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Came to Brazil and visit the Itaipu power plant. The second biggest in the world (14 GW of power generation capacity). It's a great place to visit, combining nature and smart engineering solutions.
I’ve been using ground news lately and the blind spot thing is dope. Some outlets blatantly ignore so much it’s wild. I do wish it had more localized Canadian stuff though.
this made me laugh because I literally just discovered you yesterday, now electroboom is talking about you - clearly I am an impactful human by watching these things - jokes aside, I fucking love your absurd videos
I almost killed myself 2 months ago doing electrical work at home. I of course turned power down, did some work, turned on to test, it was fine, turned down again to do more, turned on again to test, turned down again. Well... on that back and forth when I wired something wrong and when I tested it didn't turned on, I forgot the main power was on. So I was messing with 2 live phases of 110V. I almost touched the exposed wires. Thinking the power was off, the 2 110V wires touched and exploded in my face. It was so bright I couldn't see for a minute and my eyes hurt the entire rest of the day. I had soot in my face and my tshirt had burn marks. I live alone. If I had injured myself no one would know. I was in a state of shock. I finished what I was doing just enough to turn power again with no problems. And didn't touched the rest of the things I was doing until a few weeks ago, from fear.
This kind of stuff is extremely easy to do, just a second of inattention. FWIW I've done something very similar when I was younger, absent mindedly wiped some dust off a live 240v terminal (UK) in the back of a clothes drier I was repairing. Amazingly I didn't feel a thing, but I suddenly realised what I'd done and started sweating afterwards.
Yes, Brazil (my home) has a lot of electric showers (almost every house has at least one) and, despite the jokes, they are really safe. In fact I never heard or seen any news with someone dying or getting hurt, except in extreme occasions where the shower was reaaaallyyyy wrongly installed and the home is a nest of work arounds, so the shower was one of the infinite dangerous situations. And there is one more thing, in engineering standards and regulations GFCI (in Brazil is called DR) is mandatory in wet areas, like showers. Not every house has an electric shower, some has solar heaters (as mine) or gas.
@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket They mean a shower head with heater coils IN the nozzle. It's like if you were running water through a space heater as a shower head.
One of the risks with microwave exposure at this level (10s of thousands of times more than mobile phones / wifi etc) is cornea / lens damage due to local heating as it does not have blood flow to carry away the heat. Damage of this type might not become apparent until the next day unless it is really extreme.
So here’s the thing about Cell phone radiation-the health standards are based still on early 90s usage. so a phone can give off harmful radiation but it’s not caught because they only test for 30min of usage and carrying it for like two hours of the day. or Apple has been caught releasing updates that cause the device to emit more radiation(like a governor was removed type thing)
Proof - The FCC's SAR limit is based on research that found animals' behavior was disrupted at an SAR of about 4.0 W/kg after 30 to 60 minutes of exposure. The FCC's SAR limit for cell phones was adopted in 1996, after the FDA and FCC adopted guidelines set by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the IEEE in 1992.
To be clear, based on 1996 animal data for an hour, we concluded 1.6W/kg to be the limit for humans using an Apple IPhone 15, and wearing an Apple Watch 5. Also those tests were done away from the body, not touching it.
@@threestans9096 Mobile phones, wifi and similar devices just do not have robust enough electronics to emit the 600W or more of microwave energy like ovens can. The main reasons to limit radio power output on phones and wifi are battery life and minimising interference.
14:30 That's probably the worst thing I've seen in a while. Many people climb on these trains, get electrecuted and either die on the spot or in a hospital. And when they do survive they often have some of their limbs amputated or have to deal with massive health problems later on.
It highly depends on the design of the system. DC and AC systems act differently, also voltages are usually different and the frequencies vary also. At least here in Central Europe, you have a mix of 1,5kV DC, 3kV DC, 15kV 16,7Hz, 25kV 50Hz. Each system has its own effects. Some electric locomotives which are designed to operate in multiple countries on multiple systems have up to four separate pantographs to comply with different voltages, currents, pressures of the contact strip against the overhead catenary as well as the dimensions of the contact strip itself. Because historically multiple different systems were introduced over a relatively short period of time and the swapping of locomotives turned out to be time consuming, it is pretty common to see modern locomotives capable of running under multiple systems since the 1970s and especially since the 1990s, as technology advanced, as well as renewed former "east block" to "west block" connections. Even some "crazy" modifications of existing rolling stock were made, e.g. ČD class 340.
I'm pretty sure Mehdi had flashbacks of those videos and gifs widely shared in the wild west era of the Internet, guys surfing on wagons, they just graze the wire, BOOM, flash, smoke goes up, the skeletonized remains of what was once a human go down like a freaking Looney Tunes Cartoon
@@RoboticNerd The one that fell over into his lap which thankfully was disconnected before fully making contact with each of his hands grasping each "rail" of the ladder that could have gone VERY differently? That one? :P 😂
I was always warned when working around high powered RF that you will cook the whites of your eyes and may cause cataracts. Well, 30 years later - I have cataracts starting. I can still see fine but in 20 to 30 years, I may have to get it fixed. I messed with very high power VHF when I was younger and I don't know if the cataracts are from that or just being old. IMO, high power RF is OK, just beware of burns below the surface that you won't feel when they happen.
I've messed around with a lot of silly dangerous projects over the years, but there are a few things I draw the line at (now)... high-power RF/radiation/UV-lasers (lasers was added after taking a stray reflection, still have a darkspot in one eye.). Some things are not worth the risk, and that risk becomes so much higher when you can't see/hear/feel/smell/taste it. Worked with a few ex-radar operators, none of them were in great health, and none of them could have kids 😬
@@njones420 Yes, frickin' amazon and ebay laser 'pointers' do scare me. I've got a 5+W violet laser that I break out on Independence Day though. It's the reflections that will get you and you never see them coming.
