Thank you so much for watching! If you are interested in seeing my reaction to more of Styropyro's experiments, please check out my reaction to the URANIUM CRAYON: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GuoAQ4SXtv4.htmlsi=JsAK8a3-3SXAT0o3
This is someone who has never cooked with his microwave on any setting but 100%. If he had, he would have heard the magnatron turning on and off, and you can see your food alternately frying and then cooling.
You obviously don't know anything about electronics. Those "D batteries" are enormous electrolytic capacitors. The mayonnaise joke is about how heatsink thermal paste looks exactly like mayo. There's a blue glow because they're blue laser arrays...😩
"Someone in the comments tell me why mayonnaise makes lasers--" It doesn't... welcome to styropyro's channel with the host who is able to combine insanity and genius so much that the universe just lets him do whatever he wants scientific wise with little consequences
@@maxx1o1 If you replace the cooling paste on your CPU with mayonnaise it will increase temps maybe 2-5 degrees C over a high quality paste. I don't care if you have nano-diamonds or silver particles in there; it won't really matter since the rest of it will be some kind of silicone oil and it will be about the same as the mayonnaise. Give it another day or two and the mayonnaise will be complete crap; it will separate, seep and the water will dry and it will no longer be thick and viscous and just runny like cooking oil. The only way to beat freshly applied mayonnaise by a large margin is liquid metal cooling paste and it has a bunch of problems (corrodes aluminium, they won't let you bring it on an airplane, it is conductive and will short a motherboard if you slop it around somewhere it's not supposed to be etc).
@@soylentgreenb look, it may only be "2-5C dif" but the thing is that it'll corrode your CPU's IHS and damage your heatsink when a tube of thermal paste cost less than a jar of mayonnaise and will last longer too. this has been a running joke for decades now.
just because you can doesn't mean you should is not always good advice. If that was always the case humanity would have never progressed and we wouldnt get to see what something is capable of. Innovation happens at the bleeding edge of technology.
He's honestly beyond doctorate level in general electrical/engineering knowledge. I've a masters in mechanical engineering, 12+ years experience in nuclear & aerospace. Currently working on a nuclear fusion reactor... Styro makes me feel dumb as shit 😂
The mayo is a computer geek joke. Back in 2011 Hardware Secrets tested a whole bunch of thermal compounds and a bunch of alternatives like lipstick, butter and toothpaste, and the mayo actually performed reasonably well.
Maynaise is OK cooling paste between the heat sink and the laser diodes. It wouldn't tolerate years of operation like proper cooling paste (even the white ceramic crappy kind) but for hours of operation it is surprisingly not that terrible.
@@goldenfox334 The emulsion gives it that thick, viscous consistency so it doesn't run and fills the space evenly. It also means the water will dry and it will stop being useful.
@@user-le8ul4nr5t Normal mayo starts to separate if it just gets old sitting in the fridge in an opened jar and the egg will eventually spoil if there's water. I wouldn't eat mayo if I knew it could withstand 3 years under a heat sink without separating. That implies it's not realy mayo but some kind of barely edible fuckery with xantham gum, lecithin, propylene glycol, modified starch etc.
