CAUTION: DO NOT attempt this process without fully researching the required safety precautions and consequences. Do not stand close to or touch the cables, transformer, workpiece or work surface, even if the cables are electrically insulated. When I did these experiments, I used a long extension cable reel to plug/unplug the transformer, standing as far away as possible and never approaching the workpiece while the transformer was plugged in (I edited the video to take out the pauses where I got into position). Stand ready to pull the plug and do not leave it unattended. Don't try to get a closer look, it is safer to set up a camera and view the close up footage later on. Also make sure all the surfaces around the transformer and workpiece are non conductive, especially the surface you are standing on. Even if the transformer was unplugged, I still wore rubber gloves and only used one hand to reposition cables or add more baking soda mixture. If there's any doubt, don't attempt it.
Sad that you have to state the obvious this day and age considering what people are doing nowadays... Shouldn't people have learned not to play with electricity unprotected in school?
the end product is beautiful! No one is "against" this art, yet this process has claimed many lives so an abundance of caution is better than leaving people in the dark about the risks.
I appreciate that you are standing away, and pulling the plug before approaching. But read my story...we all get a bit anxious or lazy. I still do this artform, but in a totally secure environment. I stand 5 feet away, but when I lift my hands off the two Momentary On switches, and they go off, even if one fails, the unit is dead. I also wear 12K gloves at all times. Here's my unfortunate story, but I still go at the artform. I am a military trained electrician, (21 years, retired), and spent 30 years in factories, as a electrical maintenance manager and an industrial engineer. I got into this hobby about five years ago, and had a similar setup, save I elevated my platform off the bench with two glued on 2X4's. After time, you get a bit lazy...then maybe cut a few corners. We all say we won't, BUT WE ALL DO. I recently got into fractal burning guitars, and one late afternoon, a bit tired, didn't realize it was still on (and I have an "on" indicator light which had loosened and led me to believe it was off), and touched one probe. The other one literally jumped into my other hand, as the hand was touching the edge of the guitar body. I "Rode the Lightning" for about two seconds until I fell on my right side, heavily bruising my shoulder and hitting my head on the floor. When I hit, I woke up, got up and went into the house and had my wife call 911. Heartrate was 160, and I ended up in a burn center for three/four days as they monitored my heart, and treated the burns on my hands, which were not that bad. Huge hematoma on my forehead, and a scalp cut on my head where I scraped on a bench nearby. NOT FUN, NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES.... Changes I will make:(And so should you if you insist in keeping on) 1. Add two momentary on switches to the incoming 120VAC in a plastic housing. Both have to be pressed to engage the unit. Far enough from each other so it takes two hands to light it off. One hand lifts, it dies, both, obviously off. No 120VAC, no burn. Two switches, two hands. 2. My potentiometer, which I use to adjust the voltage, will be next, in a straight line away from me. Adjust before I can press both buttons, which are UL approved to be Open when released. 3. The actual unit on its platform, further away down the line. 4. The probes, with 10K insulated wire, extending to a separate wooden table. I see people doing this outside where the moisture is higher than inside. One guy was standing in snow. Just crazy. 5. Finally, 12K gloves, 1.8MM thick, in case the switches, and the potentiometer all fail and it stays lit. 6. I am standing on 3/4" insulated rubber flooring, the final table will not be on the same rubber. Sound like a lot? 10,000VAC is a lot! I am lucky to be writing this, but this is what I should have done in the first place. Lichtenberg is like nothing else in beauty, and it is highly, highly dangerous. I see people using regular wire, no gloves, machine very near to the work, and I think, there is number 34, waiting to die.... Stay safe.
Thank you for sharing your experience, I recommend anyone wanting to try this process should follow your safety measures, and take time to carefully examine and improve their setup so that it's physically impossible to have an accident. I personally have stopped using the process due to the risk, and am enjoying experimenting with other creative processes.
Thank you, I haven't yet as they are a bit harder to get cheaply in the UK (like most things). I have heard that they can provide finer detail and are safer to use, so well worth trying.
If this video is about fractal wood burning with a microwave transformer, it can be EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. (I am finding any videos on it I can to spread awareness and do not care to watch the whole video-if it’s not that my apologies! Keep doing what you do.) Please find Ann Reardon’s video on the How to Cook That UA-cam channel as I came here from it and it explains the dangers of fractal wood burning better than I can.
CAUTION: DO NOT attempt this process without fully researching the required safety precautions and consequences. Do not stand close to or touch the cables, transformer, workpiece or work surface, even if the cables are electrically insulated. When I did these experiments, I used a long extension cable reel to plug/unplug the transformer, standing as far away as possible and never approaching the workpiece while the transformer was plugged in (I edited the video to take out the pauses where I got into position). Stand ready to pull the plug and do not leave it unattended. Don't try to get a closer look, it is safer to set up a camera and view the close up footage later on. Also make sure all the surfaces around the transformer and workpiece are non conductive, especially the surface you are standing on. Even if the transformer was unplugged, I still wore rubber gloves and only used one hand to reposition cables or add more baking soda mixture. If there's any doubt, don't attempt it.