The cataracts are due thermal effects, So unless you were in such intense radiation fields as to heat up your eyeballs I doubt that was the reason. Actually staring at forges, glory holes or fire pits is far more dangerous.
@@njones420 Radar waves cannot make you sterile, unless they raise the temperature of your gonads above 35C° but that means you have higher risk of dying from hiperthermia than getting your bawls "cooked". I cannot fathom what they could be doing to be exposed to such levels of radar energy.
I thought that exposure to sufficient microwave power to heat your skin was known to be very bad for living tissue. The soldiers on the DEW line used to confirm that their radar was operating by holding their hands in front of the transmitter to feel the warmth. And after a lot of those activities their hands were severely injured. Perhaps that's a myth . . . . I think your demo may have been fairly safe in such a short duration and at fairly low unfocused power levels, but it may give the impression that there's nothing dangerous other than the high voltage. Isn't the metal shielding on a uwave oven there to protect the user, not just to reflect the radiation?
Well I'm sure it cooks you over time! I'm sure the injuries they sustained was from being internally cooked. And yes of course the metal case and shield is to also protect the user from being cooked.
Well repeated damage over time isn't good for any organs generally, I imagine repeatedly getting "almost cooked" will damage and kill sections of skin if you're doing it daily or close to that as in your story.
11:05 in Mauritius we the UK standard but we have a lot of double pronged EU appliances and stuff, everyone does it, it's fine, even electricians(including one of my uncles) do it
Don't you have to put something in the ground to open the live and neutral? UK here, and sockets all have covers over live and neutral and need the earth prong to open them first.
There is a unit used in hospitals to warm patients internals that actually uses microwaves. Of course the setup is carefully made and calibrated so it will not boil the patient. Older versions of this technique were called "diathermy machines" which used VHF radio waves to generate the warmth.
i wonder how he is still alive at all shouldn't the touch of that pantograp already kxlled him? my only explanation is so far is its 3000v electrification which does not jump has far. but arcs alot meaning if you get electrocuted the electricity will follow you down alot longer
Mehdi, the UK plug has square pins and a fuse. The Euro plug is onky speced for 2.5A and not fused. Its round pins will have a very small contact surface when inserted into a UK BS1363 socket. Also inserting requires defeating the shitter covering the live and neutral pins probably by inserting more one more unsuitable object into the hole for the earth pin. It may work, it may electrocute you, it may burn down your house. Just het a friggin adapter or change the plug to avoid adapters entirely. Most are of bad quality anyway. I collect leads of old devices to use for such conversions so Ialso get the advantage of industrially manufactured cables.
the real danger lies in the risk of the metal caps getting stuck in the UK socket when unplugging.. you can end up with bare wire sticking out of the plug.
I always did this with my continental appliances when I lived in the UK. Of course you have no shielding and UK plugs have a fuse that continental plugs don't have but I never got into trouble. Maybe I was lucky. And yes, you have to put something into the third hole to remove the mechanical cover of the others. My car key worked great for that ;-)
5:07, yes a DC motor can absolutely be a speaker. The motor just has to be driven by an ESC. In fact that's what the start up tones on most high end drones are. The ESC in the drone is using the brushless motors as speakers to output that sound.
A BLDC motor is something else than a (brushed) DC motor. Still works in the same way, but usually BLDC motors have much stronger magnets plus they can be held stationary to play music most accurate
It also works with a brushed motor. I retrofitted a brushed trolling motor with a PWM ESC to get a smooth throttle, and it produces that same high-pitched startup song
However an electric motor is not a very good speaker and won't make a lot of noise without an amplifier. Not even talking about the mismatched impedance.
When it comes to UK and EU plugs at 11:06, It is common and safe to do (at least with my experience). I've done this many times when I went to UK and my grandparents do this too after moving from UK to Poland. They have many appliances designed for UK, so they use a power bar to plug UK stuff into it and to also plug in regular EU plugs. It works flawlessly. You can even jam in plugs designed for high current (ones with ticker prongs). Although I won't recommend that. I burned one power bar this way.
I had a friend who was working on radio links for broadcasting live events on TV. He accidentally put his finger in front of the directional 10GHz antenna. By the time he felt any pain, his tissues were severely damaged, with nothing visible on the outside. The power output of the antenna was far greater than what your puny microwave oven can produce tough
This is doubtful. May power most of these links is only 10s of watts, and that is right at the waveguide or feedhorn that faces the dish reflector ... the RF level leaving the dish reflector is a mere fraction of the RF at the feedhorn.
@@uploadJ 10s of watts is plenty enough to cause tissue damage in 5-10 seconds. It just needs to raise the temperature by a few degrees and you have dead tissue
Malta is a funny place. I remember a hotel I stayed at had double wall sockets set into the wall, with a pair of single outlets mounted on the front... One UK, the other Euro style 😁 But yeah, we do that Euro-plug wedge here in UK too sometimes. I wouldn't do it on anything high current, as the UK socket is designed to mate with the flat sides of the UK plug, and the Euro plug has round pins, so the contact point isn't very large.
5:16 the motor is a coreless one, which means the rotor has very little mechanical inertia (and inductance). The motor you used was a cored one which has a lot more inertia, so you cannot expect too much 'audio output', especially at higher frequencies.
I have as minor arcing between my metal bike handle and my thumb when passing below high voltage power lines. Though I did not see it I felt it on my thumb.
12:45- Éeeeee du Braziiiiiu! But you can also find those in all South and Central America. It's by far the cheapest and fastest water heating system, if you disregard the causalities...
I was just watching ElectroBoom videos today and eagerly waiting for a new post when, to my surprise, I saw that he had just uploaded one! It felt like a total godsend-perfect timing for some much-needed entertainment and laughs.
