My 104 year old Edison lightbulb ufo lights out

[mrpotatoheadracing]

Over 100 years of R&D and accumulated knowledge, only to make a cheap imported Chinese bulb that you have to keep buying over and over.

[Glamstarr90]

what is this song, way too epic

[B1r6m4n]

What voltage are you running it on? What amperage?

[nfhslugger]

I have LED light bulbs that should last about half as long as this light bulb has...only difference is they are brighter.

[segarza]

@nfhslugger if only edison had LED's.....

[criticaboutvids]

What if it burns out?

[Arabhacks]

A light bulb can be made to last years with ease!

Notice how little and how orange the light is from that bulb?

It runs far cooler than a modern bulb.

Get a bulb rated for 130 volt rough service, put together a full wave rectifier with a brute force filter that has both a choke and a capacitor as well as a varistor to limit the actual voltage to around 110 VDC and your bulb will last years.

[davidpar2]

you should convert the a.c. to d.c. and use a rheostat on the voltage applied to your vintage bulb to help prolong its life, if you aren't already

[robertgift]

Why the crap music?

Trying to be artistic.

Why no background light to better show this light and its intensity?

[vw77]

I'll give you guys a hint: efficiency.

[wolfmanradio]

these can still be bought, lightbulbsdirect. com

[vistigioful]

Good song.

[CultOfTheGuitar]

TESLA

[ubuntupokemoninc]

Even the new Chinese vacuum tubes suck, they die with in days, old vacuum tubes if treaded well will last forever!!!!

[robertgift]

ubuntupokemoninc says: "...old vacuum tubes if treaded well will last forever!!!!"

No. Hydrogen and Helium gas molecules can migrate through the glass and diminsh the tube's operation.

[mapukmapuk]

Give me that! just kidding.

[TheWarped45]

I have about 30 of this type bulb from about 1913 to 1923 General Electric MAZDA westinghouse Mazda gas filled carbon filament bulbs where made before gas filled tungsten pre 1909.

[EWOlson007]

Edison is an ass. Everything you know of electricity nowadays you can thank Tesla for.

[Yezpahr]

107 years old now, does it still work?

[bagman4175]

Notice how dim the bulb is. Notice how thick the filament is. Yes, modern incandescent  light bulbs don't last very long, but look how much brighter they are. In order to build a better quality (brighter) bulb, the lifespan of the bulb had to be sacrificed. It's not that light bulbs are very expensive anyway. Besides, you should switch to compact fluorescent bulbs. I've only had one actually burn out in the 8 years I have been using them. Anyway, cool video, thanks for sharing.

[Lawlietowns]

say hi omegle noob

[tomek123kotek]

still works?

[rikkyb84]

Can you fit one in my Peugeot? Honest to god, that car is the biggest peice of crap I have ever owned!

[westkan]

Sorry folks it's a bit nuts to complain about how a 25 cent light bulb doesn't last 50-75-100 years. In many cases I'm damn glad we don't make them like we used to, practically all the big ticket items last far longer than they used to. Actually the profitable planned obsolescence is convincing much of the public to purchase new, while their old big ticket items is still serviceable. Far out old lamp though.

[Goblinhugger]

Planned obsolescence is a bitch... I wish we still made 'em like we used to.

[schenker69]

I couldn't agree with you more...from small common items to rockets.

[yellowmetalcyborg]

@schenker69 I will have to disagree, these are the most unreliable lighting devices you can find. The only reason it's that old is because you don't use it for domestic lighting all the time as you would a regular light bulb, this is a display.

[MenwithHill]

@schenker69 If only weapons could get useless like that...

[nambinhvu]

@schenker69 How much electricity does this bulb use? It doesn't seem to give off much light.

[nothingUnrealExists]

@Goblinhugger They last a long time by being very dim. They were meant to replace a candle.

[kkriegg]

@Goblinhugger You could barely read by that thing. I'd prefer a cheap bulb that burns out but can actually light a damn room.

[kdough1234]

@Goblinhugger didnt you mean percieved

[NETWizzJbirk]

@Goblinhugger Except they didn't make enough light. The best are the FEIT 25,000 hour incandescents. Search Amazon for them.... Bright and last forever.

[INeedToLiveLonger]

@Goblinhugger It is probably 220V light bulb run at 90V so it last ages, run it at 220and will last 5000 hours, put it on 240 and 10 h, 260 0.1h, 280 10 sec, 300V, 1sec

[dadagujarati]

brother..ur cam should not shake as much as you are shaking

[cobrachoppergirl]

This is how the Russians build them, with no trace amounts of oxygen in them at all, so they last forever. Today's American lightbulbs are built inferior with trace amounts of oxygen in them so they eventually burn out, and you have to buy more. Yeah. Fuckers. More thank likely though you usually break them a lot sooner by a jarring hit which breaks the flimsy filament inside.

