Making a Jacob's Ladder to Celebrate a Million Subs!

hi trying to focus yeah one million subscribers well this calls for two things first i like to make a celebration candle which i'll make out of a jacob's ladder and second i'm gonna give away four of these logs about mini 3d printers to you my viewers and patrons at the end of the video thank you for helping me get there now let's make a ladder according to historians jacob used this special ladder to ascend to heavens well naturally of course if you are too unfortunate to touch this ladder you'll die because it's made of very high power high voltage low frequency across two metal rods but unlike the legend it doesn't guarantee you will go to heaven unless you have led an honest life have been good to your neighbors fine i don't know why they call it a jacob's ladder and i don't care we need high voltage and i can create it with my microwave oven transformer it creates over 2000 volts now we need to shape two wires and connect them to the transformer hey i just came back from future to warn you one last time you are banned to do this high voltage experiment at home it is more dangerous than having an agitated cobra around your neck at least the venom takes a while to kill you but this doesn't in a jacob's ladder we have two wires like this connected to high voltage the arc is created from the shortest gap and rises all the way up the reason is that the arc is hot so the hot air pushes the arc up i connected my wires to the transformer so we can see the arc oh i think the gap between the wires is a little bit too wide for the two kilovolt to jump across i almost killed myself but i was saved with sheer luck see my right hand touch the wire first which shocked me back to my senses if both my hands touch the wires at the same time now you would be watching a few hours of my corpse cooking to perfection i'm pretty sure that doesn't meet youtube guidelines either maybe i could have posted a live leak so never get too comfortable around high voltage and always wear protective gear see even though only one hand was touching the wire and fortunately i wasn't touching earth or any other conductive surfaces it still zapped me always remember any conductor like your body has parasitic capacitances to the environment so if the voltage is high enough there will be high enough currents to zap you let me show you see this probe is not connected anywhere but when i bring it close to this wire it'll arc you hear it maybe if i make the room dark you can't even see the arcs you see them the probe is still not connected anywhere if it was the arcs would be huge for around two kilovolts i need around one millimeter for the arctic anyways for around two kilovolts i need around one millimeter of air gap for the arc to jump let's try it my puny wires melted i need thicker wires like this so they won't melt let's give it a try come on the breaker popped damn it i just want to celebrate apparently the one millimeter air gap is too short for the arc to rise i need to widen the gap but then that means that i have to have much higher voltage which i could make using a simple circuit like this to increase the output voltage peak to double the problem is that the capacitorized scavenge from my microwave oven is broken and all i have are these hundred picofarad high voltage capacitors which limit the output power a lot let me show you here i have a single capacitor series with my power supply and you can see that around one millimeter the arcs start jumping now all i did is that i added the diode i talked about earlier and we can see that the arcs can jump from a much further distance this is too weak for jacob's ladder though because as soon as i open the gap it stops going we need more power to be able to stretch the arcs see [Music] for a wider arc we need more power to create and maintain a longer ionized air channel so i guess i can keep the gap wide and then stretch an arc across it manually like this so emmanuel jacobs letter i think it still needs more pizzazz what if i put a capacitor between the rods so that when the arcs reach them the capacitor blows up for some firework effects here's the capacitor ready [Music] the capacitor legs melted but the capacitor didn't blow up is anything gonna work today so much power melted the legs but the capacitor is not even bulged let me check something that's why it seems like the high voltage that shorted the capacitor internally before it even had a chance to heat up and blow up worst celebration candle ever hey what if i put some matches between them so at least they set on fire i'm holding a match there let's give it a try [Music] fire fire creates plasma let me introduce you to fire [Music] we don't need high voltage after all [Music] breaker and what if i add some sparklers to it it's getting there [Music] oh my god [Music] let's make it fancier i designed a stand for my fancy jacob's ladder and i'll print it so i'll be giving away this lulzbot mini 3d printer it's a pretty solid printer i've had it for over a year now and printed a few things with it very useful tool to have it is a two piece part which i'll glue together like this and i'll drill the burrs out of the holes and so we have a shrine i leave a link to the 3d model in my website in case you need it for spiritual reasons of course you didn't think i was going to use these tiny sparklers eh say hello to my 28 inch sparkler put them in let's add a bunch of more tiny sparklers to it let's start the mayhem the hell the hell why bad things happen to good people go [Music] thanks to my flimsy wire connections to the transformer that fell off quickly i only sustained some third degree burns my stupid long sparklers made my structure top heavy which of all people fell right on top of me i leave a bunch of safety tips on my website but such experiments are not worth dying for so don't do it let's just celebrate like normal people with oversized sparklers [Music] [Music] yay [Music] [Laughter] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] come on [Music] oh [Music] hey i survived a million subscribers and hopefully i will survive another million too and to show my appreciation to everyone who made this happen i thought giving away a few 3d printers is in order glossbot makes some top of the line printers i've had this largebot mini for a while now and i'm pretty happy with it and i thought you deserve the same so i give two of these to my patrons at patreon.com who are automatically in the draw and the other two go to the viewers so like last time if you have a need for a 3d printer leave a comment so i know you need it something like loves my butt loves butt i don't know be creative bring smile to my face and thank you again

Channel: ElectroBOOM

Views: 17,168,690

Keywords: educational, electrical, electroboom, electronics, engineering, entertainment, equipment, mehdi, mehdi sadaghdar, arc, mishap, physics, sadaghdar, science, test, tools, circuit, funny, learn, shock, spark, protection, short circuit, microwave, oven, transformer, high voltage, high power, 3D printer, lulzbot, lulzbot mini, Jacob, jacob’s ladder amplifier, multiplier, AC and DC

Id: lT3vGaOLWqE

Length: 10min 28sec (628 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 28 2017