Euro plugs are not supposed to fit into UK sockets. But if you're motivated, they can. But they shouldn't. Don't do it, unless you've lost the converter for your electric toothbrush and you really really need to brush your teeth. Instead, use a "I'm a UK person visiting europe" converter plugged into a shaver outlet with a 4-way extension cord hanging off it, so you can plug more than one toothbrush and a razor (each one with euro plugs in proper converters, of course) into the single outlet. But also don't do that, the outlet isn't rated for it. However experimental evidence shows it works for (currently) a minimum of 4 years and counting.
Ah yes this MrGreenGuy who started his youtube channel as NielGreen and made AI shorts of NielRed doing crazy stuff until he noticed. I love this dude.
@@danielwarner9366 People started to confuse nilegreen with nile red, which red was not happy with. He politely asked green to stop making parody chemistry videos off of his stuff as while he did find them funny he also didn't want anyone to get hurt or confused about it being real and posted by him. This was mostly because nile red has nile blue for other content as well so people might assume nile green is also an official channel among other things. Rather than being dramatic about it, nilegreenguy went 👌 and stopped, changed their name and makes their own videos now.
@@danielwarner9366 yes its true i saw it happening live, and the videos weren't "ai" completely, he just used a voice changer to sound like niel as close as possible and never showed the face, everyone knew it was a parody but there obv were some people who didn't realized that and niel had to intervene cuz he made it seem like he's going too far without precautions and people kept falling for it (though he knew what he was doing)
Not an electrician, but live in a place with UK plugs and can confirm, you can jab the EU plugs in there fine, the only sketchy part is jabbing a screwdriver or butterknife into the earth pin to unlock the live and neatural terminals (they usually have a flap blocking them which is pushed out of the way by the longer earth pin).
For the euro to UK plug: UK plug is slightly larger, so you need to bend the euro plug (or sometimes you can just force it in, and it'll bend by itself). Also, UK plug needs ground, otherwise the live and neutral are closed off. They only open after a ground is inserted. When i traveled to Cyprus, I inserted my house keys to the ground, and then inserted the euro plug in with a bit of force
Yay another person from Malta! The argument against plugging euro plugs in UK sockets that way is because 1) euro plugs are slightly narrower than the prongs of a UK plug so it stretches the prongs a bit. At the same time euro plugs are actually designed to flex a bit. 2) Euro plugs are round so the contact area is smaller in a UK plug since it's designed for squarish prongs. At the same time devices with a europlug consumes less than 5 amps of current so it's not crazily dangerous. Lots of people do it but it's not recommended.
I have the power outlet bar at 12:14. Works fine. 2 laptops 4 monitors 2 desk lights 2 small speaker sets Miniature video camera and screen And 2 charging stations for robot vacuums Total power with everything on measured at less than 600 watts.
Thanks to polarization and coherence at specific fr, which is what microwave power heat is, the fields are not comparable in safety despite similar power levels because how the heat is dispersed and used through electric current paths the heat is not like a campfire heat as we are heated like contiuous-wave dosimitry microwaves which is not as safe at same heat levels because it's unnatural to our body because of polarization and coherent, proximity to source and field lines of force
Panagopoulos, Dimitris J., Olle Johansson, and George L. Carlo. "Polarization: a key difference between man-made and natural electromagnetic fields, in regard to biological activity." Scientific Reports 5.1 (2015): 1-10.
Let’s talk about nuclear power. It’s no different than coal and NG. 99% of the earth’s electricity used by everyone is produced by boiling water. Can we find a more efficient way than boiling water?
12:20 as someone who has grow tents... and an aquarium in the same room. You can go through a lot of low power plug-ins and not get anywhere near the breaker max. My lights are all LEDs and barely draw any power. Fish filter uses more than anything else and that's low power too, small pump.
Microwave ovens operate at 2.5Ghz.. So the wavelength is around 12cm. As such there is a different effect depending on whether you are near field (less than 12cm) or far field (greater than 12cm). It is also worth noting that at that frequency, the radiation wont penetrate too far, so the primary effect is stimulus of pain neurons in your hand.
13:07 as a biker i DEFINATLY feel SENSATIONS after riding under that power lines. Trust me. you DO NOT want move your hands out of resin grips and touchin ANYTHING metal-ish objects. Also your phone REALLY LIKES that WIRELESS CHARGERS (not)
I remember that (in the 70s) there were radiostations that transmitted from ships to the Netherlands. (Radio Veronica and Radio Noordzee (north sea)). The aerials (antennas) were right above the steer hut and studio. When they were broadcasting, the fluorescent lights (TL-Lights) would turn on by themselves.
13:05 The Bonneville Power Administration controls a transmission line (I believe 500kv) that runs through my city. The city built a biking/walking trail underneath it at ground level, on pedal power occasionally the sharp corners of the seat frame will arc to your leg and give you a little shock that feels like getting poked, but it seems to be proportional to how fast you're going. On my e-bike doing 30mph underneath the lines I have to grab the metal of the handlebars to ground myself lest I get really quite painful shocks to my legs!
ElectroBOOM Many years ago I lived in an African country that used to be under the British government. Thus, the electrical outlets in homes were the British type. Europlugs fit very nicely in the three-terminal British type receptacles as long as you have a way to open the shutters. A simple inexpensive ink pen inserted into the earth (ground) hole of the receptacle worked wonderfully for pushing open the shutters.
Malta here. 2-pin euro plugs are easy peasy to put into UK 3-pin. We've been doing it for decades. But the thick euro ones, need proper force to be inserted. If your socket is made of brittle plastic, you're gonna crack it.
as ridiculous as those large power distribution things look ... could you get one with the most outlets you can find and show what you could actually plug into them safely? Maybe a bunch of LED based Xmas light strings? what kind of things have low enough load to stay under a breaker's limit at 10-20+ separate devices? That would all plug into that central spot? I don't get it, but would like to expand my horizons.
