Electrician Reacts to ElectroBOOM MARX Generator

using my circuit that creates the gap in between where it goes to the other side of that wire like they could easily go to his body g'day legends welcome back to another electrician reacts and this is part 10 in the series and to celebrate i'm going to be going all the way back to where it began and well actually the second to where it began that's right the one the only the master of electronics on youtube and that is electro boom and in this video i'm going to be doing the marks generator because you guys think it's pretty cool so i have no idea what a marx generator is i assume it was named after someone called mark because they're always named after somebody but it should be pretty fun and you might just learn something i am learning so much also stick around to the end of the video because i'm going to be answering one of your comments so let's just get straight into it hi today i'm gonna attempt to make the largest arc of my life which could be pretty small compared to some arcs other people make but it will be the largest for me if i can actually make it and of course it goes without saying don't try this at home all i need is my super high voltage generator circuit that's affecting my lights combined to something called a marks generator mark's generator is made of multiple similar stages of high voltage capacitors resistors and spark gaps to make an already high voltage dc input into a super high voltage output and i'm thinking i could probably use my super high voltage capacitor i made a while back i made my capacitor using i've actually watched that uh capacitor that he did he made a laden jar was super super cool i highly recommend going back and checking it out when you get a chance i might just leave a card above but this is gonna be pretty cool i reckon two layers of aluminum foil separated by some plastic that should be able to handle tens of kilovolts and i should be able to charge it using my circuit that creates clearly i haven't learned my lesson and he's legitimately that had to have been a zap that he got it's that is absolutely hilarious if you've got any high voltage stuff uh please do not play with it particularly uh anything that is associated with a microwave unless you know what you are doing it is super dangerous damn it burn my skin handling is very dangerous and can easily kill you if you don't have a horse you up your butt that's why i can't sit comfortably don't hold high voltage output while holding the ground all your muscles will contract it feels like you're hit by a truck be disconnected from everywhere and if you have to touch the circuit with only one hand anyway let me see if i can use my rectified voltage to charge my huge capacitor should just take he managed to as you can see he's already compromised the side you can see he loves doing this stuff you know it kill my self-made capacitor see the insulation was damaged here and the high voltage jumped between the layers and melted the capacitor see now the capacitor can't handle the high voltage at all what is that this is interesting see the charges are flying over air due to corona discharge charging the capacitor enough for it to break down and repeat periodically look my capacitor broke so i ordered a bunch of 15 000 volts two nanofarad ceramic capacitors let me see if i can recreate my broken capacitor situation here you see i put a small gap between the legs of my capacitor and now i can charge it with the high voltage to create the same effect oh wow well this was the same thing just much faster wow i guess i can increase the gap between the legs so that the capacitor can charge to a higher voltage turn off the supply first i was going to say you can't actually see it but the capacitor is being charged uh it's it's just that it's so close together capacitors hold charge and can shock you badly make sure to discharge them before you touch them here's a wider gap this reminds me of when i was doing domestic electrical work when we went to go and install fans or work on fans they've got a capacitors inside the control and often you would take them off and get a zap out of them and they were pretty painful luckily they only went across your finger but it's uh pretty much the same as what he's doing here except there's probably a lot more voltage jumping anymore it seems like the voltage is now above the 15 000 volt rating of the capacitor and just jumps directly between the legs i might have to put two of them in series then anyway mark's generator uses the same concept quite a simple but smart voltage multiplier what marks generator also has are these spark gaps connected from the end of one capacitor to the input of the next and so on and these spark gaps are basically switches when the capacitors charge to a voltage level higher than the breakdown of the spark gap a low resistance arc jumps across the say first spark gap shorting these two points putting these two capacitors in series if i'm interested to know how on earth is he going to get the calculation for the air gap how does he know what type of gap that you need if you ignore the very large resistors the first arc jumping triggers all the other spark gaps and all the capacitors fall in series all of a sudden you have a huge sum of voltage that can arc across a much longer distance to ground when i saw this potential i said it's for me i want to know what type of application does something like this actually have is it practical or is this just to show that you can create massive amounts of voltage i'm not sure capacitor voltages drop and the spark gaps open circuit and the cycle continues anyway in addition to my high voltage capacitors i bought some high power large one mega ohm resistors not for their power just that the resistor legs have to be spaced far enough otherwise the high voltage will arc across the resistor which we don't want let's put them together here's my marks generator ready to run this is the output of the circuit and that's the ground and hopefully there will be huge arcs between them when i turn on my power supply nothing i can hear the high voltage maybe my gaps are too white yeah this is what i was saying how does he know because it's only going to charge to a certain voltage so he's going to have to sort of make sure that he tests the the gap in between i can raise the power supply to give it more voltage output what's going on did you see that the voltage was so high the arcs instead of jumping at the output they were jumping across the resistors maybe i have to make my gaps shorter so the voltage drops or maybe this gap shorter let's see oh you can see hey i have some at the output still jumped across the resistor i think i have to make my gap shorter i made my gap shorter now oh they're all going at once unreal there is no way i would be moving that with my hand that close the gap in between where it goes to the other side of that wire like they could easily go to his body that is unreal start jumping across the resistor that's large here's the room a bit darker [Applause] this is loud that's not bad sometimes it jumps across the resistor though higher voltage what happened starting to continuously arc yeah so it's taking the path at least resistance down on one of those uh spa gaps that is unreal they say there is another way to run the circuit see right now i'm running my supply voltage at a lower level so the circuit doesn't trigger automatically and then externally i can trigger the circuit say with my screwdriver i can short the first gap see and it jumps oh there you go which might be good because it takes a couple of seconds for all the capacitors to fully charge so this way i can give it time to charge and then trigger the circuit it's not bad just makes me a little bit sad that i can't supply a higher voltage to make an even larger arc because my resistors are not big enough and it will just arc across them but i have another trick i could cover the entire circuit with polyurethane for better installation this stuff i put on my tesla coil well here we are let's see if it's impressive not jumping do i have to trigger it myself maybe hey oh my god i need to adjust the gaps again i would say the polyurethane had a bad effect on it i wouldn't add it next time yes it is still pretty big it's beautiful maybe i'll remake it later to make the arcs even larger i mean is there ever an end to this adventure what's the point of this super high voltage generator what's wrong with you can't you see she's sexy well this can be used for lightning tests and some future video ideas subscribe not to miss them all right that was pretty bloody awesome and he pretty much answered my question at the end what the hell do you use these things for and the answer was like nothing all right i'm going to wrap this one up but not before i read out one of your comments that you've made on another one of my videos and this one is from philip h and that one's from the electrician reacts part three on electro boom he or she says my smoke detector at home is battery powered and makes a short screeching beep if the battery is dead i assume that most home smoke detectors are like this in the us well i can't really speak to this because i'm in australia but i do know that most smoke detectors in australia are actually mains powered so you have to have a mains powered and also the standards say that they must be interconnected if you've got multiple then most of the time they are plus they also have a battery backup as well so thank you very much phillip for putting in a comment if you want me to read out one of your comments just make a comment below and i'll see what i can do thanks very much for watching to the end of the video if you like this video you're probably gonna like this one also make sure you like and subscribe

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Length: 12min 52sec (772 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 30 2022