There was a channel dedicated to blow up motors and I think it was called for science. He even made a motor wars series where the motors would fight each other 😂
I was 7 or 8 years old, while playing with my Tamiya motor, I had the bright idea of plugging it in to a direct 220v socket. One burned hand and a tripped circuit breaker later made me learn my lesson to not fck with electricity😂😂
I once had the bright idea of plugging my phone directly to the 120v outlet. Luckily I wasn't smart enough to expose the usb wires. Rather, I tapped the live contacts with the usb connector that shorted, blew up and popped the fuse. Did I learn my lesson? Nope because I did the exact same thing with a tiny LED and this time with the added smell of burnt materials and shocking myself😭 father electro boom has taught me well
@@kristinefuentenegrawhen i was 8 yrs old i have a bright idea plugging a 12V LED To a 220V when i plugged it it exploded and it caught on fire funny enough when I was 9 my phone charges very slow and plugged it to a 24V power supply and the phone screen popped.
Motors that are specifically designed to handle those high rpms are always going to be a brushless motor. I have a seancheer turbo jet fan and judging by the tone it’s 130,000 rpms. A brushed motor with the highest rated rpm the centrifugal air pump in a Wagner sprayer which spins at 64,000 rpms but highly inefficient and have a short life expectancy. There is a reason why premium corded vacuums have motors that don’t spin faster than 42,000 rpms if you completely block the suction with your hand and 35,000 rpms under use.
I used to run a slot car track ( both 1/24 and 1/32 ) the cars motors were mostly 12 volt DC with over 100amps available !. I also rewound those tiny Mabuchie motors to about 1volt ( winding about 12 winds of #28 wire on the 3 pole armature going to a ceramic comutater, THEN epoxi the windings then staticley balance the armature and we regularly got well over 125,000 OUT OF THEM!! But only for a few seconds, the motors were controled by a hand controller with a MASSIVE reostat inside, you only used full throttle for a split second as those tiny motors would propell those cars to nearly 100 mbh on a slot car track straightaway , as you only used full throttle for about 1/3 of a second it didnt burn out the motors or cause them to explode. This was in the early to mid 1960s
@@notpoliticallycorrect1303 yea and BOY did they get HOT on a long race!! They even had been noted to MELT IN YOUR HAND TOO!! ( as the controler body was made of plastic, but the race track had the power of a FORK LIFT battery behind it, tho some smaller tracks used two or three TRUCK BATTERYS hooked up in parallel, for the availablebility of over 300amps to the track ( each lane had a 50amp circet breaker on it) and the track had six to eight lanes, all the tracks I was involved with were 12volt some drag strips ( 1/24 scale ) had 24volts tho!! ( A looong time ago, slot cars pretty much died out by 1967, tho I have heard that a few tracks exist in Florida and in California!!.
@@earlwheelock7844 it has definitely shrunk, but it still exists! I've done a bit of metal chassis racing but not to the point of rewinding motors etc, and now right at the top end they've started using brushless "DC" motors. Not much more power if any, but much less time spent preparing them! Most controllers now (for brushed motors) have the heat-making components (mosfets etc) separated from the grip, and the grip just sends a signal to those to regulate track voltage. It's partly to keep from burning your hands, partly to reduce resistance in the circuit. With the current the fastest motors draw...!
SORRY but my reaction times have slowed down a BUNCH, as I am now in my 80s, another thing , we now have rare earth magnets about 5 times stronger than the old ceramic ones. ( I now do r/c model airplanes , electric ) you have to have lightning fast reaction times to be competitive in slot car racing!!
I would NEVER try to rewind a brushless motor as they are completly different than the 3 pole armatures on the old Mabuchi motors, the electrical enginearing that goes into the brushless motores and there speed controlers is FAR beyond me!!!
I was able to build one with no access to internet or computers. Took the whole kit out of an rc car and attached one main fan at the rear and a propeller type thingi at the side. Wola! It worked beautifully except the fact that the range was only like 2-3 m and batteries lasted like 20 min. I was proud of myself. Lol
@@dreamer4515 tried numerous times my self even had a litle fan as a propeller, but my boats were to heavy and would sink, a year later i figured out that plastic bottles float very well lol, since i didnt have any rc car i just attached a motor to batteries. well the boat ran awawith everything that was on the boat, and stopped in the middle of the pond, my boat was then brutally attacked by a goose, and watched it sink so that's how made a titanic 2.0
Now listen. Companies try to be careful when advertising motors, but really, it's fine to go a FEW volts over their specified voltage. It's fine to have a 12V motor be ran by 15 volts and more even, just be careful.