I think the reason the wireless audio does that is because the magnetron outputs pulses at mains frequency because its a DC device, each pulse momentarily blocks the audio signal so it basically modulates your audio at mains frequency kind of like a ring modulator
It's because he uses a wireless mic that transmits in the 2.4 Ghz band, the same frequency as a microwave oven. I'm amazed any audio is passing at all.
I once heard a huge 500kW transformer play music, loud and in good quality! It was the output transformer of the AM transmitter in Beromünster Switzerland (shut down in 2008). It vibrated from the music that was on air. Very impreesing. A very inefficient speaker...
Microwaves travel through your body, so aiming a magnetron at your head could heat up your brain, yes? And brain damage can occur at only 108 degF or 42 degC. Seems like a Darwin award in the making.
That's right! That is if you stay in front of it long enough to heat up. And I'm sure you'll feel the heat before any damage happens and jump away. Unless the energy is focused at a point that can internally burn some cells quickly
@@ElectroBOOM Due to the uneven heating nature of microwave ovens, I wonder if there could be "hot-spots" internally, that would not be felt on the skin as quickly. Or would that not happen in open air vs a microwave cavity? Hmm...
The UK / Euro plug - You need to widen the Euro plug pins to allow them into the UK plug holes, and use a screwdriver to push in the earth hole to allow the shields to move. And the high voltage transmission lines... walk under them with a flouro tube, it will light
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ur jumbo-capacitor is still on fire
This seems like a great tool, i appreciate how cheap it is with the discount, thanks!
Came to Brazil and visit the Itaipu power plant. The second biggest in the world (14 GW of power generation capacity). It's a great place to visit, combining nature and smart engineering solutions.
Mashed potatoes for Brain
I’ve been using ground news lately and the blind spot thing is dope. Some outlets blatantly ignore so much it’s wild. I do wish it had more localized Canadian stuff though.
Cataracts intensify.
So do Lincolns...
I had one from using a heating pad, overnight. Yes, it can happen.Just the left eye, where the pad had been laying ...
@@hotflashfoto Buicks balance better for pounding people though. Lincolns aren't as well balanced and tend to be unwieldy.
I came here to say exactly this
Monobrow intensifies. 💯
Seeing myself in an Electroboom video is so funny, glad you survived the microwave radiation too!
this made me laugh because I literally just discovered you yesterday, now electroboom is talking about you - clearly I am an impactful human by watching these things - jokes aside, I fucking love your absurd videos
"Radiation is confirmed" sounded like a terminator (2:33)
Modulated and also distortion for the mic
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Now we know it can be used for sound effects too!
@@snookyzun6158i want you
More like a dalek
I almost killed myself 2 months ago doing electrical work at home. I of course turned power down, did some work, turned on to test, it was fine, turned down again to do more, turned on again to test, turned down again. Well... on that back and forth when I wired something wrong and when I tested it didn't turned on, I forgot the main power was on. So I was messing with 2 live phases of 110V. I almost touched the exposed wires.
Thinking the power was off, the 2 110V wires touched and exploded in my face. It was so bright I couldn't see for a minute and my eyes hurt the entire rest of the day. I had soot in my face and my tshirt had burn marks. I live alone. If I had injured myself no one would know.
I was in a state of shock. I finished what I was doing just enough to turn power again with no problems. And didn't touched the rest of the things I was doing until a few weeks ago, from fear.
This kind of stuff is extremely easy to do, just a second of inattention. FWIW I've done something very similar when I was younger, absent mindedly wiped some dust off a live 240v terminal (UK) in the back of a clothes drier I was repairing. Amazingly I didn't feel a thing, but I suddenly realised what I'd done and started sweating afterwards.
Yes, Brazil (my home) has a lot of electric showers (almost every house has at least one) and, despite the jokes, they are really safe. In fact I never heard or seen any news with someone dying or getting hurt, except in extreme occasions where the shower was reaaaallyyyy wrongly installed and the home is a nest of work arounds, so the shower was one of the infinite dangerous situations.
And there is one more thing, in engineering standards and regulations GFCI (in Brazil is called DR) is mandatory in wet areas, like showers.
Not every house has an electric shower, some has solar heaters (as mine) or gas.
By electric shower do you mean you had a electric water heater tank, an instant water heater, or some sort of "we microwave you to clean you" shower?
@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket They mean a shower head with heater coils IN the nozzle. It's like if you were running water through a space heater as a shower head.
@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket the water passes through an active heating element that you can adjust directly on the shower. gotta reach it
also yes, on brazilian roofs you can see these metal panels which direct its heat to the water tank or the shower
either they work or they don't... it is the ones that sometimes work are the tricky ones.
Instructions unclear my hamster exploded
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Boom
How long did you cook it for
what the fugh did you do
How did it even explode.
One of the risks with microwave exposure at this level (10s of thousands of times more than mobile phones / wifi etc) is cornea / lens damage due to local heating as it does not have blood flow to carry away the heat. Damage of this type might not become apparent until the next day unless it is really extreme.
So here’s the thing about Cell phone radiation-the health standards are based still on early 90s usage. so a phone can give off harmful radiation but it’s not caught because they only test for 30min of usage and carrying it for like two hours of the day. or Apple has been caught releasing updates that cause the device to emit more radiation(like a governor was removed type thing)
Proof
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The FCC's SAR limit is based on research that found animals' behavior was disrupted at an SAR of about 4.0 W/kg after 30 to 60 minutes of exposure. The FCC's SAR limit for cell phones was adopted in 1996, after the FDA and FCC adopted guidelines set by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the IEEE in 1992.
They have never tested a SAR of 2 for say 16hrs.
