Re: 4hvers on YouTube
vasil, Fri Feb 02 2007, 03:07PM

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=teslina

I would like a work room as Hazmat's...

I built 2 new TCs, but didnt bother to make pics anymore (no more space on net and the lazyness....)

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Tesladownunder, Fri Feb 02 2007, 03:15PM

I've not got into videos much but here is mine on Youtube



Peter

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. Drone, Fri Feb 02 2007, 03:52PM

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
uzzors2k, Fri Feb 02 2007, 04:08PM

FastMHz got his own blog post.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Madgyver, Fri Feb 02 2007, 06:25PM

Some of you might have already seen this:

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
stop4stuff, Fri Feb 02 2007, 07:16PM

i got a few on youtube ;)

nearly all are xbox PGR2

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Alex, Fri Feb 02 2007, 09:22PM


Hah.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Tom540, Fri Feb 02 2007, 09:45PM

I got one older video of my first sstc on there as well. Heres the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKsEv7NNC3M

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Conundrum, Sat Feb 03 2007, 12:19AM



:)

-A

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Hazmatt_(The Underdog), Sat Feb 03 2007, 01:22AM

Heh...yea...*blushes* That's me.

I hope to post up a Jachob's Ladder with my PT sometime too.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. Dark Current, Sat Feb 03 2007, 10:54PM

here is a flyback JL for you:

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Hazmatt_(The Underdog), Sun Feb 04 2007, 01:42AM

hey, that's a pretty darn good JL there. You should make it a tall demo one.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Steve Conner, Sun Feb 11 2007, 10:33PM

I just tried posting a movie of my own on YouTube:

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Bjørn, Mon Feb 12 2007, 02:24AM

It would take days to untangle any unlucky burglars from that kitchen. I found it most entertaining.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Nik, Mon Feb 12 2007, 10:29PM

I have a few vidoes on youtube.
Smoke rings
And my tesla (before it had to move out doors.)

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Marko, Mon Feb 12 2007, 10:36PM

I just tried posting a movie of my own on YouTube:

I now feel a bit easier for my room now. What camera did you use for it?

Smoke rings

Interesting, rings seem to become almost stationary (but wobbly) when hit by another ring.. nice launcher nik..

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Mike, Thu Feb 15 2007, 10:52PM

Well heres my profile

Ive got me playing the piano part of Chuck Berrys Johnny B. Goode


My MOT arcs :P

Plastic Plate capacitor


Plastic plate capacitor "blowing up" steel wool. haha

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Nik, Fri Feb 16 2007, 12:33AM

This isn't one of mine but it is the most stable single streamer I have ever seen from a tesla coil.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
..., Fri Feb 16 2007, 04:07AM

Some vttc's have a patently silent/static streamer that just sorta shoots out of the topload. I don't have any videos handy, but it quite impressive to see a 10" slightly curved spike of plasma that is completely static.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. Drone, Fri Feb 16 2007, 06:02PM

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Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Duncan, Sat Feb 17 2007, 02:26AM

Hah, Hazmatt, how come your coil keeps stopping every few seconds before coming on again?

Here's mine btw: http://youtube.com/watch?v=wcg6AcKIN8c

Duncan.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Hazmatt_(The Underdog), Sat Feb 17 2007, 04:59AM

That's just me at the switch is all.

This was a video of various tests. I'm looking for certian things while trying not to 'stress' components too much.
One example of this was that the doorknob bank kept flashing over so I was trying to minimize that by turning off every so often. If I just kept running the bank would probably flash over a lot more. I had to replace the first bank plates because they got burned a bit from flashes. So its several things, but mostly just to keep it from eating itself.

Matt

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
JimG, Tue Feb 20 2007, 04:31AM

Short videos showing short bursts of my tiny tesla coil from the project boards.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Andrew L., Wed Feb 21 2007, 02:05PM

Hello

This si my profile:
O yes and I subscribed to all of you who posted links to your profiles and videos.