@@soylentgreenbit’s a combination of molecular physics at the thickness the “thermal paste” is, and the fact that at that scale the mayo cooks into a really greasy egg which is a surprisingly good thermal conductor remember you’re applying heat through it because you’re using it to transfer heat
welcome to styropyro, this dude is your textbook definition of mad scientist, anything that typically looks ridiculous like that mayo part is usually a joke XD as is his tendency to destroy stuff in those montages
Yeah, he really should have his own category of laser safety categories, and considering he said that it draws 700 Watts and at full power, it would fry the cameras sensors it's got to be ridiculously powerful and considering that his laser surpasses category 4 in laser safety that means he needs to add more categories to that laser safety list because he can just create lasers that surpasses category 4 that means you can just create lasers that can start burning things and he can also create lasers are so powerful that they vaporize things faster than they can heat them so he should definitely make his own laser danger categories because of the ridiculous power of the lasers he can create! 😂🎉🎉🎉🎉😊
@@DavidMuri-rm4ym work on your punctuation mate, thats a run on sentence x3 lmao yeah no, category 4 is 500 milliwatts, MILLIWATTS, and styro constantly makes lasers that go above 5-10 watts in power. There is a very good reason he always states his lasers will blind you just by looking at the spot on the wall, let alone the laser itself. Also goes to show he's an expert in that field, one of my favorite videos from him was his ruby laser, which one pulse was able to crater a chunk of black plastic
@@DavidMuri-rm4ymThere is a similar thought about hurricanes. Storms are getting stronger to the point they would be reaching into "category 6" if one existed. The weather service has explicitly avoided the creation of such a new category with the idea given that it may "dilute" the meaning of a category 5. Since a category 5 is already "wiping the earth's ass with its face", a 6th category is pointless for destruction purposes. The same is likely going to apply to lasers. Beyond 4, you're already playing with shit that you better have more than glasses (or even walls) between you and the beam. A 5 or 6 classification would only mean "goes thru the wall quicker"... not really adding much to the "safety factor" 🤷♂️
Interesting bit about the fluctuations in the power draw of microwaves. I remember watching a documentary where an analyst from a power plant spoke about how they have to anticipate societal trends to ensure there's enough power on the grid, like "Oh, there's going to be a soccer match starting at 7pm so the half-time is going to be around 7:50pm so let's make sure the grid has enough juice for all those microwaves and fast boils".
there is pretty much ZERO storage of electricity on the grid so it's not a trivial problem. generation has to balance with demand . if demand suddenly increases they have to also increase generation instantly. hard to do. only battery storage can do it.
It's basic on/off regulation. Your typical heater at home, your oven, and a lot of other appliances use it. The duty cycle, how often it is on versus off, dictates the average power draw over some period of time. One thing to consider is that there is a certain (though negligible) amount of energy storage as parasitic induction/capacitance in the grid infrastructure that helps smooth some of this out, though this is often minimized to achieve the highest power factor (capacitance/induction can cause phase differences between the voltage and current, resulting in differences between real and reactive power, and thus wastage). The most important thing to understand though is that such on/off regulation becomes averaged out over many homes/loads. If you consider each home a load, each load is varying in their power draw due to on/off regulation, each one will do so randomly relative to the other loads. The result is that the power companies do not see a bunch of on/off fluctuations in the power draw, they see a smooth-ish demand curve. So, while grid balancing is indeed a non-trivial matter, it isn't as crazy as having to deal with every tiny fluctuation like a microwave's on/off duty cycle.
If you replace your coolant paste on your CPU with mayonnaise you'd notice about a 5 degrees C difference. It's surprisingly good thermal paste, but it can't withstand years like even the crappiest off-brand silicone oil and ceramic white paste. For a few hours of testing mayonnaise would do fine.
I never realised how much the FCC was focused on radio wave pollution until I started working for a cable company. I learned that the majority of internet and cable in homes and businesses is still coax cable and that the frequency signals travel on those lines is the same frequency as radio waves. So if a coax cable has a tear in the insulation, some of that signal can leak off as actual radio waves into the air. As such every cable and internet company has an agreement with the FCC to minimize signal leakage from their cables below a certain threshold so it doesn't fill up the air with noise. So yeah. Running an open microwave pointed into the sky is a good way to get the attention of the feds.
Every part of the spectrum has rules about who can use it, how much power they can broadcast at, etc. Microwaves run at 2.4 GHz, the same as older wifi standards. But wifi is limited to very low power levels. Far below what a microwave would broadcast without any shielding. And yes, the FCC will track you down and go after you for unlicensed broadcasting, even if all you're broadcasting is random noise from a microwave.
The air waves are a clusterfsxk. In the analog TV days, running a microwave in the house would cause 2 static bars to roll on the screen while the magnetron was emitting RF. It's a very dirty "transmitter" that splatters the entire band with noise. Ovens are typically designed so that this is minimized but it's not as easy as one would think to keep that kind of power *totally* boxed up in the unit, and they leak. Everything electronic today emits RF to a degree, even when that is not the goal, and whether they use it for communication or not. The power supplies these days are *all* noisy as hell because chinesium designs typically omit the filtration that helps contain it. It is what it is.
