Dr. Megavolt - Burningman 06

[hellman100]

Assuming he's an electrical engineer and he set this up himself,

completely safe.

This assumption however,

not so safe.

[pdubeic]

It's only Amps. voltage is just a difference in electrical potential.

[daniboy123able]

lol arcattack are better!!!!

[hotjohn4321]

Actually it's the total energy transfer that matters. Since the total energy transfer is dependent on both current and voltage (and time), it's a combination of the two quantities that matter.

[12432124321]

That is just a robat when electrisity tochs him the robat has power to move

[voraciousbear]

@12432124321 no, he is wearing something called a farady suit which is made out of all metal.

[Zachhecrote14]

@flanksteak2 amps kill you...

[shadowwill666]

try it without the metal scraped on your body ....

[LowlandsFreak]

Oh yeh, go tesla coil.

[tacomonster98]

" UNNN LIMITED POWAAAAHHH!!! "

[vincux147]

jeasus lightsabers

[TheXxM4A1xX]

what the corny?

[batmanmob]

OMG! its Dr. MEGANUT

[x33xzerafetx33x]

i think he's getting lighting power to become.... LIGHTNING MAN!!! lol

[theblacksheep1000]

I knew Dr. Frankenstein was from Alabama, lol

[Xu53r1X]

@Kankki1 not always the case. I can run 20kV at only 2.4mA in high yeild power supplies conventinal electricity behaviour is not the same.

[DJHLimtz]

Modulate your spark with music and make the top tesla coils show!

[whyhatestrangers]

to all the people debating what is this and what is that, i'd just like to say that this must have been awesome to see for the thousands of people on LSD at burningman

[ptschafer]

First, this guy is wearing a Faraday cage... so the high voltage is directed around his body instead of through it. Second, volts mean nothing. Less than 1 volt can kill you if the amperage is insanely high. The opposite is true too, and also negated, depending on the circumstances (why one lightning strike can kill one person instantly, yet another person can recover quite easily). It all depends on the path, the resistance of the medium, etc.

[Marco24591]

mmm  Infamous?!?! xD

[awakened888]

ummm....... how is he not dieing?

[ownerfate]

@awakened888 its like dangreen777 said amps not volts.

[Slimer2x3]

by the power of Greyskull! I HAVE THE POWER!!!!

[BongHitFever]

Burningman 2006 WOOT!

[GenericGene]

I have actually seen a similar experiment done in the 1960', their is a way of doing it - Gene

[Kussler88]

Who remembers Megavolt from Darkwing Duck ? :-P

[kerbal666]

me i do

[fr4nkie82]

he had a plug as a helmet

[MetrakitProRaceII]

@Kussler88

I know Quakkajack to , TIME TO PLAY ! :D

[pairadiceca]

Electricity usually stays imprisoned inside electrical wires like a genie in a bottle Tesla coils release the genie into the air, The possibilities promise a parallel of Thor's shooting thunderbolts from the sky, to punish those who have angered the gods. Tesla coils make all the bitches go crazy -- that's really what it's all about!

[insightllc]

@pairadiceca THIS IS THE RECORD OF THE FIRST MAN-MADE EARTHQUAKE.

I am not wrong. I challenge you all. With this so many lies fall.

Man-Made earthquakes… The U.S. account of the damage caused by Nikola Tesla in the first major earthquake made by man is in this 1912 government paper, “The Earthquakes at Yakutat Bay, Alaska, in September, 1899.”

Los Alamos National Laboratories TOP SECRET

[pairadiceca]

Damn!

Who is the man with the lightning in his hands,

with the giant Tesla coils that he commands?

People all shout when he enters the room

because he's got superpowers like a Legion of Doom.

It has to be a catastrophe...

original mad scientist with a PhD.

Got two big cuties in his big fur coat

He's a bad mother-fucker called Megavolt.

(Is there a doctor in the house?)

[pairadiceca]

People see the coil and the people all stop. The hands go up and the laundry gets dropped. We're knockin' the boots while he's knockin' 'em dead A superconductor with a cage on his head. So don't be alarmed when the lightning comes down The doc brings the zaps and the 'Taytor brings the sounds. we got the appliance, don't try to deny us Light up the playa rockin' straight mad science! (Is there a doctor in the house?) people see the ... coil and the people all stop ..op ...op ...op...

[dangreen777]

Volts mean nothing, it's the amps that matter. 6ma across the heart can kill you.

[EvHstyleTaPMaster]

yeperoo thats the average theres been cases of as little as 3ma stopping hearts

but 6ma will kill anyone thats why tasers can be 50000v and not kill you very little amperage

[craioveanu95]

@dangreen777 actually there are 60mA, and volts matter too. 23,5 volts(continuos and direct cause alternative it has to 120V+) can kill you no matter how may amps it's got.

