DEADLY DIY 

Spreading fear. Im an electrition and if plug it in to a GFI plug you cant die. I install them for a living.

@@DG-kr8pt You are so wrong with this - The GFI protects the utility primary winding and cables, get a fault there then yup GFI is going to trip - on the other side of that transformer the GFI is blind... you can get a shock and it wont trip. It will kill - KILL - you...

@@DG-kr8pt Might want to break out the "electrition" books again... How will a GFI outlet protect you on the secondary side of a transformer? (It won't)

SO AWFUL!

Oh, sorry dear. Thanks for the warnings.

My son died 2018 doing this

Something I think he forgot to, that I believe the coil still holds energy for a little while, even after it is disconnected, I have actually been thinking about buying a ready built kit , they are around thousand dollars so I see, from the US, You can create some beautiful pieces of art , but if it all goes wrong at the price,

Very decent of you to warn folks. Sadly, "teenagers" think it won't go wrong for them, that they are indestructible. Some folks never get beyond being teenagers, for better and worse.

I'm so so sorry for your loss

3 position dead man is industry standard.

So that means even if you are a licensed electrician or a certified electrician, and even if you have the credentials to do electrical work - doing this DIY fractal burning can still kill you or fry you! Scary enough!

@@charlessmith263 it can be done safely but if you need to watch a video to know how to do fractal wood burning there is a very high chance of death or severe injury

@@charlessmith263 An electrical engineer stands a better chance than a certified electrician, because they are more trained to deal with more unusual field strengths and shapes. Some electricians might have a pretty good feel for how the field intensity changes and can jump around, but really, the even in higher voltage industrial environments, and high voltage distribution systems, all of the gear and hardware is designed and carefully tested to make the electricians job as safe as it can be. But these DIY rigs on a board and workbench throw all of that out the window. And it's not right to say electrical engineers would in general be a little more aware than electricians, because even though they have a lot more theoretical knowledge, once you leave school and specialize in one of the forms of electrical engineering, there is a very good chance you will never have a chance to get practical experience in this particular high voltage area. There are probably a lot of linemen who have seen downed power lines who have a better practical understanding of the forces here and how they act. The problem is the current is going to find the easiest path. That "easiest path" is always changing as it burns. That's why the patterns go the way they do. One little slip, and that path locks on to the very good conductance of all kinds of tissue, and you are internally lichtenberged to hell.

@@charlessmith263 Most people who die in plane crashes are pilots (usually private). Most people who die in electric accidents are professionals working with electricity every day. Yes, it goes without saying.

Cause they are pretty hard to electricute yourself if you are careful. Especially if hooked to a GFCI plug. Dont listen to this Trump supporter.

Yeah it’s like close to the same amount that powers the electric chair.

This is a lie 345,000 volts to 765,000 volts is extra high voltage. Medium voltage is 1000 to 100,000

(Deep dramatic sigh)....get the cotton out of your brain. The foot switch is for that. The safety switch for each had helps assure you hands are not in places they shouldn't be.

@@DoRiteFabricationhave you read the multiple comments of people talking about their loved ones dying trying this? Clearly not a remotely safe thing to be doing at all, foot switch or not.

One guy was describing having to fight his head from slamming backwards into his spine as he was being electrocuted. Also his doc telling him if his muscles went rhabdo he would have to start cutting them out piece by piece....

That table likely is grounded well.

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Actually, those voltages penetrate, so the burns are internal. It turns out blood is an excellent conductor too.

The problem is that because of the transformer, the high voltage is isolated from ground, so the GFCI will not be able to detect that you are dying.

A GFCI (aka RCD) is not going to help with this, because these safety devices do not actually do what the common description of them suggests that they do. You might think that they detect current leaking to ground (aka earth) directly and shut the power off when this leakage rises above a certain level, usually around 30 milli-amps. If the GFCI actually worked by directly detecting current flowing to ground, as the name implies, then yes it would help. But what the GFCI actually does is detect a mis-match between the current flowing in through the live wire and the current flowing back out through the neutral wire: If there is no leakage, then these will be equal and all is good. However, in the situation where you are using a high voltage transformer, all the GFCI device is protecting against is leakage on the primary side of the transformer. The high voltage coming out of the secondary side of the transformer could all be flowing to ground and the GFCI will still do nothing. GFCI devices still have their places - such as power sockets in kitchens or bathrooms, where there are sinks or baths with water in them and copper pipes carrying that water, where the pipes themselves are usually grounded too. But for protecting against high voltages generated on the secondary side of a transformer, they will not help at all.

@@RambozoClown EXACTLY. Exactly.

The problem is when people are electrocuted, there is not necessarily any "leakage" to ground. Especially on the primary side.

sorry it's 34...and counting

Bullshit. I hooked mine up to a hotdog and it surprisingly didn’t do anything at all. 😂

The power involved here will just kill you through the gloves.

That's why he has the foot switch as a third safety. The hand switches are mainly to keep his in the right place so he doesn't accidently touch anything.

I’ve seen people use different methods for the wood burning than a microwave transformer. One can use transformers with less current output (neon signs, electric fences maybe) or methods that don’t use high voltage at all (like a hot-tip burner, CNC or laser cutter/engraver with the proper designs). Though, depending on which method you use, ALWAYS take appropriate safety measures.

I love the Darwin evangelicals!

😂

100%

You can still pass enough current through 10 AWG wires to kill someone. However, what you are doing by replacing the secondary with 10 AWG is lowering the voltage and increasing the current. The voltage is proportional to the number of turns, so if your new secondary has half the number of turns as the old secondary the voltage will be half but the current will be doubled. What you describe building is a poorly-designed welding transformer, as 10 AWG is not suitable for that use. That would also not work well for burning wood.

Use a Neon Light transformer...lower amperage and burns slower , but that allows you more creativity, not just smoke and flames and arcs! It is my hobby!

Yessir, I know the company you are talking about and have asked them for details about any agency approvals.........crickets chirping. It is highly, highly dangerous to sell anything that could be classified as an appliance without at least covering your @ss with a UL approval. And my guess? The guy is just importing these from China.

transformers aren't capacitors, and don't hold a charge. Once the power is cut, they are fine.

Never hold the electrodes, clamp them, turn them on, turn it off move them, never hold them. You get the conductive solution on it, by mistake, spill etc you fry, never ever hold the electrodes don't care how well insulated they are never touch them when in use.

No. On the supply side of the transformer there's nothing wrong, even as the high voltage side is killing you.

if you stay multiple feet away, use a neon transformer instead of a microwave one, have secondary switches, and are knowledgeable about electricity.