@@MadScientist267 I mean, any wire with electricity running through it is an antenna, whether you intend it to be or not, and that goes for both transmit and receive.
Absolutely. I'm an amateur at electronics, but the capacitor bank and the sheer size of the toroidal transformer in that thing had me twitching with pure fear.
Styro could say "95 watt handheld laser" and any trained professional would say "do you mean miliwatt?" No, no he does not. And yes, he did build one of those
I found the spec sheets to the other laser diodes this company makes (they have a shitty webpage, wasn't fun to find the pdfs). They have two similar named diodes available, both of them have the same data sheet, the only differences are the serial numbers and the ratings. Both models are perfectly suited for his 3.2A current. One for 3.3(110W) and one for 3.5(135W), and all three models (his and these two) look almost identical. His is probably an older version someone found in a warehouse (would also explain the lack of data sheets online). Also, buying them is easier than I'd like it to be (no matter how much I want them)
I just found Styropyro's page today and after watching about a dozen of his laser & electrical videos, I found it not only accurate and educational, many parts I found absolutely hilarious. Obviously the guy is a genius in the field, but he also has the ability to entertain educationally which is a fantastic way to teach kids who have to listen to a boring teacher. He even debunks those flashy clickbate free energy & perpetual motion videos. This guy is fantastically gifted, whoever he is!
7:17 the sound of a crappy camera’s microphone being bombarded with microwaves goes so hard. This is exactly the type of noise Death Grips would sample.
I think the algorithm is picking this up and I couldnt be happier! Love content like this especially with qualified people reacting who can offer input and more in depth thoughts than a layperson
The mention of a rectifier with a partially dismantled microwave on screen made me consider how awesome a collab between Styropyro and ElectroBOOM would be.
"Yes, Bob, I'm reporting to you live from what emergency personnel are calling the minimum safe distance. As of yet, we do not have a source for the anomaly, but it is believed that an attempt at a RU-vid video was involved."
You and Styro make a great duo. I don't know how to explain it, and he is a big and succesful youtuber so he obviously makes content that is well done and therefore is easy to react to, but you do put some very nice finishing touches on the lines of thought and your humor is perfect. I had some great laughs watching this video even though I had already watched styro's video
The reason a microwave always cooks at the same power level and can only be turned on or off is that it uses a cavity magnetron, where the output signal is determined entirely by the physical size and geometry of the cavities surrounding the cathode Curious Droid has a great video on this... /watch?v=CbTWzC86R4Y
I think I like watching these reaction videos, because it feels like i’m just watching the video myself but with my nuclear physics friend who always has some good validation or input
I love how you laughed at the build montage, and Styro is well known for it zany laser stuff. I lost it at his wisecrack "you won't be seeing these in stores anytime soon" :)
13:00 the mayonnaise is probably there as thermal paste to couple the laser diodes to the heat sink. Water makes for a very efficient heat transfer. You just shouldn't use watery substances, such as foods, as a long term solution, as the water will evaporate and the food will rot.
I'm pretty sure it was just a joke and cleaned off afterwards and a proper paste was put on it it's place. The amount of heat those lasers produce is more than a CPU and CPU's pump out a good amount of heat lol.
As I am a dumb guy that likes to look at smart guys explain things, having a smart guy react and explain things that another smart guy is explaining is overwhelming in the best way! I am so happy I found this channel! Plz sir, don't ever stop making videos! 😀
2:55 Not all microwave ovens are the same. When set to lower power settings, most microwave ovens cycle on and off, but Panasonic microwave ovens actually run continuously at varying power levels.
@@tfolsenuclearyeah he should make his own category of laser Danger because he can create lasers that can burn paper and wood and he can even make lasers that vaporizer food faster than they can cook it so he should make his own category of laser Danger because of the stupidly powerful lasers see can create! 😂🎉🎉🎉🎉😊
Went into this video thinking I was just going to see a person in the corner making random faces and a styropyro video I haven’t seen yet- pleastly surprised that I’m learning twice as much as I would’ve in just half the time
I like your channel. Many of the "dual" videos with you and creators, I have also already viewed the "others creators' and now I can view them again and get your added prospective. Really quite informative and entertaining at the same time.
