there can exercise their freedom as they see right (joke....).
(or is it...)
Bahaha, 3 minutes in and I think you may get kicked out of the UK
It took you three minutes? After 3 seconds he blends in the Union Jack and plays the soviet anthem.
@@dr.robertnick9599 it's called humor! =P
Robert Forslund bad bot
Who want for Mr. ElectroBOOm to do the same in the country of Venezuela and see if the crazy conspiracy theories of the dictatorship regarding the blackouts holds true after such a power shorting?
@@dr.robertnick9599 This is the UK, we really don't care about such things as a piece of cloth.
Hotel staff hate him find out how one man blew up an entire hotel with this simple trick
ISmokeNerfDarts lol
XD
😂😂😂🤣
We should all do that 😁
😂
Me visiting relatives house: *Being shy and not touching anything
ElectroBOOM: Hey couz, u have a breaker box? and can i pop your Outlets?
you dont have a 100 subs...............
@@nou3756 then can u help me out?
"can i pop your outlets?" sounds sexual and i think i would use it from now on.
Ha ha
😂😂😂
Thank you 'popping' over in the UK. Also thanks for adding such beautiful video clips.
Come back anytime.
Mehdi: Today im travelling to the UK!!
National Grid: *guard all our powerstations and houses, NOW*
🤣
God this cracked me up , thanks :)
😂😂😂
When did he go, we had a big outage recently...?
Things learned this episode of ElectroBoom. Never invite ElctroBoom to stay at your house.
What was the music name?
@Soplesz what?
Do you have link to that music?
I subscribed you bro.
@Soplesz.
A true nerd is someone who travels to a foreign country to check out their power outlets.
A true iranian can travel to another country only to see if their roades are good or bad...
@@dailyhamstercombat 😂
@@dailyhamstercombat As far as I know Iran has better roads than its neighbours, not UAE though, but the rest are certainly worse.
Hey that's how I got my husband to take me to mexico dont knock the nerds but then we worried about being burned to death u dont want to see how they treat electric safety there is non
Jennifer Scott what
Those shaver sockets in the bathroom are actually completely galvanically isolated with a 1:1 and/or 2:1 wound transformer inside them, that's why they're so strangely large.
The national power cut we had a few weeks ago makes a lot more sense now I know electroBOOM was over here
sean9234 who knows what else he blowed lol.
That powercut interrupted me watching a minecraft video on end cities!
i didn't notice this, Western Power Distribution must've been actually doing their jobs!
He was probably on that power line that went bang when they blew up the Didcot power station cooling towers!
I like how he shows the beauty whenever he does something that could get him in trouble
Remember kids, always shorten a foreign hotel outlet to establish dominance
*don't tempt me*
@@Sillimant_ you have a anime profile pic so you won't do it anyway
@@realcartoongirl you do too
Arthur Salim lol
😂😂
Speaking as a UK citizen. This is the best thing ive seen on you tube in forever.
On the phone to hotel receptionist: _"Is the breaker box accessible from the room?"_
"No, I didn't pop the RCD. Why would you..."
"*BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP*" (Yes, Electroboom managed to edit life)
You don't wanna tell people at airports that your channel is electro BOOM
Wait till they hear someone with the word "water" on someone's channel name.
HA i get it
LOL
Oh..I thought my comment got buried lol
@** -
YES , especially on fights to Israel, they are extra paranoid (they even use Racial Profiling for "security reasons") -... for them "ElectroBOOM" sounds like AlQuaeda
"Hotel managers hate this trick."
*misdemeanour
The British plugs and sockets have like a gazillion safety features and we are hugely proud of them!
We may need to rethink our power outlets here in the UK. We thought that we had come up with a safe system. Unfortunately we didn't account for this guy turning up to do "tests".
Lmfao
A engineer's proverb since time immemorial: "make it idiot-proof, and they'll make a smarter idiot"
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@@Geolaminar LOL LOL
@@camaroman101 who is lmfao
*goes to London*
"... first thing on my bucket list..."
- Annihilates Outlet -
Maximilian Moeck yeah lol
i just bought a bluetooth keyboard and i'm typing this comment with it. it's pretty cool bro thx for coming to my ted talk allah
This dude has literally made a living out of doing everything you're not supposed to with electricity.
