Jacobs Ladder 24 KV, 220 mA

[MrDaniel007a]

Nahh

[Penfold8]

Igore you bent my Jacob's ladder! 

[Sploshesh]

Thats not 24kv, thats more about 16kv, current estimation is probly correct (from personal experience). However, if you were in a very dry room (air con?) then your estimation could be right, but unless that is the case, that breakdown distance is typical for ~15kv.

[laqimak]

What transformer are you using to generate such power?

[TuffahaNablus]

WOW 220 mA

you're crazy XD

[TheNERFDUDE97]

i dont get what is a jacobs ladder i have seen so many variations

[mynameisjamesj]

its burning so hot, its making flames in the air

[sikke3]

dude are you nuts ? that can blow up everything

[joblessalex]

@Metrev117 you realize that after you come in contact with the arc, there will be no reason to :)

[awesomelightning]

:o plasma!

[zhmapper]

Nearly 5300 watts!

[metrev117]

you realize you can get zapped and then go to the hospital after beaking a wrist

[Bowtie41]

Did you salt the wires?

[anorwood84]

@Bowtie41 Looks more like just a lot of amperage looking at that fiery arc.

[xXxXpatboiXxXx]

i made one of these yesterday XD

two MOT's for a total of 4000 volts

50pf glass capacitor (rated 32,000 volts)

and as soon as i tried to measure the amps (i was using a multimeter) it was using 30 amps @ 240v

Voltage x Amperage = Wattage

240x30= 7200W

[tHatguy23454]

instant toast (gotta love the 21st century)

[GAMERGUY11111]

DAUMN!!

[SmashCOBamberg]

pole pig?

[ttttttfanman]

24KV is not what is dangerous, its the current, a 30KV flyback and give a nasty shock, but wont kill you, as its only afew mA, the orange spark in this vid though, thats some dangerous current. Why he used a very long wood stick to manipulate the wires. Even with a low current flyback driver, its still wise to use a wooden rod, as if you touch it, it will hurt, very, very bad, leave a RF burn and possible scar. OUCH!!! Flybacks are nice though, you have a chance to learn from your mistakes...

[spinctah]

24KV not dangerous, it's the current?? What do you think 'drives' current through something (including you)? Voltage does- aka that funky ohms law. Therefore I'd say they both play equal guilty part in any electrocution... and just a few mA across the heart is all it takes to be potentially be lethal.

[Fr0z3nFr0g]

just high voltage doesnt have enough currnet to go past your skin. high voltage for some reason will stay on the surface of your skin while current will harm you. im not sure why. but ive played with a static maker thing that has 500,000 volts. it hurt, but wouldnt kill you. even arcing to my head....which by far hurt the most. yet people die from 120 volts thats coming straight from the power company with an unlimited amount of amperes

[RetroGamer1990]

either way, i wouldnt go near that shit

[s28400]

Thats a little toasty. lol

[jms61239]

your a retard. how is this fake?

[malcolmyoungrules]

LMAO.. and you responded to it. So who's really the retard?

[th1nker21]

@jms61239 Sir i believe that you dont know anything about electricity 

[SmashCOBamberg]

you're a fuckin' FAKE

[xXxXpatboiXxXx]

@SmashCOBamberg its not fake wtf

[SmashCOBamberg]

@xXxXpatboiXxXx my comment was a response to a guy who said that the video was faked. It doesn't mean that I think its faked (I know its 100% real!!!)

[Kelbi00]

Hmmm looks dangerous. XD

[budsiskos]

24k, holy shit.

is this a pole pig?

[darketoile1]

Nice. Good sound too. Was that a DVC camcorder? I'd like to video mine and hear some of those low frequency components. Dry wood dowel - great idea. It scares me to turn up my autotransformer!

[howcin]

looks and sound like fire (=

[DSCP46]

Its the sound of the a gas, eg in this case 'Air', actually ionizing and causing plasma, giving that flame effect.

[shadowdude77]

Really nice, I just have a few questions. 1) How come the arc is flame- colored here when most peoples' Jacob Ladder arcs are blue?

2) Is it actually a 24kV 220mA NST, or did you string together two 12kV 110mA NSTs like I think you did?

3) Why does this ladder behave like real fire (it kind of sways), not an electric arc?

4) Why doesn't it make that characteristic buzzing noise? Is it because it's not running at 60Hz?

[mexicanerd]

1. more amperage makes much more plasma

2. it looks like only 1 transformer, stringing hv transformers usually wont turn out so well

3. answer 1

4. high frequency, not 60hz

[lapersonagiusta]

Is that 24kV only? So long!

[FelixDavid2008]

vad har jag sakt!!!

[tomili1986]

it looks really nice just like real fire...

[new01]

did i hear the aphex twin song "ventolin" at the beginning?

[technetium99m]

Yes, the CD ran exactly, however, the song was not installed on purpose into the video.

[alex054739]

shit man be cereful with that thing!

[w00zar]

coool!

[fnaguitarplayer9]

thas a good one, what is the power supply

[technetium99m]

A potential-transformer (intended in order to transform 10000 volts in 100 volts), two throttle-spools for courent limitation. Connected at normal 230 volts plug.

[dreamyear]

spary mist water if there's any reaction to it.

[mumish13]

zvs driver?

[FesixGermany]

I would say yes.

[codemsan]

no the arc is just loud enought to cut out the sound

[fnaguitarplayer9]

thas pretty cool man