This reminds me of something terribly stupid that I did when I was a kid: My father had a variable voltage PSU that went up to 24V, and multiple 1.5V-3V and 12V motors from car radiocasettes. I got a liking to blowing up motors as seen on the video, but the PSU didn't go high enough to blow the 12V motors so I had a "genius" idea: To plug the 12V motor into the 220V mains of the house. You can imagine how it went... The motor inmmediatly exploded with a big bang and I went pale. Luckily the metal casing saved my hands, and the short circuit protection of the house triggered and saved me from certain electrocution. I learned a big lesson that day and didn't tell my father, who by the way is an electrician and would probably call me every insult he knew.
It is confirmed that smoke and fire make motors run. Most seem to fail around 30v the same voltage that they tend to blow up in toys. Now can you do the same thing but with an assortment of sound chips out of various toys as they should all blow around 7v
I've noticed that most motors tend to fail at around 4-5 times their rated voltage, and the cheaper quality ones only handle about 2-3 times their rated voltage before failing, but that one 12 volt one that handled over 80 volts before failing was quite impressive!
A few years ago I was given an little Only fools and horses rc Reliant three wheeled van as a present,made in china of course.I took mine to work and as it turned out the young lad who works for me got one too.Soon we were having races at lunch time around the workshop.It got quite competitive,we had rules that it must remain as the van and you cant just bolt the body to a better base,cue a host of modifications to gain an edge,little carboard spoilers,neoprene rings on the back tyres for better top speed etc. I eventually secretly opted for fit a 4 way AA battery cartridge on top of the original battery box to supplement the four it already ran on,giving the option of 4,6 or 8. I initially tried 9 volts/6 AA's,which made it markedly quicker,then after running for ages without issue and being curious tried 8 batteries. I expected it to not work,or fail quickly given the little board in the van was now also getting 12 instead of 6 volts, but 7 or 8 years later,it's battered but still works and is still stupidly fast for what it is,I've told my 'opponent' it's all down to reducing friction,he's tried everything and then some😂 I dont know wether to be impressed that the cheap components can handle double their initial design or that they are so bad that it doesn't matter,I only hope the same factory doesn't make medical or aeronautical stuff😂.
I did this experiment 40 years ago......... Plugged the motor in to 240AC...... Out come was exploding motor, burnt my chest oh and blind over night...... Test completed
Could you please do this again and submerge the electrical end vertically in mineral oil with the end of the shaft poking out for speed measurement. It should keep the slightly cooler by a few seconds and eliminate the sparking, and really go til she blows. If you do, do this make sure to carefully submerge them so there is no air trspped in or around them!
There are a few people that have suggested this, and I'm actually in the store right now getting more electric screwdrivers 😄. I'll try to film this weekend or maybe next week
When I was a little boy I would play with these little motors all the time. You could buy a few different sizes at the local surplus store for next to nothing. One time I got the bright idea to cut a wall plug off of something and wire one of these little motors directly into the wall. It's been a good 20 years and I still remember the moment I plugged it into the wall lmao. Not a great idea.
pretty fun video, this is like watching curling. Im not sure about what the rules are, the content is good to look at and the game in my head is to find out what the " rules " are. I dont know too much about DC motors and seeing the different outcomes makes me understand just enough to be exited too watch the next one, hoping to find the key to understanding what makes them burn out
When I was in 2nd class in 2015, I used to explode my RC Cars / plane and used to keep the PCBs and motors and LEDs with me, thinking that using these, when I grow up, I will make a terminator robot! 😂 Jokes apart, but that opened my interest in microelectronics and now when I am in 11th, preparing for JEE 2026, to get Electronics and communications branch, I have till now prepared more than 40 sensor based projects, I have made 2 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Quadcopters) and I have a good hand at physical computing. It all started with opening toy cars and remote controls...
2:05, the little pully with the reflector flew off and then the motor went way into overspeed and locked up the rotor causing the whole motor to turn over so fast it ripped up the cardboard. The locked rotor also caused the smoke from stalling.
It appears that the main failure mode of brushed dc motors is the brush assembly overheating and melting the brush contacts in other into a short? Or is it electricity arc across the brush contact pads from the high rpm + over-voltage potential basically bridging the contacts into a shorted state?