Only 4 is too much in 30-60 min. 🤨
To be clear, based on 1996 animal data for an hour, we concluded 1.6W/kg to be the limit for humans using an Apple IPhone 15, and wearing an Apple Watch 5.
Also those tests were done away from the body, not touching it.
@@threestans9096 Mobile phones, wifi and similar devices just do not have robust enough electronics to emit the 600W or more of microwave energy like ovens can. The main reasons to limit radio power output on phones and wifi are battery life and minimising interference.
13:22 I live here and am currently 5 miles away! Tonight I will go test :)
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Hear me out. Could you shout "Exterminate!" With that wireless interface? It's.....perfect
It reminds me of that 1 robot i forgot its name
Daleks
@@0ADVISOR0 No, he meant the one from Fallout. I also forgot its name.
It doesn't quite sound like a ring modulator, but it's close!
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Yea
14:30 That's probably the worst thing I've seen in a while. Many people climb on these trains, get electrecuted and either die on the spot or in a hospital. And when they do survive they often have some of their limbs amputated or have to deal with massive health problems later on.
It highly depends on the design of the system. DC and AC systems act differently, also voltages are usually different and the frequencies vary also. At least here in Central Europe, you have a mix of 1,5kV DC, 3kV DC, 15kV 16,7Hz, 25kV 50Hz. Each system has its own effects. Some electric locomotives which are designed to operate in multiple countries on multiple systems have up to four separate pantographs to comply with different voltages, currents, pressures of the contact strip against the overhead catenary as well as the dimensions of the contact strip itself. Because historically multiple different systems were introduced over a relatively short period of time and the swapping of locomotives turned out to be time consuming, it is pretty common to see modern locomotives capable of running under multiple systems since the 1970s and especially since the 1990s, as technology advanced, as well as renewed former "east block" to "west block" connections. Even some "crazy" modifications of existing rolling stock were made, e.g. ČD class 340.
@@erikziak1249it's Moscow idk the voltage but I saw pictures of consequences ... Its high enough to make you well done in one second
Ofc it's in Moscow lmao
it's really just a self-solving problem.
I'm pretty sure Mehdi had flashbacks of those videos and gifs widely shared in the wild west era of the Internet, guys surfing on wagons, they just graze the wire, BOOM, flash, smoke goes up, the skeletonized remains of what was once a human go down like a freaking Looney Tunes Cartoon
Glad you're still alive.
A friend once told me that he worries about you, I told him not to.
I hope we can trust you sir
we can trust him as long as he doesn't make a second jacob's ladder
He's an electrical engineer, he knows what he's doing.
In 2019, out of every 100,000 electricians, 166 died from electrical accidents.@@Ins4n1ty_
Iš have ,,time ring'' form anime dragon ball why still alive.😅
@@Ins4n1ty_sounds like Sledge Hammer
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Oh god mehdi, i know you're a professional but please dont put yourself that close to a running microwave transformer again, that was scary
You didn't see his Jacobs ladder video have you? :P
@@RoboticNerd The one that fell over into his lap which thankfully was disconnected before fully making contact with each of his hands grasping each "rail" of the ladder that could have gone VERY differently? That one? :P 😂
@@pistol0grip0pump yep lol
@@RoboticNerd I'm pretty sure that's the only video of his where he's come close to getting genuinely electrocuted
4:00
interial burns aint a joke
dont do this!
especially in the brain, I can't believe what I saw
This wavelength won't penetrate more than about 3 or 4 millimeters, so the brain is "safe". The rest, though....
neither is the shock from the transformer. thats waayyy more dangerous then the magnetron
2.54GHz cannot penetrate more than an inch of tissue, they cannot cause internal burns.
it really annoys me how dumb people are with microwaves. he's fine ffs. they're not that scary.
I was always warned when working around high powered RF that you will cook the whites of your eyes and may cause cataracts. Well, 30 years later - I have cataracts starting. I can still see fine but in 20 to 30 years, I may have to get it fixed. I messed with very high power VHF when I was younger and I don't know if the cataracts are from that or just being old. IMO, high power RF is OK, just beware of burns below the surface that you won't feel when they happen.
I've messed around with a lot of silly dangerous projects over the years, but there are a few things I draw the line at (now)...
high-power RF/radiation/UV-lasers (lasers was added after taking a stray reflection, still have a darkspot in one eye.). Some things are not worth the risk, and that risk becomes so much higher when you can't see/hear/feel/smell/taste it.
Worked with a few ex-radar operators, none of them were in great health, and none of them could have kids 😬
@@njones420 Yes, frickin' amazon and ebay laser 'pointers' do scare me. I've got a 5+W violet laser that I break out on Independence Day though. It's the reflections that will get you and you never see them coming.
The cataracts are due thermal effects, So unless you were in such intense radiation fields as to heat up your eyeballs I doubt that was the reason. Actually staring at forges, glory holes or fire pits is far more dangerous.
@@njones420 Radar waves cannot make you sterile, unless they raise the temperature of your gonads above 35C° but that means you have higher risk of dying from hiperthermia than getting your bawls "cooked". I cannot fathom what they could be doing to be exposed to such levels of radar energy.
13:50 it will shock them - the heat and the smell of burnt skin will.
9:56 worst thing ever when you get your hand injured in a confined space lol
That scene was worse than a horror movie.
I thought that exposure to sufficient microwave power to heat your skin was known to be very bad for living tissue. The soldiers on the DEW line used to confirm that their radar was operating by holding their hands in front of the transmitter to feel the warmth. And after a lot of those activities their hands were severely injured. Perhaps that's a myth . . . . I think your demo may have been fairly safe in such a short duration and at fairly low unfocused power levels, but it may give the impression that there's nothing dangerous other than the high voltage. Isn't the metal shielding on a uwave oven there to protect the user, not just to reflect the radiation?