[drgreen1000]

@cobrachoppergirl very true way to go you did your research

[313EDO]

Back then the light bulbs were even repaired. It was sometimes too expensive to make a new one.

[CokeSupply]

@Parabomb311

I think he was trying to say that a lower voltage bulb would use up more electricity IN ITS LIFESPAN than a higher voltage bulb.

Hardly a reason to die, was it? ;)

[JubalCalif]

This is quite illuminating footage! Good thing Edison invented the light bulb....if not, we'd be watching televsion by candlelight !!!

[matt33876]

lol again with the tv! NO LIGHT BULB!!! Why would there be a tv????

[Ultranothing]

That's the joke. The intention is to be funny by thanking god for the light-bulb while taking for granted other technologies. The joke is further made humorous by the fact that a light-source is not needed to view a television, as a television produces its own light.

Do you now see?

[313EDO]

umm... Karl Ferdinand Braun was the name of the inventor who made the first CRT tube.

Thats another technology and another story.

[jonnyasprin]

cool light show

[schenker69]

Thanks!!!!

[realvanman]

That type of bulb (tungsten) was invented in 1907, and manufactured into the 20's, in that style (cage filament). So, while probably less than 100 years old, still very very cool.

[robertgift]

Lower voltage requires higher amperage for the same wattage.

Many of those people would have died if not for hospitals. And others would not gain the quality of life if not for skilled medical professionals.

Level 1 trauma hospitals may have poorer survival ratios because they receive the most critical patients. Other hospitals have great stats because they get healthier patients.

With your inappropriate language, sounds like you need a stay at a mental hospital.

[OZZYTS808]

so amazing!!

[quadcam24v]

what song is this??

[schenker69]

The band is UFO.....Song is Lights out in London

[U3X6785]

Yeah Edison realized that they needed to burn out in order to make money. Same thing goes for tires and medicine. Why make a tire that lasts a million miles? Why cure something when you can keep treating something for years?

[schenker69]

some choice words my friend......

[robertgift]

Nonsense.

I am in the medical profession.

They try to cure.

There are enough diseases and new disease cases that they need not try to extend treatment.

Not sure that lightbulbs can last longer.

Lower voltage means longer life but less light and more electricity used.

If tires could last longer, someone would make them and capture entire market.

[Flumphinator]

@robertgift

You know nothing about electrical power, current, and voltage.

[robertgift]

Guess my studies in electrical engineering were a waste.

No wonder the Viking Mars seismometer I worked on, now on Mars, failed.

Hey, I know about electricity.

Electricity runs down hill.

Don't chew your nails.

Payday is on Friday.

Oh, wait.

That is the wastewater plumbing test.

[Flumphinator]

@robertgift

"I am in the medical profession."

Oh really?

Less voltage doesn't mean more "electricity". If anything, it means less power or more current, only if constant power is assumed. Are you referring to efficiency?

[313EDO]

A waste?

At High school I made my own sound amplifier (17kg it has-bad idea-anyway it works 4 years already)

I was studying at FEI in Slovakia Faculty of electricity and informatics.

I left after 2-1/2 year and now I'm studying to be a good "Sound designer".

No Math and Physics anymore :)

I hope, it was a good decision.

And that with the Seismometer is for real????

[robertgift]

One of the three seismometers on Mars failed.

Therefore, the ability to triangulate seismic events was ruined.

The pyrotechnic device which releases the seismometer pendulums failed to fire.

So the pendulums are still locked.

They were locked in place so that landing shock would not break their delicate attachments.

[corruptiongovernment]

@U3X6785 that system is corrupt and must be destroyed.

[ZombieHunter19]

@U3X6785 Because its the right thing to do.

[xaedmon]

cool bulb....wicked good tune..i used to have that on 8-track lol....speaking of light bulbs...a friend of mine discovered an old shipwreck in a freshwater lake.....the cabin had an unbroken lightbulb in the cieling fixture...which he liberated from it's watery tomb....it is roughly 60 yrs old...and guess what ??....it still WORKS !!

[schenker69]

Omg!! that's a great story. still works that's awesome

[FORCETHETRUTH]

Thats not a real edison bulb, he bought this at WALGREENS for SEVEN DOLLARS!!!

[schenker69]

Came with free gum too

[PawnSacrific3]

104 year old bulb rocking out! Nice zoom feature.

[schenker69]

Thanks!!

[OzzmanX30]

everything gets worse over time meaning quality of new things

lightbulbs

marshalls

gibsons

[tangler101]

You Americans are so defensive

[tangler101]

Gee thanks for the heavy rock music.