I disassembled the motors, and the smaller ones often fail by the copper brushes deforming. On the larger ones with carbon brushes the commutator is often overheated and releases from the rotor body, and burnt windings.
@@Cskirt That makes sense. The commutator/brush contacts do seem that they’d be the point of highest resistance, just by nature of being a moving contact point. Also there is undoubtedly contact-switching noise generated by the winding inductance coupled with the magnetic field as the poles are rotated by the commutator. Is that what the ceramic cap across the contacts is for? probably to reduce emi by giving a path to short the switching noise to ground. I wonder if the amount or length of time a motor can withstand over voltage would differ between two identical motors one with the cap and the other without? My guess is it wouldn’t make much difference because of the substantial levels of over voltage that the components are being subjected to. I enjoyed watching these motors quickly retire from service, anyhow!
Years ago whilst playing with a low voltage motor that I had adapted to operate in a toy boat I was surprised that when it sank (don't ask) it continued to work quite happily even underwater! It turns out that clean bath water doesn't conduct electricity as well as people think.
My car is powered by an 11 inch Hitachi DC series motor Its rated at 48v - 200amps - operates at up to 1400rpm in the forklift I'm feeding it with 1200amps and 390v - I hit 6800rpm at the end of the 1/4 mile - and it survived!
I replace the brushed motors in all my RC cars with brushless. They function better and last longer. I used to fry electric motors all the time as a kid. Now I just sell them to those that want the brushed motors.
Every time you put toy in there, it makes at least me slightly more against what you’re doing because I’m reason just a soon as you put toy in there also what’s the capacitor for because I have pretty much that exact motor and I really want to know does it actually have carbon brushes like before it’s used? 0:26
I used to do this in elementary school with dollar store fan motors but id hoard 9v batteries every time we would go and then eventually click them together like legos in a series. They usually just stopped spinning and didnt fail to aggressively.
I'm impressed that these things can handle 2x and some even +3x their rated voltage before starting to smoke. Now I wonder how much 1.5 - 2x rated voltage goes for their lifetime, as in could some of those handle that for extended time? Or would it only take minutes instead of seconds before they smoke up?
Super. 85,000 r.p.m! If you installed a LARGE flywheel in your vehicle that could withstand the stress of spinning at 85,000 revolutions per minute, you could easily drive for 400 miles, go to a "spin" (Gas) station, and have your flywheel "spun" up again. (Big flexible motor shaft sticking out of the "gas" pump attached to the vehicles flywheel.) It would spin for a week before it even got close to winding down, and assuming that you could steer the car or truck, it could prove to be exceptionally fast and economical. It would probably work better in a larger vehicle, like a truck, train, or a boat though, something with regular stops and places to wind up that kind of flywheel. Good video. 💙 T.E.N.
There were trolleybuses that used such a system when moving between power lines The problem is the gyroscopic effect of such a flywheel, the control will be quite strange
It would be interesting to see if a similar test but keeping the RPM consistent by pulsing the power to motors. Will a 3V motor burn out at 12V if you use a PWM with a low enough duty cycle so the RPM still matches the 3V RPM? My guess is the motors wont die as fast but the higher voltage will still likely greatly shorten the motor's live span. I don't think the commutator nor the brushes would like the higher voltage.
I wasn't so stupid when I was young. We put the 6v motor in the fire place and put a guard in front when we connected it to the 230v. However.... 30 odd years later I connected myself to 230v with both hands and got a damn good tickle. 😂
When i was only 7 years old im spending all my pocket money in this type of things im running this motor with mobile charger after cutting the wire of charger and its work and also running with car battery im taking all my motors from my toys
I can almost smell it. We used to rewind slot car motors with only 3 turns of thick wire. Good for one drag race and despite fixing the windings with epoxy they still got ejected. We had motors that were rated at 72,000rpm and our 3-turn motors were spun faster.
Me and my friend are making this RC 787. It's a pretty big plane, and the 3D printed fuselage is a bit heavy. Maybe overclocking the EDFs might help...
These videos never fail to entertain me. The RPM that those motors reached were quite impressive. And I love seeing the current meter now. Thanks!
There was a channel dedicated to blow up motors and I think it was called for science. He even made a motor wars series where the motors would fight each other 😂
@@Electronichub_05 Yeah, I know that channel too. And I already watched some of his videos.
@@schaltnetzteil495 I watched all xD
It’s a voltage meter, not a current meter
@@aleksbajic8917 He always had a voltage meter on the variac, but now he added a current meter too.
