Making a High Voltage Fuse

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    By: Mehdi Sadaghdar
    0:00 Why fuses have voltage rating?
    3:20 The makings of a high voltage fuse
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  • @ElectroBOOM
    @ElectroBOOM  Před 4 měsíci +123

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    • @sauravnayak5927
      @sauravnayak5927 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Now if could please do how them resettable fuses work,I could google but I understand your explanation better lol

    • @markholub97
      @markholub97 Před 4 měsíci

      For future reference, you can buy argon in canisters as “wine preserver”. It comes in an aerosol can like whipped cream.

    • @sunnymoney6165
      @sunnymoney6165 Před 4 měsíci

      I hope he knows that he's basically doing are trying to build a light bulb 6:24

    • @mrclasher1068
      @mrclasher1068 Před 4 měsíci

      Make Farnsworth fusor 🗿

    • @batangfalconfiles1206
      @batangfalconfiles1206 Před 4 měsíci

      5:51 btw what a nice laugh

  • @SeriousApache
    @SeriousApache Před 4 měsíci +3715

    When i worked as electrician, we had fuses filled with sand, exactly for the purpose to avoid arcs.

    • @Sad_cat_studio
      @Sad_cat_studio Před 4 měsíci +329

      i think he is doing the fail on purpose, he is smarter than this.

    • @nobody7817
      @nobody7817 Před 4 měsíci +43

      I've never seen that--makes sense though. Must have been extremely high voltage fuses...

    • @dcallan812
      @dcallan812 Před 4 měsíci +124

      @@nobody7817 All fuses that are used in UK plug's must have sand in them to be legal.

    • @xxs1lentk1ller30
      @xxs1lentk1ller30 Před 4 měsíci +3

      No

    • @Kalvinjj
      @Kalvinjj Před 4 měsíci +59

      Yep, the ceramic fuses we see inside multimeters are a classic example.

  • @CrappyCanadianContent
    @CrappyCanadianContent Před 4 měsíci +1607

    Electroboom making a fuse seems oddly ironic

    • @foxplayz2030
      @foxplayz2030 Před 4 měsíci +10

      Giggity goo

    • @amanfrom2034
      @amanfrom2034 Před 4 měsíci +18

      The fuses were fused

    • @christianhumer3084
      @christianhumer3084 Před 4 měsíci +4

      Ionic

    • @CanadianBakin42O
      @CanadianBakin42O Před 4 měsíci +1

      How did you comment 11 hours ago my fellow Canadian?
      Edit: It's Patreon.

    • @sketckek
      @sketckek Před 4 měsíci

      How did you comment before the video even came out??!! It shows video uploaded 22 min ago and you commented 11 hr ago

  • @leventefoldi703
    @leventefoldi703 Před 3 měsíci +149

    9:05 best mouspad ever

    • @AQI11A
      @AQI11A Před měsícem +3

      That cracked me up, when I first noticed it. 😂

  • @jackboi_
    @jackboi_ Před 4 měsíci +140

    1:25 POV: you understand what you did wrong in your exam after getting it back (you still failed)

    • @3.11.7
      @3.11.7 Před 3 měsíci

      Subscribe my CZcams channel please

  • @SodaTheProto
    @SodaTheProto Před 4 měsíci +193

    1:04 "One of them has killed me once before"
    So he HAS died, gotta wonder how he keeps coming back to life

  • @mrmimeisfunny
    @mrmimeisfunny Před 4 měsíci +1046

    I think the reason the spring fuse worked well is because you don't need the wire to completely disconnect or melt for it to work. All you need is the wire to sublimate enough for the tension of the spring to be able to tear the wire apart. You won't get much arching because the wire goes in a split second from a short to a significant gap.
    I think the spring just retracted in the flash as opposed to completely disappearing. That's also probably why there's no residue where the spring used to be. Only where the wire used to be.

    • @zuthalsoraniz6764
      @zuthalsoraniz6764 Před 4 měsíci +35

      If you go through frame by frame, you can see the wire just glowing a dull red before the flash as (presumably) the heat just weakened it enough for the spring to pull it apart

    • @TimRrstrm
      @TimRrstrm Před 4 měsíci +10

      Could be that the fuse is also pressurised, given the arcing behaviour in the vacuum chamber. A small glass cylinder like that should be able to withstand several bars of overpressure.

    • @lazymass
      @lazymass Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@zuthalsoraniz6764 yes, exactly

    • @anthoh5963
      @anthoh5963 Před 4 měsíci +10

      Normaly the metal used for those whires creates the gas that's needed to stop the arc, combined with the tiny chamber it's enough to play his fuse role.
      For the fuses tjat are filled with sand it creates a different gas that has not worked has well as those, but because it was filled with a solid it was enough too. The only problem with the last ones was that it could get wet so they wasent that effiscient and precise has the first ones was.
      NB: my english can be aproximative, that's normal ^^'

    • @nikitaelizarov7444
      @nikitaelizarov7444 Před 4 měsíci +8

      I think Mehdi needs a high speed camera. Smarter every day has at least one. Mehdi, get a sponsorship from Phantom.

