electric arc with microwave transformer

[frackcha]

Aaaahhhh, natural selection, so thats what it looks like.... ;-)

[koffeekage]

so is there something your gonna build with that?

[vettefan87]

Hook up the magnetron. If you're going to cook yourself, do it right.

[printz150]

Is it a step-up or step-down transformer?

[Serostern]

@printz150 Steps the wall power up to the 2100 volts needed to run the magnetron, the thing that produces the microwaves.

[printz150]

@Serostern Yikes. All those users warning the uploader for risking his life were correct!

[Serostern]

@printz150 Well, volts doesn't kill. A static discharge when you are wearing synthetic clothes is like 75.000 volts.

But it is like 0.000003 amps.

But an unlimited MOT will fuck you up. If it can it will draw enough juice to become a puddle of molten metal. 0.002 amps will stop your heart. A MOT could easily put out three amps.

In essence, touch it and you are dead meat.

[hardstyle905]

@Serostern yep. touching a MOT = electric chair lol

the other thing is, because of your body resistance it won't blow the fuse. So it will just go on and on, frying you like a Kentucky Fried Chicken.

[Serostern]

@hardstyle905 You COULD survive, A friend of mine did.

The switch he ran his MOTstack on failed, and it failed closed.

But he was sitting on a wooden chair on a wooden floor on concrete.

He said it hurt like hell and he had a pretty nasty burn.

[BenHutchinson1]

Isn't that 60hz?

[Serostern]

@BenHutchinson1 Nope, 50hz in europe

[pyrosparkerII]

why is it that some electricity goes in a firey looking arc, and some are straight and blue/purple?

[nicwilson89]

@pyrosparkerII The more 'firey' looking arcs are carrying alot more current, the thinner straight blue ones are high voltage but ower current.

[Serostern]

@pyrosparkerII High voltage gives blue crackely arcs. High amps (as is here) gives yellow fiery arcs.

[lexichronicle2]

i'm no safety whore, but I worry about these MOT videos. those transformers are crazy lethal. there's no 99% of teenagers are going to be okay with something like that

[Serostern]

@lexichronicle2 With a MOT you do something wrong one time.

And one only.

[TheNeble100]

what is the input power,

[braddo12345]

dude it only takes 200mV's (thats 0.2A not even 1A) to run through your chest and stop your heart... do you think thats cool?

[nicwilson89]

@braddo12345 It's actually 30mA, but if you don't have enough voltage to break down the electrical resistance of skin/organs it'll just hurt.

There's more than enough power coming out of one of these to kill you, that's part of the fun.

[braddo12345]

@nicwilson89 umm its not actually i have been doing electrical work for sometime now and weve been told what is leathel... 240 volt is enough voltage to run from your head to your toe. and say your body has a resistance of 10 ohms.... you do the maths... if you dont know - I = V over R...

[nicwilson89]

@braddo12345 Turns out I was wrong, it's 15mA across the heart.

You don't need 240volts to pass a current from head to toe, either. Who told you this?

The resistance of a human body is anywhere from hundreds (when wet) to hundreds of thousands of Ohms (when dry).

The resistance of your internal organs is somewhere in the range of hundreds of Ohms.

[braddo12345]

@nicwilson89 yeah 15mA to send your heart into a state known as fibrillation 20mA to stop it from beating entirely.... i was saying 240VAC has enough potential to travel from head to toe with out any worries.

[sprogdiklis]

my transformer arc are biggers

[punchmaster123]

when this guy dies, i can pretty much guess what his obituary is gonna say lol

[julieail]

That looks safe.

[bugking5]

You dont fry your balls with this? :3

[cyclissmo]

I used to experiment with 50kv neon sign transformers that would generate huge plasma arcs, ideal for making Jacobs Ladders and such.

[kylesenior]

They don't make 50kv NST's

The highest the make are 15kv

[cyclissmo]

Thanks for the correction!

I gave it away some 15 years ago after nearly electrocuting myself on it.

[Serostern]

@kylesenior "They"? I've seen over 20.

[predator2036]

i got one too! i fried a tomato with the arcs!

[ramion1]

can you give us a demonstration on how you built this device

[pixuma]

Jeez! why are people so stupid? i've seen a few of these videos and they're all done inside the house! at least do it outside for your own good...

[0redthunder0]

come on lol! have some fun ;)

[metallicaKSA]

hehehe

[blastmaster571]

this guy is pretty stupid!!!!!

thats enough power to kill him and burn his dead body to a crisp!

[aYglr]

looks like u r welding

[heligeorge]

Dis is very dangerious and not to be rekomendent for playing arond.Too mach voltage kan harm yer brein...!

[metallicaKSA]

Actually, according to Alex Turner,

D is for desperately trying to stimulate, what it was that was alreet, three quarters of an hour ago.

[ablublibleblu]

you are crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that´s 2kv and you whitout a protection!!!!!

you´re my idol!!!!!!!!!1

[samssoftwareuser]

stupid and dumb..

[combomaster99]

just like your family

[insult0master]

geez,one slip up, and those 1.7 amps you are playing with and you're dead for sure.

