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🕑 Added 2023-05-11 19:12:49 +0000 UTCIt's been a while since I've given you guys updates so here's some news! In my next video, I'm going to connect 100 car batteries in parallel and do a bunch of experiments with huge currents. This includes melting stuff, making big magnetic fields, and also attempting a big carbon arc lamp. Now this wasn't my idea, it's actually a crazy sponsorship unlike anything I've done before. The company AnyDesk literally just wants to see what crazy stuff I can pull off with a huge bank of car batteries. I'm still waiting on some parts to arrive before I can assemble the bank, but this video should be a lot of fun to shoot.
In the meantime, I've done a substantial amount of planting. I'm a pretty hardcore gardener with a preference for perennial plants, and since these take years to become mature, I've really been itching to plant a bunch of stuff here. Last year I was too busy working on the lab to do much in the way of planting, but I've dug in a whole orchard this spring as well as a bunch of other interesting trees and plants. Honestly I could spend the rest of my life gardening every day and be satisfied, but of course, mad science has to take precedence. :p
Recently my squirrel friend Ophelia has returned after a long hiatus, and in fact, I can tell that she has been nursing babies! I haven't seen them yet, but I really hope she shows them to me before they are all grown up!
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SJC
Can't wait to see this.
Joseph Hodes
I dont mean random cats
styropyro
yes, that's the same squirrel. she's lived near my house for over a year now! i'd like a beehive at some point but it's low priority. the pollinators are very abundant here
styropyro
yeah even using the biggest standard wire size of AWG 4/0, the cables are still going to be the biggest limit on current here
styropyro
i proposed a collab to him a while ago but i don't think he was super interested
styropyro
i don't get many random cats showing up to my house anymore because i found homes for most of them! now it's just the two i kept
Ross Taylor
My guess is 68 kA. That is mental. Even if you use 6000 A continuous rated busbar, the fault current rating is typical tested for 1 sec for normal people. You can sustain your fault current for ~30 sec? Can’t wait to see you engineer a device to harness this energy. If you have a FLIR camera, it might see some fusion temps shorting a tungsten rod. I wouldn’t be surprised if you put 100 batteries in series to make the worlds most lethal battery, too dangerous to disassemble lol. Probably not wise. I was testing 1 MW BESS today, only had a pitiful 50 A @ 10 kV. Good luck.
stella
Was about to say "did you accidentally dox yourself" but nope, you just bought mernards out of batteries.
Mikhi6
Holy sh- heck!
FIV5KAY
Is that the same squirrel that surprised the FBI agents? And are you gonna get a beehive as well because the main thing where I live is that there are not a lot of pollinators so I have to tend to the pollinating myself
Faraz Sadrzadeh
The amount of copper needed to run the batteries in parallel would be absolutely insane. That thing would probably output 100kA. Assuming I^2R losses…
Alex Sweeney
Have you considered doing a video with Cody'sLab? You both seem to have pretty similar interests and similarly sized channels. I think it would be awesome if you two could team up and do something crazy for a few videos.
Joseph Hodes
Not interested in the 100 batteries in parallel i am interested in when u are going to release a 1 hour video of a compilation of every time a cat approaches u at ur house