It is a wonder he is still alive.
@@Frankhe78 99% of it is safely faked for dramatic and educational purposes.
He definitely knows what he's doing.
@@MrHidethecheese And that's why we all love him ;-)
he's doing in the name of science
@@MrHidethecheese big facepalm if you think its faked. It aint.
Uh…that Boyinaband shoutout didn’t really uh…you know
I don't know (unironically)
Can you explain
@@burrell222 he a pedo
@ Basically Boyinaband got exposed for abusing his wife and also talking to minors inappropriately
He was talking to minors online.
@@vincentfox4929 sigh....
Middle eastern guy carrying a lot of electrical / electronics testers. Trips the breakers of them TSA’s 😂
It's OK we were watching him from the moment he landed.
*iranian* ;D
Hmm, are there power outlets on airplane? Or what about using ESD tester on media center?
No point in telling them you are preparing Ramavan...
My dad always said that a good electric engineer always has a multimeter with themselves
Every time he says “Nothing should happen” I fully expect something to happen
*everything to happen
When I first saw this guy years ago I assumed he was an idiot. Now i know he is fully aware of EXACTLY what will happen.
"Nothing should happen" - and nothing happens.
So here we go again: "Nothing should happen", now change a bit in what we are doing - and still nothing happens.
So here we go a third time: "Nothing should happen", now we make sure something happens - and that's what he shows us 😂 😂😂
Never allow your electrician cousin to stay at your home
nah idk looks like allot of fun
He would probably end up having a chat with my father, who also is an electrician
sharma sharma **electromaniac
Electrical engineer
@@Akiralsdr electriciarsonist
0:10 this didn't age very well....
Was he a perver
@@turnip5359 Boy was pretty much
To be fair he was never taught what laws there are
ElectroBOOM: *Enters house*
House: *Chuckle* I’m in danger.
Electricity: *exists*
ElectroBOOM: “I’ll take you entire stock!”
Nice meme
FantasticFoxx I’ll take your entire *shock*
TheIvangallo , Watt?
@@TheIvangallo cha cha real smooooth
5:35 - "If you step on these plugs facing up, may God have mercy on your sole."
That pun tho XD
You spelled soul wrong
When i was young i jumped off my bunk bed and full on stepped on it ouch
@@michaelegotti6439 r/whoosh
@@michaelegotti6439 you understood the pun wrong
ohhhh it took me a while
"We are traveling to United Kingdom!"
_Soviet Anthem plays_
Ay cyka, are you a western spy
As a brit, I couldn't help but laugh
Napalm Flame You up at 1AM too then?
@@IdRatherNotHaveAHandleThankYou Yep, just another day at the office as far as things go!
Confirmed the united kingdom are communists
The only benefit of UK plugs that you didn’t mention is that Type G plugs are really hard to pull out of the wall by accident compared to the Type A plugs.
Coming with the bonus fun that whatever expensive item you were charging is now speeding towards your ankle at speed! :D
Theres another benefit, american plugs have those meaningless holes that ive seen too many tiktokers put wires in, something about them just suggests "solder something here!" in a way that UK plugs (being comparatively a lot more effort to connect something to) avoid
Imagine if one of the hotel staff stumbles upon this video and finds out who blew up their outlet
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@@jamieocarroll6804 thigh pain
Well 1. He's not in the UK anymore, what are they gonna do
And 2. It's just a breaker. He didn't destroy anything
Cleaning woman hears a bang from the room next door. Steps out into the hallway and notices a guy leaving the room in a hurry! Upon calling security, they discover burn marks on the wall and a whiff of smoke hanging in the air. Electroboom gets picked off the street, and has to explain his YT training videos to the nice people at MI5!
@@Xnoob545 He burnt and blackened a socket outlet. I know from experience that when that happens in that way (a thin wire caught between the pins) you cannot clean the mess up. The socket has to be replaced.
As an Englishman, I can confirm treading on one of our plugs is worse than treading on Lego.
As an British I approve of this gentleman's words
Yeah and the recovery can take over an hour if you tread with force.
Can confirm, stood on one as a teenager and felt my soul instantly leave my body.