  • @ClearLampOil
    @ClearLampOil Před 4 měsíci +67

    Whats gonna get this guy first?
    A: Radiation poisoning
    B: Electricity
    C: PTSD

  • @CauseOfBSOD
    @CauseOfBSOD Před 4 měsíci +12

    6:22 sulfur hexafluoride is what is used in a lot of high-voltage electrical equipment as an arc suppressant. its also like the opposite of helium (if you breathe it in, it stays there and makes your voice a lot deeper, but don't try this since it stays there and can asphyxiate you if you are not careful). ive seen warnings about it on the doors of some rooms with electrical equipment around where i live.

  • @michaelmoorrees3585
    @michaelmoorrees3585 Před 4 měsíci +560

    In the power industry they use sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) gas in special arc quenching circuit breakers. Often there's a special mechanism, to open a gas valve as the breaker opens up, to basically blow the arc out. I remember seeing one in action, in "power lab", back in school, when getting my EE degree (1980s). Power lab was scary, as much of the gear was the size of van, with high power resistors that actually glowed under normal operation. Syncing up the large synchronous machine (could work as both generator or motor) just before connecting it to the 3 phase grid, was always a tad sphincter puckering !

    • @ZoonCrypticon
      @ZoonCrypticon Před 4 měsíci +4

      Very interesting !

    • @adrianfurgol
      @adrianfurgol Před 4 měsíci +15

      Are you sure you're not confusing things? As far as I know, there is arc extinction with compressed air, which blows air onto the contacts, blowing the arc away, therefore cooling it down and extinguishing it.
      SF6 Breakers by itself are different because of the good isolating properties of the gas, but these curcuit breakers are enclosed inside gas-tight housings which are filled with SF6 Gas. It's really fascinating to see the size difference between air-isolated and SF6-isolated switchgear. SF6 gear is wayyyy smaller.

    • @cheaterman49
      @cheaterman49 Před 4 měsíci +9

      So, deep voice gas stops electric fires? Very nice :-)

    • @timschulz9563
      @timschulz9563 Před 4 měsíci +6

      The industry is transitioning away from SF6 as there are probably environmental regulations on the horizon. Some companies now use a mixture of pure oxygen and nitrogen.

    • @shandrio
      @shandrio Před 4 měsíci +4

      "sphincter puckering"! LOL

  • @NullCyan
    @NullCyan Před 4 měsíci +55

    5:50 goofy ahh laugh

  • @tylerpontius7377
    @tylerpontius7377 Před 2 měsíci +15

    0:25 *sniffs for fire dammage*

  • @Gurgena_
    @Gurgena_ Před 4 měsíci +61

    Ive been your subscriber since 2018 and im proud to say you showed me what i liked, your videos connected me to electrical engineering which is now my profession. Im currently working at the Gas Compression Site as an Electrical Engineer. Thank you Mehdi! I was enjoying your videos so much and im still enjoying it! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. You are the reason of who i am right now!

    • @sclearDevelopment
      @sclearDevelopment Před 3 měsíci +1

      Please find a safer mentor. Not all of us are immune to electricity.

    • @SirMo
      @SirMo Před 3 měsíci +3

      @@sclearDevelopment The whole point of Mehdi's mishaps is for safety education. I mean if you don't get it, you probably have no business being in this profession anyway.

    • @sclearDevelopment
      @sclearDevelopment Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@SirMo I am just joking dude

  • @Maxylium
    @Maxylium Před 4 měsíci +57

    0:04 dude probably has more PTSD than a Vietnam war general

    • @lonely_7891
      @lonely_7891 Před 4 měsíci +3

      0:16

    • @TylerTMG
      @TylerTMG Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@lonely_7891hairdryer vid

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 Před měsícem +2

      I mean the generals specifically did not do much fighting.

  • @andrewparker318
    @andrewparker318 Před 4 měsíci +301

    This felt like a fun old fashioned Electroboom video! More of these please!

  • @greenad1993
    @greenad1993 Před 4 měsíci +99

    4:33 forbidden vape

    • @UriahTronics
      @UriahTronics Před 4 měsíci +5

      vapes should already be forbidden. But yeah, this is a lot worse than vapes already are.

    • @kavinraj9466
      @kavinraj9466 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Hahahaha l😂

  • @elektronikkondensator8835
    @elektronikkondensator8835 Před 3 měsíci +9

    This guy is the only person on the planet who can die more than one time...🤣🤣🤣

  • @jimsvideos7201
    @jimsvideos7201 Před 4 měsíci +298

    Gases for arc suppression: Aircraft piston engine magnetos were pressurized with air to a few tens of PSI for better performance at high altitude. Portable industrial x-ray tubes are pressurized with SF6 to around 50 PSI to suppress arcing from tens of kilovolts of potential.
    Happy holidays, Mehdi.

    • @drkastenbrot
      @drkastenbrot Před 4 měsíci +8

      regular fuses dont use any special gas and arent actually sealed. sf6 would improve performance (increasing the rating of a small fuse), but it is expensive and adds complexity of sealing the fuse. the lack of a seal also helps release pressure in a overcurrent event.