I was 7 or 8 years old, while playing with my Tamiya motor, I had the bright idea of plugging it in to a direct 220v socket. One burned hand and a tripped circuit breaker later made me learn my lesson to not fck with electricity😂😂
I'd did the same withy game boy, because I was annoyed of empty batteries. Hard lessons learned about electricity...
I once had the bright idea of plugging my phone directly to the 120v outlet. Luckily I wasn't smart enough to expose the usb wires. Rather, I tapped the live contacts with the usb connector that shorted, blew up and popped the fuse. Did I learn my lesson? Nope because I did the exact same thing with a tiny LED and this time with the added smell of burnt materials and shocking myself😭 father electro boom has taught me well
BRO I THOUGHT I WAS THEE ONLY ONE LOL😂😂😂😂
@@kristinefuentenegrawhen i was 8 yrs old i have a bright idea plugging a 12V LED To a 220V when i plugged it it exploded and it caught on fire funny enough when I was 9 my phone charges very slow and plugged it to a 24V power supply and the phone screen popped.
I did the same thing with the same car and the same age, what a bunch of idiots
That 3.7V electric screwdriver motor wins by a long shot in RPMs!!! That thing reached 85,022 RPM before literally EXPLODING!!!
more than drone motors lol
The reflector flew off at 85.022 RPM and it got a bit faster afterwards, so it could have reached over 90.000 RPM.
@@schaltnetzteil495 IT’S OVER 90,000!!!!!
Literally?
could be because they are high torque
I can smell the burnt brushes from here lol
You've been around these for a lifetime then
I can taste the burnt brushes
I thought that I was the only one smelling the burn. I was like "weird". "How am I smelling that?"
Those bushes aren’t burnt they’re evaporated 😂
@@kurttapscott3178 your not funny
This channel fills a Photonicinduction shaped hole in my heart.
Is that man still alive? Haven’t heard from him over now?!.
@@antonfloor344 probably, he recently started uploading then stopped, his last video was about overvolting a treadmill
@antonfloor344 he is. Apparently, he has computer problems and is working a lot and doesn't have much time. But he is alive and well
The absolute chaos his videos brought to our lives.. I miss those days :(
That sounds painful
Mosquitoes in the room at 3 am:
It also sound like a little baby crying 😂💀
At 5:12
they be exploding motors💀
3am 😂
You cracked me up 🤣
Holy crap. Over 80,000 RPM? I'm surprised that thing didn't open a portal to another dimension. Imagine installing a CPU fan on that.
It wouldnt reach those rpms with such a load. Load defys rpm.
Wouldn't the only load by air drag in the fan?
Its over 9000!
@@gabrielv.4358 😂😂😂nice reference........you just had too ,didn't you.💀
Motors that are specifically designed to handle those high rpms are always going to be a brushless motor. I have a seancheer turbo jet fan and judging by the tone it’s 130,000 rpms. A brushed motor with the highest rated rpm the centrifugal air pump in a Wagner sprayer which spins at 64,000 rpms but highly inefficient and have a short life expectancy. There is a reason why premium corded vacuums have motors that don’t spin faster than 42,000 rpms if you completely block the suction with your hand and 35,000 rpms under use.
Makes you pause and appreciate the wonders of high-speed electric motors.
2:07 that one just let out the magic smoke and literally broke the carpet LOL
And burnt the power cord as a bonus too.
@@dogs-and-destruction-channel even worse HAHA
i think it locked up
AND AT 2:13 IT SHOWED FIRE
smoke liquid
You know it's going to be a good video when the bearings start to go on the first motor
A lot of electric motors don't have bearings but bushes. Damn impressive! Cheers from Australia 👍
@@dragan3290 bushes are bearings, also known as sleeve bearings
@@daxster25I think you mean brushes and bushings.
❌Watching netflix with Dinner
❌Watching the mythbusters episodes for free on UA-cam
✅Watching motors burn
Man I haven’t heard of the myth busters in years, was my favorite show growing up as a kid
I used to run a slot car track ( both 1/24 and 1/32 ) the cars motors were mostly 12 volt DC with over 100amps available !. I also rewound those tiny Mabuchie motors to about 1volt ( winding about 12 winds of #28 wire on the 3 pole armature going to a ceramic comutater, THEN epoxi the windings then staticley balance the armature and we regularly got well over 125,000 OUT OF THEM!! But only for a few seconds, the motors were controled by a hand controller with a MASSIVE reostat inside, you only used full throttle for a split second as those tiny motors would propell those cars to nearly 100 mbh on a slot car track straightaway , as you only used full throttle for about 1/3 of a second it didnt burn out the motors or cause them to explode. This was in the early to mid 1960s
Those controllers were about as tactile as a sledgehammer😂.