Absolutely necessary.............NOT

[schenker69]

Wow!! your 40 years old? Act your age

[tornadojoe]

Gee! DONT USE THAT PUSSY WORD ON THE SAME PAGES AS UFO LIGHTS OUT !

[windoes98se]

bulbs can last just as long today but they dont beacuase the LIGHTBULB COMPANY NEEDS TO MAKE MONY, STUPID CAPS LOCK

[oOkumaOo]

and my new lightbulbs not work after 2 months :)

The newer the technology the worse it get's.

[ozgood1x]

A Nice Beefy Work Of Art

[schenker69]

Cool!!

[rompn4x]

i heard if you cut the voltage by 10 or so volts it will double the life of the bulb... Feit electric makes decade bulbs good for 10 years or so...

[schenker69]

Cool!! Thanx for the info.

[schenker69]

Because bulbs today are built like everything else today. LIKE SHIT!!

[CampKohler]

There is another factor, and that is efficiency. The hotter the filament, the more light it produces, but also the more power it takes. Today's bulb balances bulb cost with power cost, which sacrifies the former for the latter.

When electricity first came to Sacramento, there was no metering! So it didn't matter how much power was consumed; you just didn't want to replace bulbs, which costs money. So they needed to run forever, but they could suck up the watts and nobody cared. We do now.

[HartfordTommy]

It's a very nice pre-1924 tungsten filament bulb. It can't be from 1904, but probably about ten to fifteen years later.

[schenker69]

Love that bub, can't kill it

[HartfordTommy]

It is a beauty and remains a technological marvel. It's a great piece of living history.

[schenker69]

Yes it is

[CampKohler]

What's the voltage? The U.S. line was 110, then went to 115, 117, now 120 and is inching to 125 (something to do with one-world government, I think). Because power and life vary with the 6th root of the voltage, you could put in only enough to make it glow a bit and it would last forever even if it burned 24/7. (I wouldn't be a bit surprised if that famous firehouse bulb has a hidden regular bulb in series somewhere in the circuit as a ballast so that they don't blow their precious keepsake.)

[schenker69]

Voltage is 120. Thanks for the info

[Zoso7227]

equipment wise

lol

is it a plexi?

[schenker69]

No silly! That's an actual cd of ufo in the background. LOL

[Zoso7227]

nice man

what you runnin this on?

[schenker69]

Normal fixture

[xXxmidgexXx]

I bought a GE Halogen lamp and when i fired it up it exploded.Luckily i bought two to see the burstment.

[schenker69]

Too funny bro

[jenson1066]

Those very old bulbs were only a few watts but last nearly forever, isnt there a firestation somewhere that has one of those old bulbs that has been going for over a 100 years?

[schenker69]

Yup seen that on the discovery channel. Been lit for over 100 yrs. now. I hardly light mine.

[antareus]

I found your channel by looking up Nano clips...but this totally cracked me up. Not sure why, probably because it is a 3 minute video of someone panning around an old light bulb.

Five stars + subscription.

[schenker69]

Very cool- Thank you

[schenker69]

Nano is very versatile stock and will cover the spectrum of tones you seek. Very loud for such low wattage, attenuation I recommend for cranked tube tones. Nano cleans up well from the guitar. Glad you dig the vids.

Thanks

Ronnie

[codemsan]

that would suck if it burned out as you were making this video!!!!

[schenker69]

Too funny

[deadlydunc]

just goes to show they dont make em like that anymore. i have an ozram 60watt that only lasted like 18 months... :)

[schenker69]

Gotta love em.

[omgwtfbbqstfu]

you can make a bulb last and last. it just means its performance will be sh*t.;)

you don't get something for nothin!

[schenker69]

Wha?

[Arashau]

The old ones were piss weak. Not even good enough to light my toilet.

And given how cheap light bulbs are nowadays I'd still be happy if they lasted 2 months.

[DAKODA65]

they had bulbs that were weak and couldnt light up a toilet and now they have lazers that cut through steel lol

[wantsomecandy1]

lol cool do u rekon i could get one in my local newsagent?

[schenker69]

No, but ya can get on on ebay

[wantsomecandy1]

lol is that a tube or is really a lightbulb?

[schenker69]

LOL- Bro no joke that bulb is 104 years old edison. Very cool bulb

[schenker69]

Thanks bro. Not playing along with this one. Much appreciated, thanks for stoppin by.

[Rocker8822]

Awsome song man.... and wow... nice lightbulb

[schenker69]

Thanks....

[machaeroguy]

Light's Out!!! Nice playin'. UFO Rules.