You know the buckle on a belt right? You know the middle bit? That little prong you put in the hole? Well my belt was on the floor and that but was stuck up and when I was getting changed I stood on it and it went right into my foot
I have yet to experience it but I await the day with fear
Your trip just happened to coincide with the largest power cut here (UK) for nearly 15years..... Come on what else did you do 😂
In Oakham we were enjoying our life then *pop* power gone
My mum called the electric company and they said it would take an hour for Rutland power to come back
Luckily it only took 10 to 20 minutes
he really broke a whole countries electricity system with these experiments
He TRIPped the circuit...
Man, you were affected too!?
Jonjoe M-Walton hold up. American here. Can anybody elaborate on this power cut?
Those gas lamps are actually vents from the sewerage system. There was one on the way to my school. They burn 24\365. It was felt safer to burn it off at the high spots in the network where, otherwise, it might accumulate, back up and explode on Uncle John, lighting his cigar on the john, like a Russian sailor on a cruiser.
Them:
lol What did you do on your vacation...
Electro BOOM:
I shorted an entire floors electrical outlet.
Raver Magik Okay lets see, I take a cab to the hotel, check in, and within 10 seconds there’s a power outage caused by me “ElectroBOOM”
This guy is really fantastic.
In hotels you got protection for each room individually, so if you neighboor shorts something you still have light
Me: i travel to see new cities
ElectroBOOM: Travel in another country just to blow up power outlets, DONE
@Andrea Bussola -
He (ElectroBOOM) should travel to Germany, France, Switzerland (older vs new plugs / sockets), Israel (German domestic type HNA- sockets / plugs = other less known sockets www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/Schuko-origin.html ) etc. etc. Thailand for very different plugs / sockets
"If you step on these plugs, may God have mercy on your sole"
dying.
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@@lucidae-gigi there are 24 (4!) ways to arrange those letters
I can just imagine what the front desk at a hotel thinks when they recognize him checking in. They're probably "Oh fuck, not this guy. We better warn the maintenance staff..." LOL
"I can't find the breaker box, so I better not short anything"
"SO I PUT THIS WIRE BETWEEN THE NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE PRONGS"
It's Live/Hot and Neutral in AC you Dumbo
@@jammehrmann1871 bro please be polite somepeople dont know about it so
It's a stupid mistake and dumbo isn't a really offensive word, also I get triggered as an electrician seeing this
Of course even i got trigerd as an electronics Enthusiast but there are people out there like this we need to tell them
😂😂😂
“Wow these things are air conditioned”
LMFAO only he would find a thermostat more interesting then a dead ass skeleton
I would probably also be more interested in that as well.
Deadass
*dead ass skeleton*
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**shows the Union jack**
**plays Soviet anthem**
**confused screaming**
Lol
Raem G good
For once, it is not the French National Anthem
uk is a modern soviet union, he is correct
@@makorek I would read a book if I were you
2:55 - you absolute menace, you come to my city, mess everything up, and you don’t even tell me? 😂
I wonder how his cousin reacted to him shocking himself and popping breakers in their home ?
How about shorting live wires above a carpet
If his cousin is smart. He would have kicked back across the room with a bag of popcorn.
"I'm already embarrassed to have popped their breaker once. I'll wait until I get to my cousin's house."
The struggle it must be to be related to ElectroBOOM.
Electroboom sees any power outlet:
"so anyway, I started blasting"
Damn you made me laugh
Wow, _I've never seen that comment before._
So glad that there are other people out there that get those references
You plug at 6 minutes was missing the cable clamp. There should be a clamp across the exit held down by the two smaller screws that stops the cable from being pulled out.
It’s like watching Mr Bean do electrics, how is he still alive.
It's funny because Rowan Atkinson is an electric engineer;)
It's for show. He knows what not to do and why. :)
What everyone else said (thought that was obvious). And 120/240v is not as deadly as we make it out to be. Any electrician will tell you that. It's not like he's messing around with 3 phase 480+v
His sponsors won't let him die.
I kept thinking of the Christmas episode where Mr Bean pulled out a plug and the whole of Oxford Street's Christmas lights shut down. Disappointed that didn't happen here!
"I better not make any shorts."
Kills the whole hotel circuit in one go!
Way to go, MehdiBOOM!
Not quite.
It's funny to think about, sure, Lol.
But, as he explained; at least half explained; our breaker boxes don't take out the entire power to the building. If outlets short, then every outlet will be shut off.
