@@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!
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...
@@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.
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.
As an electrician, I was watching some of your antics through my fingers. 30mA is deemed the minimum that would stop a human heart. The bathroom adaptors are isolating transformers 1:1, so 230 in 230 out but the output has no reference to earth. Our 13A plugs are the world's best IMO, but a bugger to stand on in bare feet in the dark.
Most defibs give you somewhere in the vague range of 40 amps of current. We want to shut your heart down so that it restarts simultaneously and stops fibrillating.
Fun fact- UK plugs are actually only held together with 1 screw (in the middle). The other 2 screws (at the bottom) clamp the cable to stop it coming out of the plug.
@@baibavdas9093 commonwealth countries will adapt either the British standard or the "Offshore British" standard which is basically Australia with their rounded plugs
@@aoyuki1409 ??? Australia has plat prongs on active, neutral and ground prongs. I also really appreciate the fact that it's simply impossible to plug in an Aus plug backwards (as we all know that some devices have plugs with no earth, in other systems you could theoretically accidentally flip it and plug it in wrong, but it is simply geometrically impossible with an au plug.) Otherwise I gotta give it to the UK, they have great plugs/sockets.
@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 )
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.
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".
@** - YES , especially on fights to Israel, they are extra paranoid (they even use Racial Profiling for "security reasons") -... for them "ElectroBOOM" sounds like AlQuaeda
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.
The plastic on the lower part of the pins is to prevent small fingers touching the live parts when inserting or withing the plug. NOT FOR WRAPPING WIRE ROUND.
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
@@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!
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!
@@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.
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.
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...)
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.
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.
"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 😂 😂😂
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.
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
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?
I'm loving this travelling series.. I know it's not current so to speak.. But this guy has made so many videos that I can travel back in time and still catch the ingenious yet silly shenanigans of Medhi. Fellow Canadian here.
Before the middle ages and the invention of the Iron Maiden torture device, people were forced to walk barefoot across rooms with floors coated with upturned 3 pin plugs.
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.
"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.
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
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
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!
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.
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.
Maybe Photonicinduction is back. Maybe he is Electroboom's cousin. Maybe Bigclivedotcom turned his thermostat above 5°C. Maybe we should call The Doctor. Who knows? It's the UK!
I've always wondered how much of your stuff is actually staged ...... You charring up the front of that hotel socket after you shorted it out answered my question 😂🤣😂🤣
yes he stages some of the explosions as he demonstrated in one of his videos but if its safe for him to try he wont mind getting shocked once in a while
On a brief short like that the soot wipes off as soon as it's touched, but on something that was hot longer it gets sticky. Tripping the breaker for the room was probably unintentional
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
@@HerrRussoTragik I normally work with 16A / 32A but there are actually 125A ones. I also never saw one but they seem to exist. Also in Germany we have weird sockets like Perilex.
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 :)
@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
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.
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. No damage done. Only need to flip the breaker again. If the breaker is triggered again, for apparent no reason, then the outlet itself will be disconnected from the system. We have a tonne of redundancies in place to ensure as little damage happens when things like these, happen. ^^
@@Sophie-dt3ck tell me more about it when those damn breakers and fuses blow out in substation but everything else is untouched but should had to blow before substation. What you say is true but sometimes happens some weird stuff. What i explained now happened with me at work with testing station which had own substation and when accidentalt two phases were shorted and tho every other smaller fuse had to blow before substation fuses, guess what, substation ones blew and everything else did not and were fully functional. I assure you that substation fuses were bigger in every way than testing station fuses and breakers. Funny stuff just happens sometimes.
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.
Also electrical outlets in bathrooms are also supposed to have isolation transformers. If you plug a shaver or adapter in, it is often possible to hear a buzzing sound coming from the transformer.
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.
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
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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.
@@dominicjose3660 which is stupid, there is no need to burn gas just for a shitty street lamp what the fuck
"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
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.
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"!!! :)
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
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!
As an electrician, I was watching some of your antics through my fingers. 30mA is deemed the minimum that would stop a human heart. The bathroom adaptors are isolating transformers 1:1, so 230 in 230 out but the output has no reference to earth. Our 13A plugs are the world's best IMO, but a bugger to stand on in bare feet in the dark.
