Fun with High Voltage!

[HorizonDelta]

Funny !

[MrCoolcat300]

no offence but how is this high voltage i mean its a tv set and your not even using half the electricity that enters the tv and even if you were using all the electricit in the tv it still wouldent be conciderd high voltage high voltage is only used when there is a chance of death or harm to the person using the equipment this is pathetic i made a 2 000 000 volt tesla coil in my back yard and im 14

[ScienceJim]

@MrCoolcat300 the voltage from a typical outlet is certainly strong enough to kill an individual. The voltage in the capacitor of an older TV is strong enough to hurt or kill someone even if the TV is off and unplugged. Always be careful around electricity.

[TheStandard786]

wow but not true

[BFMVpwnage5168]

this stuff is awesome but be careful!

[beaman220]

I hated that stuff when I was working for the cable company. Everytime I would be dealing with a line that was connected to a TV that was on I would get a little shock

[99MarcC]

That's awesome. It's nice that you put an explanation along with it, not just showing what you did. Well done.

[cheetawolf]

cvan i do it with my cpu monitor (not LCD, picture tube)???

[FatalError2319]

The hardest part to making this must be drinking the two cans of horrid Safeway soda.

[BigBlueMonk3y]

rofl

[ianmjedi]

Cool! it will not work on all TVs.

[ScarSymmetric]

its alUminIum

[iggy4323]

I don't know why they have to be different, either.

[ScarSymmetric]

pronunciation is important, you can do it to any word and have the same aproach

i'm not pedantic, its just the universal way to pronounce the element through out science.

[iggy4323]

It's not only pronounced differently, they omit the second i. It just sounds horrid.

[54spiritedwill54]

lol Its like an automatic musical instument!

[fred30680]

That was good, fun and interesting.

[madcows10]

"Serve in the US army"..love the commercial there in the background mr. "family man" I'd rather serve in McDonalds. hehehehehehe

[awsomehighvoltage]

i still like the vid

[awsomehighvoltage]

u no when u said its moving, i"ve got eyes, and they work

[magusisgee]

man thats a really c0ol trick, word to tv's eh

[my83merc]

Rock on!

[FORDGTFANATIC]

what happens when you touch it?

[GadgetHammer]

Sorry for double post.

I believe newer TVs (made around 2001) have a protection against this and will automatically fix it self, but older TVs will be fried forever. All that aside, it is still a neat trick.

[GadgetHammer]

Careful, You can destroy a TV like that, If you touch the can at the same time when you turn the TV it can cause the TVs Internal Settings to Fry, This usually happens 1 out of 10 times, but when it does, you will turn on your TV and all you will see is most of the time blue, white, and black lines on the TV. I did that and had to get a new TV because of it.

[RotogenRay]

The antenna isn't grounding it, it's leading into the recieving module of the TV, which is not a direct path from ground, but slightly elevated (if you were to try and arc the TV's flyback transformer to the antenna you would notice a much reduced arc- which I take advantage of to dim a flourescent light powered with the flyback)

[RotogenRay]

The CRT itself acts as a capacitor, and so when you turn it off there's still a residual charge- a potential difference between the screen and the flyback lead (and of course, the front of the TV) which could be why the fibrillations become more violent when the TV is switched off.

[kevkin1212]

Haha!Its like an automatic musical instument!

[bbkingdom]

I got one too. Do you know the static electric soda bottle motor? Google for it, also nice...