Andrew

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Conundrum, Thu Feb 22 2007, 12:07AM



:)

-A

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Self Defenestrate, Thu Feb 22 2007, 01:57AM



Me skateboarding in sacramento...

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. Dark Current, Thu Feb 22 2007, 08:14PM

Just a small question, how do you make the high quality videos that load fast? When I set the video bitrate too high, the quality is ok, but the vid is loading most of the time.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
..., Thu Feb 22 2007, 08:40PM

get a faster modem?

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. Dark Current, Thu Feb 22 2007, 09:35PM

lol, i meant there are some videos that are crappy quality and buffer often, then there are high-quality videos that do not buffer at all, I was just wondering how to make such videos

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Steve Conner, Thu Feb 22 2007, 10:52PM

I think the quality and speed of a YouTube video depends on its popularity, because of some kind of bandwidth capping they use. If hardly anyone is watching a vid, it plays quickly with hardly any buffering. So if you want a high-quality vid that plays smoothly, make a boring vid and don't promote it. JM2C though.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Mike, Thu Feb 22 2007, 10:57PM

I have found that if there is one thing Microsoft made right, it was the WMV codec. Compresses very fast and gets very small, perfect for online videos. I use some generic video converter called Blaze Media Pro and have it set to NTSC 384kbps or if you want better quality use NTSC 768kbps. A 3:50 minute video compressed to about 5-6mb at a pretty good quality.
So I now announce my new video, it will go on youtube.com soon but for now its on google video.


Enjoy

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Duncan, Thu Feb 22 2007, 11:07PM

That's a fantastic video Mike! Have you got a schematic for that coil I could have a look at?

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Mike, Fri Feb 23 2007, 04:23AM

yeh sure do
and
Build the disrupter and hook the output of the ucc to pin 2 of the fod2200 and the ground of that circuit to the pin3 of the fod2200.
Do NOT use same power supply for the Fod2200 chip and the ucc/transistor. I used a 9v battery to power those. The fod2200 can be run off the same supply you run the ucc's off of (5v though, so throw in a regulator)
Steve W helped me understand how it worked, its basically the audio goes into the disrupter which converts the audio to a squarewave somewhat, then that goes to the Fod2200 chip which is an optoisolater and then you hook the output of the fod2200 up to the enable pins of the ucc's. If you dont get arcage at first, use a scope and check places around, you will have to vary settigns quite a bit to find the waveform , since its kinda odd. Also, tweak that pot alot, sometimes if its set to far off there will be no arcs.
Make sure on the disrupter.jpg that instead of hooking the outp 18ohm resistor and ground to an led, hook it to the pins 2 and 3 of the fod2200.
Thanks to Joe(epilektrik) and Sam (smlizz) for the circuit. It is really nice


[/Thread Jacking]

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
WaveRider, Fri Feb 23 2007, 08:46PM

After seeing some of the great videos posted by others, I am almost ashamed to draw attention to myself...but ego always wins in the end

Here's my audio modulated HF tesla coil prototype.


When I find the time, I would like to make a more aesthetically (visually) pleasing version.

Heres a short vid of me firing my 2-stage coilgun.. Weeeeeee!


Cheers!

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Tom540, Tue Feb 27 2007, 06:15PM

I just added another video of my 13" SSTC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T1H9vVHsgg

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Myke, Wed Feb 28 2007, 04:36AM

Here are two vids of my ZVS flyback running at 12 and 24V.


For some reason the sound is lagging behind the visual.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
CT2, Wed Feb 28 2007, 06:32AM

SSTC
Mini SSTC
An animation made in grade 10 media class.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
J. Aaron Holmes, Fri Mar 02 2007, 03:09AM

Finally got around to signing up on YouTube, and I just uploaded a video of my old 3.5" coil running during a gap test. It ran pretty well, considering it was made mostly from junk. It has since been disassembled. About the only part of it I was proud of was the topload sphere made from two 14" Ikea mixing bowls that I actually bothered to weld together (no feeble aluminum tape for me!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAuxXUkUGpk

In the video, you can hear the breakrate go up and see the streamers start to jump around more as the power goes up. At a full 1kW input, the streamer would exceed four feet in length, which was more than twice the length of the secondary winding. I had to run with a breakout point on top or the secondary would flash over from top to bottom. The primary was a helical wound on a plastic bucket sitting directly on the floor of my garage, and the primary was perched on a ceramic flower pot inside the bucket

Regards,
Aaron, N7OE

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
GreySoul, Sat Mar 03 2007, 12:17AM



I also havwe my MMC and sparkgap posted....