Most defibs give you somewhere in the vague range of 40 amps of current. We want to shut your heart down so that it restarts simultaneously and stops fibrillating.
is that 30mA applied directly to the heart tissue?
@@KarldorisLambley I believe its a current path from arm to arm across the chest.
@@briwire138 aha. Thanks for your reply. Wow 30mA isn't much at all
RCDs are designed to shut off fast enough that 30 mA shouldn't be lethal
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
I like how he shows the beauty whenever he does something that could get him in trouble
*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
Fun fact- UK plugs are actually only held together with 1 screw (in the middle). The other 2 screws (at the bottom) clamp the cable to stop it coming out of the plug.
Not only uk its used in India also only with a round shape of the tip
most schuko plugs are this way too. minus the fuse (the fuse is a relic of the ring mains post ww2 days) of course.
@@baibavdas9093 commonwealth countries will adapt either the British standard or the "Offshore British" standard which is basically Australia with their rounded plugs
@@aoyuki1409 true but our one is more different
@@aoyuki1409 ??? Australia has plat prongs on active, neutral and ground prongs. I also really appreciate the fact that it's simply impossible to plug in an Aus plug backwards (as we all know that some devices have plugs with no earth, in other systems you could theoretically accidentally flip it and plug it in wrong, but it is simply geometrically impossible with an au plug.) Otherwise I gotta give it to the UK, they have great plugs/sockets.
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!
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 😁
😂
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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)
"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
The plastic on the lower part of the pins is to prevent small fingers touching the live parts when inserting or withing the plug. NOT FOR WRAPPING WIRE ROUND.
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!
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?
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.
0:14 that one didn't age quite so well
Can you give context?
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.
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.
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
Thank you 'popping' over in the UK. Also thanks for adding such beautiful video clips.
Come back anytime.
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!
"Hotel managers hate this trick."
*misdemeanour
**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
The shaver socket will be on the 5 amp circuit. Glad you enjoyed your trip to the UK, and the wonderful weather we have here.
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
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
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
The British outlet is considered “the safest plug in the world” because of its many safety mechanisms
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...?
“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??
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
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.
@@richardrussell7082 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...)
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.
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.
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
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.
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 😂 😂😂
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.
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.
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?
Everyone else: It's a very nice hotel
Some random electric guy: WHERRREE DZEEEE BREAKERRR BOXXX!?!?!!!
LOL
Lmao
bwahahahahahah
Electrician instinct
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]
if you are DIYer u cant miss my channel
ruclips.net/video/kz0tK8Teks4/видео.html
@ *stop spamming*
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
Speaking as a UK citizen. This is the best thing ive seen on you tube in forever.
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!_
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.
if you are DIYer u cant miss my channel
ruclips.net/video/kz0tK8Teks4/видео.html
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 loving this travelling series.. I know it's not current so to speak.. But this guy has made so many videos that I can travel back in time and still catch the ingenious yet silly shenanigans of Medhi. Fellow Canadian here.
"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
😂😂😂
*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
ElectroBoom banned from UK for causing city-wide power outage.
Before the middle ages and the invention of the Iron Maiden torture device, people were forced to walk barefoot across rooms with floors coated with upturned 3 pin plugs.
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
😂😂
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)
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
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
"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.
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
Today we learned something very important.
Dont let electroboom into your house
Edit: I'm not thankful for the likes 😊
How have you only learned that just now....?
No AirBNB for you!
or hotel
Hahaha ....
He can visit me anytime. I think we could have some good laughs about stupid engineering.
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.
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
😂😂😂
"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
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!
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.
Imagine if one of the hotel staff stumbles upon this video and finds out who blew up their outlet
👁️ 👄 👁️
@@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.
England had power outages across large parts of the country a few weeks ago, now we find out ElectroBOOM came here. Coincidence?
Richard Fenn probably
Maybe Photonicinduction is back. Maybe he is Electroboom's cousin. Maybe Bigclivedotcom turned his thermostat above 5°C. Maybe we should call The Doctor. Who knows? It's the UK!
holy shit, you're right! We had a 24 hour power cut a few days ago in my city, which is definitely not the norm.
