Warning! Do not try anything you see in this video at home. I have a lot of knowledge and experience. Also security measures have been taken that can not be seen by inexperienced people at first sight.
I have unintentionally dealt with a situation like this years ago as a lineman. Watching this, triggers the electrical smell in my nose. Much like PTSD, because it scared the living daylights out of me the first several times. I never got used to it. I learned to expect it.
If you create an arc gap, keep blowing compressed air to sustain the arc, followed by a LC section, you get beautiful blue lighting arcs of same length. The arc produces high frequency currents and the effect is very impressive. Regards.
Those 50Hz reverbs are really nice. Have you tried building a Jacobs ladder with this kind of setup? I imagine you'd be able to get some pretty awesome arcs.
Playing with such power must be very exciting, scary, thrilling and intoxicating even. Harnesing the power of electo-magnetism was one of mankind's greatest achievements. Still we should be cautious because those powers will never be fully under our own control even though we think we understand them. Anyways your home lab is very neat!
Thank you for demonstrating this - I always thought it was the voltage potential and not the current that determined how far something can arc - and if it is a higher current arc it will be brighter (obviously) and have more of an orange tint. I guess this is partially correct - you still need to get within 6 inches to start the arc but at a higher current more air is ionized so it can travel farther. Love the magnetic roar when you get over 500 mA - wonder how much you electric bill is at a 20kW arc there - sounds awesome. 1A 20kV death on a stick there mate :)
Thanks bro :) You need the best combination of voltage AND current for the best arcs. But you have a pretty big range where doubling the voltage or the current gives you an arc twice the size. At 20KV I would say you can increase the current up to at least 200A before you have to increase the voltage further for even bigger arcs. Increasing the current from around 500A up to 1000A at 20KV would just give you a brighter arc but not a bigger one.
Because the arc is a short, the voltage drops significantly, thus limiting the size of the arc. The more current there is available, the smaller the voltage drop will be and thus the bigger the arc.
This shows why the street electrical grid line (primary power lines) they are so deadly and dangerous. It would be because they have high voltage (between 13.8 Kv and 44 Kv) and also a very high amperage (greater than 10 A), which is a feeder for several neighborhoods, the impact of the explosions and the electric arc are great, and anyone who even gets close is instantly electrocuted and toasted.
@@herrlito-hv in case of electrocution the only things that really matter is that you don't put the house on fire and that those who find you don't risk getting electrocuted in turn, because by then for you it's finished :-)
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@@WhoisRoach It still pulls roughly 20 kW, which still would overload a European CEE socket outputting 400V at 32/48A.. that socket is a big 64 or more amp socket meant for EVs.. (Roughly - a transformer is a mostly inductive load, with a power factor of around 0.6 that's 12 kW of real power and 8 kW of reactive power).
@@imnothecker1124no. I think the 1 Amp is at the transformer input. (Normally output when the transformer was used on a grid) Obviously using one phase only. If the input voltage is 400V so with one Amp it makes 400VA, roughly 400W
Great and clear experiment 😅. Is it safer if higher voltage ⚡️, and less current. Watching your video i can feel the heat, strong of lightning. Dangerous 😳
it would be interesting to see what would happen if you sealed two electrodes in a vacuum and then ran it at each power level. i think in a vacuum you could space the gap very far cause there is supposedly no "breakdown voltage" for vacuum, but since you have a high current high voltage supply, compared to a neon sign transformer, i think the results would be nonexistent on the internet except for if you made a video and posted it. the results would be quite educational. since there is essentially no gas to expand from heat, there should be essentially no risk of explosion, but depending on how you would make the setup, you might melt the container, but, thats if you can actually get enough current flowing, but, do flowing electrons in a vacuum release any heat?
@@herrlito-hv How do they work and how precise are they? Are they basically just transformer in series? And what's the losses there? Will the same amount of power that goes to lightning in one device go to heat in those ballasts? Would be interesting to finally understand the details of how they work.
@@michatoporkiewicz2872а мне кажется наоборот, если температура больше то свет становится белым, а ещё горячее то голубовато белый, что и может быть синим. Так что тут наоборот температура дуги меньше.
What kills you is the combined volts and amps that is going trough you, or in other words the watt that flow trough you... In this case with this setup 20.000 watt minus how much it is getting reduced due to resistance. One of our cats once accidentally made contact with the 20.000v mains line head to tail and just the 50hz buss sound you could feel in your chest from 20m distance combined with blinding light. 20kv is scary.... and deadly.
I am amazed at how stupid people are. I see this all the time and the unqualified people shouting their mouths off. You need a certain minimum amount of current which is only produced by a certain magnitude of voltage. You need around 70 miliamps and the voltage required to produce that is 50 volts RMS AC or higher. This does not mean you will be killed at 50 volts, but you could be if various impedances are low enough. So you should treat anything above 50 volts RMS AC as potentially dangerous. (pun intended).
Kann es sein, dass die lichtbögen größer aussehen, als sie sind?? Meine sind viel kleiner bei 0,6A. Sowas dürfte meiner aktuell rausgeben. Außerdem verhalten sich meine lichtbögen bei 0,1A auch ganz anders.
You're on the right track. The ionized air (plasma) is very conductive. So after the arc got ignited you can stretch it very far depending on the amount of current
