Valentine's Ladder and Fire Demo: Slightly-Mad Science

Demonstration Material is Dangerously-Stupid, do not try this yourself.
Valentine's Jacob's Ladder with a better camera, and some fire fun!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Valentine's
• jacob's
• ladder
• electricity
• fire
• flames
• science
• demonstration
• physical

[Harold1305]

can you touch it with your fingers?

[TaoOfPooh26]

Can? Yes. Should? NO.

[jandreassticman]

ho ok, i am using 2 MOTs in serie now that way the load is spread between them and i still get my 2kv. what can i do with the microwave oven diode and capasitor? maybe a voltige dubbler?

[TaoOfPooh26]

Depending on the type, yeah. There are some really good designs online for using a series of diodes and capacitors to create a pretty smokin' voltage multiplier.

[jandreassticman]

i read about putting a kettel or toaster element in serie with the primary winding can ths work?

[TaoOfPooh26]

The heat element (whether toaster or whatever) will basically do the same thing as the light bulb. Act as a resistor. I like the lightbulb since it's not likely to set fire to anything I don't mean to set fire to.

[blacklotus808]

"ITS ALIVE....ITS ALIVE"

[Bridport6705]

Must remember to MOT my car!

[The4LA2Baker0]

looks like a fire hazard

[DrEMplushrest]

It's very romantic.

[social3ngin33rin]

AWESOME MOD!!!!

[jeffsadowski]

Nice mod to the Jackob's ladder Its interesting that you can adjust it to have one side climb more often than the other by having a slightly shorter distance thus less air to heat up making it faster.

[frightmare666]

wow,this is something out of the frankinstein videos Lol,but rly helpfull and insightfull as well as interesting feedback to ppl who are interested in this stuff,great vid,i loved it =)

[blacklotus808]

HA HA HA

just like a old school sci-fi movie !!!