As an electrician id caution against putting your light switch in a halfway state. Switches are designed to snap from on to off to minimize the chance of a spark when the connections are either made or broken. The odds of it leading to a fire are low but the risk still exists. Interesting idea and video though.
As a former US Navy I.C.E. ( USS Kincaid DDG-965 ) I humbly disagree for the following reason: Technically you can’t leave a light switch in the middle. I’ll pause while you no doubt go and try - I’m sure you want to see for yourself. Suppose you come back thinking you’ve proved me wrong. In that case, I’ll bet that the switch had some resistance when you tried to leave it in the middle, and it was a fine balancing act to prevent it from snapping back to the state it was already in. That’s because the internal of a light switch works using a snap-action that’s called hysteresis. This is where the switch is designed to instantaneously switch at a specific position. As you start pressing a light switch, you’re moving the internal switch, but the contacts stay completely motionless. As soon as the switch reaches a certain point, the pressure causes the contact to snap into the second position, completing the circuit. So you might be able to position the external switch ‘in the middle.’ Still, the components inside won’t have moved until you pass that threshold. Nothing is happening inside the switch, and so like I said, technically, you can’t leave a light switch in the middle, despite how it might appear. Except, that’s only true with working light switches in good condition.
@@stewiepid4385 The Navy must use higher grade switches (thank you for your service by the way) than what the typical box store has because i guarantee you that if you slowly switch every switch in your home one or two of them will make a crackling noise while doing so.
Genius design, as always. Please never stop making knot videos. You are great at explaining them and I like that you start with the practical uses where other youtubers might just show how to tie a knot, largely ignoring its practical value.
This is fantastic. I've used exploding knots for this type of application, but like you pointed out, there are varying degrees of resistance and it's finicky to get right. This solution is awesome and I plan to fold this into my assortment of go to knots.
I love that the tripwire in that *Two-Loop 4-Strand Knot* breaks the tension of the counterweight-not by releasing a knot but by acting as a simple lever to nudge the knot out of the way.
Finally an alternative to The Clapper. Excellent presentation and explanation of a very interesting knot. First time seeing your Channel but it's the content I never knew I needed so subscribed.
Another masterful demonstration. I can’t adequately express my level of appreciation for your content so I have to settle for this comment and a declaration of my commitment to buy some of your shirts I see linked below this video.
Honestly you should make an app with all these knots. You could have a menu with “stopper knots, joining knots, end of the rope loops (bowline, figure 8, ect). Then link or have the videos built into the pages
I have bought a similar app, it's called "useful knots" (or useful knots pro) Its really handy, if first class amateur doesn't want to make his own app they could just cooperate with them and save himself the work of making and entire new app...
Yes. The analogies between a paracord tripwire and an electrical relay are interesting. One type of electrical relay uses a low voltage / low amperage circuit to control a high voltage / high amperage circuit. The equivalent paracord "circuit" uses a low tension knot to control (release) a higher tension knot.
I feel like in the same way when you demonstrate the ability to others to tie a noose and they quickly come to a conclusion on your mental health... When you demonstrate the ability to make a tripwire you show that you are a methodical well read individual that should not be fucked with. I guess it's almost the preemptive nature of learning the knot and the knot itself shows a sort of readyness, just lying in wait... preparation of shit going bad... That being said it is a tool, nothing inherently bad about it but kind of funny the connotation things have in the mind... Rope knowledge is so neat.
Bravo, I do something similar to this because I have a slip that's hard to get out of when the current is running .. so now that I think about it I'm going to rig all my fenders to drop simotaineously when I get back to the slip .. single handed sailing
Nice! I used to use something similar to this knot to hold loose rope out of my face while in precarious positions during limb removals, only it wasn't as elegant because I was an autodidactic quasi-rope-wizard... Meaning I made sh-t up and prayed it worked... The autodidactic part came in when it didn't..💥💀
I wonder if it would work with magician's thread. It's usually nylon monofilament so elasticity might be a problem but it might be something you can account for. You know, just to take your scalability to absurd levels.
When we were kids my Brothers and I created a pulley to turn off the lights if the door knob turned. We drove our Aunt crazy one night, because she couldn't understand how we were turning the lights off and be quick enough to get into bed. LOL good times.
Or you can get a German shepherd. They will alert you to an intruder by barking/growling first and then the screams of the intruder as they are being mauled and having their face ripped off! That’s my favorite security alarm. Haha but this is awesome and I love these ideas and videos!
