@@RedDread_ he is isolated, electricity tries to find the fastest way to ground, which in this case, is the other wire. The glowing hot steel rod was interesting though
@RedDread_ you need 10-12 volts of electricity to get a shock, anything less in not enough to be conducted by your skin. That is why you can touch car battery terminals without getting shocked. (Unless your hands are wet)
I love this bloke so much. Two middle aged men giggling like schoolkids over the neighbors lights. The fact the he's doing this on a carpet. The fact the only "safety" gear he has on is his trainers. The scissors to try pop the Stanley knife back on. I discovered this channel a just a bit late but going through his old catalogue of videos has kept me thoroughly entertained the last few weeks.
My old man was a mechanical engineer, and he always used to say that the electrical engineers he used to work with were all a bit fucked in the head given the amount of times they had been zapped from industrial machinery. You prove his theory correct good sir. Love this guy & love the channel by the way!
Dylan Collins because when your lights are flickering the first thing you do is look around to see if your neighboor's is doing the same. ofcourse not moron
callum barbra I know this, but if you're having a brown out every 15 seconds you'd look out the window to see what's going on wouldn't you? And I do know that lights flicker, I'm in Ireland, we use 50Hz too...
It is persists for any major length of time, I'll drop my house off the grid by firing up my generator and then a throwover of my transfer switch. In my neighborhood, there's around 8 houses riding on a padmount transformer out at the street. So, if someone's stick welding at a high working current, your lights flicker.
You get a sense that the educational system is heavily flawed and compromised when you read the comments here. Almost no one knows anything about electricity.
+Flower of Life Even a number of folk who think they do. But I'd better not get started off on education. I'll end up all bent out of shape, and ranting like a loon.
+Flower of Life I learned a lot about electricity in school, but none of it would have made much sense without my crazy desire to play with electricity. To understand electricity, you must experiment with it. Once you play with it, you'll realize there are so many myths floating around.
+TheAnubis022 Please do not bash important subjects like gender studies in favor of other important subjects like physics. As an engineer I wish I had the opportunity to take gender studies when I was younger. It would have been extremely valuable for me, and I'm certain it would be valuable for society as a whole.
They hate him as what he does places intense loads on the system but for brief and intermittent periods of time. Trust me, it ain't costing him a whole lot ;)
I wonder what size of capacitor bank would be enough to compensate for his reactive power. Also wise choice to stay with the electromechanical meter, it can't read reactive power like the solid state ones :D
He's still alive and well,(hopefully still after a year), he did a vid with Wayne's electrical in the playroom ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1-AW-bFAEp8.html
One day I'd like to take a 50kv neon transformer and hook it up to my phone line's demarcation point. Send 50,000 volts into the phone company's dslam. Just to see what would happen.
I had forgotten this important test for power meter acceptance testing! Melt a box cutter or a dry wall knife If it passes that, then melt a wrecking bar, crowbar or an eight pound sledge hammer head! LOL I agree with Osmosis, insert a cat into the circuit & see how much power the cat will accept! Which pops first? The cat or the power meter?
There are some comments here that show an incomplete knowledge of electricity in general and transformers in particular! The Power of a transformer is the amount of power you can put into it .... which is the same as the power coming out (minus the efficiency) The number of turns of the primary winding divided by the number of turns of the secondary winding will give you the ratio. The ratio is the Voltage in divided by the Voltage out! (or the Current in divided by the Current out) There is also a Reactance (AC resistance) that will limit the current flow in the secondary. This will give you the Theoretical Maximum Current the transformer will give! Obviously adding resistance in the form of bad connections will further limit this value! Adding a further high resistance in parallel with this in the form of a human body will have so little effect it will be almost impossible to measure! One point nobody seems to have noticed is that the secondary winding seems to be floating and could be at any voltage at all! When he touches this HE is the earth point!
What makes the video so much better is the voice and accent at 1:35. I couldn't stop laughing especially since I understood what he was about to do when he said he got some 400 MCM copper.
10:00 this basically happens every time at the power plant when this guy is playing upstairs... By the way, what’s the name of the Film where you got that scene?
I'm here after Mehdi from ElectroBOOM did something similar recently, not as crazy as the gauge of cable in this video but it gave me flashbacks so I had to return here.
5:18 - Photo-Fren: "Ere! Everybody else's lights is fookin' flashin'!" Photo: "Naahh!" Photo-Fren: "Swear on yer fookin' Chryyist!... Whole fookin' neighborhood lights droppin' like a sack o' shit." Me: ROFLMFAO!!!