    • @mernokallat645
      @mernokallat645 Před 4 měsíci

      Use metric like the civilized world does. PSI is bullshit.

    • @mernokallat645
      @mernokallat645 Před 4 měsíci

      X-ray tubes are under a hard vacuum, not pressurized.

  • @tomozex
    @tomozex Před 4 měsíci +125

    Regarding gas inside the 5kV fuse, you could try and excite the gas inside this 5kV fuse with one of your coils and see if it is a noble gas by colour.

    • @coastersaga
      @coastersaga Před 4 měsíci

      I didn't think that a 5 kV fuse would blow at just 2 kV

    • @nebula8763
      @nebula8763 Před 4 měsíci +9

      @@coastersaga it blew because of the current. the voltage rating is just to stop arcing after it blows

    • @d4slaimless
      @d4slaimless Před 4 měsíci +4

      It might be SF6.

    • @mernokallat645
      @mernokallat645 Před 3 měsíci +4

      Noble gases are easily turned into plasma. You need a heavy molecule like SF6 for insulation.

    • @danek_hren
      @danek_hren Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@d4slaimless isn't SF⁶ solid? 🤨

  • @FBIAGENT95103
    @FBIAGENT95103 Před 20 dny +1

    1:21 the moment of silence when he sets his house on fire

  • @tlhIngan
    @tlhIngan Před 4 měsíci +6

    High voltage circuit breakers at substations often have the contacts in SF6 (sulfur hexafluoride) which quenches arcs. High voltage fuses usually use sand or likely similar gas to quench the arc. There are sophisticated gas monitoring systems to ensure warnings if the gas runs low as if it get critical, the breaker will open while there is still gas available to quench.

  • @lumpenstein
    @lumpenstein Před 4 měsíci +595

    Video Idea: Build a deadman foot switch that you have to keep pressed in order to get mains voltage whenever you are doing something with the MW transformer. In case of an accident like with the Jacobs ladder it could safe your life :)

    • @John-oo9bu
      @John-oo9bu Před 4 měsíci +38

      That's a great idea 👍
      The one hand rule is another lifesaver.

    • @TheArachnoBot
      @TheArachnoBot Před 4 měsíci +41

      ​@@John-oo9bu yup but that doesn't always work when having to react to something quickly ( like a Jacob's ladder falling on you :D )

    • @MichaelRBaron
      @MichaelRBaron Před 4 měsíci +15

      ​@@John-oo9buone hand is a good rule, but when dealing with over 600v it won't always save your bacon. Insulation has a breakdown point.

    • @John-oo9bu
      @John-oo9bu Před 4 měsíci +7

      @@MichaelRBaron Actually, the worst shock I've had was through insulation. My other hand was in my back pocket, not on the grounded work bench. I was only 14 and very lucky.

    • @truthsRsung
      @truthsRsung Před 4 měsíci +1

      That's probably Way Cheaper than getting Married and Having Children.
      In that home, there is always someone within arms reach of the Breaker Box, guaranteed.

  • @patrik2749
    @patrik2749 Před 4 měsíci +14

    4:24 bro just made a rocket
    Integza would be proud

  • @techyustad
    @techyustad Před 4 měsíci +12

    Bro used soap water for demonstration 03:43

  • @amikadm
    @amikadm Před 4 měsíci +25

    In France, we have sand in some fuses because when the wires melt, they're hot so the sand melt into glass and glass isolates the circuit. And if there is more arcs, then more heat is created so more sans is melted to glass that results in more insulation.

    • @ThePoxun
      @ThePoxun Před 4 měsíci +3

      The same in the UK. All British Standard compliant mains voltage cartridge fuses have sand. Sadly there days there are a lot of dodgy products coming from other countries that don;t have the sand and don't properly blow.

    • @marisakirisame867
      @marisakirisame867 Před 4 měsíci

      Yeah cuz they want to cut cost

    • @phobos1963
      @phobos1963 Před 2 měsíci

      Isnt anything more conductive than air ?

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 Před měsícem

      @@phobos1963 No tons of things are less conductive than air, mostly because fire is a thing that y'know can happen with air and fire is a plasma so it's extremely conductive.

  • @texasaggiegigsem
    @texasaggiegigsem Před 4 měsíci +191

    Some fuses use explosive charges to separate the conductors quickly. They're commonly used on pole transformer fuses...loud too.

    • @lztx
      @lztx Před 4 měsíci +19

      I had one of them blow on the pole opposite my house once. Certainly when they blow they BLOW!

    • @happygarage6310
      @happygarage6310 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Some cars have a small ignitor, like in an airbag, on the main battery cable. BMW does it often. If a crash is severe enough, the airbag module will open the main battery circuit.

    • @indianboy0453
      @indianboy0453 Před 4 měsíci +4

      Well that explains when the power company came out to diagnose our street power line (underground), the fuses would blow up sounding like fireworks. A bad pad mounted transformer was the cause, but the techs went through 3 fuses just trying everything before getting the new transformer. One of the transfer boxes was in my backyard. Was pretty cool to help the dude dig in the ground and help alleviate his work.