How bloody marvelous!!! new ways to boobytrap my place when I leave for a month at a time!!! i can see this making some very interesting vids from my hidden SIM trailcams
It can only be triggered once, like an airbag. Unless you plan to rig booby traps like Home Alone or Rambo, better use CCTV or sensors. You'll be in a lot of trouble if someone gets injured
Reminds me of my youth back in Ohio. Perhaps minus the knot skills. I was always rigging up stuff like this though. Now I work as a maintenence engineer at a Las Vegas casino. So those skills payed off. Haha
As a professional amateur myself, I thoroughly approve of this message. Be careful about leaving switches in the middle like that, you can get arcing between the contacts. Unless of course you've just insured your home and.. Nevermind.
The fun begins when you combine this kind of thing with a mousetrap and matches to launch a bunch of bottle-rockets at somebody poking around at a back entrance.
Once when I was a kid, I tried to put he switch on the middle position, and I got a shock, I don't remember well how it felt, but I think it hurted a lot.
I was watching this because I was bored and none of my channels I subscribe to had anything that I haven’t watched. I thought that it was going to be uninteresting. KNOT! 😉
Loved the knots themselves, and the exposition. Cringed so hard my face popped right off my skull at the un-blinded taste test. Expectations distort flavor perception like crazy.
as a dirtbiker, i've been finding many dangerous traps like this being set in the trail to hurt us riders, there are really people out there just trying to clothsline people going 50 mph on dirtbikes and atv's, its so wild.
Some kid was killed on a snowmobile by someone who did this. He wanted to pull the rider off their machine but a kid being much lower took it to the neck and killed him. Guy is doing time now rightfully so
using the screws for the light switch cover to hold the string, is pretty damn clever................... but...... you cant tell some one which is which in a taste test untill after they taste it.
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As an electrician id caution against putting your light switch in a halfway state. Switches are designed to snap from on to off to minimize the chance of a spark when the connections are either made or broken. The odds of it leading to a fire are low but the risk still exists. Interesting idea and video though.
As a former US Navy I.C.E. ( USS Kincaid DDG-965 ) I humbly disagree for the following reason:
Technically you can’t leave a light switch in the middle.
I’ll pause while you no doubt go and try - I’m sure you want to see for yourself.
Suppose you come back thinking you’ve proved me wrong.
In that case, I’ll bet that the switch had some resistance when you tried to leave it in the middle, and it was a fine balancing act to prevent it from snapping back to the state it was already in.
That’s because the internal of a light switch works using a snap-action that’s called hysteresis.
This is where the switch is designed to instantaneously switch at a specific position.
As you start pressing a light switch, you’re moving the internal switch, but the contacts stay completely motionless.
As soon as the switch reaches a certain point, the pressure causes the contact to snap into the second position, completing the circuit.
So you might be able to position the external switch ‘in the middle.’ Still, the components inside won’t have moved until you pass that threshold.
Nothing is happening inside the switch, and so like I said, technically, you can’t leave a light switch in the middle, despite how it might appear.
Except, that’s only true with working light switches in good condition.
@@stewiepid4385 The Navy must use higher grade switches (thank you for your service by the way) than what the typical box store has because i guarantee you that if you slowly switch every switch in your home one or two of them will make a crackling noise while doing so.
@@beansmalone1305 Can confirm, mine sound like they are sparking inside at a couple points if I switch it slowly.
@beans malone yes. Often true in UK as well.
@@beansmalone1305 you have to believe 90% of switches in American walls are contractor specials costing less than $1
Do I have a clue what I'd actually use this for? No.
Is this an excellent presentation? Yes!
Spy movie scene 🕶️
nuclear devices 🤓
For when the ATF shows up to shoot your dog
Keep kleptomaniac archaeologists out of your temple.
A home alone situation
I'm glad you like it!!!!!😂 Thanks so much!
Very kind of you! God bless
Do you ship to switzerland? Where can I order? :}
@@iDoPew how can I contact you?! 🤔
@@SuperPatleo Do you have IG? :)
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These types of videos manage to become super interesting late at night when you have work the next morning...
Genius design, as always. Please never stop making knot videos. You are great at explaining them and I like that you start with the practical uses where other youtubers might just show how to tie a knot, largely ignoring its practical value.
This is one of the most in depth videos on tripwires I've ever seen. Awesome. Thank you.
This is fantastic. I've used exploding knots for this type of application, but like you pointed out, there are varying degrees of resistance and it's finicky to get right.
This solution is awesome and I plan to fold this into my assortment of go to knots.
not to mention it's also hard to piece the rope back together after it explodes with the knot
I love that the tripwire in that *Two-Loop 4-Strand Knot* breaks the tension of the counterweight-not by releasing a knot but by acting as a simple lever to nudge the knot out of the way.
Finally an alternative to The Clapper. Excellent presentation and explanation of a very interesting knot. First time seeing your Channel but it's the content I never knew I needed so subscribed.
Thanks!
This the first time I ever watched a video about a knot. Now I'm heavily intrigued
Ive never had an easy time understanding knot tying until this video thank you
You guys are adorable
FCA ,2 me. I Believe in learning!
