Dave & Electroboom - The Amp Hour 

I thought the Jacob's ladder scene was faked with a foot pedal to kill it. I didn't realise that it was real. That was a very close scrape. The number of people who have died from microwave transformer contact over the last few years is staggering. The main peril being that at such a high voltage an extremely high current will flow and the galvanic isolation defeats the ability of a GFCI or RCD to detect the shock current.

I seriously have so much faith, in both of my electronics heros being here, sure means something!

I tried to make my videos funny by shocking myself, but then I destroyed the input to my $100K spectrum analyzer...

Two legends in one frame! Can't thank you guys enough for your contribution to electrical and electronics

You could make short clips of this show, around 4 seconds long, and call it the milliamp hour. I'm sure it would be just as electrifying

Yeah that Jabob's Ladder moment still haunts me. I was wondering if you were gonna talk about it.

Reupholstering the chair was one of the most entertaining videos for me and there's no shocks in that. It's just Mehdi's personality.

Omg!! Couldn't stop smiling at this, two of my heroes!!

He sounds like a very humble and sympathetic man.

Nice hearing the background of how it all started!

Awww Mehdi-boom, you're such a remarkable human. Thanks for your channel, I really liked seeing this interview side of you, full of goofy humor, candor, and overall happy content and presence. Dave: thanks for taking the time to interview Mehdi and giving your unique and thoughtful perspective on both the content and the championing of Mehdi's approach. I love your style (and your main channel).

Hi from a UK viewer massive fan of both you guys been watching for many years .. I've shared all you're channels with my fellow engineers electrical and mechanical...thanks for all the years of entertainment and at the same time thanks for encouraging/inspiring the next generation of engineering talent... you're both legends now....and as for the Jabob's ladder ..dude that was one of the few moments on youtube that made me swear out loud ..you are one lucky man Mehdi ...mind you I've had my fair share of brown trouser moments ...any EE who hasn't have certainly not worked on industrial equipment.

It's amazing to listen both of them together, chatting and stuff, thanks

The long awaited episode! Thank you guys, I really enjoyed it

Pretty cool to learn that my supervisor at SFU also supervised Mehdi!

Nice to see two of my favorites together in the same space! Great job Dave! You always bring out the best! Mehdi is a great teacher too! He makes learning fun and easy. Take care you two!

"You can't really blow anything up or get shocked with logic gates, right?" - Challenge accepted!

terrific video - I could have listened to you 2 talk for hours!

Finally .. a long awaited video !!

Really enjoyed this one. Great conversation. Thanks to both of you.

absolutely brilliant could listen to you both chating all day, hope you do it again 👍

I think this is the first time I watched the whole Amp Hour... Very interesting to see ElectroBoom just chilling with Dave.

Two of my fav youtubers in one video. Loved it.

Each of you make the world a better place. My most humble thanks.

I totally relate with Mehdi about the language thing. I can not for the life of me use Windows in Swedish, which is my native language, because there are so many weird translations and newfangled words which make no sense to me. I always use it in US English.

Very enjoyable video, thanks to both for it!!

This is one of the most interesting to listen to, the feelings behind the teachers that thought me everything i want about E...

I started building little things with Arduino and such after I learned the basic electronics stuff from EEV and after watching ElectroBoom I'm now confident to tackle more dangerous electronics like a Jakob's ladder. Never got a shock! ElectroBoom is always in the back of my head, screaming and electrocuted, so I'm always beware of that and stayed safe. THX to you both.

awesome collaboration

One of my best interviews....thanks Dave....

Been watching dave from the start and later Electroboom you both have keep me alive in some bad times thank you both very much .

Good listen while working on a project. Thanks for the chat guys.

Two of my favorite professors from RU-vid University! When my mother was helping me build my solar system and household wiring I would put on Electroboom videos to help her get over her fear of electricity while learning the basics. Your entertaining teaching style helped calm her anxiety and it was fun and educational for us both! Great interview, guys! Thanks!

Two of my most favorite youtubers. Dave for teardowns and Mehdi for Shocks :D

Can we appreciate the fact that Medhi knew that this interview was important SO HE TOOK THE TIME TO TRIM DOWN HIS UNIBROW................... The mark of true respect from one E.E. to Another LOL

My two favourite RU-vidrs!!! Love both your channels.

