How to Power a TV using a AAA battery (debunked)

[garth123fly]

the chords must be touching at the end!

[xJoeEDangerouslyx]

I favorited the other video but then I decided that someone might try it, and I didn't want anyone to fuck their shit up. So I faved this one two, so nobody thinks I'm malicious or anything. It's fun to play jokes on people, but if someone tried it, I'd feel bad. Damn conscience.

[sbonita69]

All I want to know is why did the other genius block all comments?!?!?!? You know there had to be lots of funny sh*t on it. LOLOL

[xdlugia1]

It would not work anyway, because batteries are using DC and TVs are supposed to use AC. You would need a converter and many more batteries!

[TheNavyTurd]

i dont think we need a video to know that that is fake...

[lieslam]

You could power the tv if you wired it correctly...Your channel has high disapproval because your obviously jealous..

[cole8504]

also you could use the transformer from a industrial door bell attatched to a 9 v battery and operate a tv though but i surely doubt 1.5 v would do anything

[nrz666]

Obviously that vid is fake. Even if you manage to form a spark gap you can't receive the pulses from it with constant rate.

Btw...You have 110 volts and such funny flat power plugs? :) We have round Euro plugs and 220 volts AC on 50 Hz so it's much more dangerous.

[Godlesspanther]

@nrz666 We have 60 Hz and even at 110-125 volts that is more dangerous because it is very close to the frequency of the human heart. And our ovens and clothes dryers run on 220.

[jamesshafton]

What's the point of this video?

[edonisRac]

thanks man thanks this advice was too helpful

great upload

[DEVOXxCANADAxX]

You are right on that one it is a hoax DC Terminal 1.5V will not run a TV thats 110V Terminal. He did fail at showing the back. You need a power converter for that but 1.5 is still to short need 12V DC

[TheRockstar502]

no wonders you last name is zombie, your as smart as one! Nuck Nuck Nuck!

[Semaj1945]

Thanks for saving me the trouble...lol,I knew it was b.s,never liked a lyer.Thanks for the vid.

[forrest225]

Thanks for this.

[MrGaberthegamer]

lol

[mjhacker]

Is Household Hacker creating sock puppet accounts to rate you down? This video is rated way lower than it should be.

[webcamdudes]

btw its multiple pplz at household hacker

[EricZombie]

@webcamdudes

used to be tvvo.

[webcamdudes]

@EricZombie

still is. theres traveler and whats his name that does scientific tuesdays

[TheAmazingJimmy]

Well then that would be multiple people right? Two is more than one, why did you use two v's to spell the word two? Is english not your native language or something?

[EricZombie]

Well, Jimmy, the "W" key on my laptop sticks, so I use two v's instead. Didn't think anyone would be so particular about it, but, there ya go.

[quadstrike]

it is evedant to anyone watching it that's is a hoax except for someone who makes a "this vids fake" vid which you did,

[EricZombie]

Not to sound petulant, but, "nuh uh". Seems it's only evident to the educated folks. Read through the comments, there were plenty of "average" people who bought into that shit.

[quadstrike]

well average keeps getting worse, people are getting smarter and dumber each day, so the adverage specturn goes quite lower since it's easier to be a stupid fool, when in shool you don't listen in class and are more interested in whos stronger than the other and stuff instead of understanding the difference between mass and volume,or even what the means in the first place

[militaryson94]

Good job Dude, Nice vid.

[DaMonsterMonster]

posted on my 13th birthday....

[BackForwardPunch]

Yeah, it's really lame that people get sucked into it, but if you have any knowledge of electronics, you know that it just isn't feasible.

[speeron]

its funny the way people think that dude managed to get 110v AC and 50+ watts from a AAA battery ROFL

[VeeZeeB]

If anyone still has any doubts about powering a 110V appliance with a AAA battery, I'm selling slightly used AAA nuclear cells from Chernobyl on eBay for only $19.95 each. Just search for user ID: "glowboyU82"

[josniel1000]

your smart

[MrJchukwun]

Youtube should be able to monitor whatever is posted on its network.I am really disappointed with this myth.Thanks to ericzombie for debunking this hoax.He is a good guy

[JLD902]

hey eric, thanks for sharing these debunking videos, some people (believe it or not) they will believe any and everything they see on a how-to video. i wonder if you ever met the mythbusters,

me as a logical thinker like you ericzombie, there is NO way that you can power a TV with a AAA. i mean a middle or high school level physics class should cover A/C and D/C currants and some things can run off both but a battery for backup

[EricZombie]

thanks. even with a dc to ac converter, and an upstep transformer, you wouldn't get enough juice out of a battery to warm the tubes, let alone power a tv.