-Doug

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Alex, Sat Mar 03 2007, 02:11AM

Trippy, and kinda gross. What track is playing in that?

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Bjørn, Sat Mar 03 2007, 02:33AM

Google says Hooverphonic - 2wicky.

The ferrofluid was disgustingly excellent.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
GreySoul, Sat Mar 03 2007, 06:46AM

Thanks guys. Yeah Youtube screwed up my captions. that was about half the track of 2Wicky. If you like chill/downbeat hooverphonic is a nice choice for when you want something a little more up, but not quite house / acid jazz style

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. Drone, Tue Mar 06 2007, 03:05AM

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Myke, Tue Mar 06 2007, 04:57AM

Nice vids . I like it when the VTTC is pulsing really slow.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Tesladownunder, Sat Mar 17 2007, 12:08AM

It took 3 days shooting but finally finished. Budget was $300 for the cars (included pizza).

Tesladownunder Car Thief Protection

Peter

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Marko, Sat Mar 17 2007, 12:14AM


Haha, got to love TDU. Priceless...

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
..., Sat Mar 17 2007, 05:01AM

wow, I like the sweeping the theif away part :p

although it looks just sortakinda 'shopped with the spark rotating arround, not sure why.

methinks you need to upgrade the coil up to a bigass DRSSTC pumping 10' arks strait off the car muhahahah

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Tesladownunder, Sat Mar 17 2007, 06:19AM

Playback speed was increased to 300% for the action scenes both to give a Charlie Chaplin silent slapstick movie feel and to speed up the rather dull sparks in that light. I did try to interpolate 100 frames (manually!) to give the effect of a uniform field but it wasn't convincing.
Actual rotation speed is about 10 seconds per revolution which is easy for thieves to avoid I guess.
I did night time shots with great looking sparks but there was severe motion blur with the reduced frame rate and you couldn't see the bad guy. The brightest sparks are to the dummy thief who had a grounded wire in his torso.
Smoke was from a smoke generator controlled by Chris in the car and timed to smoke at the time of th sparks.
I wet the ground to intensify the sparks.

Peter

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Avalanche, Sat Mar 17 2007, 08:37AM

that was brilliant

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Alex, Sat Mar 17 2007, 02:44PM

Haha, the smoke was a nice touch.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
gentoo_daemon, Mon Apr 09 2007, 03:57AM

Here are my ignition coils on you tube.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Ken M., Mon Apr 09 2007, 04:59AM

HAHA Those are awsome, CH_R, the Sirius 1 what channel where you playing?

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Sam, Tue Apr 10 2007, 12:25AM

WOW!!! Looking around at some of the HV MOT stuff... scary. A guy running a mot, holding the HV wire (looked quite small) and arcingto the core. then the MOT let out the magic smoke.... he dropped the wire and almost hit the camera man...

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Coronafix, Tue Apr 10 2007, 01:20AM

Is that one of the links in this thread or just off youtube in general?
By the way, heard this morning that Youtube has been banned in Thailand for having
some content that was offensive to the king!

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Michael W., Tue Apr 10 2007, 04:19AM

I remember that one, It was made by one of our members along time ago. Not a glory moment.....I looked for it but can't find it although I did find there, and I'm sure they're worse.