Styropyro's lasers are purple/ultraviolet his camera can only pick up the blue parts of the light i purchased a apparently unregulated laser pointer originally marketed towards pet owners turns out i purchased a pointer that was 20 times over the legal limit and had to purchase special googles to use said laser safely
I noticed the microwave only being on partially a long time ago. If you set it to a lower power, you can actually hear (on cheaper models is more noticeable) that the transformer turns on and off while the microwave is cooking. Really, try it. One thing I love about my newer microwave is that it actually cooks at a lower power, not just 50% on and 50% off. Cooks food way more evenly and never more do i have a half frozen half molten burrito!
Yep this is what "inverter" microwaves [partially] address. There's a minimum power that any given tube needs to operate at but it can be taken down to that level from 100% without using bang-bang (yes that's the technical term for what an old school microwave uses lol). The bang-bang technique is in use in many places within the home... among others a traditional electric stove/oven, heating/air conditioning, water heaters etc. The "active" part of the device gets turned on and off all the way to maintain a nominal target (average) value. This method is simple and cheap, and "works well enough" for many things. Microwaves as originally designed suffered a bit from this however because the energy can only be absorbed by the food at a given rate... and even tho the *average* is lower, the *spontaneous* value is the full design power of the magnetron. Hence hot and cold spots and the issues that result from them. Side note, I have a similar issue with driving LEDs with PWM (which is essentially just a *really* fast bang-bang)... it [unnecessarily] stresses the LEDs as commonly implemented (buck converter drive is better and doesn't add *that* much to the cost)... I digress 🤷♂️ Anyway, in the case of an inverter microwave, the tube can be used at true partial power continuously but below the cutoff level for operation, the control system reverts to bang-bang at a reduced power (typically just above the cutoff power for the tube, usually around 50% of maximum). So defrost for example (typically "10% power") will still be bang-bang with a 5-15% duty cycle (depends on how it is set up to operate) at about 50% spontaneous tube output instead of 10% duty at 100%.
Had a friend who's microwave was cursed. Every time they turned it on it would jam the wifi over most of their property and hurt the neighbor's signal.
Lol , no idea why this came up on my YT but it’s cool . How this dude lived past his 10th birthday is quite remarkable. One can imagine his mum is not impressed 😂 . What people don’t necessarily appreciate is that it’s guy’s like this with curiosity, passion and interest for a subject that have helped the clones survive who have no talent or interest in anything useful and a drain on humanity , natural resources and consume oxygen. Nice content ❤
They're not "somewhere close" to communications, they literally run on 2.4Ghz, that's bang on in the WiFi frequency, also most wireless computer peripherals. Try bringing a wireless headset close to a microwave, it doesn't even have to have the door open, it'll start immediately making weird noises and disconnect from the base station xd
Hey Tyler, great video as always. I always learn something new from each one. I am in going into my junior year into high school. I want to become a nuclear engineer. I have a question about nuclear engineers. About how many nuclear engineering jobs do you think there will be in the next 6-10 years. I want to know if I can secure a job in the workforce? Thank you for reading my question.
It’s great that you want to be a nuclear engineer! Within the nuclear power industry alone, many nuclear engineers are retiring within the next 5 years. And that’s just to maintain existing nuclear plants in the US. If we continue to move forward with small modular reactors, it will be even more jobs as SMRs should be getting built by then. The future is bright! 😊
Hey Tyler, an idea for content (more of the serious kind, not the goofy kind): you could talk about the 1987 Goiânia's radiological accident. In addition to being the worst radiological accident outside a nuclear power plant in history, it is also quite dramatic (literally people eating sandwiches with cesium). And with a little bit of brazilbaiting in the title/thumb you could even have a boom in Brazilian views on your channel :D thanks for the cool videos so far :)
I just have to say this video has a very retro look, like pre internet days, but his voice is so smooth as he pulls off this extremely crazy modification.