I love when Dave has guest spots on videos and they show his smiling noggin and he says HI! it cracks me up and brightens my day. Haha

very interesting conversation, thanks both of you for great content and effort

Two geniuses finally together! I Can die now! Thank you guys! 😊😊😊

Well that's interesting nice to see you both talking how you guys started out

Oh my, this is wonderful.

And I'm welcome to you both electrical engineers!

Never clicked so fast... thanks guys!!

It was nice to see the 2 smartest electrical engineer RU-vidr talking. I love and learned a lot from both of them. 🙂

Oh for heaven's sake. The Lewin controversy is based on him omitting from the circuit diagram the inductors/generators that account for the magnetic field coupled in to the circuit loop that's part of his apparatus. It's trivial. He might as well disguise a battery inside of one of the wires and claim "oh look, KVL busted"! It's a sleight of hand. In other words, part of the "ideality" of the model that is a schematic is that the "lines" that represent wires don't have any inductance per se, behave as zero ohms and so on. If you add a varying magnetic field in the neighborhood of the actual physical circuit, then you have to add inductors and magnets (essentially a motor or generator) to the schematic to represent the physical circuit properly.

You guys are awesome!!!

Kits are a great idea. I especially wish that Paul at Mr Carlson's Lab would offer his creations in kit form.

1:04:02 I eagerly await this video!! Lol I gotta say, thank you for putting this episode on #2 or else my dumbass wouldn't have put it together that your podcast is on RU-vid also! 🤦‍♂️🤓

Nice and honest interview.

To 31:10 regarding the change of deffenitions. I am currently a EE student in Germany and we got taught voltage as an energy related unit. Our professor did but a lot of emphasis on that definition, so we would not understand voltage as a potential difference, wich comes down to be the integral over E*ds. That was actually taught in second semester more as a way to calculate voltage. But we also learned Kirschoffs voltage theorem rather than law, it was than slightly changed to accommodate for induction in second semester.

Electroboom Ethernet packet explanation is his best video!

this is fucking awesome! more electroboom and eevlog talk please!

@37:30 So good to hear you guys say this.

Two of the Greats on the same video

Get Thunderfoot on as well for an amazing debunkathon ...

No way. RU-vid knows what I like. I can't believe I get an amp video AND electroboom. My wet dream. Mehdi has a brilliant point. This is the way it usually goes when you watch something: "Oh that's how it's done, nice and easy I'll just follow this - what why isn't it working, it works perfectly for them?" then you spend days figuring it out searching internet franticly until you find some explanation. Things always go wrong and what you're really interested in is what could possibly go wrong and how can you troubleshoot and fix it. Same for the dangers, you don't think about most of them until you experience them or someone tells you about them.

Tow legend are talking. Big respect!

Thanks for yet again an amazing video. Speaking of maker space. For a long time I dreamed of "making" one, since I mostly have the equipment for a startup. My problem is that I have nearly zero management knowledge, and I tend to overthink things. BUT I am aiming on changing that as soon as I finish my PhD degree, which wasn't such a bright idea in retrospect.

I am still watching. I started with his electric guitar 🎸 video.

I would realy love to see a video involving Great Scott, Dave and ElectroBOOM. That would be soo cool😁

It's OK guys, the are some of us girls who follow you too

"A bike ride away" :D could be very far... Thanks for another great vid!

great vid dave!

Love Electro, he's an inspiring dude and legitimately funny.

Very plesed to see two of m'y best Electronic teacher

Dave's a very good interviewer

56:35 Here in india, there are entire markets dedicated to electronics in major cities. Btw fan of you two, I leaned op amp and rc circuit from EEvlog in my diploma times. Man that was very much help to understand circuits.

great content

Thanks, Dave...

The one who shows a lot of mistakes in electronics, and the one who can't stand them. It's amazing to see both of you in the same video.

Awesome amp hour.

Medhi seems like such a nice and down to earth guy.

Good stuff.

Two tuggers together! Marvellous...

Mehdi is a master of making people laugh and then secretly educating them without them noticing to get bored... 😁 Should be inspiration to teachers.

Oh damn! Yeah a rolling loop of video where you can hit a button or whatever, and it dumps to a drive would be neat.