Flip Flops....oh god.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. Drone, Tue Apr 10 2007, 04:40AM

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Ken M., Tue Apr 10 2007, 06:03AM

Apparently so! The last time I used a MOT was on a jacobs ladder it was unballasted, took a screwdrive of teh ends to start the arc, pretty mean stuff, ended up melting a CD in 1/2 on the last try.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
HV Enthusiast, Sat Apr 28 2007, 08:15PM

I've just added a bunch of plasmasonic audo modulation videos in the past few days.

http://youtube.com/profile?user=eastvoltresearch

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Ken M., Sat Apr 28 2007, 10:09PM

EVR the video with the loop as the discharge point is nice the way the arc builds up and slides along the edge and what not adds a certain something to the video.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
CT2, Tue May 01 2007, 02:02AM

A mini SSTC I was just playing around with, and a big lightbulb. It made some weird cool pale flame inside the glass. I guess it has to do with the type of gas in there or something because I haven't seen a lightbulb glow this way (looks alot cooler in person).

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TmFZ5UZFUk0

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Andrew L., Tue May 01 2007, 07:55AM


loool
Me and my friend did that some time ago.
And the MOT's weren't even connected to mains.
We used the arc welder as a power supply.
I know it looks stupid and dangerous, but I knew what I was doing. And the part where one MOT smokes, that happend because the wires that we used for the primary started overheating due to the high currents.

[EDIT]: It was fun reading all the stupid comments people posted.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Tesladownunder, Sat May 05 2007, 08:18AM

Steve's musical Tesla coil has 112,000 hits now on Youtube.
I am trying hard to catch him with my smoke ring generator at 101,000 hits.
My Car Thief protection is languishing at 40,000.
Sometimes my videos don't do much. This is the Easter Bunny one at only 300 hits. I guess I should bring it out before Easter next time ....
TDU

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. Drone, Sat May 12 2007, 04:22PM

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
epilectrik, Sun Jun 10 2007, 12:26AM

Hi Steve,

I've never posted on this forum before, but I've been a member for a while and I do have some videos on youtube.











There are a few more too if you look under The Geek Group's youtube account.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
c4r0, Thu Jul 19 2007, 12:01PM

Hi,
I have registered yesterday. This is my account:

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Myke, Thu Jul 19 2007, 02:47PM

Here is my account

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
kv, Thu Jul 19 2007, 10:00PM

here are my 2 vids on youtube it's my flyback.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ctTIsnZkNEk

and another with the internal cap hooked up
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1F8zc6jBJuo&mode=related&search=

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. Dark Current, Fri Jul 20 2007, 10:53AM

heh, I was bored

those are arcs drawn from mains voltage (230vac) with simple current-limiting circuit.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Capper, Fri Jul 27 2007, 12:14PM

Here's a few of my MIDI coils:

Version 1
Version 3 MIDI Controlled
Version 3 MIDI - Notre Dame Fight Song
Version 3 Analog Controlled

Scott

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Steve Ward, Fri Jul 27 2007, 03:45PM

Ahoy Scott! Good to see you here.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Capper, Fri Jul 27 2007, 05:04PM


Applied several times - never got a response???

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
kv, Fri Jul 27 2007, 10:19PM

thise isn't high voltage related, but it's pretty cool anyway http://youtube.com/watch?v=IxUa7HoW-1w

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Bennem, Sat Jul 28 2007, 08:30PM

Here's a video of one of my small DRSSTC's taken at this years
Derby Teslathon.......it has a 2.5 x 8 inch secondary
In this video its operating at approx 200v,
had problems with my solid state variac not
going up to full 240volt mains,......ground rod is
about 23 inches away.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Swany, Fri Aug 03 2007, 07:01PM

Here is mine:

Just some explosives stuff. I have many many more vids, but those are the first two that were in formats to be uploaded.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Avalanche, Wed Aug 08 2007, 02:25PM

Here's a rocket video from the weekend, a bunch of us went away on a summer camp and one of the lads built a rocket from a load of pringles tubes and a large BP rocket motor. I want to have a go at making them myself now!