    • @oxichimaruxo1528
      @oxichimaruxo1528 Před 3 měsíci +1

      I'm a substation Electrician for the power company in PA. There is absolutely no explosives that I am aware of. You are hearing the arc as the fuse burns open and a spring pulls the bottom of the fuse wire out of the tube.

    • @cambridgemart2075
      @cambridgemart2075 Před 2 měsíci

      @@oxichimaruxo1528 Big Clive dismantled an explosive disconnecting fuse, so they do exist. He also set it off, nearly deafening himself.

  • @wtfpwnz0red
    @wtfpwnz0red Před 4 měsíci +3

    In the words of William Osman, "welcome to the world of high voltage, where everything is a wire and you're probably going to die."

  • @ludvigspiderman504
    @ludvigspiderman504 Před 22 dny +1

    5:50 that laugh was legendary😂

  • @PlasmaChannel
    @PlasmaChannel Před 4 měsíci +46

    How these high voltage fuses work, is remarkable. Mechanical combined with destructive. Nice video boomsie. So, you say you want a stronger transformer huh? 😉

  • @EnbyEnvy
    @EnbyEnvy Před 4 měsíci +17

    Wait, if he died from the Jacob's ladder video then who is this, unless.... Mecha-Mehdi!?! He must feed off of all the shocks!

    • @masteradvance
      @masteradvance Před 4 měsíci +5

      Probably one of the other Mehdis took over.... maybe that was his plan all along.....

    • @Chef_PC
      @Chef_PC Před 4 měsíci +1

      Clone.

    • @personzorz
      @personzorz Před 4 měsíci +7

      He died and was immediately frankensteined back to life by the electricity

    • @309electronics5
      @309electronics5 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Its mehdi-clone-007

    • @LerRhann
      @LerRhann Před 4 měsíci

      The eyebrow grows extra hair and he respawns stronger.

  • @Catplayingtrumpet
    @Catplayingtrumpet Před 2 měsíci +5

    electro boom is what youtube thinks will happen if you dont say "dont try this at home."

  • @TehKillerB
    @TehKillerB Před 4 měsíci +2

    I just realized why I love ElectroBOOM so much. It is the perfect intersection of two loves: the 90's sitcom Home Improvement, and engineering.
    Medhi is just a much smarter, Iranian-Canadian Tim Allen. "More power!"

  • @silverfox1754
    @silverfox1754 Před 4 měsíci +66

    Medhi using his transformer as his mousepad is just genius😂

  • @Thesignalpath
    @Thesignalpath Před 4 měsíci +5

    Surprised that sand-filled fuses did not make an appearance.

  • @fatitankeris6327
    @fatitankeris6327 Před měsícem +1

    Every time he trains against an electricity based enemy.

  • @rickyricardo4331
    @rickyricardo4331 Před 3 měsíci +2

    "And one of these has killed me once before..." I absolutely and TOTALLY believe that. 😆😂😆

  • @John-oo9bu
    @John-oo9bu Před 4 měsíci +26

    Sulfur hexafluoride is good for quenching arcs. And it would be hilarious to hear Mehdi's voice after inhaling it 😂

    • @marco23p
      @marco23p Před 4 měsíci +5

      SF6 is also a reaaaaaalllyyyy bad greenhouse gas. Don't let it out into the atmosphere, seriously.

    • @marisakirisame867
      @marisakirisame867 Před 4 měsíci

      Yes but my SF6 gasss just escaped

    • @Similas
      @Similas Před 4 měsíci +1

      I wonder how SF6 could get into the atmosphere to cause green house effect being so heavy? I think it would rather sink into the ground… In fact it is used in high voltage installations as an arc quenching agent, especially in fuses

    • @awareqwx
      @awareqwx Před 4 měsíci +2

      ​@@SimilasGasses don't quite work the same way liquids do. Since the gas molecules are bouncing around more or less freely without any sort of intermolecular forces holding the particles together they can readily diffuse into each other and even really heavy gasses can go fairly high up into the atmosphere. This is a good thing for us, since otherwise the bottom few hundred feet of the atmosphere would be relatively pure argon with the oxygen floating on top of it and we would have nothing to breathe.

    • @gg-gn3re
      @gg-gn3re Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@awareqwx they do behave pretty similar to each other in fluid dynamics. Since gas molecular forces are so much weaker wind simply moves them around far greater

  • @SUPERXOX5545OFFICIAL
    @SUPERXOX5545OFFICIAL Před 4 měsíci +25

    3:48 mehdi trying to realize what just happened

  • @RODALCO2007
    @RODALCO2007 Před 4 měsíci

    Good demo, Most HV fuses in ring main units (RMU's) have fine sand in them. The fuse element(s) are wrapped around a ceramic former and an explosive discharge which operates a striker pin at the fuse cap and trips the tripping mechanism, after the fuse element has failed, so all three phases are de-energized when one fuse fails. DDO's drop out fuses, the fuse element is held under tension by a spring which aids the separation of the melted fuse element. Also the tube vents out and blows out the remains of the failed fuse when the very loud explosion occurs under fault conditions.