My favorite electronics RU-vidrs 😊 life if complete

Omg this is awesome

One thing i love about electrical engineering is that there is lots of shocking jokes

The Shorts format may be perfect to quickly explain simple formulas related to electronics.

Awesome, BTW, when are you inviting Marco Reps???

FYI that street is still there and is still awesome. There are a lot of online shops too. I personally usually shop online cause it's cheaper. The shops are not as big as digikey for sure but you still can get most stuff.

A fascinating session, and a reminder to us all that microwave oven transformers are potentially killers. I personally had a very close one with a high voltage supply in an RF amplifier I was building. I was super careful, disconnecting the mains supply etc, what nearly killed me was unplugging the wrong thing before delving in. The Walter Lewin experiment was extremely confusing to me, the demo was very flawed IMHO. Both scope probes sharing a ground, and voltage induced in test leads etc.

Bloody awesome.

Wow I had no idea TAA was on youtube. Double digit views on this one already!

Mehdi is a treasure, he's such a lovely guy

I tried to build a makerspace for others with mental health issues but it fell through. I couldn't get all the gear I wanted and then had a break in and lost most of what I had. I have a separate structure on my property that used to be a cabinet makers shop. I bought a fortune worth of arduino stuff to give away, 3 3d printers, a homemade cnc machine I was going to build and 3 workstations built along with about 30 rolls of pla and guitars and amps for free lessons and take home ones for people. After the break in all I was left with was arduino stuff, 3d printers, no guitars, no work stations or monitors and all my measurement gear like dsos and what not smashed on the floor along with every drawer of parts I had hanging on the walls tipped over. Thousands of components were all over the floor, tens of thousands. I had cases filled with different led types for people who wanted to breadboard or practice soldering. I had one working iron left, a hantek dso that doesn't function properly anymore , bench psu that had to be hammered back into shape and repaired, also 1 cracked monitor. Insurance didn't cover anything really. Having mental health issues myself it took me months to sort everything out or get any sleep. I'm just starting to get a small workshop in my house together to rebuild confidence in myself to pick a project and finish it. I collect logic chips and had tons of projects breadboarded to show how different gates work and all that was thrown around. To add insult to injury thr first day I started cleaning up a courier arrived with over 1000 cd4xxx family ics I had ordered. I bawled my eyes out when I opened the package. That was septemper and I just fi ished my first project since then. I had no one to help me financially as I was waiting to renovate the space and put a new bathroom in myself this spring. I had central air already installed for paint booths if people wanted to paint a 3d print or anything. I have boxes full of arduino supplies that I don't know what to do with and I've advertised free learning kits. I had to get this out as I know nobody I know will see this and I have to get it off my chest once in a while. Great video Dave and medhi.

ElectroBoom's 1 million subscriber video incident was genuinely so scary.

14:58/15:04 - ring buffer camera with post-trigger memory dump required! :)

Nice video

Hi, production test engineer here. I validate and maintain the test stations in production, all kind of docs, support debug. Sometimes I develop less complex test stations.

My God, a dream come true.

Something going bang or letting the magic smoke out is a rite of passage for EVERYONE in the industry. Grabbing hold of 500 Volts DC in a bank of capacitors in an inverter is one of my most memorable experiences as an EE. They were just charged up after I'd Meggered them, the inverter wasn't powered up. I still don't recommend doing it though, a DC shock is horrible, and I think it's worse than a shock from the mains.

When it comes to physics you could invite Dr. Matt O'Dowd from PBS Space Time for your next talk that would be an awesome conversation :D

38:20, I think it's a translation of a quote from Nicolas Boileau "Ce qui se conçoit bien s'énonce clairement" = "What is well understood is clearly stated"

1:08:50 - I'm not one of the two, but I noticed (when wanting to click through to find his video disagreeing with Prof. Lewin) that the links are missing. Something to fix up?

A fantastic present posted on my birthday! How did you know? 😁

Heroes united

Would really like seeing Dave + Mehdi + Shahriar (The Signal Path) + w2aew having a conversation

Magnetic fields are basically embodied relativity. The weird squishiness of our universe makes point charges behave not like point charges (because of how we've defined them), and the deviation is magnetism.