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Capper, Thu Aug 09 2007, 02:12PM

I put up a few new vids last night. This one of the Fusor:

Fusor Video

and this one of my Twins before I sold them to The Geek Group:

Twins Video

Scott

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Daniel Uhrenholt, Wed Aug 22 2007, 12:19PM

Here is my account:

Cheers, Daniel

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Hazmatt_(The Underdog), Wed Aug 22 2007, 09:41PM

You sold your Twins to the Geek Group... HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH. I knew those guys were incapable of building them. HAHAHHAHAHAH.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Zonalklism, Thu Aug 23 2007, 03:20AM

Well, I just recently got a youtube account, however I don't have any HV related vids on there. I have my account mostly for machinima. And yes, I know I only have one vid. More will be coming soon. Even so that one video is perdy cool, imo. LINK (to my profile)

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Reaching, Thu Aug 23 2007, 10:21AM

mh, heres my smallest drsstc throwing out 45cm sparks (thats 3 times the secondary lenght) to a spraypaint can.
After this vid the secondary was toast! (Look at the brightly shining dot at the secondary) Winding shootthrough damaged the thin 0,1mm wire

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. Drone, Wed Dec 19 2007, 05:40PM

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Steve Conner, Wed Dec 19 2007, 06:03PM

WTF, can that reanimate dead tissue?!

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Nik, Wed Dec 19 2007, 10:59PM

My NST and fridge compressor plasma


Cornstarch water and a speaker


Thats all my youtube-ing of late.


*edit*
as of this evening

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
c4r0, Wed Jan 30 2008, 12:09PM

Here's my new account

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Nik, Wed Jan 30 2008, 09:30PM

I have a new reason to love alcohols!

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Bauerb2, Wed Jan 30 2008, 10:58PM

here's mine.

coils, guitar, and madness

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
teslacoolguy, Thu Jan 31 2008, 02:47AM

i have a couple

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
CompWiz, Thu Jan 31 2008, 04:57AM

Here is mine:

I just uploaded a video of my Marx!

Next up: me killing a windows ME CD with a microwave AND the Marx!

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. Drone, Wed Feb 06 2008, 09:36PM

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Nik, Thu Feb 07 2008, 02:01AM

I love this noise.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Reaching, Thu Feb 07 2008, 06:44PM

and i love this noise



my musical drsstc plays the starwars theme

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. Dark Current, Thu Feb 07 2008, 09:16PM

I love the sound of sparking wood :P

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. Drone, Sat Mar 08 2008, 07:41PM

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Bennem, Thu Mar 13 2008, 06:40AM

Here's a couple of videos of my last DRSSTC
taken at a 2008 Nottingham Teslathon.



and this one was its last run, an arc blows half of my full H-bridge of IGBT's....



cheers,

Mel.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Reaching, Thu Mar 13 2008, 12:16PM

heres a youtube link showing me and my drsstc on a german tv show
i had to power down the coil cause the camrea equipment nearby picked up some noise. but it was a nice show

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Nik, Thu Mar 13 2008, 02:16PM

Wow, that was pretty cool, funny how TV cameras don't really pick up the arc as well. :S

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
LarsE, Mon Apr 14 2008, 02:55AM

My you-tube account, i have some video on my ETG, pulse-jet, teslacoils and some other stuff.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Arcstarter, Mon Apr 14 2008, 04:09AM

Mine is on my signature:

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Nik, Tue Apr 29 2008, 12:53AM

My home made spot welder. I cut and pounded the HV windings out of a shorted out MOT and rewound it with 1.5turns of #3 wire. That gives me 1.4v at ~1100amps (my clamp on meter doesn't go that high). I made a crude clamp just to try things out and it worked!

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
uzzors2k, Wed Apr 30 2008, 06:12PM

I've got a n00b-t00b channel too!

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
FastMHz, Fri May 02 2008, 03:46PM

All my productions are on YouTube:

YouTube

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Mads Barnkob, Sat May 03 2008, 09:58PM

Only got one HV movie on youtube atm, but also alot other interesting stuff on there :D

link is in signature

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
MRacerxdl, Mon May 05 2008, 10:45PM

Me:

:D

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Nik, Sat Jun 21 2008, 04:06PM

Not my video but I don't think there is any one here who wouldn't want to visit this place.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
KresoLiubov, Sat Jun 21 2008, 08:20PM

Nothing interseting but here is :

Nixie clock

Audio SSTC

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Patriot, Fri Jun 27 2008, 04:29PM

Not HV related but its the only video i have on youtube. His name is bob....