Well I'm sure it cooks you over time! I'm sure the injuries they sustained was from being internally cooked. And yes of course the metal case and shield is to also protect the user from being cooked.
Well repeated damage over time isn't good for any organs generally, I imagine repeatedly getting "almost cooked" will damage and kill sections of skin if you're doing it daily or close to that as in your story.
Yeah this is not safe when holding fingers or so in concentrated beam and feeling internal burning
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How is your comment 17 hours ago even though the video was made 6 minutes
11:05 in Mauritius we the UK standard but we have a lot of double pronged EU appliances and stuff, everyone does it, it's fine, even electricians(including one of my uncles) do it
Don't you have to put something in the ground to open the live and neutral?
UK here, and sockets all have covers over live and neutral and need the earth prong to open them first.
@@ElvenSpellmaker yes. You have to insert something in the earth to open the covers. Pen, screwdriver, another plug...
There is a unit used in hospitals to warm patients internals that actually uses microwaves. Of course the setup is carefully made and calibrated so it will not boil the patient. Older versions of this technique were called "diathermy machines" which used VHF radio waves to generate the warmth.
Nice to see you here pal!
14:20 These are the kids that are unlikely to make it to adulthood...
i wonder how he is still alive at all shouldn't the touch of that pantograp already kxlled him?
my only explanation is so far is its 3000v electrification which does not jump has far. but arcs alot meaning if you get electrocuted the electricity will follow you down alot longer
and 14:06 shows the opposite
They will be killed either by electrocution, falling injury or angry train conductor.
@@based_mounit was about the next video bruh
Yes your right
14:25 The way I exclaimed "no!" out loud seeing this...
Yup. Traditional Mehdi, putting himself in harm's way, albeit in a controlled and humorous way. Never change!
Mehdi, the UK plug has square pins and a fuse. The Euro plug is onky speced for 2.5A and not fused. Its round pins will have a very small contact surface when inserted into a UK BS1363 socket. Also inserting requires defeating the shitter covering the live and neutral pins probably by inserting more one more unsuitable object into the hole for the earth pin. It may work, it may electrocute you, it may burn down your house.
Just het a friggin adapter or change the plug to avoid adapters entirely. Most are of bad quality anyway. I collect leads of old devices to use for such conversions so Ialso get the advantage of industrially manufactured cables.
the real danger lies in the risk of the metal caps getting stuck in the UK socket when unplugging.. you can end up with bare wire sticking out of the plug.
Nobody wants to defeat the shitter. You'll be sat on that recovering from poking things in the socket to get your electric toothbrush charging.
there's actually quite a few small electronic devices here (Malaysia) that uses the Europlug standard despite us using Type G socket
I always did this with my continental appliances when I lived in the UK. Of course you have no shielding and UK plugs have a fuse that continental plugs don't have but I never got into trouble. Maybe I was lucky. And yes, you have to put something into the third hole to remove the mechanical cover of the others. My car key worked great for that ;-)
@@RobertAtdotde The laptop that i'm typing this message from is plugged in using this method, it's fine.
5:07, yes a DC motor can absolutely be a speaker. The motor just has to be driven by an ESC. In fact that's what the start up tones on most high end drones are. The ESC in the drone is using the brushless motors as speakers to output that sound.
A BLDC motor is something else than a (brushed) DC motor. Still works in the same way, but usually BLDC motors have much stronger magnets plus they can be held stationary to play music most accurate
One way I have seen it be used is in Mario wonder, if you run on the note block your controller will vibrate different notes.
That's also why a Siemens Taurus locomotive sounds like it's singing while starting
It also works with a brushed motor. I retrofitted a brushed trolling motor with a PWM ESC to get a smooth throttle, and it produces that same high-pitched startup song
However an electric motor is not a very good speaker and won't make a lot of noise without an amplifier. Not even talking about the mismatched impedance.
When it comes to UK and EU plugs at 11:06,
It is common and safe to do (at least with my experience). I've done this many times when I went to UK and my grandparents do this too after moving from UK to Poland.
They have many appliances designed for UK, so they use a power bar to plug UK stuff into it and to also plug in regular EU plugs. It works flawlessly.
You can even jam in plugs designed for high current (ones with ticker prongs). Although I won't recommend that. I burned one power bar this way.
I had a friend who was working on radio links for broadcasting live events on TV. He accidentally put his finger in front of the directional 10GHz antenna. By the time he felt any pain, his tissues were severely damaged, with nothing visible on the outside. The power output of the antenna was far greater than what your puny microwave oven can produce tough
This is doubtful. May power most of these links is only 10s of watts, and that is right at the waveguide or feedhorn that faces the dish reflector ... the RF level leaving the dish reflector is a mere fraction of the RF at the feedhorn.
@@uploadJ 10s of watts is plenty enough to cause tissue damage in 5-10 seconds. It just needs to raise the temperature by a few degrees and you have dead tissue
"Ah, yes! I got burned!" Relatable.
13:00 please come to Brazil
Malta is a funny place.
I remember a hotel I stayed at had double wall sockets set into the wall, with a pair of single outlets mounted on the front... One UK, the other Euro style 😁
But yeah, we do that Euro-plug wedge here in UK too sometimes. I wouldn't do it on anything high current, as the UK socket is designed to mate with the flat sides of the UK plug, and the Euro plug has round pins, so the contact point isn't very large.
10:13 he got tricked
5:16 the motor is a coreless one, which means the rotor has very little mechanical inertia (and inductance). The motor you used was a cored one which has a lot more inertia, so you cannot expect too much 'audio output', especially at higher frequencies.
12:55 COME TO BRAZIL MEHDI!
Brazil is the inventor of the electric shower, so almost every house here has one. It's pretty safe I’ve never met anyone who had an accident with it.
11:08 I like how the electricity dude is smiling like a complete psychopath.
