I have unintentionally dealt with a situation like this years ago as a lineman. Watching this, triggers the electrical smell in my nose. Much like PTSD, because it scared the living daylights out of me the first several times. I never got used to it. I learned to expect it.
If you create an arc gap, keep blowing compressed air to sustain the arc, followed by a LC section, you get beautiful blue lighting arcs of same length. The arc produces high frequency currents and the effect is very impressive. Regards.
Those 50Hz reverbs are really nice. Have you tried building a Jacobs ladder with this kind of setup? I imagine you'd be able to get some pretty awesome arcs.
This shows why the street electrical grid line (primary power lines) they are so deadly and dangerous. It would be because they have high voltage (between 13.8 Kv and 44 Kv) and also a very high amperage (greater than 10 A), which is a feeder for several neighborhoods, the impact of the explosions and the electric arc are great, and anyone who even gets close is instantly electrocuted and toasted.
Thank you for demonstrating this - I always thought it was the voltage potential and not the current that determined how far something can arc - and if it is a higher current arc it will be brighter (obviously) and have more of an orange tint. I guess this is partially correct - you still need to get within 6 inches to start the arc but at a higher current more air is ionized so it can travel farther. Love the magnetic roar when you get over 500 mA - wonder how much you electric bill is at a 20kW arc there - sounds awesome. 1A 20kV death on a stick there mate :)
Thanks bro :) You need the best combination of voltage AND current for the best arcs. But you have a pretty big range where doubling the voltage or the current gives you an arc twice the size. At 20KV I would say you can increase the current up to at least 200A before you have to increase the voltage further for even bigger arcs. Increasing the current from around 500A up to 1000A at 20KV would just give you a brighter arc but not a bigger one.
Because the arc is a short, the voltage drops significantly, thus limiting the size of the arc. The more current there is available, the smaller the voltage drop will be and thus the bigger the arc.
@@WhoisRoach It still pulls roughly 20 kW, which still would overload a European CEE socket outputting 400V at 32/48A.. that socket is a big 64 or more amp socket meant for EVs.. (Roughly - a transformer is a mostly inductive load, with a power factor of around 0.6 that's 12 kW of real power and 8 kW of reactive power).
@@imnothecker1124no. I think the 1 Amp is at the transformer input. (Normally output when the transformer was used on a grid) Obviously using one phase only. If the input voltage is 400V so with one Amp it makes 400VA, roughly 400W
Playing with such power must be very exciting, scary, thrilling and intoxicating even. Harnesing the power of electo-magnetism was one of mankind's greatest achievements. Still we should be cautious because those powers will never be fully under our own control even though we think we understand them. Anyways your home lab is very neat!
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@@herrlito-hv How do they work and how precise are they? Are they basically just transformer in series? And what's the losses there? Will the same amount of power that goes to lightning in one device go to heat in those ballasts? Would be interesting to finally understand the details of how they work.
@@herrlito-hv in case of electrocution the only things that really matter is that you don't put the house on fire and that those who find you don't risk getting electrocuted in turn, because by then for you it's finished :-)
it would be interesting to see what would happen if you sealed two electrodes in a vacuum and then ran it at each power level. i think in a vacuum you could space the gap very far cause there is supposedly no "breakdown voltage" for vacuum, but since you have a high current high voltage supply, compared to a neon sign transformer, i think the results would be nonexistent on the internet except for if you made a video and posted it. the results would be quite educational. since there is essentially no gas to expand from heat, there should be essentially no risk of explosion, but depending on how you would make the setup, you might melt the container, but, thats if you can actually get enough current flowing, but, do flowing electrons in a vacuum release any heat?
Kann es sein, dass die lichtbögen größer aussehen, als sie sind?? Meine sind viel kleiner bei 0,6A. Sowas dürfte meiner aktuell rausgeben. Außerdem verhalten sich meine lichtbögen bei 0,1A auch ganz anders.
@@michatoporkiewicz2872а мне кажется наоборот, если температура больше то свет становится белым, а ещё горячее то голубовато белый, что и может быть синим. Так что тут наоборот температура дуги меньше.
What kills you is the combined volts and amps that is going trough you, or in other words the watt that flow trough you... In this case with this setup 20.000 watt minus how much it is getting reduced due to resistance. One of our cats once accidentally made contact with the 20.000v mains line head to tail and just the 50hz buss sound you could feel in your chest from 20m distance combined with blinding light. 20kv is scary.... and deadly.