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. SSTC, Thu Jul 10 2008, 03:26AM

mine is on my signiture

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Experimentonomen, Thu Jul 10 2008, 09:58AM

This is mine:

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
GeordieBoy, Thu Jul 10 2008, 01:23PM

This video clip is mine:



It's from about 8 years ago - Not sure how it found it's way onto Youtube though.

For what it's worth it used low-side PWM of the gate-drive signals to modulate the RF power and the resonant frequency of the SSTC is around 350kHz.

Oh, and the tune is a remix of Rapture by Iio on Data Records, as that seems to be the most commonly asked question!

-Richie,

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. SSTC, Thu Jul 10 2008, 11:01PM


holy s*** 233,000 veiws didnt know that much people were even intrested in coils
so let me get this strait you recorded this video in 2000 and some how it found its way on to the internet

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Coronafix, Thu Jul 10 2008, 11:39PM


It's been on his site for a very long time.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. Drone, Tue Aug 05 2008, 12:36AM

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
quicksilver, Tue Aug 05 2008, 02:45PM

On another note: after having seen the level of professionalism at the Arizona group, it made me reflect on the level of LACK of professionalism on some simple arc-drawing a great many You-Tube flicks.

Some of the most dangerous "experiments" I have ever seen in my life have been posted on You-Tube. ARC DRAWING IS A LOT OF FUN CERTAINLY, BUT USING A MOT TO ACCOMPLISH THAT needs a basic safety level that appears missing in a great many flicks.
A quick search for a certain schematic with ballast showed a young man using short needle nose pliers to draw and arc, another clearly shows the string of wires so close to the exposed body of the participant that I was actually waiting for the the negligence to take it's toll, etc, etc

You-Tube attracts an enormous amount of interest to this hobby but the level of knowledge beyond what DOES draw an arc is often missing. If one were to view a series of videos with a horrendous lack of safety imbued in their execution, THAT number would be very sobering.

Other hobbies were pounded into obscurity due to accidents made public but with You-Tube it's a whole different ballgame. The viewer sees what interests him and believes that such a thing can be constituted with the same manner of casual usage seen in the 3 minute video. The number of MOT arc videos is very high. I have some real concern that will lead to MOTs being treated with a low level of care especially due to their simplicity, availability, low cost, and ease of use.

Is this just me or do others see some seriously sloppy usage of lethal level HV experiments?

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Steve Conner, Tue Aug 05 2008, 08:46PM

Yes. Insanity of all kinds abounds on NoobTube.

I've often wondered whether we are being irresponsible when we promote playing with MOTs. Personally, I choose not to play with them, but when it comes to other people, they can do whatever they like. If you want to try and teach the whole of Youtube about electrical safety, you're welcome to try, but there are so many idiots out there that it's hardly worth the effort. I wouldn't try and stop them any more than I'd try to stop that guy jumping 3 flights of stairs on a bike.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Coronafix, Tue Aug 05 2008, 11:34PM


That guy does not want children!!

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
flannelhead, Sat Aug 09 2008, 05:56PM

Wow, that drop was HUGE! The highest height I have dropped with my BMX is something like 70 cm.

I have my own channel too:

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. Drone, Mon Nov 17 2008, 04:35AM

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Backyard Skunkworks, Mon Nov 17 2008, 05:41AM

youtube.com/BackyardSkunkworks

Testing my carbine CG at low power
Generating a ton of small energetic sparks with a cap charger
Resonant arcs from a Wall wart
Higher power resonant wall wart arcs
Time lapse of taking apart a transformer core

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Nik, Mon Jun 22 2009, 01:49AM

Here is my latest youtube, water does some amazing thing in slow motion. The surface tension is wild!