  • @Jonodrew1286
    @Jonodrew1286 Před 4 měsíci

    Also some glass fuses for purely hobby purposes can be repaired - using super fine wire - they are usually soldered to the end caps - they blow just as fast - the ceramic fuses are more robust and filled with silica like mentioned on this post before - using the wrong fuse is very interesting - and the reason for protective heat-Shrink or a plastic enclosure is probably protection against fragmentation of the case - I had a non - repaired standard fuse I used on a HV project that literally exploded into pieces…

  • @l.merbecks8144
    @l.merbecks8144 Před 4 měsíci +31

    9:10 nice mousepad…

  • @Pants4096
    @Pants4096 Před 4 měsíci +158

    Arc quenching is a fascinating topic. One of those british or australian electronics youtubers did a teardown of circuit breakers and showed some of the purely geometrical design elements used to encourage arcs to die quickly. Interesting stuff!

    • @mathias6369
      @mathias6369 Před 4 měsíci +5

      please link said video

    • @katrinabryce
      @katrinabryce Před 4 měsíci

      @@mathias6369 Australian, I'm guessing would be EEVBlog. British, there's a few different ones.

    • @ohanneskamerkoseyan3157
      @ohanneskamerkoseyan3157 Před 4 měsíci

      @@mathias6369 I think it was photonicinduction's video: czcams.com/video/WAhq_A4EbkE/video.html

    • @douggiles7647
      @douggiles7647 Před 4 měsíci +8

      I feel like you might be talking about Big Clive but I believe he's Scottish, I could be mistaken though.

    • @emmanuelr6698
      @emmanuelr6698 Před 4 měsíci +4

      Pretty sure it's Big Clive indeed

  • @SojournerDidimus
    @SojournerDidimus Před 4 měsíci +3

    4:50 nice neon bulb!

  • @masonfisher5643
    @masonfisher5643 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Thank u I learned alot from this always wonder why the fuse from my microwave had a spring to it and I dont know if it was just one of the microwaves but it had a separate fuse that ran from the transformer to the mains

  • @thygate
    @thygate Před 4 měsíci +16

    @5:00 ElectroBOOM reinvents the incandescent light-bulb ;)

  • @CollectiveSoftware
    @CollectiveSoftware Před 4 měsíci +7

    I love this rediscovery of fusing and arc arresting from first principles by just trying stuff and then fixing each problem as it happens

  • @javascratch
    @javascratch Před 4 měsíci +2

    These videos are great! Aside from learning about how circuits work, I also learn how dangerous they can be. This is very helpful for when I'm making my own circuits. Thanks!

  • @johnschmid7785
    @johnschmid7785 Před 3 měsíci +4

    4:23 - He didn't make a fuse, he made a light bulb! 🤣

    • @AarishRaja-kj8ic
      @AarishRaja-kj8ic Před 28 dny

      The fart rocket 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @VistaViews
    @VistaViews Před 4 měsíci +14

    7:27 this is why in higher amp glass tube fuses they would commonly use a crimped metal piece, or even an actual spring, so when it failed, spring tension would cause the pieces to move away from each other.

  • @mikethor009
    @mikethor009 Před 4 měsíci +51

    More exquisite ZAPs. Keep them coming!
    Wonder if Mehdi will ever build something like his van de graaf generator or his high voltage wand?

    • @Horrorgameralex_YT2423
      @Horrorgameralex_YT2423 Před 4 měsíci +1

      how to hell did you get 14 hours HOW if the video on 5m but how

    • @kaurpajula2731
      @kaurpajula2731 Před 4 měsíci +8

      ​@@Horrorgameralex_YT2423he's a premium member

    • @AliFareedMC
      @AliFareedMC Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@kaurpajula2731 *Patreon Subscriber you can get early access to his videos before he releass them publicly

  • @joshuameredith4602
    @joshuameredith4602 Před 2 měsíci +2

    This is the CZcamsr that does dangerous electrical experiments so we don’t have to

  • @chaunrith5357
    @chaunrith5357 Před měsícem +2

    Bro barley started the intro and burned himself 😂

  • @glitch4771
    @glitch4771 Před 4 měsíci +5

    4:22 best led I've ever seen

    • @309electronics5
      @309electronics5 Před 4 měsíci

      Even has fire coming out the end like a jet engine. Multipurpose device!

  • @Sembazuru
    @Sembazuru Před 4 měsíci +17

    Are you sure that the spring vaporized? It may have retracted fully inside the end-cap. I would expect the spring to have a higher current capacity than the fusible element. Also, many high amperage industrial fuses pack sand around the fusible element for arc quenching. I'm not sure if that would also work for high voltage. Sounds like another experiment. (Though the sand will block the view of the camera so it might not be as visually interesting.)