I am amazed at how stupid people are. I see this all the time and the unqualified people shouting their mouths off. You need a certain minimum amount of current which is only produced by a certain magnitude of voltage. You need around 70 miliamps and the voltage required to produce that is 50 volts RMS AC or higher. This does not mean you will be killed at 50 volts, but you could be if various impedances are low enough. So you should treat anything above 50 volts RMS AC as potentially dangerous. (pun intended).
Great and clear experiment 😅. Is it safer if higher voltage ⚡️, and less current. Watching your video i can feel the heat, strong of lightning. Dangerous 😳
@@MrRedeyedJedi Manipulating and controlling electricity through machinery was invented, but electricity itself was discovered. Lightning strikes existed well before electrical machinery.
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its crazy that on 20kV 1A is like a 20000W arc
I didnt even think about it, this things is carrying si much energy
Maybe it's because it is a 20kW arc?
If the current is inductively limited, not. Also, the open circuit voltage is 20 kV but drops to a few kV under load.
Для AC нужно ещё на коэффициент мощности умножить
Due to varying air resistance at different arc lengths, the power would not always remain at 20 kW.
Lovely arcs at different power levels! I'm liking these videos you're making :)
Thanks bro :)
@@herrlito-hv How do you actually regulate the power on this one?
@@RNA0ROGER there are ballasts switched in series to the transformer primary side. The more ballasts you switch parallel the more power you have :)
@@herrlito-hv Cheers
@@herrlito-hv You remind me of photonicinduction.
I have unintentionally dealt with a situation like this years ago as a lineman. Watching this, triggers the electrical smell in my nose. Much like PTSD, because it scared the living daylights out of me the first several times. I never got used to it. I learned to expect it.
Dude singlehandedly fixed the ozone layer
If you create an arc gap, keep blowing compressed air to sustain the arc, followed by a LC section, you get beautiful blue lighting arcs of same length.
The arc produces high frequency currents and the effect is very impressive. Regards.
Wow, it's AC?
I like the way you think, blue arc's are sick 👍😐👍
So satisfying! Arcs made my day🗿
Thanks:)
I like how you have this thing just casually set up in your house 😂
Ikr! Neighbors are like, damn lightning storm at herrlitos house again!!😂🤣
Those 50Hz reverbs are really nice. Have you tried building a Jacobs ladder with this kind of setup? I imagine you'd be able to get some pretty awesome arcs.
İmagine touching that while you are grounded....
Wouldn't actually be big of a deal as this Transformer doesn't have potential to ground. But touching both electrodes would definitely kill you.
@@herrlito-hv :0 I thought the secondary was connected in star config with gnd on the centre
@@inductivelycoupledplasma6207 only on the 400v side. Not on the 20kv side :)
@@herrlito-hv is it isolated from ground?
Poof
This shows why the street electrical grid line (primary power lines) they are so deadly and dangerous. It would be because they have high voltage (between 13.8 Kv and 44 Kv) and also a very high amperage (greater than 10 A), which is a feeder for several neighborhoods, the impact of the explosions and the electric arc are great, and anyone who even gets close is instantly electrocuted and toasted.
Love it! The 100mA one was so cute, it looks like the one I can draw with my ZVS+flyback 300W setup ahah :)
Haha yes it was very tiny. Hard to believe that even this arc could easily kill you ^^
@breezetix It´s actually 109mA according to measurement
@@herrlito-hv Absolutely... in theory it can kill 3 people in parallel...
@@fabriziobrutti1205 you have to switch at least 6 people in series to have better chances hahahah
@@herrlito-hv uhm if we consider 200V@50mA, we can say 100*2, but I'd go for 500V@50mA, so 40*2 people...
I love the smell of ionized air in the morning
Thank you!! Great! Greatings from the netherlands.
Thank you for demonstrating this - I always thought it was the voltage potential and not the current that determined how far something can arc - and if it is a higher current arc it will be brighter (obviously) and have more of an orange tint. I guess this is partially correct - you still need to get within 6 inches to start the arc but at a higher current more air is ionized so it can travel farther.
Love the magnetic roar when you get over 500 mA - wonder how much you electric bill is at a 20kW arc there - sounds awesome. 1A 20kV death on a stick there mate :)
Thanks bro :) You need the best combination of voltage AND current for the best arcs. But you have a pretty big range where doubling the voltage or the current gives you an arc twice the size. At 20KV I would say you can increase the current up to at least 200A before you have to increase the voltage further for even bigger arcs. Increasing the current from around 500A up to 1000A at 20KV would just give you a brighter arc but not a bigger one.
Because the arc is a short, the voltage drops significantly, thus limiting the size of the arc. The more current there is available, the smaller the voltage drop will be and thus the bigger the arc.