That's just Mehdi
2:11 Medhi Voice like a AI or Robot talking.. Indeed
Finally revealing his true form.
Mehdi*
OMG you have to try and buy and test some stupid electrical stuff like the insane breaker at 12:09!
14:26 hey, it's Moscow! Kids riding on trains in various dangerous ways are almost a subculture here
that's insane
Wow! Do you recognize the train?
@@bramfran4326 You can see the "МЦД" logo on the side, which stands for Moscow Central Diameters (rail lines)
I'm surprised that trend didn't die out yet on its own... literally
6:09 made me anxious about his ear I thought he was about to deaf himself
14:09 Damn Mehdi can read Arabic numbers now
He's Iranian, they have a similar script
aren’t arabic numbers 1,2,3….
Biggest hazard is to your eyes. When I ran mine unshielded, my eyes burned for hours afterwards and I'm pretty sure it did permanent damage
Why did you try it at home?
@@mattymerr701 check his videos to get an idea why he would want to try stuff like that.
2:50 Imagine his wife walking into the room finding him in the floor with a cd burining on a microwave
13:33 😂😂😂
8:32 what?? Open is equal to off.
When Vgs = 0 the JFET is open
I have as minor arcing between my metal bike handle and my thumb when passing below high voltage power lines.
Though I did not see it I felt it on my thumb.
6:41 "at least I'm here to rectify this stuff!" LOL Who else caught that?
Finally a new near death experience video
11:28 I see you have been introduced to "troll physics". And even more a trolling troll physics.
Although I don't want to try it, I've been told it feels like getting sand sprayed in your face.
12:45- Éeeeee du Braziiiiiu!
But you can also find those in all South and Central America. It's by far the cheapest and fastest water heating system, if you disregard the causalities...
9:14 240volts AC in india
240V AC RMS is about 320V peak to peak (240×√2)
11:47 Uk and europe design both are used in Malaysia and use the same socket
I just exploded 💥💥💥💥 and Mehdi's voice turned him into Megatron or Optimus Prime on that one😂😂😂
13:58 Medhi told me to try it, I'm sold
You are my encouragement 😊
I was just watching ElectroBoom videos today and eagerly waiting for a new post when, to my surprise, I saw that he had just uploaded one! It felt like a total godsend-perfect timing for some much-needed entertainment and laughs.
15:00 Damn Mehdi Got Some Beatbox Skills
He Could Easily Defeat D-low (By Electrocuting him Of course)💀
I installed a new of those shower heads at the son of my gf’s place in Colombia. They seem to be very common there, too.
Euro plugs are not supposed to fit into UK sockets. But if you're motivated, they can. But they shouldn't. Don't do it, unless you've lost the converter for your electric toothbrush and you really really need to brush your teeth.
Instead, use a "I'm a UK person visiting europe" converter plugged into a shaver outlet with a 4-way extension cord hanging off it, so you can plug more than one toothbrush and a razor (each one with euro plugs in proper converters, of course) into the single outlet.
But also don't do that, the outlet isn't rated for it. However experimental evidence shows it works for (currently) a minimum of 4 years and counting.
Ah yes this MrGreenGuy who started his youtube channel as NielGreen and made AI shorts of NielRed doing crazy stuff until he noticed. I love this dude.
I'm sorry, what?
@@danielwarner9366 People started to confuse nilegreen with nile red, which red was not happy with. He politely asked green to stop making parody chemistry videos off of his stuff as while he did find them funny he also didn't want anyone to get hurt or confused about it being real and posted by him. This was mostly because nile red has nile blue for other content as well so people might assume nile green is also an official channel among other things.
Rather than being dramatic about it, nilegreenguy went 👌 and stopped, changed their name and makes their own videos now.
@@danielwarner9366 MrGreenGuy made AI mockup of NileRed under his previous channel name NileGreen. Check his channel
@@danielwarner9366 yes its true i saw it happening live, and the videos weren't "ai" completely, he just used a voice changer to sound like niel as close as possible and never showed the face, everyone knew it was a parody but there obv were some people who didn't realized that and niel had to intervene cuz he made it seem like he's going too far without precautions and people kept falling for it (though he knew what he was doing)
Not an electrician, but live in a place with UK plugs and can confirm, you can jab the EU plugs in there fine, the only sketchy part is jabbing a screwdriver or butterknife into the earth pin to unlock the live and neatural terminals (they usually have a flap blocking them which is pushed out of the way by the longer earth pin).
9:54 best part of the video
For the euro to UK plug: UK plug is slightly larger, so you need to bend the euro plug (or sometimes you can just force it in, and it'll bend by itself). Also, UK plug needs ground, otherwise the live and neutral are closed off. They only open after a ground is inserted. When i traveled to Cyprus, I inserted my house keys to the ground, and then inserted the euro plug in with a bit of force
safety left the chat 😂😂
Yay another person from Malta! The argument against plugging euro plugs in UK sockets that way is because 1) euro plugs are slightly narrower than the prongs of a UK plug so it stretches the prongs a bit. At the same time euro plugs are actually designed to flex a bit. 2) Euro plugs are round so the contact area is smaller in a UK plug since it's designed for squarish prongs. At the same time devices with a europlug consumes less than 5 amps of current so it's not crazily dangerous. Lots of people do it but it's not recommended.
2:05 if styropyro has taught me anything, this is one of the most clinically insane things he has ever done.
Your neighbors like this trick 😂😂 no more wifi 2.4ghz in a 1 mile radius 😂
6:31 Never cut towards yourself, especially not towards your own throat!! Stay safe and always cut towards other people!
I have the power outlet bar at 12:14. Works fine.
2 laptops
4 monitors
2 desk lights
2 small speaker sets
Miniature video camera and screen
And 2 charging stations for robot vacuums
Total power with everything on measured at less than 600 watts.