    • @bosstowndynamics5488
      @bosstowndynamics5488 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Bigclive did a video tearing apart some high voltage fuses including some that used sand, didn't blow them iirc but interesting to see the construction regardless

    • @Sembazuru
      @Sembazuru Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@bosstowndynamics5488 I resisted saying "high voltage" when talking about these fuses. There are many flavors of high voltage. The fuses that I'm familiar with are several hundred volts. Definitely "high voltage" compared to Arduinos. (Or normal US residential wall voltage...) But not the "high voltage" in the kV range that Medhi is playing with. I don't recall what flavor of "high voltage" BigClive's fuses were. All I'm saying is be careful of your terminology...

  • @Wntrdtz
    @Wntrdtz Před 4 měsíci +7

    1:20 the "EUUGHH" Had me dying😂😂😂

  • @laughingman3777
    @laughingman3777 Před 4 měsíci +7

    I'm just here for the thick Persian accent

  • @DanBurgaud
    @DanBurgaud Před 4 měsíci +6

    So true about springs in HV fuses.
    Fuses used in the transmission lines *are* spring loaded, inside a cylinder filled with glass-sand, which melts during a short.

  • @h2official628
    @h2official628 Před 4 měsíci +8

    Fuses for 50-500vac, in France at least but I think it's the same all over Europe, contain sand, which helps dissipate the arc energy and then the glass created adds insulation to the fuse. On the other hand, you're right about one thing: manufacturers use argon gas, or others depending on the patents I imagine, to create their "cutting chamber" in high-voltage and high-current circuit-breakers, and probably in "big" fuses too. Great video as usual!

  • @stepanstepanov
    @stepanstepanov Před 4 měsíci +1

    This guy lives in Vancouver and I saw him once not far from my house, he was busy so I didn’t ask him to photo with him.
    Im from Russia and live in Canada, for me seeing the western youtuber is quite rare event, plus he is the only one who Id like to take photos with and respect for bringing knowledge and joy

  • @xxxquariangaming6579
    @xxxquariangaming6579 Před měsícem

    I completely forgot about these videos since 2020 and HES STILL ELECTROCUTING HIMSELF you sir deserve a subscribe!

  • @Kepler_2258
    @Kepler_2258 Před 4 měsíci +20

    Some fuses actually have gases inside them, I got a couple of those old screw type fuses that were blown and I wanted to test it if since they have that view port they would make a good mini arc bulb, and the arc actually jumped and gave off different colors depending on the fuse, one had a yellow arc in it, I think another had a purplish red, so that was interesting

    • @MrClean-ep7uc
      @MrClean-ep7uc Před 2 měsíci

      Could be argon

    • @Kepler_2258
      @Kepler_2258 Před 2 měsíci +3

      @@MrClean-ep7uc argon could Be a part of the mixture of gases in it, but it’s not pure argon if it has that in them, because argon glows a purplish color under high voltage/low pressure

  • @qxpxv
    @qxpxv Před 4 měsíci +16

    Could you make a video explaining in-depth what admittance, immittance, susceptance and impedance is?

  • @jeramiecooper1913
    @jeramiecooper1913 Před 4 měsíci

    Thank you for this. I've designed a few 15kV and 27kV fuses. If you can film at 20k fps the arc formation an extinguish looks cool.

  • @sandbox2094
    @sandbox2094 Před 3 měsíci +11

    This guy never disappoints.

  • @nusermane1076
    @nusermane1076 Před 4 měsíci +32

    3:53 that’s a premium eyebrow-tracking shot right there 😍

  • @imrane206
    @imrane206 Před 4 měsíci +10

    6:36 **Disappear**

  • @Luka-td4qr
    @Luka-td4qr Před 2 měsíci

    For my transformer (4,2kV capable of delivering 3,6A constant) i had homemade glass fuses, but was getting tired of them blowing often due to my experiments, so i made HV breakers. basically a spring loaded knife switch held in place by a piece of metal that gets pulled out of the way by an electromagnet. the trigger is a simple current transformer with some controls (on the primary to not have to work with HV current transformer stuff :) ) That is nice, since now i can just reset them with levers. I also made some risidual current transformers for the "human protection" on 4,2kV but that is a whole other story... By the way, i love your videos! Especially the ones featuring HV stuff

  • @Captain_439TheUseless-vb7oh
    @Captain_439TheUseless-vb7oh Před měsícem +3

    Chaotic Neutral Electrician

  • @astrogerard
    @astrogerard Před 4 měsíci +201

    And don't forget that AC and DC behave very different when using fuses and breakers. Breaking DC is a complete separate story.

    • @HerrJaeger64
      @HerrJaeger64 Před 4 měsíci +11

      How so?

    • @astrogerard
      @astrogerard Před 4 měsíci +93

      @@HerrJaeger64 Breaking a DC (Direct Current) is often considered more challenging than breaking an AC (Alternating Current) due to fundamental differences in the nature of these currents.
      Arc Formation: When a DC circuit is interrupted, it creates a sustained arc between the contacts due to the continuous flow of current. This arc can be very difficult to extinguish because the current remains at a constant level. This sustained arc can damage the switch contacts and other components involved in breaking the circuit.
      In AC circuits: AC naturally passes through zero volts 100 or 120 times per second (depending on the frequency - 50Hz or 60Hz). This zero crossing makes it easier to interrupt because the current naturally decreases to zero, allowing for the arc to extinguish more readily.