@@notpoliticallycorrect1303 yea and BOY did they get HOT on a long race!! They even had been noted to MELT IN YOUR HAND TOO!! ( as the controler body was made of plastic, but the race track had the power of a FORK LIFT battery behind it, tho some smaller tracks used two or three TRUCK BATTERYS hooked up in parallel, for the availablebility of over 300amps to the track ( each lane had a 50amp circet breaker on it) and the track had six to eight lanes, all the tracks I was involved with were 12volt some drag strips ( 1/24 scale ) had 24volts tho!! ( A looong time ago, slot cars pretty much died out by 1967, tho I have heard that a few tracks exist in Florida and in California!!.
@@earlwheelock7844 it has definitely shrunk, but it still exists! I've done a bit of metal chassis racing but not to the point of rewinding motors etc, and now right at the top end they've started using brushless "DC" motors. Not much more power if any, but much less time spent preparing them! Most controllers now (for brushed motors) have the heat-making components (mosfets etc) separated from the grip, and the grip just sends a signal to those to regulate track voltage. It's partly to keep from burning your hands, partly to reduce resistance in the circuit. With the current the fastest motors draw...!
SORRY but my reaction times have slowed down a BUNCH, as I am now in my 80s, another thing , we now have rare earth magnets about 5 times stronger than the old ceramic ones. ( I now do r/c model airplanes , electric ) you have to have lightning fast reaction times to be competitive in slot car racing!!
I would NEVER try to rewind a brushless motor as they are completly different than the 3 pole armatures on the old Mabuchi motors, the electrical enginearing that goes into the brushless motores and there speed controlers is FAR beyond me!!!
Glad to see I wasn’t the only 9 year old playing with these and making my own RC boat 😂. Kids these days have their face glued to screens…
I was able to build one with no access to internet or computers. Took the whole kit out of an rc car and attached one main fan at the rear and a propeller type thingi at the side. Wola! It worked beautifully except the fact that the range was only like 2-3 m and batteries lasted like 20 min. I was proud of myself. Lol
@@dreamer4515 tried numerous times my self even had a litle fan as a propeller, but my boats were to heavy and would sink, a year later i figured out that plastic bottles float very well lol, since i didnt have any rc car i just attached a motor to batteries. well the boat ran awawith everything that was on the boat, and stopped in the middle of the pond, my boat was then brutally attacked by a goose, and watched it sink so that's how made a titanic 2.0
Some of my earliest memories tinkering are of doing exactly that.
5:14 when the motors said "🚂" i felt that 😩
The assortment of 6 dc motors in the last one sound like drones
While in fact, it is one and a half drones
*flight of the bumblebees start intensely playing*
Now listen. Companies try to be careful when advertising motors, but really, it's fine to go a FEW volts over their specified voltage. It's fine to have a 12V motor be ran by 15 volts and more even, just be careful.
Who u talkin to? Everyone who watch this knows the term "Overvoltage" in the title
Let's all listen to a random guy on UA-cam, he says it's fine everyone! 😂
@@skulduggery7028 Wow! Let's listen to you! You are definitely some random guy!
You are 100% correct, I am a random guy!
@@skulduggery7028 Then why trust YOU?
5:00 swarm of bees
5:14 bees attacking
This reminds me of something terribly stupid that I did when I was a kid:
My father had a variable voltage PSU that went up to 24V, and multiple 1.5V-3V and 12V motors from car radiocasettes.
I got a liking to blowing up motors as seen on the video, but the PSU didn't go high enough to blow the 12V motors so I had a "genius" idea:
To plug the 12V motor into the 220V mains of the house.
You can imagine how it went... The motor inmmediatly exploded with a big bang and I went pale. Luckily the metal casing saved my hands, and the short circuit protection of the house triggered and saved me from certain electrocution.
I learned a big lesson that day and didn't tell my father, who by the way is an electrician and would probably call me every insult he knew.
You're back finally, and even with 2 videos, good on you
Wow! That’s so cool! Also I liked when screwdriver motor is smoked like the vape.