Oh right i always somehow keep forgetting microwaves are just spicier photons at the end of the day
Thanks to polarization and coherence at specific fr, which is what microwave power heat is, the fields are not comparable in safety despite similar power levels because how the heat is dispersed and used through electric current paths the heat is not like a campfire heat as we are heated like contiuous-wave dosimitry microwaves which is not as safe at same heat levels because it's unnatural to our body because of polarization and coherent, proximity to source and field lines of force
Panagopoulos, Dimitris J., Olle Johansson, and George L. Carlo. "Polarization: a key difference between man-made and natural electromagnetic fields, in regard to biological activity." Scientific Reports 5.1 (2015): 1-10.
10:29 nothing quite like 400A through a wrench right?
Microwave ovens were first invented to revive frozen mice.
Konuk olduğu yerde bile elektrik çarpmış adamı.
2:41 bro himself became megatron 😂😂
2:30 I waited for "EXTERMINATE!" Dalek's impression
14:32 "These kids are idiots" says ElectroBOOM
Professionals have standards
Let’s talk about nuclear power. It’s no different than coal and NG. 99% of the earth’s electricity used by everyone is produced by boiling water. Can we find a more efficient way than boiling water?
This man is 100% electricity at this point
12:20 as someone who has grow tents... and an aquarium in the same room.
You can go through a lot of low power plug-ins and not get anywhere near the breaker max.
My lights are all LEDs and barely draw any power.
Fish filter uses more than anything else and that's low power too, small pump.
3:36 him with his hand on the magnetron reminded me of gargamel trying to catch a smurf
Microwave ovens operate at 2.5Ghz.. So the wavelength is around 12cm. As such there is a different effect depending on whether you are near field (less than 12cm) or far field (greater than 12cm). It is also worth noting that at that frequency, the radiation wont penetrate too far, so the primary effect is stimulus of pain neurons in your hand.
You are getting betterer...
13:07 as a biker i DEFINATLY feel SENSATIONS after riding under that power lines.
Trust me. you DO NOT want move your hands out of resin grips and touchin ANYTHING metal-ish objects. Also your phone REALLY LIKES that WIRELESS CHARGERS (not)
Miss you from the LiveLeak days!
Wasn't that weird ... such a horrible gore/s3xist/racist website, yet they all loved Mehdi.
I remember that (in the 70s) there were radiostations that transmitted from ships to the Netherlands. (Radio Veronica and Radio Noordzee (north sea)).
The aerials (antennas) were right above the steer hut and studio.
When they were broadcasting, the fluorescent lights (TL-Lights) would turn on by themselves.
Gen z thanks you for the distortion lol
13:05 The Bonneville Power Administration controls a transmission line (I believe 500kv) that runs through my city. The city built a biking/walking trail underneath it at ground level, on pedal power occasionally the sharp corners of the seat frame will arc to your leg and give you a little shock that feels like getting poked, but it seems to be proportional to how fast you're going. On my e-bike doing 30mph underneath the lines I have to grab the metal of the handlebars to ground myself lest I get really quite painful shocks to my legs!
YES I LOVE THIS LATITTY!!!
LATITY -> the BOOB
You can use UK socket with euro plug but you need to stick something into the ground first to open the holes for the live and neutral.
My god, he killed me when he smelled his armpit at 13:31 This is definitely one of the funniest man alive. I love you so much.
ElectroBOOM Many years ago I lived in an African country that used to be under the British government. Thus, the electrical outlets in homes were the British type. Europlugs fit very nicely in the three-terminal British type receptacles as long as you have a way to open the shutters. A simple inexpensive ink pen inserted into the earth (ground) hole of the receptacle worked wonderfully for pushing open the shutters.
1:36 Yeah. Safety and the military do NOT belong in the same sentence, lmao.
Malta here. 2-pin euro plugs are easy peasy to put into UK 3-pin. We've been doing it for decades. But the thick euro ones, need proper force to be inserted. If your socket is made of brittle plastic, you're gonna crack it.
2:28 sound like some evil character hahahaha jigsaw hello electronic comonents i wana play a gaame let see you survive😂😂😂
as ridiculous as those large power distribution things look ... could you get one with the most outlets you can find and show what you could actually plug into them safely? Maybe a bunch of LED based Xmas light strings?
what kind of things have low enough load to stay under a breaker's limit at 10-20+ separate devices? That would all plug into that central spot? I don't get it, but would like to expand my horizons.
I think the reason the wireless audio does that is because the magnetron outputs pulses at mains frequency because its a DC device, each pulse momentarily blocks the audio signal so it basically modulates your audio at mains frequency kind of like a ring modulator
It's because he uses a wireless mic that transmits in the 2.4 Ghz band, the same frequency as a microwave oven. I'm amazed any audio is passing at all.
I once heard a huge 500kW transformer play music, loud and in good quality! It was the output transformer of the AM transmitter in Beromünster Switzerland (shut down in 2008). It vibrated from the music that was on air. Very impreesing. A very inefficient speaker...
Microwaves travel through your body, so aiming a magnetron at your head could heat up your brain, yes? And brain damage can occur at only 108 degF or 42 degC. Seems like a Darwin award in the making.
That's right! That is if you stay in front of it long enough to heat up. And I'm sure you'll feel the heat before any damage happens and jump away. Unless the energy is focused at a point that can internally burn some cells quickly
@@ElectroBOOM Due to the uneven heating nature of microwave ovens, I wonder if there could be "hot-spots" internally, that would not be felt on the skin as quickly. Or would that not happen in open air vs a microwave cavity? Hmm...
The UK / Euro plug - You need to widen the Euro plug pins to allow them into the UK plug holes, and use a screwdriver to push in the earth hole to allow the shields to move. And the high voltage transmission lines... walk under them with a flouro tube, it will light