Now with cliky goodness

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Killa-X, Tue Jun 23 2009, 03:43AM

I havn't had work for awhile done on it (working on disc launcher, or EML, and being busy with job and other stuff) But some of you may know I have a youtube...



I haven't uploaded a video from my last recording, But I'm moving my grounding rod, so I was using a peice of Music wire (4mm thick high-tension carbonized steel) And I took a picture out of the video, because for a few 3 seconds, I hard a single streamer :)

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Fabio, Tue Jun 23 2009, 04:32PM

my youtube channel:

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Chris Cristini, Tue Jun 23 2009, 07:21PM

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
TheBoozer, Tue Jun 23 2009, 10:32PM

I'll toss mine in here... Only HV and Coil videos...

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Hon1nbo, Mon Jul 27 2009, 12:58AM

my channel

my latest, and one of my favorite, videos

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Nik, Thu Dec 24 2009, 06:25AM

I got my hands on some lithium and filmed a sample burning at high speed under high magnification. You will never see anything like this anywhere else on youtube.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
aonomus, Thu Dec 24 2009, 08:51AM

That is an almost hypnotic video nik, well done.

I don't think I've posted mine here yet, so here:

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Experimentonomen, Thu Dec 24 2009, 10:40AM

That litium blob looks a bit creepy as it changes shape and color

Heres me on youtube:

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Nik, Wed Dec 30 2009, 09:07PM

Put my Van De Graff back together and it works great. The sparks are kind of painful and leave welts where ever you get hit.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Electroholic, Wed Dec 30 2009, 09:58PM

This is my robot for mechatronics course.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
mmt, Thu Dec 31 2009, 03:12PM

my channel

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Marko, Sat Sept 25 2010, 01:49AM

Hi guys - I don't know why haven't I posted about my youtube account so far - here it is
(P.S) fixed 2am's blunder

After all this time I still don't have a camera usable for filming, so I only periodically make something... I hope to fix that soon!

Marko

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Killa-X, Sat Sept 25 2010, 02:06AM


Ummm...Your link goes to YouTube's homepage :D

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
HazzWold 1993, Sat Sept 25 2010, 02:36AM

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. Drone, Sat Sept 25 2010, 06:07AM

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
dingo27, Mon Sept 27 2010, 09:24PM

mine

http://www.youtube.com/user/dingo27mobile

not much of electronic stuff though...

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
SpyrosF, Tue Sept 28 2010, 08:03AM

mine

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
dmg, Tue Sept 28 2010, 05:33PM

Here's my new one:

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Duality, Tue Sept 28 2010, 11:00PM

me: [me]

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Avi, Wed Sept 29 2010, 04:38PM

my channel

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Martin King, Mon Oct 11 2010, 09:31AM

I designed and built the flame projectors seen at about 2:50 on this video :-



My personal videos are here :-


Most of them are only uploaded for the benefit of friends/work so are pretty boring unless you know what they're for

Martin.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. Drone, Thu Oct 21 2010, 02:13AM

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. Drone, Thu Dec 23 2010, 12:28AM

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Martin King, Thu Feb 10 2011, 12:01AM

Chinese new year in Leicester square

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
radhoo, Sat Feb 19 2011, 09:46AM

My channel:

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Alex M, Thu Jul 14 2011, 12:54AM

My channel My YouTube

I have allot of flyback transformer videos.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Tesladownunder, Mon Jul 18 2011, 12:44AM

Australia's Got Talent YouTubes
The Dr Electric segment as it aired. 3 mins

The show from my hidden camera 2 mins

This is what really happened (with on-screen commenatary) runs for 8 mins and shows the stuff-ups that didn't get shown. Taken from my hidden camera.