But general lighting like lights, heating, and even cooking equipment, will continue to work.
That, and I believe larger buildings, such as hotels, have breakers for each floor.
When your crazy cousin from North America comes to visit...
well my crazy american cousin is from alabama, so that doesn't usually go well
@@rubencentro4974 Yeaaaahhhh.....that was little bit dark
American outlets give out half the power. British outlets scare the crap of me, they are the only ones I've seen literally explode
@@justyouraveragefluff2298 How TH did you get it to do that?
@@richardurwin4432 I was plugging something in while I wasn't paying attention and I heard a loud pop. I dropped the plug but I still got some of the shock and the outlet was now an ash black. With American outlets I've been shocked full force with those and Its just a zap instead of the british ones where it practically wants to incompacitate you. At least in my experience
** as a Brit I can confirm that there is no worse pain known than stepping on an upturned plug **
And thats not the national amthem
You're gonna end up on the list of people banned from the UK. 😂
Jokes aside people do genuinely get banned from countries for far less.
He's Iranian.
@@marny3559 He's Iranian, In Uk?
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@@Pugragger Yes.
This guy is going to shut down a hole city trying to charge an iPad in 10 seconds
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Im an electrician in the uk and i face palmed when you shorted the L + N with some wire... love your vids. Keep up the good work Mehdi :)
If that "easy plugging" chamfer wasn't there, it'd have pushed the wire away very effectively. But then .... Well. If you've ever tried to assemble a precision assembly like a watch or aircraft grade shit, you'd know what I'm talking about.
It's ElectroBOOM for a reason
In the UK, your "outlets" are only ever called SOCKETS. An outlet is a shop selling goods direct from the manufacturer and cutting out the retailer.
Is it really so difficult to understand the usage of the word? Must you also insist on being such an arrogant ass? Is it a requirement for a brit?
To be fair, a lot of people call them "plug-sockets". That's how you know they're not really into the subject matter.
"I've heard a lot about how safe their plugs and outlets are, I'm going to go there and test them a little bit."
Oh, no.
MyChannelOnThisSite he ruins something in every video, and the UK plugs are hard to ruin, so either he ruins the plugs or dies to them
But hey, in North America, who cares about redundancy?
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The Max 8?, or what ever it was called.
Yeah.... lets not bug test the code.. oh 200 people died.
@@_Hal9000 Lets also blame it on an intern
@@shashankiyer5751 did this seriously happen?
Why do something twice when you can do it once? (⊙ ͜ ⊙ )
@@dominicjose1116 Something like that happened for sure, I remembered reading about it
Serbians: HEY CUSIN LETS GO BOWLING
Mehdians:HEY COUSIN LETS BREAK YOUR BREAKER BOX
Serbians?
@@яРатко Niko and Roman Bellic from GTA IV are serbians.
@@rnc7468 I know that, I was confused when he wrote "Serbians" cause you don't see that so often lol
1:46 "I better not make any shorts"
*Immediately shorts live to neutral on a 240V outlet*
Love you
Mehdi: we are traveling to United Kingdom
Also Mehdi: Uses Soviet Anthem when the british flag shows.
@Lucien Hicks I wish that were funny, not just true.
@Lucien Hicks aww boo fucking hoo
@@Jaytwisty23 lmao he is taking the piss, he isn't upset/triggered like u seem to be.
Countdown to the British Republic
Medhi supports Corbyn for PM
UK appliance plugs: MAX SAFETY, youre more likely to accidentaly strangle yourself on the wire then get shocked
American companies and plugs : May the odds be Ever in Your Favor
True and painful when stepped on.
@@mrmangosir That's called Behaviour modification, it's to remind people to not be such dolts and leave a plug on the damn floor.
@@matts1603 good point. Americans be like _"yikes I stepped on a lego."_
*Meanwhile in the UK*
_"Lego? That's like a plastic brick massage."_
Especially if you annoy the Russian mafia, when your body will be found with an orange taped in your mouth and a length of flex round your neck, zipped in a sail bag in the bathtub.
Strangled AND shocked?, doesn't sound safe at all.
Me: sight-sees in uk
Electroboom: **tries to burn hotel down**
Hotel: well shit were screwed
As someone who lives in the UK, I can vouch that standing on plugs is very painful