Haha maybeee
Richard Fenn I think not
0:03
**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
0:10 this didn't age very well....
Was he a perver
@@turnip5359 Boy was pretty much
I've always wondered how much of your stuff is actually staged ...... You charring up the front of that hotel socket after you shorted it out answered my question 😂🤣😂🤣
What was the answer? I'm still not sure lol
He has showed some of it is. Still funny regardless
yes he stages some of the explosions as he demonstrated in one of his videos but if its safe for him to try he wont mind getting shocked once in a while
On a brief short like that the soot wipes off as soon as it's touched, but on something that was hot longer it gets sticky. Tripping the breaker for the room was probably unintentional
@Dr. Meghnad No, they'd just reset the breaker, they'd only call in an electrician if it kept tripping after they'd reset it
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
Mehdi in Europe, working with stronger Voltages. They grow up so early. Next lookout for 400V 125A CEE-Sockets in Germany.
Oh sweet balls dont give him the idea man
Aren't the 3 phase sockets everywhere in EU?
Deadschland...Electrocutedeutschland...
But I never saw a 125A, only 32A!
@@HerrRussoTragik I normally work with 16A / 32A but there are actually 125A ones. I also never saw one but they seem to exist. Also in Germany we have weird sockets like Perilex.
.@@HerrRussoTragik.....
a crane perhaps..
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 :)
Imagine border security looking through his bag and finding just a bunch of plugs and cords
Samuel Waterhouse he's Muslim to right? I would have been sweating.
lowercase21 lol
@@lowercase21 what does it have to do with muslims u racist shit
@@yl90 Islam isn't a race you brainlet.
@@yl90 it has everything to do with Muslims, you boomer.
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
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
Uh…that Boyinaband shoutout didn’t really uh…you know
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
Me: sight-sees in uk
Electroboom: **tries to burn hotel down**
Hotel: well shit were screwed
This guy is going to shut down a hole city trying to charge an iPad in 10 seconds
*Photonicinduction has joined the server.*
*Whole
@@TheSurvivalDude723 Ok
*Whole
@@ShaunForhan 01010111 01101000 01101111 01101100 01100101 00101010
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.
ElectroBOOM in a UK Hotel...
...I'm about to end this Hotels whole Electricity System!
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.
No damage done.
Only need to flip the breaker again.
If the breaker is triggered again, for apparent no reason, then the outlet itself will be disconnected from the system.
We have a tonne of redundancies in place to ensure as little damage happens when things like these, happen. ^^
Wait, when did he ever say he was going to end the whole electrical system? What part of the video?
ruclips.net/video/LTDtD8lGOsw/видео.html
I feel bad for the hotel
@@Sophie-dt3ck tell me more about it when those damn breakers and fuses blow out in substation but everything else is untouched but should had to blow before substation. What you say is true but sometimes happens some weird stuff. What i explained now happened with me at work with testing station which had own substation and when accidentalt two phases were shorted and tho every other smaller fuse had to blow before substation fuses, guess what, substation ones blew and everything else did not and were fully functional. I assure you that substation fuses were bigger in every way than testing station fuses and breakers. Funny stuff just happens sometimes.
"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.
"If you step on these plugs, may God have mercy on your sole"
dying.
sole
sole
sole
sloe
sole
elos
seol
@@lucidae-gigi there are 24 (4!) ways to arrange those letters
Also electrical outlets in bathrooms are also supposed to have isolation transformers. If you plug a shaver or adapter in, it is often possible to hear a buzzing sound coming from the transformer.
Thats what that noise is! I always wondered why it 'buzzed' when I put my electric toothbrush charger in.
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
The fact that he knows how to hurt himself and not kill himself proves how smart he really is
@@Khaled_ebn_alwalid123 🤡
I mean shooting myself on the foot will hurt but not kill me but i wouldint call that a smart move
@@ronald2042 because he is INDIAN
@@মঙ্গলহাওলাদার He's not, he's Canadian. And he was born in Iran, so isn't Indian at all.
Trust him, he is an engineer
Me: *A College Student having a Degree in Power Systems Distribution*
*ElectroBoom got Shocked*
*This pleases me*
nice flex
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