[europe0wnz]

@craioveanu95 it always matters how many amps you got....half an amp can kill you, if it doesnt have amps, it wont kill you, volts is mearly the speed in which the current flows

[craioveanu95]

@europe0wnz it's impossible to have 0 amps. and i'm preety sure that no mather how many amps it has a flowing current of 24 volts will damn kill you (i saw it live while a class experiment, though i shocked myself with 220 volts for like 10 seconds and i'm still here)

[europe0wnz]

@craioveanu95 i was setting an example...and you got to remember, volts doesnt kill you, amps does, thats why europe uses 220 instead of 110...higher volts lower amps less chance it'll kill you. and idk why your even talking about death of electricity on this video...that man is 100% safe.

[paul30003]

@europe0wnz Nope! your safer with 110V

Ohms law

I (Current) = Volts divided by R(Resitance of the body)

so I = V / R

If your body resitance was 1000 Ohms and the voltage was 240 volts the current flowing would be: 240 divided by 1000 = 0.24 Amps

And for 110V

110 divided by 1000 = 0.11 Amps

So from this, you are safer with a lower voltage, thats why we use step down transformers and 110v powertools on building/construction sites.

[europe0wnz]

@paul30003 bro, look at it this way....if you sit in a tub, and i drop a light bulb with 110v in there, you die....same with 220. ohms is just resistance, so why calculate what amps what volts has, when they both kill you. and ye "you" guys use 110 on building/construction sites, thats why theres so many house fires right? and another thing...on a construction site its easier to use 220, cause half the amps means thinner cables....thinner cables, less weight. more volts less amps.

[paul30003]

@europe0wnz

You are so wrong again

the reason both 110 and 240 will kill you in a bath tub, is because if you are wet then resitance is lower, meaning more amps will flow, basic ohms law mate,

you cant seem to get your head round the relationship between amps volts and resitance

Its the most basic electric / electronics, google ohms law.

[europe0wnz]

@paul30003 i cant seem to get my head around the relationship between amps volts and 'resistance' and yet you keep saying 240....its 220. and ohms law has nothing to do with anything i said in the comment you commented on. i was talking about how he is safe in the suit cuz its the cage of Faraday. it only takes 1/2 an amp across your heart to kill you. and you cant seem to understand that more volts = less amps. go read a book or somthing.

[paul30003]

@europe0wnz

Nope again, sorry

Volts is a measurment of EMF (ElectroMotive Force)

Higher Volts (EMF) more electrons flowing round the circuit

[BooteyMasta]

@dangreen777 -That's why I always take my heart out and place it in freezer before I mess with this high voltage stuff.

Be safe kids! Put Daddy's heart in the freezer before he plays with this stuff!

[LuciusMare]

@dangreen777 Well, or save you :)

[cmak5]

@dangreen777 thats what we learn in high school physics

[Kankki1]

@dangreen777 The higher the volts, the higher the amps- but it's all dependent on the resistance of the body.

[lilbudda14]

@Kankki1 no it dosent matter ,, like when you touch your buddy and gett zapped by static electricity, your giving off 10,00 volts, but you dnt die cus theres no amps,

[Kankki1]

@lilbudda14 …because the body the electricity is coming from is high resistance, can't deliver a lot of current.

[lilbudda14]

@Kankki1 yeah .. your smart

[Chuv1]

@dangreen777 Yeah. But even 12 volts can kill you. If car battery falls on your head.

[Serostern]

@Chuv1 2 volts kan kill you, if there is enough amps.

[Akrurz]

@dangreen777 *cough* nothing? first of all you need a certain amount of voltage before the amps can get to to you, secondly f.ex 1ma won't hurt you, but if it's 1ma at 50kv it will hurt you... Finally, when voltage is high enough it creates an electrical arc, which is about 5,000 degrees celcius, which was harmfull last time i checked..

[insightllc]

@Akrurz Nikola Tesla made earthquakes in Alaska in 1899 and I can prove it right here with a few posts.

[bemidjiking]

@insightllc prove it!!

[insightllc]

@bemidjiking You got it... you ready? World Shaking Earthquakes used to be assigned a consecutive "Shide No." by, a Tesla peer and inventor of the seismograph, John "Earthquake" Milne from the worlds top earthquake detecting facility on The Isle of Wight until Nikola Tesla nailed Earthquake Shide No. 333 on September 3, 1899 at 3:03:27 pm epicenter time. A 27 day man-made event "WMD deployment" in Alaska that was deployed from Colorado Springs...