Am just watching this video and laughing maniacally shouting IT'S ALIVE mwaaa haaaa haaaaa
Nice and perfect demonstration
Awesome dude :D
How much does this draw from the mains mate ? Like how many amps from 220v mains ?
Lots of current.
20 kV at 1A is about 20 kW of power.
Enough to pull 91A from 220V!
@@imnothecker1124That's why he uses 3-Phase power
@@WhoisRoach It still pulls roughly 20 kW, which still would overload a European CEE socket outputting 400V at 32/48A.. that socket is a big 64 or more amp socket meant for EVs..
(Roughly - a transformer is a mostly inductive load, with a power factor of around 0.6 that's 12 kW of real power and 8 kW of reactive power).
@@imnothecker1124no. I think the 1 Amp is at the transformer input. (Normally output when the transformer was used on a grid) Obviously using one phase only. If the input voltage is 400V so with one Amp it makes 400VA, roughly 400W
It´s 75A at 400V input
Is that tungsten you're using for electrodes? I've never seen a non-exotic electrode so thin stand up to 20kw like that!
its just one amp, in your socket you get 16amp on thinner coppercables
Playing with such power must be very exciting, scary, thrilling and intoxicating even. Harnesing the power of electo-magnetism was one of mankind's greatest achievements. Still we should be cautious because those powers will never be fully under our own control even though we think we understand them. Anyways your home lab is very neat!
I love your high voltage content!
Thanks bro :)
No probs
Do you have an approx. 300kW transformer at home?
Eindrucksvoll. Seht eindrucksvoll.
Imagine his electricity bills
How does the current limiting work without the voltage breaking down?
It rewrites Ohms law to compensate.
20kV ist echt nicht ohne! Schöne Demonstration vom Funkenflug!
plasmabogen ;)
Very good. 😮
Nice demo. Try same by stretching the gap horizontally.
Thanks :) Good idea!
That was really satisfying
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Now that is really cool.
What’s the device you use to change the currents?
Is it an AC phase generator, a transformer, or what?
DC phase generator...
How do you limit current? Do those switches add some resistors in series with that thing or is there some other way?
Resistors wouldn't be a good solution for that. I use inductive ballasts.
@@herrlito-hv How do they work and how precise are they? Are they basically just transformer in series? And what's the losses there? Will the same amount of power that goes to lightning in one device go to heat in those ballasts? Would be interesting to finally understand the details of how they work.
Mom downstairs, what's that smelling? Are you doing that fire again?
Espeluznante, pero maravilloso
How long would the arc be sustained if you held the electrodes two or three inches apart from each other indefinitely?
Indefinitely. As long as the power is not turned off.
@@deang5622 exactly :)
Dangerous demonstration
Can you feel the heat from the arcs ?
a bit, yes. But high current arcs are multiple times hotter
Nice fat arcs ;).
I love your ballast bank, one great addiction would be an output contactor to remove power remotely (in case something goes wrong)!
Thanks:) good idea! Maybe if u step down of a plate oder if u let go of one of the arc sticks.
@@herrlito-hv I think stepping down of a plate is safer, given that in case of electrocution you wouldn't be able to let go of the sticks
@@agarciatorrano yes that's right. Maybe one plate for each foot. If you step down of one of them the power will be interrupted.
@@herrlito-hv in case of electrocution the only things that really matter is that you don't put the house on fire and that those who find you don't risk getting electrocuted in turn, because by then for you it's finished :-)
unusual bright orange arc. and the sounds it makes
if you have the same wattage but less volts and more amps would we see the same show?
it would be interesting to see what would happen if you sealed two electrodes in a vacuum and then ran it at each power level. i think in a vacuum you could space the gap very far cause there is supposedly no "breakdown voltage" for vacuum, but since you have a high current high voltage supply, compared to a neon sign transformer, i think the results would be nonexistent on the internet except for if you made a video and posted it. the results would be quite educational. since there is essentially no gas to expand from heat, there should be essentially no risk of explosion, but depending on how you would make the setup, you might melt the container, but, thats if you can actually get enough current flowing, but, do flowing electrons in a vacuum release any heat?
Where did you get such a large transformer?
How do you control the flow of current while keeping the voltage same?
Kann es sein, dass die lichtbögen größer aussehen, als sie sind?? Meine sind viel kleiner bei 0,6A. Sowas dürfte meiner aktuell rausgeben. Außerdem verhalten sich meine lichtbögen bei 0,1A auch ganz anders.
Ich finde eigentlich sogar eher dass die bögen kleiner aussehen. Ich muss mal bessere vergleiche machen. Irgendwelches zeug dahinter stellen ^^
Hast dus mal gemessen bei dir ?