Plus there are another 1/2 dozen of the show around.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. Drone, Mon Jul 18 2011, 01:52AM

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
magnet18, Mon Jul 18 2011, 12:55PM

Link to my channel is in the signature

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dr. Drone, Thu Jul 05 2012, 04:30PM

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dri0m, Thu Jul 05 2012, 07:23PM

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
TwirlyWhirly555, Thu Jul 05 2012, 07:48PM



This Is my channel :)

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Tetris, Fri Jul 06 2012, 12:06AM



My videos:
25% High Voltage
25% Weather
5% Cat videos
15% Random educational vids and school projects
10% Airplane videos
20% Uncategorizable

:P I upload videos at least once every 2 weeks. Sometimes once a week. Oh yeah, there are the occasional fireworks vids.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
currentkills91, Fri Jul 06 2012, 04:37AM

My YouTube

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
ShawnLG, Sun Jul 22 2012, 05:25AM

Mini TCs I have made years ago
Tesla coils

Two years ago, I got a longboard and have been doing it since!
Longboarding

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Sigurthr, Sun Jul 22 2012, 01:01PM

My YT Channel:

Mostly HV stuff now, some older Rad. tech stuff, and before that a lot of music from before my arthritis got bad.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Nik, Mon Sept 10 2012, 02:44AM

Standard practice seems to be to avoid wood as an insulator around here. I used a 15kv 30ma NST and a little bit of water to put this to the test.

On its own the wood did not arc over but with even a little moisture or the carbon from a pencil was enough to burn deep traces into the wood. The slow motion was filmed at 600fps.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Kizmo, Wed May 01 2013, 09:11PM



Youtube profile:

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
nixie, Fri May 10 2013, 01:41PM

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Nik, Sat May 11 2013, 03:21PM

A few months ago I found a new way to play with my van de graff, with enough voltage liquid wax will form points and stream off of a candle on the vdg sphere. Check it out here:

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
The Lightning Stalker, Thu Jun 06 2013, 04:39AM

My Channel has some general electronics videos and low voltage, high current stuff as well as pusic, plus other random stuff. There are some welding tutorials (low voltage high current)(I own a Miller XMT350 which btw has some sweeeet things inside). Check the likes section for lots of great YouTube Poop videos.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Chris Cristini, Mon Aug 19 2013, 04:31AM

here I am ASHPoD I believe me and you have had a few encounters Ha ha.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Intra, Wed Oct 08 2014, 09:29AM

And that is my channel. Please, welcome. =)

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Thomas W, Wed Oct 08 2014, 04:18PM



And hear is me!

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Dago, Wed Oct 08 2014, 04:32PM

Here is mine:

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Artlav, Wed Oct 08 2014, 05:30PM

Here is mine:
Electronics, physics experiments, time-lapse photography and game design, with an occasional bit of randomness.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Nucleophobe, Thu Oct 23 2014, 02:51AM

Here's mine:

Recent stuff is mostly fluid mechanics (CFD) and 3D animations. Hoping to add some videos of my old Tesla coil, Jacob's ladder, coilgun, etc. next time I make a trip home.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Fiddy, Tue Oct 28 2014, 03:48PM

Here's mine: Mostly HV/Stirling Engines/Nixie/Motorbikes & Electronics

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
GrantX, Mon Nov 03 2014, 08:42AM

Here I am:

I usually post short clips of things I'm playing around with, need to add a few new videos. Mostly HV/electrical related.

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Mads Barnkob, Fri May 20 2016, 01:27PM

In order to separate my personal(non electronics/science related) video uploads I made a new channel

Please subscribe to the new Youtube channel at: Kaizer Power Electronics on Youtube

The mandatory associated Google+ page: Kaizer Power Electronics on Google+

Facebook page, nothing new here, but like it if you want frequent updates: Kaizer Power Electronics on Facebook

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
RateReducer, Sun May 22 2016, 06:43AM

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Nik, Mon May 23 2016, 05:36AM

Saw your update Mads and I've subscribed.

I did a laymen's demo and explanation of piezoelectricity recently

/I know how you think it's pronounced, this is how I was taught

Re: 4hvers on YouTube
Patrick, Mon Jun 20 2016, 05:06PM

Here's my company youtube: GreenBOT Dynamics (greenbotdynamics.com)

Here's my personal / drone / HV youtube channel: Test Pilot Mafia