2:07 it tried to do a backflip but didn't realize he was bolted to the floor
Sounds Like Turbocharger
You called the vibrator "massage gun" lmao
vibrators have smaller motors unless you mean the wand ones, they might have pretty similar ones
massage guns are vibrators,aren't they? They produce vibration
@@kerbodynamicx472
Yeah. Potato, pototo. 😝
@@kerbodynamicx472they’re mainly used as vibrators, they massage a special place lol
Yeah, you know, for those deep internal massages!😂
If you've ever played with DC motors, you can smell this video
true 😂
As long as they work its a sweet oily smell with a little plastic background .
Ha ha 😂
ozone
I did
But i never overvolted them
Mmmm smell that ozone and burning enamel. Reminds me of my childhood breaking all my stuff in a scientific way 😂
It is confirmed that smoke and fire make motors run. Most seem to fail around 30v the same voltage that they tend to blow up in toys. Now can you do the same thing but with an assortment of sound chips out of various toys as they should all blow around 7v
I've noticed that most motors tend to fail at around 4-5 times their rated voltage, and the cheaper quality ones only handle about 2-3 times their rated voltage before failing, but that one 12 volt one that handled over 80 volts before failing was quite impressive!
A few years ago I was given an little Only fools and horses rc Reliant three wheeled van as a present,made in china of course.I took mine to work and as it turned out the young lad who works for me got one too.Soon we were having races at lunch time around the workshop.It got quite competitive,we had rules that it must remain as the van and you cant just bolt the body to a better base,cue a host of modifications to gain an edge,little carboard spoilers,neoprene rings on the back tyres for better top speed etc. I eventually secretly opted for fit a 4 way AA battery cartridge on top of the original battery box to supplement the four it already ran on,giving the option of 4,6 or 8. I initially tried 9 volts/6 AA's,which made it markedly quicker,then after running for ages without issue and being curious tried 8 batteries. I expected it to not work,or fail quickly given the little board in the van was now also getting 12 instead of 6 volts, but 7 or 8 years later,it's battered but still works and is still stupidly fast for what it is,I've told my 'opponent' it's all down to reducing friction,he's tried everything and then some😂 I dont know wether to be impressed that the cheap components can handle double their initial design or that they are so bad that it doesn't matter,I only hope the same factory doesn't make medical or aeronautical stuff😂.
In 1:37 the electric screw driver motor sounded at first like revving the hell out of a v8 truck than at last it sounded like a baby crying 🤣💀💀💀
Simple experiment but LOADS of fun. Brilliant ! Subbed👍
Top 1 jumpscare
1. Motor jumpscare😂 2:07
(WOW 60 likes thanks)😊
(WHAT 80 like THANKS)😊
Yes and the fire in the background
LOL
Are u even a real person?
Sounds Like Turbocharger
Do you have any videos with brushless motor testing?
Yeah, but it wasn't interesting enough to post imo. But maybe I'll post them as shorts
@@Cskirt Waiting for it
Man, I remember when I was a kid, Ive put one of those small rc car ones into 220v socket, it sparked once and was over quickly.
2:05 "So much torque, the chassis twisted coming off the line."
2:10: Wow, would you look at all those smoke fumes!!
4:31 this was such a cool sound 💀
0:45 babies on aeroplane ✈️
😂😂😂😂
I still remember when I was little, I once connected both wires directly to a 240V socket. It exploded and tripped the breaker.😂😂😂
Now we need “Overvolting ESCs” to see them explode
3:22 It's sounds like a supercharger from a certain car but for only a second lol
5:04 the sound like a DJI drone
That's precisely what I was thinking.
first guy who invented electric DC engine with internal combustion
I did this experiment 40 years ago......... Plugged the motor in to 240AC...... Out come was exploding motor, burnt my chest oh and blind over night...... Test completed
I wonder how much centrifical force is on the rotor at that hi rpm
Enough to open a time travel portal😂
Thank you for releasing all that magic smoke!
Could you please do this again and submerge the electrical end vertically in mineral oil with the end of the shaft poking out for speed measurement. It should keep the slightly cooler by a few seconds and eliminate the sparking, and really go til she blows. If you do, do this make sure to carefully submerge them so there is no air trspped in or around them!
There are a few people that have suggested this, and I'm actually in the store right now getting more electric screwdrivers 😄. I'll try to film this weekend or maybe next week
I haven't laughed that hard in a while, some of those endings were quite spectacular!