(at 4:49) Actually, the reason that the magnetron only produces power half the time is that the anode supply circuit in a mocrowave oven uses a half-wave voltage doubler. In this circuit, the capacitor is charged via the diode during one half cycle and it is in series with the transformer on the other half cycle. This gives roughly twice the output voltage, but only on every other half cycle
Mayonnaise can actually be used as an effective cooling paste. The RU-vidr Life of Boris actually built and used a gaming PC using only Mayonnaise as paste
Yes, Styro is one of a kind. He by education is a chemist yet he is stunningly adept with respect to electronics as well as other specialized areas all while having a tremendous sense of humor. After having completed a graduate program in pure mathematics the process including time spent entirely focused on becoming adept led to I lost all desire to deep dive into any other area yet he seemingly has.
Mayonaise are just eggs in an oil suspesion, the oil is a good at transferring heat and sealing and the shape of an egg makes it a great lens which helps focus the energy of the laser so you get a good two in one from the grocery store.
I work in laser safety. This guy is a goddamn mad scientist. His rig is scarier than a soft X-ray pulse laser that took up an entire room and the final amplifier stage used depleted uranium shielding...
Speaking of old reactor designs, how come nobody talks about how almost every disaster involves designs from the 1960s? That would include Fukushima too right?
Electric stoves do the same thing on the burners. This is a very common way to control power or voltage, this is also how dimmer switches work and DC to DC converters. Turn the power on and off at different speeds and this controls the power output and basically the voltage the load sees.
Ah the old Phasotron meters. I loved it when they were all wildly spinning in different directions while I cursed and tried to get them to all synchronize with each other. Then I'd set them to link, one by one until I could get the computers to recognize their CT outputs.
You can hear the microwave shift into and out of powered mode on an intermediate setting. I can also see the lights blink a little dimmer :) So I figured that out a while ago and it makes sense, resonance is resonance, it's on or off.
Actually, the fact that bananas have a large amount of potassium in them is also the reason they ark off so easily in a microwave, you can tell by the orange flame of the potassium fire
Hi, just found your channel today from the YT front page recommendation. The idea of replicating an inertial confinement setup at home sounds fun. Maybe a perfect popcorn popper that drops single kernels one-by-one through a vertical pipe, where a megawatt-range pulsed laser hits them at the exact time they pass, they instantly pop mid-air before falling into a bowl beneath the pipe! I've commented on one of storypyro's other videos previously, and I suggested he put these insane lasers on cubesats. It would then be easy (for specific values of easy) to knock satellites out of ... well, not out of orbit, but out of commission. Since then, I've also thought he should put these lasers on drones. Could probably be useful weapons in Ukraine.
The way Styro is assembling his laser microwave made me think of The A-Team, lol. They just smack a bunch of pieces together and that should make it obvious of what they are doing. I like me a throwback moment like that :)
The developers early on used Miracle Whip doped with Chinese mustard. It proved too acidic and affected the crystals. Mayo was found to be a better static insulator and heat transfer medium.
Closet mad scientist here. I used to talk on a forum with Pyro and others when he was much younger, he was still like in the .0000001% top intellect. He could teach the professors more than they can teach him. LIke the professors should pay him to get a PhD, as they will get more out of it that he does. If you are trying to be the least intelligent person in the room for growth, that man makes it all possible as he makes everyone seem slow.
13:00 yes, a little known fact is that mayonnaise actually contains a special element, mayonium, which amplifies the amount of wattage that can pass through any surface, thus increasing the power of a laser for example
16:40 Just a heads up for anyone confused by "the neutrons effectively break the light barrier in water," the speed of light as you typically see it (approximately 300,000,000 meters/sec) is the theoretical max speed that photons would move if there are absolutely no barriers in it's way. Light in water flows much slower, approximately 0.75c (or ~225,000,000 m/s), which particles can achieve in these kinds of situations. As such, the wavefronts generated by these re-emitted photons overlap just as sound waves do in a sonic boom, leading to constructive interference and in effect a visual sonic boom in the form of a flash of blue light. When you have this happening extremely rapidly, you get a steady blue glow, kinda like how the constant explosions inside your car's engine lead to a steady sound. Cherenkov radiation is cool as heck.