Interesting readymade; with thought?
I believe wholehearted.
Another masterful demonstration. I can’t adequately express my level of appreciation for your content so I have to settle for this comment and a declaration of my commitment to buy some of your shirts I see linked below this video.
This is really going to up my spiky log trap game, at my hobo camp.
I'd stick to toggles for your spike traps and ied's.
Honestly you should make an app with all these knots. You could have a menu with “stopper knots, joining knots, end of the rope loops (bowline, figure 8, ect). Then link or have the videos built into the pages
I would pay good money for that app
I have bought a similar app, it's called "useful knots" (or useful knots pro)
Its really handy, if first class amateur doesn't want to make his own app they could just cooperate with them and save himself the work of making and entire new app...
Knots3D already exists. It's like $4, best app out there.
Apps like that already exist. Knots3d is a good one.
There are a bunch of knot apps already; animated knots by grog has a website I've used regularly too (website's free, app is paid).
This looks like the (mostly) grown up version of Home Alone. If I ever used this information, the results would be significantly more kinetic. :-)
So that double-coil knot is effectively a mechanical version of a semi-conductor being used to amplify a signal. Very cool.
Yes. The analogies between a paracord tripwire and an electrical relay are interesting. One type of electrical relay uses a low voltage / low amperage circuit to control a high voltage / high amperage circuit. The equivalent paracord "circuit" uses a low tension knot to control (release) a higher tension knot.
I feel like in the same way when you demonstrate the ability to others to tie a noose and they quickly come to a conclusion on your mental health...
When you demonstrate the ability to make a tripwire you show that you are a methodical well read individual that should not be fucked with.
I guess it's almost the preemptive nature of learning the knot and the knot itself shows a sort of readyness, just lying in wait... preparation of shit going bad...
That being said it is a tool, nothing inherently bad about it but kind of funny the connotation things have in the mind... Rope knowledge is so neat.
Bravo, I do something similar to this because I have a slip that's hard to get out of when the current is running .. so now that I think about it I'm going to rig all my fenders to drop simotaineously when I get back to the slip .. single handed sailing
Now my daughter can take her pranks to the next level. 😉
Nice!
I used to use something similar to this knot to hold loose rope out of my face while in precarious positions during limb removals, only it wasn't as elegant because I was an autodidactic quasi-rope-wizard...
Meaning I made sh-t up and prayed it worked... The autodidactic part came in when it didn't..💥💀
I wonder if it would work with magician's thread. It's usually nylon monofilament so elasticity might be a problem but it might be something you can account for. You know, just to take your scalability to absurd levels.
Excellent video. First time I’ve seen this type of knot.
Is your kid saying "I did a work" ?? adorable !
Awesome knot, friend! God bless ya in Jesus name. Thanks from Texas.
When we were kids my Brothers and I created a pulley to turn off the lights if the door knob turned. We drove our Aunt crazy one night, because she couldn't understand how we were turning the lights off and be quick enough to get into bed. LOL good times.
As EOD, this is a wonderful presentation and certainly being used in my next practice op.
Or you can get a German shepherd. They will alert you to an intruder by barking/growling first and then the screams of the intruder as they are being mauled and having their face ripped off! That’s my favorite security alarm. Haha but this is awesome and I love these ideas and videos!
cheers from Las Vegas my friend!
Great video. Your skills are extraordinary. Thank you for sharing them. 🪢
How bloody marvelous!!! new ways to boobytrap my place when I leave for a month at a time!!! i can see this making some very interesting vids from my hidden SIM trailcams
It can only be triggered once, like an airbag. Unless you plan to rig booby traps like Home Alone or Rambo, better use CCTV or sensors. You'll be in a lot of trouble if someone gets injured
@@cyy3793 ......only if they find the body!!!!
@@ssnerd583 omg.. may god bless the intruder..😂
That's going to be useful the next time I'm in the jungle bringing hunted by an alien trophy hunter.
Shows us how to set up boobytraps and then makes a kid walk through it. This guy has all the best ideas.
I use a reverse Kalmyk as a tripwire, then the loop can bear as much load as possible but has very little resistance to trip it open
Reminds me of my youth back in Ohio. Perhaps minus the knot skills. I was always rigging up stuff like this though. Now I work as a maintenence engineer at a Las Vegas casino. So those skills payed off. Haha
Speaking ONLY for myself, Rube Goldberg and Wyle E Coyote, the three of us are EXTREMELY PROUD of your work!!!!
Gotta LOVE a good Boobie Trap😁
That's hilarious I was thinking of Rube Goldberg and Wyle E Coyote watching this as well
Thanks for this! I just dropped a huuuuge log on a hiker, LOL!
