Scary 1920's high voltage thing (LOUD ELECTRICAL NOISES)

well this isn't scary at all it's a 1920s piece of electromedical apparatus that uh claims to generate artificial Sea Air OZO in other words all the advantages of the Sea Air may be obtained in the home in the officer in the sick room by the production of pure ozone from the Ultrazone portable Model A Illustrated price nine pounds nine Shillings that's about 500 pounds in relative terms to the current era ultrasound is recommended for all chest and lung complaints bronchitis asthma Etc it kills the germs purifies and revitalizes the air in the sick room a safe home remedy and it shows Mama there stuffing our hands into the electrical lamp holder while the children watch an anticipation a weep baby down there may expert later on there's lots of places be baby can stick its fingers and get electric shock off this the standard ozone core Haymarket London 1920s 500 pounds ER Loris Studios I wonder if they did the brochure anyway you open it up I'm gonna have to fill it back for this because it is a quite a big unit it hinges open to reveal a port in the middle and these big gold stickers that say ultrasound and uh standard ozone cool Haymarket and then all the patent numbers of their special secret thing if you open up further by removing the screws it reveals some new wires that I've stuck in for test purposes because this thing is designed to operate a couple of voltages let me assure you the side of it a lot to move about here there's the input socket well plug on this side and there is the polarity selection I thought this Twisted originally but and you take this screw out and then you turn it round and then you put it back in it's plugable links 200 volt ish and 100 volt ish AC or DC I think it certainly Works in AC I've tested it on the other side we have a knob a turning knob with bare live bits down here and a switch that breaks the circuit in a very odd way and we've got these lovely ornate feet and the underside of it it's kind of doesn't look so pretty but uh it's clear that they've all been handmade and this one has been stamped the serial number uh is that 86 or 98 there's text here I'm not sure what that says is the person who made it have they signed it oh let me try and decipher that uh later on that is quite odd anyway let's take a look at the inside because that's the bit we're interested in and because this is not easy to illuminate with the bench lighting because it's quite deep I shall add extra elimination in the start of this light now notice these very modern capacitors the original Green capacitor here is printed both stamped in the side uh one MF 1000 volts ac I think that's one microfarad um it was showing 220 Nano far not producing great results that may actually be known to dirty electrodes but I've replaced the two one mega fire capacitors in series to give 470 microfire this discharge resistor across them and Equalization resistors now there is a coil in here this is the main uh interrupter coil and there is down here you may be able to see a little metal strip down there that is the interrupter strip and it's a contact on it a bit like a electric vibrator so to speak doesn't sound right but you know it was from the same era let's face it when you turn the knob on the side you may see things rotating down there you can adjust this battery percent first to touch that vibrating contact and the idea is that when this coil is energized it pulls in that coil that contact and breaks a circuit and then releases it and then energizes again that basically vibrates making a loud buzzing noise as you'll notice in a moment because I'm going to Power It Up that then pulses well I'll show you the full schematic afterwards there are actually there's two windings in this there's the uh main winding and a tap midpoint tap this one the air means you can use it a lower voltage but what happens is that every time the contacts open it puts this capacitor in series with that uh high voltage call down there and it's got a small number of turns on the outside here and then High Voltage in the middle of this dessert very much handmade this is the interesting because it's very high voltage and then when the contact closed again it doesn't just energize this but it shunts that circuit that had been charged up and produced a high current pulse through the uh primary of that Transformer that then creates a high voltage between an outer metal mesh a kind of glass material a cylinder and then the inner metal mesh which is connected with these initially just keep it all away and avoid it Sparky across but it does still spark across let me bring in I wonder if Babe to see the The Violet and the sort of glow of this I'm not really sure let's bring in the electrical tester I had fears that the high voltage spikiness may upset this little Chinese tester but it didn't so this is good so I'm going to buff that wire in there stuff that wire in there power up but not turn it on straight away and I've got power on and we can see the power it uses so at the moment it's displaying about 245 volts let's get this wiring away from the high voltage zappy Sparky bits and I shall set the knob to about there and then turn it on this is going to make a lot of noise oh just one in advance it's going to make a lot of noise it's not too bad five Watts no if I wish this isn't submitting here off are we going to be able to see no we're not we're not going to see that oh that's a Shameless it was worth trying I thought you might see the purple blue but it is very faint uh the light's about to come back watch your eyes [Applause] and I can smell it it's stinking of ozone I'm gonna turn this little bit of it so it starts arcing