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more tube fun and upcoming video
🕑 Added 2022-12-29 02:04:32 +0000 UTCI've made more improvements to my vacuum tube tesla coil setup and have also settled on a video idea where it'll be relevant. I want to make a long version of my short vid "is it the volts or amps that kill" (link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wx6-ysokJU )
That vid was surprisingly controversial, with lots of people with "professional" experience calling me wrong in the comment section. I'd love to prove them wrong by putting some numbers behind my claims, as well as insert myself into circuits that should be lethal by their logic. :D
Along with dispelling some electrical myths, the vid will allow me to show a lot of cool electrical demos that weren't worth making a full vid over, which includes my monster vacuum tube tesla coil.
One myth is that Tesla coils are low current devices. Well, I stuck a current transformer on my coil, and measured over 3 amps on the output!!! (see attached pic) Yeah, my coil is an exception, but it won't immediately kill you if you touch it (so no it's not just the current that kills)
I still have a few more things I'd like to try to improve the output of my coil, but I'll begin filming the video in the meantime. I should probably get my annual haircut first though. My hair has really gotten out of hand :p
Comments
Tyler Hargrove
What would happen if you did this in a vacuum?
Anonymoose
I think a proper video-form explanation of what makes electricity lethal would be a great idea. A lot of people seem to have misconceptions about this subject and this would be an easy way for them to be dispelled.
Ristomatti Airo
I'd be curious to known how long does it take to vent out all the ozone created after filming a 50s clip of that beast? I've only done some mini scale experiments with various HV modules from AliExpress in my small home lab/office with crappy ventilation. I get sick from the smell after 5-10min of watching arcs transformed from 10 amps of 24V. It'll take an hour until I can reasonably go back in there.
Gems of Science
Wild hair is appropriate for a professional mad scientist.
Justin D. Morgan
Seriously, one of my high school English teachers did the classic “you and your accomplice are both tied to electric chair” prompt to start class one day. And my response, which was not contested, was to state that it was the current, not the voltage, of the electric chair that would dictate my actual response. Yeah, I think that teacher realized they had a future engineer on those hands…
stella
That's a question which seems so simple but always seems to mess people up, glad to hear your take on it with the technicalities
