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hi today I'm going to Texas to find two
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of my favorite YouTubers gav and Dan and
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get them to do some testing for me in
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fact I brought so many tools and
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equipment on my carry-on luggage I was
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sure they would stop me I mean look at
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this but apparently it was
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fine I've heard these guys are somewhere
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around here let's see
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well there they are hi
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guys it's
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him come on where they oh my go damn it
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where did they
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go oh there you
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end so I took my one Tesla Tesla coil
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and my homemade Marx generator to the
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slow-mo guys to film them at millions of
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frames per second to see what happens to
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the arcs and analyze them well analyzing
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the arcs has to wait so many things went
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wrong with my experiments I thought we
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could never capture what we wanted one
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time I wanted to do a proper
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collaboration and no anyway this video
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is is just a compilation of my
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embarrassments and I'll make another one
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later analyzing the arcs behaviors but
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you can watch the arcs in slowmo now if
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you go watch the slowmo guys video well
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first off I placed my Marx generator in
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my backpack hoping that it wouldn't get
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damaged but under pressure it was all
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mangled and I had to bend everything
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back into shape so we started testing it
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to make sure it works okay let me see if
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I can turn it on first
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[Laughter]
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fortunately it was nothing I'm just
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happy I finally found the source of drct
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Zoidberg sound
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effect the hell happened there that blue
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there
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yeah hope hopefully the mark generator
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will be able to
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run oh oh okay yeah yeah and that's it
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did one though I wanted to do more oh
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there you go okay okay go
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go come on does that encourage
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Electronics when you do this oh okay let
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me
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turn if you might touch ground then
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don't hold the output of a high voltage
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source turn it off first and yeah don't
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hold the high voltage to start with okay
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don't shock me I like the thing that you
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have to touch is what yeah there's no
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way to not do that come on loud that
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oops oh no no did I break that that
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sounds that seems like it's uh that's
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the end of that yes oh no damn it I blew
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my power supp that's power supply never
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blew on me what's even going on oh man
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ah that usually works especially when
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it's been on fire like that okay let's
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go shopping oh my
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goodness wa did try to fix the supply
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but there is a blown capacitor there
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there we go that black capacitor
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supposed to be like the blue one but
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it's black now it still on which the the
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thing is it still on oh yeah oh my
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God slamming it also didn't work
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slamming it didn't work I mean I I think
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it's almost predictable that this would
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happen you know well I didn't predict
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that no my power supply never burned so
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that was first no more testing until the
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cameras are on yeah we have to make sure
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we have the slow-mo first before
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anything else blows up I was going to
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bring the battery but I was pretty sure
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that it wouldn't let me in the airplane
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with the battery pushing it you're
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supposed to take batteries on on planes
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with you right rather than put them in
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the check baggage Yeah by a car
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battery there quite a lot of battery one
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that that car just coming out just yeah
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y yeah wo God this one right yeah oh
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oh my God maybe you should drive
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next okay where's the car we now all
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right so we have a battery now yeah we
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got a
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battery do the package of the battery it
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was saying 119 amps so that might be a
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problem if something shorts too many
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that's that's too many amps hopefully
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nothing blows up and we can get the arcs
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first for the slow-mo and then yeah and
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then we can blow everything up yes
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I don't think we need to it they'll just
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blow up on their own the circuits I made
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are not made to last all right you just
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m build them for one video and then
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you're like and we're good well I mean
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it's always a bonus if I can use it for
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more videos yeah take a right here uh
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not here the next one this one here this
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one here oh this one oh no no no no no
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no no oh my God I was going to say if
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you didn't know this that bit is like a
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a ramp it's like a huge ramp
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you could have to the car if you'd go
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fast into it let's hope the car Barry
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Works hey you have a trampoline
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here so we decided to start with the
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Tesla coil that we knew would work okay
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we'll start at what 100,000 frames a
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second that's the starting point that's
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the starting point of this yeah uhhuh
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all right I mean I've touched it before
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it's not bad it's like somebody's
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slapping you on the back of the hand at
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1 Herz don't try the 1 KZ it's like
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somebody's slapping you at 1,000 times a
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second I'm encouraging Dan to get
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shocked maybe I shouldn't encourage
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people to get
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shocked got you yeah got me it wasn't
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that bad that one it so small it was it
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wasn't very powerful that one I was
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hoping for more hurting but the arcs
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were too weak see the secondary of a
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Tesla coil has a resonance frequency due
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to its inductance and capacitance mainly
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from the top load to the ground but with
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the device sitting on a plastic table we
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didn't have a proper ground so we made
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one with that you're going to hurt me
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now it can hurt you better yeah okay
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let's see if that's
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different a little fur too can you go a
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little bit further away oh there you go
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the arc is bigger oh that's better ah
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it's more painful
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the further you are from a Tesla coil
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the more pain you get because the device