@@herrlito-hv ja. 70cm
@@herrlito-hv wie lang sind deine ungefähr bei1A ohne Gleichrichter
@@Electromaniac420 ich weiß leider nicht genau aber ein gutes Stück mehr als 1m.
Как ги правиш с трансформатора от 220v към 20kv
Great! I want one!
Do you have neighbours?? If yes then how many times they call 911 emergency 😂
Каким способом увеличиваете ампераж?
Me in my free time:
That is awesome but sooo dangerous at the same time!!!
How can you control/decide the ampere in the circuit?
I wonder why the arcs are not blue, but yellow. Is this because of the electrodes you use?
The arcs are white because the air molecules are heated to a point that they start emitting white light (higher power = hotter arcs)
@@michatoporkiewicz2872а мне кажется наоборот, если температура больше то свет становится белым, а ещё горячее то голубовато белый, что и может быть синим. Так что тут наоборот температура дуги меньше.
Where can i get the power source blueprints?
If I wanted to have a microwave frequency send that through the wall into another apartment below me what would I build and how would I do it exactly?
This guy is so hard he has balls made of diamond.
That is like the old way of a Jacob's Ladder type of thing for science museums.
Damn those arcs are growing as high as his electric bill 💀
Actually the electric bill for this is not that high. But I get your point
Wouldn't the electrodes get burned to crisp because you're letting the current flow through the air?
How do you change current without changing voltage with this switches?
Were those arcs phase to phase or phase to neutral?
phase to phase. This transformer has no potential to ground, so it wouldn't work between phase and neutral.
@@herrlito-hv I assume this is a typical Dyn distribution transformer you simply flipped around?
is it really electic anymore? its more firey
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yesyesyes, but what does 20 kilovolts TASTE like at different currents?
Spicy like the ghost pepper.
amazing
The 100mA one sounded like Giygas
Nice.
Hegeszteni lehet ròla??
interesting hobby
which one kills volts or amps ?
20kV is enough to overcome the resistance in your body. The current it produces will kill you.
Amps!
it's a combination of amps, duration and frequency
What kills you is the combined volts and amps that is going trough you, or in other words the watt that flow trough you... In this case with this setup 20.000 watt minus how much it is getting reduced due to resistance.
One of our cats once accidentally made contact with the 20.000v mains line head to tail and just the 50hz buss sound you could feel in your chest from 20m distance combined with blinding light. 20kv is scary.... and deadly.
I am amazed at how stupid people are.
I see this all the time and the unqualified people shouting their mouths off.
You need a certain minimum amount of current which is only produced by a certain magnitude of voltage.
You need around 70 miliamps and the voltage required to produce that is 50 volts RMS AC or higher.
This does not mean you will be killed at 50 volts, but you could be if various impedances are low enough.
So you should treat anything above 50 volts RMS AC as potentially dangerous. (pun intended).
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Can you make an ion thruster with thi?
Neighbours - why is electricity gone
Great and clear experiment 😅. Is it safer if higher voltage ⚡️, and less current. Watching your video i can feel the heat, strong of lightning. Dangerous 😳
no. even with the lowest current in the video you would die
I dont undertand why lightnings dont go in a straight. Line if they take the easiest path
What's the frequency?
Thats 20kW of power... WOW
This video has high potential
If i correct calculate a power on full current power of arc will be 20kW😮
No. 1 Amp is on grid voltage I think. Not output
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New fear unlocked
How many volts
I wonder what bill amount u pay for electricity 🌚
В гостях у Николы Теслы 😂
Spettacolo . Coraggio
Spooky spooky. 😳
Wow,20kv
ElectroBoom would be proud.
Hows your electric bill ???
Crazy to think that before Isaac Newton invented electricity this would have been impossible.
Or Tesla.
@@MrRedeyedJedi I was joking. Nobody invented electricity. It was discovered.
@@RadagonTheRed well the energy was discovered yes, but it's use and practical applications were invented
@@MrRedeyedJedi Manipulating and controlling electricity through machinery was invented, but electricity itself was discovered. Lightning strikes existed well before electrical machinery.
@@RadagonTheRed well yes obviously
The thumbnail looks like Bad Apple
yes
Neat!
А если ещё это все провести в атмосфере аргона с давлением 1 атмосфера.
* BOOM *
real question, why do have this in your home/lab?
What is your electricity bill :? :)
Next time try 2000kv 1000A
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Not possible, that would require 2 billion watts, unless it was at HUGE AHHH NUCLEAR POWER STATION
Bro has an electric transformer switch in his living room 💀
WOOOOW
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