    • @deltab9768
      @deltab9768 Před 4 měsíci +18

      @@HerrJaeger64AC has a pulse of current in one direction, which then reduces to zero and then you get a pulse in the other direction. That change happens 100+ times per second for normal mains.
      Arcs often go out during that brief moment where the current falls to zero.
      Direct current leaves a relatively constant amount of voltage and current so the arc is less likely to go out.

    • @cisarvialpando7412
      @cisarvialpando7412 Před 4 měsíci +1

      #Electroboom please tell us if this is correct or not

    • @deltab9768
      @deltab9768 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@cisarvialpando7412 here’s my video of how DC arcs behave vs AC.
      czcams.com/video/4cvvdZGjPt4/video.htmlsi=_BtDuH94KEaNvQAz
      I’d love it if Electroboom did one too since he’d 100% do a better job explaining it.

  • @SirenRecordingsofIowa
    @SirenRecordingsofIowa Před 4 měsíci +19

    How do you manage to teach us things while being absolutely hilarious!? 😂

  • @feint2168
    @feint2168 Před 4 měsíci

    Never knew why fuses had voltage ratings thanks for the content

  • @sedrahnayal
    @sedrahnayal Před 29 dny +1

    When you see a cookie box you get excited and open it, but, you find needles, that happens in grandma's house. But if you see a cookie box, IN ELECTROBOOMS house, you'll find oven parts.
    BTW you're the best electroboom

  • @kibaskys
    @kibaskys Před 4 měsíci +3

    Beautiful explanation.
    Filming a fuse melting with a slow-motion camera would be even more exciting though. It can be shocking how slow-mo videos can reach arcross a wider audience :)

  • @BrAiNeeBug
    @BrAiNeeBug Před 4 měsíci +7

    Some high-current fuses are filled with Silicasand, the sand melts and blocks the flow.

  • @qetuow
    @qetuow Před 4 měsíci +1

    7:55 Cookie box filled with tools and components and stuff you might need one day. That was a staple of any good homestead back in the 80s. 😅

  • @tptcx
    @tptcx Před 4 měsíci +3

    7:13 like, i know mehdi isn't *that* careless to not disconnect the power from the transformer but i cant help but think back to the jacob's ladder incident

  • @rickyh2896
    @rickyh2896 Před 4 měsíci +3

    I'm sure you've seen the fuses they use on (at least in the US) power lines? They have gun powder in them and an expansion piston so as the fuse blows it ignites the gun powder pushing the contacts far apart to quench the arc! Seems right up your alley to build....

  • @renocence
    @renocence Před 4 měsíci +3

    Your warning that occurred around minute one; thank you. Your delivery and production of stuff is brilliant.

  • @LeglessTurtle
    @LeglessTurtle Před 4 měsíci

    I would love to see a video from you about vacuum tubes used in old radios and some instrument amplifiers. I have always wondered how/why those work.

    • @rocketman221projects
      @rocketman221projects Před 4 měsíci

      Mr. Carlson made a good video about how tubes work a few years ago. czcams.com/video/oHjZs0bNwEs/video.html

  • @SpencerHHO
    @SpencerHHO Před 2 dny

    The gas you're looking for is Sulfur hexaflouride. A hypervalent gas that is extremely resistant to ionisation. It's used in high voltage circuit breakers, contractors and switches. It readily dissolves in nonpolar liquids like those used in highvoltage transformers at substations and the like. It allows for much shorter distances between contacts without arcing.
    Basically it's a stable fluorine compound and it doesn't want to give up or accept any electrons to anything so it takes extremely high voltages to initiate and sustain an arc through it.

  • @luismarcilio
    @luismarcilio Před 4 měsíci +9

    8:42 - Where are the Slomo Guys????

  • @EvanPrentice
    @EvanPrentice Před 4 měsíci

    Please do something on the drop fuses used in high voltage. They're pretty interesting, and it's really hard to find anything that properly explains their function.

  • @pacman10182
    @pacman10182 Před 4 měsíci

    always good to see Mehdi upload
    just so we know he's not dead

  • @Maverick00799
    @Maverick00799 Před 4 měsíci +30

    Normal People: I’ll put my cookies in the oven
    7:46 Mehdi: I put my oven parts in my cookie box
    Absolute sigma🔥🗿

  • @309electronics5
    @309electronics5 Před 4 měsíci +15

    Yay! New video! You are always explaining so well while combining some humor and smart staged tricks for entertainment! Oh do i wish schools would make their lessons this exciting but they wont

    • @309electronics5
      @309electronics5 Před 4 měsíci

      ​@DontReadMyProfileverPicture.273 sigh..... Another npc comment

  • @FBIAGENT95103
    @FBIAGENT95103 Před 20 dny

    3:37 the moment he nearly sets his house on fire and attempts to extinguish the fire using soapy water on live wires