Sad that you have to state the obvious this day and age considering what people are doing nowadays... Shouldn't people have learned not to play with electricity unprotected in school?
Or…. Just don’t do this at all!!
0r if you were really concerned you would take down your video
Stop trying to censor artists/creators because you don't like their particular art-form.
the end product is beautiful! No one is "against" this art, yet this process has claimed many lives so an abundance of caution is better than leaving people in the dark about the risks.
I appreciate that you are standing away, and pulling the plug before approaching. But read my story...we all get a bit anxious or lazy.
I still do this artform, but in a totally secure environment. I stand 5 feet away, but when I lift my hands off the two Momentary On switches, and they go off, even if one fails, the unit is dead. I also wear 12K gloves at all times.
Here's my unfortunate story, but I still go at the artform.
I am a military trained electrician, (21 years, retired), and spent 30 years in factories, as a electrical maintenance manager and an industrial engineer.
I got into this hobby about five years ago, and had a similar setup, save I elevated my platform off the bench with two glued on 2X4's. After time, you get a bit lazy...then maybe cut a few corners. We all say we won't, BUT WE ALL DO. I recently got into fractal burning guitars, and one late afternoon, a bit tired, didn't realize it was still on (and I have an "on" indicator light which had loosened and led me to believe it was off), and touched one probe. The other one literally jumped into my other hand, as the hand was touching the edge of the guitar body. I "Rode the Lightning" for about two seconds until I fell on my right side, heavily bruising my shoulder and hitting my head on the floor. When I hit, I woke up, got up and went into the house and had my wife call 911. Heartrate was 160, and I ended up in a burn center for three/four days as they monitored my heart, and treated the burns on my hands, which were not that bad. Huge hematoma on my forehead, and a scalp cut on my head where I scraped on a bench nearby. NOT FUN, NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES....
Changes I will make:(And so should you if you insist in keeping on)
1. Add two momentary on switches to the incoming 120VAC in a plastic housing. Both have to be pressed to engage the unit. Far enough from each other so it takes two hands to light it off. One hand lifts, it dies, both, obviously off. No 120VAC, no burn. Two switches, two hands.
2. My potentiometer, which I use to adjust the voltage, will be next, in a straight line away from me. Adjust before I can press both buttons, which are UL approved to be Open when released.
3. The actual unit on its platform, further away down the line.
4. The probes, with 10K insulated wire, extending to a separate wooden table. I see people doing this outside where the moisture is higher than inside. One guy was standing in snow. Just crazy.
5. Finally, 12K gloves, 1.8MM thick, in case the switches, and the potentiometer all fail and it stays lit.
6. I am standing on 3/4" insulated rubber flooring, the final table will not be on the same rubber.
Sound like a lot? 10,000VAC is a lot! I am lucky to be writing this, but this is what I should have done in the first place.
Lichtenberg is like nothing else in beauty, and it is highly, highly dangerous. I see people using regular wire, no gloves, machine very near to the work, and I think, there is number 34, waiting to die....
Stay safe.
Thank you for sharing your experience, I recommend anyone wanting to try this process should follow your safety measures, and take time to carefully examine and improve their setup so that it's physically impossible to have an accident. I personally have stopped using the process due to the risk, and am enjoying experimenting with other creative processes.
Great looking piece, esp.digging the base. Fine work on the fractal placement.
Thank you very much, new designs using the process are now on my website: www.connorholland.com/
Cool but dangerous. I wonder if the channels burnt into the wood are deep enough to cast in aluminum? Could be cool idk
Beautiful Work, Have you tried a neon transformer & what was the difference? Thanks
Thank you, I haven't yet as they are a bit harder to get cheaply in the UK (like most things). I have heard that they can provide finer detail and are safer to use, so well worth trying.
Very Nice....what type of transformer did you use ?
+mikeinsanediego Thank you, I used a microwave oven transformer
How many power do we need?
What is the power source?
How do you do this?
It's a very dangerous process so I can't give instructions, sorry
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بتمنى حد بيعرف عربي يجاوبني
بيكربونات الصودا مختلطة مع الماء
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why lightning is a fractal pattern?
If this video is about fractal wood burning with a microwave transformer, it can be EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. (I am finding any videos on it I can to spread awareness and do not care to watch the whole video-if it’s not that my apologies! Keep doing what you do.)
Please find Ann Reardon’s video on the How to Cook That UA-cam channel as I came here from it and it explains the dangers of fractal wood burning better than I can.
So many people have died attempting this "art"
People that did stupid things and didn't respect electricity and the machinery they were working with, are the ones that won the Darwin award.
How many?
it does tickle a bit when you tough a live wire