[greenwingfanbase]

so fucking dangerious

[samssoftwareuser]

Now touch it with your finger, than touch the transformer with itm its cool

[staplesInk]

by the why if its a microwave-transformer this whas'nt an arc but plasma. u can do that "trick" using 3 screw caps (metal) a toothpick, cork a lighter and a glasbottle. if u do it right say hello to your plasma-arc and goodbye to your microwave (mybe) :o)

[Ravenpulse]

voltage

[staplesInk]

what do you mean ?

[mazaar11]

can u tell me how an electric arc works and how to make one at home

[maxsnowboard]

lol noobs no mofo gasses its just a transformer and thats good that its high voltage more pain less dead lol u all know that to raise voltage you lower amps and thats the actual amount of electricity in ur body still can kill u wit microwave transformer tho lol and not 20,000 u get 20,000 in a tv transformer tho and if you touch it ur screwed even if its unpluged because the channel attached to the ion beam acts as a capacitor and wham ur kung pow chicken lol ignore me

[splatmaster527]

umm thats proly the dumbest thing i have ever seen someone do with an electric arc

not only would that kill u in miliseconds the fumes from the plasma arc are deadly

[grande18]

You relize arcs of plasma and shit like that only happen when u generate kilovolts of energy....that shit would literaly blow off parts of your body at the exit point.

[beckytofes]

WTF HOW STUPID IS THIS??!!

Sry guy but you don't know what you are doing...

You should not play with this shit even if you are educated in it. (for sure you dont)

[g7vgg]

I would'nt be supprised if he suffered very bad Arc-Eye the next day!

[milk4ever2]

that is crazy im good with electricity and that its probably over ummm like 500 volts

enough to make ur fingers numb and bleed and plus like probably might catch on fire on ur clothes... its not real fire the fire has no oxygen and it will burn and make zappy lol

[menahunie007]

True; but your voltage is way lower. Transfromer in a microwaves is use to power a magnatro to generate microwaves at 2.4ghz; the freg at what water is at. These transformer generate around 20,000 volts and this guy is getting an arc by shorting the High voltage output to a ground. Screwdriver isn't an insolator and this guy is lucky he didn't kill himself. All it takes is about two seconds full load into you and your dead..

[thepaashaas]

even less, but if you touch it with only your right hand, the chanses of death is a hole lot lower then when you have a pole at left and right, because then it goes trew the heart, and then you will get the kick on the chest.

[aspenbighead]

Was that a Wall Mart welder?

[t4kne]

try it in the tub, it's even cooler.

[coolglock19]

wow..very cool!

[Animegamer04]

WTF? Don't mess with that shit...

[mrlarotta]

One bad movement, or s screwdriver'd isulation fail, and the cameraman gets 2 beautiful amps to be overkilled 4 times. Also the MOT is not current limited, so it overheats fast. Extremely cool yet stupid experiment.

[kc9hyr2]

ok some ppl know this alredy some dont. a microwave oven has a large ttransformer seen in the video that powers a microwave genorator wich he does not have hooked up. and no microwaves are by no means nucler

[nafango22]

couldnt this thing kill you?

[codemsan]

well yeah if you dont know what your doing, cause getting between the connections your dead no questions!!

[ibercaracole]

You are more audacious than me who works in radars magnétrons and klystrons!

[trinityoneplace]

Thanks for the video guys I was thinking about it doing it myself, you beat me to it,Cool.

[minousoft]

Very cool. Microwave ovens are great for finding old magnetrons and flyback transformers.

Also to note: The heat generated was so high that the can welded/arc welded to the screwdriver.

[Laakkonen1]

Microwave ovens DON'T have a flyback. There is only a robust transformer having mains voltage on the primary, and about 2kV on secondary.

[preludefan]

for peoples info- there is only radiation present when a microwave oven is on and the radiation itself is a "microwave" -its somehting that is emitted,mraning microwave ovens donot contain anything radioactive.

[Valveman11]

You are braver than me.

[brushhead]

That is stunningly dangerous. You can hear that there is a high current there as well as voltage. The current and inductance makes the spark bigger when the electrode is moved away from the can. Insane!

[bauerb2]

its mostly the arc's heat that creates a low resistance path for the arc to travel, thus making it longer as you pull away...

mot's are fun, but be careful

[Conquistador19]

Yes, this is why the arc length is very dependent on the amperage. Amperage defines the arc length, voltage only defines the distance where it starts (1kV = 1mm)

[rioross]

not the smartest thing to do, but really fun.

but given the messures you had it looks as though you would be fine and in no real danger.

[mageguy3]

lol dont get electrucuted

[keiranhancock]

Hay, what if you touched the screwdriver, wouldnt you become part of the circuit!

[NutsandGuts]

no, and that's why he has a cable going from the screwdriver to ground.

[sifun095]

it is simply power transformer from mirowave. no microwave radiation.

plug the first coil to 220 and the high voltage will be available between thecore(iron) and contact of hv-coil.

short-circuit is not dangerose for this transformer, but don't overheat it

[kmnguyen93]

can you show me how to make that in a message?

[mageguy3]

thats pretty cool but watabout the microwaves leaving the thing

[twirlywirly55]

don't you need a magnetron to generate the microwaves and the transformer just supplies the voltage to do that

[mageguy3]

nice