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gets the chance to charge to a higher
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voltage to jump over a longer distance
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to your hand unless you're so far it
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can't charge any further to jump that
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far so now what I want you to do is to
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have a screwdriver and point it to the
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arc okay just holding the plastic side
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of the screwdriver surely I won't feel
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it at all
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then ah oh you feel it ah it's scared me
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like a little
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bit and that's why you shouldn't rely on
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holding a plastic handle only to keep
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you safe if the voltage is high enough
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it will jump to the metal first and then
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to your hand either through air or just
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by breaking down the plastic now hold it
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like this but hold the metal tight so it
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jumps to the metal and goes to your hand
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directly right let's see how that
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feels I feel like I don't know what's
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going to be worse
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you feel it not at all huh nothing now
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although electricity runs straight from
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the metal into your hand instead of
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entering through a single point it
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spreads over a larger surface area and
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so you can barely feel it well of course
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these arcs are low energy electricity
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otherwise you would feel them no matter
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what I I never thought that starting at
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100,000 frames a second would be too
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wimpy of a speed yeah it's going to be
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unless we sit here and watch it frame by
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frame it's going to be so hard there's a
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big issue capturing f fast in frequent
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arcs like if you're capturing 100,000
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frames a second and you capture only 1
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second and the arc pops only for one
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frame how the hell are you supposed to
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find that one frame out of a 100,000 so
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we had to increase the frequency of the
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arcs it's not very bright let me
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increase the frequency so hopefully you
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can see
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something
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oh you won't feel frequencies above 30
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khz as electric shock and the resonance
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frequency of this Tesla coil is around
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250 khz but because we are pulsing these
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high frequency arcs at audible frequency
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it gives them low frequency components
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that can
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shock looks nice-ish but the arcs are so
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fast the 100,000 frame rate is clearly
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not enough so we went to 500,000 then 1
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million and then 1.75 million R per
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second good thing is with the Tesla coil
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running at 1 khz pulses we have a much
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greater chance of finding the arcs after
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we capture them we need to bump it up to
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a million or something yeah something
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just straight to a
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million million hey you guys have one of
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these there you go
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jump
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off I did it let me see if I can come
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around why am I going so
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fast you've switched to a drill bit yeah
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I've I've switched to this sort of long
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drill bit just because cuz my wasn't
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wasn't much room on the screwdriver it
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was jumping directly to my hand and try
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and avoid that by using this long drill
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bit
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sure a
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ah maybe I should have mentioned that
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the test could have been done by arcs
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jumping to a grounded metal instead of
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Dan I forgot well it was his fault too
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see when you feel something is stinging
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you you naturally loosen your grip and
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let go which is what Dan did but in this
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case you have to actually grip harder to
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increase the surface area and lower the
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resistance or just move away well there
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are low energy arcs and Dan is a trooper
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what we are doing is that I have what
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he's trying to say is let's move on to
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try the zvs circuit and the Marx
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generator for massive arcs if you want
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to know about these circuits you can
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watch my old videos but let's start from
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the zvs continuous
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arcs we got something yeah we did oh wow
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oh man oh that's burning there that's
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okay it always
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Burns oh it's fun fine it's smoking it's
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okay what can I say it's a transistor
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setup that arcs to itself and burns um
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okay do we want to move on to the yeah
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let's go the marxy marks oh that's
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that's that's not good that's not wa oh
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that's okay now I broke that now I'll go
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[Laughter]
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solder this time nothing's going to blow
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up oh it's doing it again
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too close too
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powerful like look wow I'm not a man of
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doing things properly so I couldn't tell
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let's let's just try quickly
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oh fully on
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fire
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so did something blow up something blew
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up on that oh no now my power
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transistors blew up such a
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hassle if my transistors are broken then
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I'll have to we replace them what did I
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say we' be done by
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today you jinxed it few on the spot
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repairs would you like a chair rather
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than kneeling on the floor yeah here you
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go
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yeah look at that I can do
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business now I can do
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business hopefully we get some arcs
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before it blows out it might be our last
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chance
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wi oh it's working um so it's off okay
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and on wow oh man okay should it go
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straight to
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1,75 You're So Keen like uh should we
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set this up
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right5 456,000
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now we are at 875,000
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oh I love your your laugh of Glee jingle
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bell jingle bell
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jingle we spent hours trying to find the
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one in a million frames
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shot we are still not fast enough you
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want to go to 1.75 again where are we at
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175 that's ni okay
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stop I mean I'll never find that will I
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on here
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no I mean
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oh I mean oh
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sugar okay sugar indeed it was such a
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mess of a test setup but hey we managed
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and now I have to sit down and review
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those arcs frame by frame for my next
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