  • @SDT-im2ztbggg
    @SDT-im2ztbggg Před 2 měsíci

    I absolutely love how Mehdi uses the MOT as a mouse pad. Just brilliant. Protect this man at all costs :)

  • @effeffe9
    @effeffe9 Před 4 měsíci +5

    The reason why the arc was bigger in partial vacuum is because air conductivity has a maximum at about 10mbar, to then drop below conductivity at standard pressure. In detector applications, we usually wait to pump out until 0.1-1mbar before biasing detectors because of this

    • @robertbackhaus8911
      @robertbackhaus8911 Před 4 měsíci

      Interestingly, this is something that RocketLab discovered a few months ago. At least, discovered how it applied to their electrically-powered rockets in some obscure circumstances. When the second stage started up, a large arc happened somewhere in the system, shutting it down. Maybe a switch enclosure that normally just happened to contain air developed a leak this time, and bled down to a low enough pressure for an arc to form. Their fix was to add a small nitrogen bottle to the second stage, and keep the electrical systems at a known pressure. Their return to flight earlier this week went off flawlessly.

    • @michaelsheen7404
      @michaelsheen7404 Před 4 měsíci

      This is also why airplane electronics have very different isolation requirement than electonics on the ground.

  • @nick8231
    @nick8231 Před 4 měsíci +3

    On your power lines the fuse cut out works on the same principle there's always tension on the fuse link

  • @smoothbrain92
    @smoothbrain92 Před 4 měsíci

    EB: "Alright, we all know what a fuse is"
    Me, nerviously: "Haha. y-yeahhhh!"

  • @NuclearFisher
    @NuclearFisher Před 4 měsíci

    After two previous videos I've been waiting for the high voltage fuse. And finally it's here! Just use a spring to break an arc!

  • @brianwhitelaw3298
    @brianwhitelaw3298 Před 4 měsíci +5

    @4:29 should have been the thumbnail. 🤣

  • @liamleclaire
    @liamleclaire Před 4 měsíci +6

    I'm always so happy when he uploads.

  • @samirg569
    @samirg569 Před 2 měsíci

    "Which Killed Me Before"
    bro has more than 9 lifes

  • @kostazivkovic6615
    @kostazivkovic6615 Před 2 měsíci +1

    3:51 my man is staring in to my soul

  • @Dukefazon
    @Dukefazon Před 4 měsíci +9

    I have 1 issue with your springy design. If the load is not too big to break the wire, normal conducting is heating it up and it becames more soft and the rubber can pull it apart easier. Over time it will weaken your material. But that's just my theory, I'm a programmer and data engineer, not an electrical engineer or physicist.
    Hmm, it seems you were onto something with your design since the original fuse is something similar too.
    9:05 - I like your mouse pad :D

    • @LaserFur
      @LaserFur Před 4 měsíci +5

      Thermal fatigue is a issue in fuses. That is why you don't run the circuit at the rated amperage of the fuse. There is also a equation to tell how long the fuse will last at a given current, but the time goes up fast as the current comes down from the rated amperage.

    • @j.f.christ8421
      @j.f.christ8421 Před 4 měsíci

      @@LaserFur Yeah, fuses don't work the way people think. Decent fuses (& circuit breakers) come with a datasheet that tells you when it'll blow bases on load, time & ambient temperatures.
      There was a video put up recently about how those cheap packs of cars fuses are really really bad.

    • @UriahTronics
      @UriahTronics Před 4 měsíci

      It was just a prototype, real fuses use springs instead of elastic.

  • @ryujinkondoragon
    @ryujinkondoragon Před 4 měsíci +11

    I like your SUPERHIGHVOLTAJE Mouse pad.

  • @Arjun-jc8ji
    @Arjun-jc8ji Před 4 měsíci +3

    8:58 if you use nitrogen to fill the fuse tube it will work because nitrogen act as noble gas under normal atmospheric condition, that's why nitrogen is used in the filament bulbs because it will prevent the oxidation

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 Před měsícem

      It's more accurate to say that dinitrogen is an inert gas, spliting it requires the Haber-Bosch process which is basically only done in huge industrial plants.

  • @iplay664
    @iplay664 Před měsícem

    0:03 "I think I'm getting PTSD" Yeah, makes sense

  • @hariranormal5584
    @hariranormal5584 Před 4 měsíci +4

    High voltage glass fuses used in appliances like microwaves, also known as HV (high voltage) or MOV (Metal Oxide Varistor) fuses, typically contain an inert gas such as nitrogen or argon. These gases are chosen for their chemical stability and ability to prevent arcing inside the fuse during operation.

    • @SkippiiKai
      @SkippiiKai Před 4 měsíci

      I use argon in my welder because it conducts and sustains arcs so well... You might want to double check that.

    • @jatoxo
      @jatoxo Před 3 měsíci

      @@SkippiiKai You use argon in your welder not because it sustains arcs, but because it displaces the air which will contaminate the weld otherwise