When I was a little boy I would play with these little motors all the time. You could buy a few different sizes at the local surplus store for next to nothing. One time I got the bright idea to cut a wall plug off of something and wire one of these little motors directly into the wall. It's been a good 20 years and I still remember the moment I plugged it into the wall lmao. Not a great idea.
One of ly favourite hobby when I was kid! 😂 Thznk uou for remebering me! ❤
Ah, this reminds me on my childhood. :) So many motors destroyed back then just to see how things work. :) Or break apart. :)
No motors were harmed in the making of this video
4:51 this part sound like an race car
4:05 nice all can monitored how many volts,rpm,current. untill that motors burns...
pretty fun video, this is like watching curling. Im not sure about what the rules are, the content is good to look at and the game in my head is to find out what the " rules " are. I dont know too much about DC motors and seeing the different outcomes makes me understand just enough to be exited too watch the next one, hoping to find the key to understanding what makes them burn out
When I was in 2nd class in 2015, I used to explode my RC Cars / plane and used to keep the PCBs and motors and LEDs with me, thinking that using these, when I grow up, I will make a terminator robot! 😂
Jokes apart, but that opened my interest in microelectronics and now when I am in 11th, preparing for JEE 2026, to get Electronics and communications branch,
I have till now prepared more than 40 sensor based projects, I have made 2 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Quadcopters) and I have a good hand at physical computing.
It all started with opening toy cars and remote controls...
2:05, the little pully with the reflector flew off and then the motor went way into overspeed and locked up the rotor causing the whole motor to turn over so fast it ripped up the cardboard. The locked rotor also caused the smoke from stalling.
What type of variable system do you use? I need to start doing stuff like this too. my 5 amp variac is not enough.
It's an old 2KVA variac with a rectifier and a large capacitor at the DC output
please do a part 2 this time a try using 12v motors and some 3 to 6v motors and try a 280 12v motor
You can use a mig welder. Mine is 10-30 volts. I assume it can pull 300 amps max
@@josephschaefer9163i hope it doesnt weld the brushes against the commutators😂😂
5:14 Bro said’🚂
NICE! I have done this as jung Boy often ..... in the mid 80`s, no Brushless ..... 🥳
It appears that the main failure mode of brushed dc motors is the brush assembly overheating and melting the brush contacts in other into a short?
Or is it electricity arc across the brush contact pads from the high rpm + over-voltage potential basically bridging the contacts into a shorted state?
I disassembled the motors, and the smaller ones often fail by the copper brushes deforming. On the larger ones with carbon brushes the commutator is often overheated and releases from the rotor body, and burnt windings.
I wonder what would happen with active cooling 🤔
@@Cskirt That makes sense. The commutator/brush contacts do seem that they’d be the point of highest resistance, just by nature of being a moving contact point.
Also there is undoubtedly contact-switching noise generated by the winding inductance coupled with the magnetic field as the poles are rotated by the commutator.
Is that what the ceramic cap across the contacts is for? probably to reduce emi by giving a path to short the switching noise to ground. I wonder if the amount or length of time a motor can withstand over voltage would differ between two identical motors one with the cap and the other without? My guess is it wouldn’t make much difference because of the substantial levels of over voltage that the components are being subjected to.
I enjoyed watching these motors quickly retire from service, anyhow!
2:57 You put almost our city voltage (240v) to that motor
Nope... As motor blown up, the voltage counter didnt properly works anymore, engine died at around 30v
My city voltage is 250V and 16A.
Good for you. @@lifeofdenizofficialchannel
if you want them to be more smokey start increasing the voltage while spinning the motor backwards with a drill (fight the motor with the drill)
Excellent motor burn outs.
Ripping from the table and bursting into smoke hahahah! Awesome. New subscriber ✌🏻
You can smell the RPM 😂 Great video, I never thought of this, extreme numbers. The electric engine in my PHEV goes up to 12000RPM what if… ⚡️ 😂
On 3:26 i heard like Formula Car engine in 2004
Years ago whilst playing with a low voltage motor that I had adapted to operate in a toy boat I was surprised that when it sank (don't ask) it continued to work quite happily even underwater! It turns out that clean bath water doesn't conduct electricity as well as people think.
what does the little capacitor (or whatever it is) do in the delivery circuitry?