sparking across okay right I'm turning off oh it's absolutely honking of ozone it works right I shall uh disconnect these right time for that schematic app has that been really loud I hope not there is not much I can do about that it's a vintage piece of ancient electrical equipment I'll put that down there and bring in that schematic and I shall Focus down onto that and then I shall lock that and zoom in so we can take a closer look at the circuitry it's very simple as stuff like this tended to be because well they it was the early days of electricity they were still experimenting the claim it can be powered from your your battery Bank your accumulator or by plugging into your main socket I'm not sure if it would have been AC or DC in the sockets at that time I think Edison and uh Westinghouse at Tesla were still having uh having their fight AC versus DC uh Edison lost uh Tesla one yeah go Tesla live comes in AC or DC apparently and it can switch between these two connections there's no one off switch over there it's over here and it's a bit strange how they've implemented that it's a very strange thing indeed so the live can switch with the link system a nice solid link between the 100 volt Supply or your 200 volt Supply if you put it to 100 volts it's 171 ohm impedance on that coil but there's another Section 341 ohm that gives a total when set to the 200 volt setting of 512 ohms which is quite High um I did measure the power factor it's 0.28 one great perfect what'd you expect I'd be more worried about all the radio hams shaking their fists in the air and shouting about the electrical noise I just generated so this is a vibrating contact down here and this moves backwards and forwards as indicated by these arrows against that adjustable contact the switch isn't series of that contact which is very strange because it means you turn it off it still can pass AC current through the uh capacitor and the high voltage transform a bit strange that I thought they would have put the switch maybe here or there but they didn't it was the early days of electricity they did what they could the person that built it was probably a man with a beard or mustache that's just that era quite like that to be honest so here's what happens when you turn it on this contact is initially closed and current flows through this big coil through the power switch through the contact and it basically builds up a magnetic field in this iron core and the iron core is just literally a bunch of uh iron wire just clamped together as a big core with the wanings around it when it the magnetic field reaches a decent level this contact pulls in and when it does so it breaks the contact here and at that point the coil is de-energized but not before current flowing through has charged this capacitor via the very low impedance primary of that high voltage Transformer when the current has uh dropped by the magnetic field and this course dropped to a low enough level the contact closes again and it does two things it energizes this circuit again and starts building a magnetic field up but also when it closes it shunts this capacitor down to the other side of that coil creating a short circuit and pulses all the energy stored in this capacitor through this uh primary winding which is a very low impedance uh this was just I'll put in one MF one mover because that's what it was marked one KV when it uh does dump that it generates a high voltage on the high number turns in the secretary side probably has multiple layers that is a impedance are resistance of 135 ohms measured with the meter and that then applies across the dielectric separator ozone generator which basically is the two metal meshes with the layer of what appears to be glass in between and because the spark can't jump great straight across it passively couples and there I think there is a bit of uh resonance when this shunts out and you've got this uh capacitor being slammed along with this uh coil here I think it does actually oscillate not sure um but that does result in uh famed Sparks as the energy tries to find its way across and it could passively couples and you get that sort of purple Corona discharge and the process to that is that the uh the oxygen is O2 is formed of two mono two atoms of oxygen and it can split that apart they can recombine as three atoms of oxygen and that's ozone it's unstable it will revert back to oxygen or whatever or neutralize things by oxidizing them that's what creates the destabilizing effect they were wrong though about the seaside it turns out that the smell of the seaside was not overzone even though it's very similar to Ozone it turns out it was some sort of a biomass in the sea that just creates this smell it's probably basically Plankton fart probably but that is it it's quite a neat unit it's very attractive the advertising is even of that era with the mama stuffing her hand into the lamp holder there where the small children waiting anticipation have been cured of their diseases with electricity just connect it to your electric light or Wireless accumulator but that is it the reason they were connecting to light is that's how they connected things back then there were no real sockets they just plugged everything into the lamp holder that's the era of the electricity but that is it the standard ozone Ultrazone vintage 100 year old medical unit

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Keywords: ultrozone, standard, ozone, generator, vintage, antique, massey, massay, english, high, voltage, violet, ray, wand, interrupter, coil, 1920, 1920s

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Length: 12min 47sec (767 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 21 2023