[btcomp101]

I'm glad that someone finally took the time to make a reply to that video (for all the people dumb enough, to wonder about the feasibility of this for more than 2 seconds).

[EricZombie]

thanks. amazingly, there are a LOT of people who will vehemently defend HH, screaming at me that all his stuff is true, and telling me that i'm destroying dreams by debunking him.

better to destroy dreams than destroy electronics.

[btcomp101]

Well said. I'm not sure if it was HH or some other morons, but, I watched two other videos (somewhere on the web) that really got to me...

1) How to clean a CD, with a bunch of stuff out of the fridge, and bathroom, and a bunch of paper towels. ...all they end up doing is a making one hell of a mess.

2) How to make a "high-def" speaker, out of a paper plate, some foil, and a 1/8 inch jack.

It makes me wonder how many people have made HUGE messes at home, and also ruined a few cables.

[godisafrauddotcom]

Ahhh...rofl...  Great job.

[householdhackernews]

great vid!!!!

[bdf2718]

Ummm, it's almost sort of feasible. A switched-mode power supply could just about be designed to run from anything between 1.5 VDC to 120 VAC, although it would be fucking inefficient at those extremes. And so you could perhaps run a TV, with such a hypothetical PSU, for a couple of seconds from an AAA battery.

The reality is that no sane engineer would design such a power supply, because no sane engineer would anticipate a user trying to run a TV from an AAA battery.

[Paxmax]

A CRT TV would require something like 70-120W of power to run.

well.... with just 1.5V you'd need to drain 50+ amps from a AAA battery....and is not feasible.

[bdf2718]

You are making assumptions about the internal resistance of an AAA battery. Hint: "AAA" refers to physical dimensions and (possibly) voltage. Nicads have far lower internal resistance than any cell (normal, non-rechargeable ones) with carbon anodes. Nicads can deliver seriously higher currents than normal cells.

Can you get 50 amps out of an AAA nicad? Probably not. Can you get 50 amps out of an AAA of future technology? Maybe. But not for long (barring matter/anti-matter conversion).

[Paxmax]

bdf2718 said: "You are making assumptions", "50 amps out of an AAA of future technology", "And so you could perhaps run a TV, with such a hypothetical PSU"

Only if you know me in person could you say I make assumptions. I have been doing RC cars (both fuel and electric) since '85. I've been working as an electronics engineer / energy lab engineer since '99. I know perfectly well what batteries are capable of and NOT capable of.

We are talking about NOW not the future.

[Paxmax]

bdf2718 said: "And so you could perhaps run a TV, with such a hypothetical PSU"

No you can't. Even under perfect condition the TOTAL energy content of AAA battery is currently not even enough to power a TVset for 2 minutes.

Then you'd have to deal with the TV's inrush current, prewarming of cathode et.c.

No assumptions, it does not work.

You know electronics, but you just didn't think things through. Think again.

[bdf2718]

Wow, an AAA cannot power a TV for 2 minutes so I'm wrong. Only thing is, I said it might be possible to run it for a couple of SECONDS.

I admit that was a guess. No calculations involved. Maybe if you did the calcs it would turn out to be a couple of tenths of a second, or maybe even 20 seconds (I very much doubt the latter). I was contrasting what the claim said against a quick guess of what might actually be possible. I was actually on your side...

[Paxmax]

bdf2718 said: "it might be possible to run it for a couple of SECONDS....or.. tenths"

First off, it can't be done since none of the existing AAA 1,5V battery can't deliver 50+ amps. Approx 6A @ 0.3V is more realistic.

@ 0.3V it is really hard to have any switching unit to operate.

Only thing left to do is to pump the juice from the AAA battery into another kind of accumulator that can deliver the amount of energy / sec. Charging involves losses. The lossy DC-AC conversion will kill rest.

[bdf2718]

Well there you go.  It ain't possible when you do the maths. And all I was saying was it ain't possible when you do a quick guess. Ummmm, which one of us two is a fucktard? Oh, right, it's the guy who made the fake video. Yes?

[Paxmax]

exactly.

[dalekcarn999]

i doubt even that ammount of time it couldnt even get a layer of static on the screen

[lucidatheist]

Well done dude!

[mousegeek]

Great video. Wish I'd watched it last week before I went out and bought 500 AAA batteries :-)

[legacycollector2008]

lol nice

[xlioilx]

all his vids are shitty. good debunking if you didn't the stupids would be talking about his shit like he was special.

strangely enough those are the same people in his church