Awesome channel
This guy is one more COVID lockdown away from figuring out a cure for cancer that you can make with random household objects
This looks like it's a setup for some Home Alone style death trap but it just switches the light on lmao
AWESOME, crazy, funny and cute! Thank You very much Sir for sharing Your genius ideas! Greetings from France ^_^
I’ll never need this but I watched the entire video at 3am just in case…
Beautiful home and family, this was a great video. Thanks so much for sharing
Great video thanks these knots help a lot
If I was a burglar, my first though would be "I'm glad that was not connected to something spicy that goes bang" and then I would run away
As a professional amateur myself, I thoroughly approve of this message. Be careful about leaving switches in the middle like that, you can get arcing between the contacts. Unless of course you've just insured your home and.. Nevermind.
The fun begins when you combine this kind of thing with a mousetrap and matches to launch a bunch of bottle-rockets at somebody poking around at a back entrance.
Once when I was a kid, I tried to put he switch on the middle position, and I got a shock, I don't remember well how it felt, but I think it hurted a lot.
Ye, what he shows here can burn down your house
I was watching this because I was bored and none of my channels I subscribe to had anything that I haven’t watched. I thought that it was going to be uninteresting. KNOT! 😉
Thanks for the video.
This video makes the movie 'Home Alone' a bit more plausible.
Kevin Mccallister would be proud.
Im building this at my tower company to surprise whoever is first into the office
Thank you
Absolutly Usefull
A wireless remote switch to a light(or socket plug Wher a siren or other thing could be plug in) under the carpet would probably work too. 🤔 😂
This is cool af
But a tripwire can be done so much easier with a close pin and 8th grade circuit knowledge
Neat little knot!
Teach a teacher a shortcut, without possible trouble.
You became a teacher.
Could you put a pen in the bite to act as a safety pin while you’re assembling the tripwire?
They'll never notice, they're all gonna notice. They'll never notice, they noticed.
So thankful and grateful.
An occupancy sensor ?
But I do like the knots that you are showing 👍 you've must have been in the Navy
Army, 82nd Airborne. Thanks for the comment
Awesome
In Vietnam it was called a trigger knot!
A motion sensor LED light bulb works too.
Idk what I'm gonna use this for but thanks 🤷🤣
Loved the knots themselves, and the exposition. Cringed so hard my face popped right off my skull at the un-blinded taste test. Expectations distort flavor perception like crazy.
So clever
Brought to you by Italian olive oil. :)
I like to think he sets up this light switch tripwire every day before leaving for work.
4:08," ima bird,ima plane ,ima choo cho train!.
The burglars are going to be impressed at my lightswitch tripwire traps I've set up for them.
as a dirtbiker, i've been finding many dangerous traps like this being set in the trail to hurt us riders, there are really people out there just trying to clothsline people going 50 mph on dirtbikes and atv's, its so wild.
Although I'd assume you don't need a tripwire knot to clothesline someone, just a couple square knots! Thats crazy though stay safe!
@@Sophia.L64 oh, yeah no i just meant the straight wire, yeah we have to avoid some trails now, because there are psychos setting traps.
Some kid was killed on a snowmobile by someone who did this. He wanted to pull the rider off their machine but a kid being much lower took it to the neck and killed him. Guy is doing time now rightfully so
@@Teh_Random_Canadian yep, sounds about right
my claymores have never been more efficient
This is a very neat video! Does this work with a shotgun?
Be careful keeping the switch halfway, the spring was put in them to stop them arcing.
I prefer a "12-gauge alert"... Messy, but effective...
1:33 2 loops in 1 of the corners is some space/time stuff
Omg I would love some of that olive oil how do you do a trade like that?
Good for a house trap
You are MacGyver!
using the screws for the light switch cover to hold the string, is pretty damn clever................... but...... you cant tell some one which is which in a taste test untill after they taste it.
what kind of bread is that? the one they dipped in the olive oil
Pita bread
@@First_Class_Amateur i just went to the store and bought pita bread, thank you
From the thumbnail I can guarantee nobody is going to touch that light switch by accident.
The olive oil test would be better without telling it before what oil is from where. 🖖
Russian Wagner watching this to learn how to make doorway triggered explosives
You can also tie the tripwire to a trigger on a shotgun and get rid of some low life home intruder. Happy tripwiring kids!
Hey wheres the video you made of lifting something onto the top of a truck. suspending it inside the garage, then driving under it?
MacGyver! Lol. Fun
WERE do you use it fore?????
Top tier
Every ounce of me says never trust a guy who talks about tripwires in a happy voice.
trippy
Nice analog Smart Device
Why? St. Paul.
good
Could be useful in urban conflict if the counterweight is a hand grenade.
as a parent i always make sure my kids test things for poison too.