[insightllc]

@bemidjiking Remember the time this event started. 3:03:27 That is why Teslas died in Room #3327 because Earthquake Machine 2 was the Knob Hill Apparatus in Colorado Springs which caused the 27 day long 1899 Alaskan Earthquakes commencing on September 3, 1899 at 3h03m27s or 3:03:27 pm epicenter time. That was a year divisible by 3 times 3, a month divisible by 3 times 3, a day divisible by 3, in an hour divisible by 3, a minute divisible by 3, a second divisible by 3 times 3 times 3

[insightllc]

@bemidjiking ...and for Christ's sake it was Earthquake Milne Shide No. 333...

[insightllc]

@bemidjiking You see how they wont post that last comment. I tried three times. -Tesla made earthquakes. Did you get it anyway?

[schoschie]

@dangreen777 depends on what the effect is. Current across the heart or nervous system can kill because it confuses their normal operation, and that current can be small. High power through the body can kill because of the large amount of heat dissipated. For high power, you must have large voltage and/or large current, as electrical power is the product of voltage and current.

[keindesign]

@dangreen777 And Ohm's law will tell you that due to your body's resistance, you'll need a certain voltage to get that 6ma.

Both matter.

[Daco65]

@keindesign agreed, but you can get very high voltage with low amps. so i would say amps is a bit more important then voltage. also, iirc (but i could be wrong on this one) the skin resistance is already applied when you talk about the 6ma == death

[nameloc1000]

@dangreen777 no volts means no push for the amps!

[MrJhonnyRed]

@dangreen777 i think u need to look better at electrical safety ;-) ever heard of SELV and FELV circuits? they're so called because of the voltage..the human body has a value of 700 ohm (more or less) so the current is function of the voltage applied..the father of a friend touched a line at 3 kV, he's not dead, but now he's got just 2 finger left on his right foot where the current went to the ground ;-) this shit doesn't happen with house voltage ;-) so voltage MEANS

[sidewaysfcs0718]

@dangreen777 yep

thats why lightning doesnt always kill ...sure its gon millions of volts but little amperate

its like pooring an ocean of water on you ..it wont kill you , but if u poor it throo a very narrow hose at large speed it will drill a hole :D

[flanksteak2]

@dangreen777 Sure Dan, so 6ma across the heart at 12 volts will kill you? I don't think so because resistance across the heart is too great to be overcome by 12 volts.

[WRCMeister]

@flanksteak2 6ma across the heart, which is 6ma AT the heart, resistance to reach the body is not counted, just the actual power to reach the heart. and yes, you'd need quite a bit. please stand by and short your laptop battery.

[daaero]

@dangreen777

at what voltage? 0.1 volts would do nothing at 6ma. 10kv will.

[didaloca]

@daaero

Actually, if that went across the heart, it could kill you. 10kv at 0.000000001a across the heart will do nothing.

[LennertTr]

@dangreen777 Actually 6mA only gives a small shock, at 50ma your heart might stop beating IF the electricity is going through your heart. at 70ma you are probarly dead.

[rada660]

@LennertTr your are close but its 80ma that is needed ;D

[JavaBlues]

@dangreen777

To create 6 mA, you need voltage. What kills you is the electons slowing down as they travel across your heart, and in doing so transfer energy to your heart. What gives them the speed to begin with? Voltage.

The reason you die when you jump from a building is the energy transferred to your body as it slows to zero mph when it hits the ground. What gives your body the speed? The potential energy you give it when you climb to the top. Same thing as voltage. Height = Voltage

[Trym1994]

@JavaBlues You can have a 1000 Volts going trough you're body without danger.

amps on the other hand... You'll look like a black wiener...

[Imisstheoilers]

@Trym1994 Voltage does not go through anything. It is a measurement of potential difference. In other words voltage causes current.

[rada660]

@JavaBlues you actually know... that the electricity speed, is actually the ampere? as the definition of ampere, is coulomb per second? volt mean the potential of energy difference

[rada660]

@rada660 forgot to say, : volt meant the potential of energy difference from 1 ampere that can pass through 1 ohm

[Executus300]

@dangreen777 Amperage means nothing without Voltage. Vice Versa.

[rada660]

@Executus300 yea, because they are bound, but volt, only hurt you, and only burn you mostly, and cannot kill you "technically" as if you get shocked by high voltage, its not the electricity that gonna kill you, its the fire that gonna create on you :P that what he meant

[rada660]

@dangreen777 6 milliamps, can do dmg, but not enough to kill you "effectively", its need 80ma to kill you at 100% , tho i dont said you cant die from 6ma, but there is less chance of death from 6ma

[snateraar]

@dangreen777 Actually it's both volts and amps.

[c3h89]

If one coil produced negative ions and the other positive the desired effect of both tesla coils striking him would be achieved. It is clear he desired this because he stood between the two generators waiting. What a moron

[hubismaximus]

I wouldn't personally want that much current running across my chest...

[c3h89]

It definatly takes a special kind of crazy, (insain, never bearing death, unsatisfied pyro, professional welder)