It keeps radio interference down. I learned that while participating in Battle Bots
@@yelwingfellow battle bot enjoyer in the wild
This is why EV car better than Internal combustion car
because electric motor can liberate insane exceed rated power
You should try this with some air powered motors.
Get some really high RPMs!
Things I didn’t know I needed to know for 1000 Alex! Haha
0:58 sounds like 😅
0:58 Sounds Like Girl Wolfychu DC Motors 😂😂😂
Excuse me?
Amazing how much power and potential have in this tiny motor ❤
I bet your workshop smells fabulous 😅
Lol the smoke when they give up the ghost 😂
My car is powered by an 11 inch Hitachi DC series motor
Its rated at 48v - 200amps - operates at up to 1400rpm in the forklift
I'm feeding it with 1200amps and 390v - I hit 6800rpm at the end of the 1/4 mile - and it survived!
I replace the brushed motors in all my RC cars with brushless. They function better and last longer. I used to fry electric motors all the time as a kid. Now I just sell them to those that want the brushed motors.
Every time you put toy in there, it makes at least me slightly more against what you’re doing because I’m reason just a soon as you put toy in there also what’s the capacitor for because I have pretty much that exact motor and I really want to know does it actually have carbon brushes like before it’s used? 0:26
I always remove batteries from my hair cutters and trimmers and hardwire a power supply to them. With that higher voltage they work much better.
2:07 new jumpscare
OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD 2:08 2:07
4:50 Behold, the new THX intro!
these little motors are quite impressive, pls keep them coming
I used to do this in elementary school with dollar store fan motors but id hoard 9v batteries every time we would go and then eventually click them together like legos in a series. They usually just stopped spinning and didnt fail to aggressively.
I'm impressed that these things can handle 2x and some even +3x their rated voltage before starting to smoke.
Now I wonder how much 1.5 - 2x rated voltage goes for their lifetime, as in could some of those handle that for extended time?
Or would it only take minutes instead of seconds before they smoke up?
Since the explosion my man start taking some security precautions 😂😂😂😂
I remember taking them out from my rc cars and then connecting then to batteries and feeling proud of myself XD
Super. 85,000 r.p.m! If you installed a LARGE flywheel in your vehicle that could withstand the stress of spinning at 85,000 revolutions per minute, you could easily drive for 400 miles, go to a "spin" (Gas) station, and have your flywheel "spun" up again. (Big flexible motor shaft sticking out of the "gas" pump attached to the vehicles flywheel.) It would spin for a week before it even got close to winding down, and assuming that you could steer the car or truck, it could prove to be exceptionally fast and economical. It would probably work better in a larger vehicle, like a truck, train, or a boat though, something with regular stops and places to wind up that kind of flywheel. Good video. 💙 T.E.N.
There were trolleybuses that used such a system when moving between power lines
The problem is the gyroscopic effect of such a flywheel, the control will be quite strange
That Tribute in the end! 🎉❤
It would be interesting to see if a similar test but keeping the RPM consistent by pulsing the power to motors. Will a 3V motor burn out at 12V if you use a PWM with a low enough duty cycle so the RPM still matches the 3V RPM?
My guess is the motors wont die as fast but the higher voltage will still likely greatly shorten the motor's live span.
I don't think the commutator nor the brushes would like the higher voltage.
I wasn't so stupid when I was young. We put the 6v motor in the fire place and put a guard in front when we connected it to the 230v. However.... 30 odd years later I connected myself to 230v with both hands and got a damn good tickle. 😂
When i was only 7 years old im spending all my pocket money in this type of things im running this motor with mobile charger after cutting the wire of charger and its work and also running with car battery im taking all my motors from my toys
Almost everyone who played with motors, at least one time pluged in in a regular socket 😂😂
Im working on esp32 drones, i have thought about over volting 8520 motors to see if i can get more thrust.
I can almost smell it. We used to rewind slot car motors with only 3 turns of thick wire. Good for one drag race and despite fixing the windings with epoxy they still got ejected. We had motors that were rated at 72,000rpm and our 3-turn motors were spun faster.
This and burn electrolitic capacitors its a thing that all electronics lovers would do sometime in his life.
Burn leds is very fun aswel.
2:15 thats was a big smoker
4:49 they sound like racing electric cars
Me and my friend are making this RC 787. It's a pretty big plane, and the 3D printed fuselage is a bit heavy. Maybe overclocking the EDFs might help...
I love it! Hilarious results.
That was unexpectedly awesome.
Duct tape holding down the bench vise, my fav part!!!