Fluorescent Tube Burnout Extreme! Total Meltdown!

[FrontSideBus]

At 2 minutes it almost looks like a high pressure sodium sparking up...

[66kerekes]

wicked sick dude WTF kind of ballast did you run,MOST BADDASS LAMP BURNOUT EVER (totally impressive)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DragonFlyback256]

@66kerekes

Some kind of high voltage transformer, MOT maybe.

[aaaazzzzable]

I had to mute it so I could take it seriously. That music was terrible... thanks for uploading this, anyways. :P

[eyecanthelpit]

Holy hell! That was crazy! Nice. Never saw one die like that. Awesome!

[TurbineCollector]

@cumesoftware No gas burnage!

[jrmcferren]

@Photonicinduction He popped it good, I think you need to repeat this in HD. In the name of science of course, if you can't get it to melt you can use your hammer.

[DarkZero812]

whats the melting point of glass again? lol. wow

[HDXFH]

Nice experiment!

[7ReyZor]

I don't understand how arcs were still able to be drawn when the vacuum was lost?

[jonathanmlang]

@7ReyZor Well that's what high voltage does!

Higher voltage = longer arcs.

[gent2000]

what a arc

[RootbrianRocksAgain]

I noticed it was still arcing/lighting up even after melting to a puddle of glass!

[thedavid7100]

oh my god



[FalconAlpaca]

now we need 600 and we've got a RAVE.

[bonecrime]

When glass get hot enough, I've heard it goes conductive. :)

[jonathanmlang]

@Photonicinduction Thank you so much! I knew you would like it! :D

[lasergeak]

@Photonicinduction you're gonna try it right?

[kingspunkbubble]

Tube smoke. Dont breathe this!

[johnofe]

i've always wanted to see a tube subjected to massive overload, thanks for sharing! great video

[crusherbarny]

Wow never seen anything like it!!, erm also whats the song xD

[orchy86]

mental



[dieselducy]

AMAZING!

[jonathanmlang]

@cumesoftware I thought that was the air leaking in through a cracked seal.

[matthewtchernev123]

@jonathanmlang what vaccuum can u explain to me please

[BowlingMania14]

WOW! Very nice kill! I love how the 'tube' turned to a puddle of glass LOL

This is very impressive! Have you ever done anything like this before?

[jonathanmlang]

@BowlingMania14 Nope, didn't know what to expect actually!

[TheDieselNut]

That is freakin awesome!!!!!!!!

[XmasLightsGuy]

LOL that was awesome! Total meltdown!

What did you use to do it?

[jonathanmlang]

@XmasLightsGuy I used a transformer designed to convert the 12,000v from a substation to 240v for a home. They can be used in reverse so I got 12,000v from 240v mains! It had to be ballasted to 7kw instead of running at the full 16kw because the load would have overloaded the mains wiring in the building and caused serious problems.

[XmasLightsGuy]

@jonathanmlang How cool!!! I figured it had to be something more powerful than a neon transformer which'll do high voltage but very low current LOL

[jonathanmlang]

@Santaarnpaal Actually I did do this at home lol.

[suzukir123]

geez... jonathanmlang... ummm... yeah

that is as far from safe as you can get.

LOL

[jonathanmlang]

@suzukir123 Actually it was pretty safe because I was always more than 3 feet from the lamp and 12000v cannot arc further than that and my camera was on a tripod 5 feet away for safety (just zoomed in).

[suzukir123]

@jonathanmlang, but geezzz.... lol you literally melted the

bulb!

[jonathanmlang]

@suzukir123 That was the point! :)