slicing a steel barrel lid with the car batteries.
this video has been brutal to edit. there is sooo much footage and i shot it without any idea of how the video was going to go together. usu...
2023-09-06 03:48:21 +0000 UTC View Postit took me 3 attempts to pop a SCR with the car batteries. that was one surprisingly tough piece of silicon!
2023-09-04 15:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
My first in-person collab video with Allen Pan and the Backyard Scientist! They also make an appearance in my soon to be released video with my car battery bank!
2023-09-02 16:39:41 +0000 UTC View Postthis battery video has been a huge pain to edit since there is so much footage to deal with. that being said, it is turning out really cool! i'm going to start posting a few clips here as I finish ...
2023-09-01 16:30:54 +0000 UTC View Post
i've done a bunch of experiments with the battery bank the past week. the backyard scientist and allen pan stopped by and made an appearance in the vid too which was pretty fun. my biggest issues n...
2023-08-24 15:40:10 +0000 UTC View Post
This was probably my most dangerous storm chase 😅 I got rained out again on the battery project so I went ahead and threw this vid together of my tornado intercept from Sunday. Enjoy!
2023-08-09 16:54:32 +0000 UTC View Post
It took me an entire week to rewire the batteries for a series parallel connection of 60V. Why so long? I meticulously sanded and cleaned every single contact before joining, as well as added some ...
2023-08-08 18:16:40 +0000 UTC View Post
It seems I'm limited to about 15kA in an all parallel arrangement with my batteries, implying a total circuit resistance of a little under 0.001 ohm. This has been able to produce some pretty incre...
2023-07-28 18:33:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I just got home from open sauce and wanted to share a few pics with you! I had a bunch of fun meeting so many fans as well as other creators I've loved for years. I'm already looking forward to nex...
2023-07-22 02:54:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I estimate the short circuit current on my car battery bank to be 120,000 amps. How on earth do you switch that kind of current? I considered all sorts of options, from huge MOSFET banks to pneumat...
2023-06-14 20:54:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I wish I had more video updates to give you at this point but unfortunately, I've been having a terrible time receiving parts in a timely manner! It seems sellers are either clueless or never the o...
2023-06-04 17:51:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I wanted to let you all know that I will be at Open Sauce! https://opensauce.live/
A bunch of STEM YouTube creators are going t...
2023-05-24 19:45:11 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a while since I've given you guys updates so here's some news! In my next video, I'm going to connect 100 car batteries in parallel and do a bunch of experiments with huge currents. This ...
2023-05-11 19:12:49 +0000 UTC View Post
funny clip from when I was firing up the soviet death machine with a friend for the first time after my move. the relay that switches the soft start circuit was buzzing loudly, so I had to smack it...
2023-04-20 01:08:14 +0000 UTC View Post
part 4 of the chemical formulary series was a big hit on my channel! this pretty much guarantees a part 5 at some point, but i'll need to post some laser and electricity vids before that.
aft...
2023-04-17 01:40:27 +0000 UTC View Post
patreon early viewing of my new chemical formulary video! YT is giving me a fit with this one so I expect this upload to be age restricted before long. at least they are giving me a timestamp, and ...
2023-04-07 17:59:37 +0000 UTC View Post
cheese? or fatal dose of hexavalent chromium?
lemon candy? or radioactive crystals?
blueberry jelly? or tetraamminecopper(II) sulfate monohydrate?
cheese powder? or even more chromium(V...
a sneak peak at some chemical formulary experiments! the first pic shows a piece of coal that has been coated with a thin film of prussian blue per one of the recipes. i'm shocked how beautiful it ...
2023-03-15 22:29:54 +0000 UTC View Post
i've been reading through my chemical formulary books again recently and i've come across several more hilarious recipes. my chemical formulary videos are fun to make and relatively easy to film so...
2023-02-18 01:35:58 +0000 UTC View Post
After I publish a vid, I usually take a few days off to work outside. An ongoing project here is to beat down some of the most aggressive invasive shrubs from taking over everything. While removing...
2023-02-11 00:47:16 +0000 UTC View Post
i've finished my new video less than 2 months after my last upload, which is close to a record for me lol. hopefully you enjoy it! now to unleash the horrors of MS paint to make a thumbnail for it ...
2023-01-31 19:42:43 +0000 UTC View Post
next video is coming along nicely and I expect it to be finished in a week or so!
One of the demos I tried in my vid was touching the arc of my 15kW vacuum tube tesla coil. Yeah, yeah, it is ...
2023-01-27 16:42:36 +0000 UTC View Post
here's a quick clip showing the monster tube coil running outside. those are some of the brightest arcs you'll ever see from a tesla coil :)
2023-01-14 17:25:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I hammered in an 8ft grounding rod outside my shop the other day, and although it sucked to do, it's allowed me to bring some of my fun plasma devices outside. It seemed to improve the output of my...
2023-01-14 17:24:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday I went storm chasing and captured an extremely rare January tornado outbreak! It was one of the best storm chases I've ever went on. I think I got a little too excited in the vid but the ...
2023-01-05 05:00:54 +0000 UTC View Post
I've made more improvements to my vacuum tube tesla coil setup and have also settled on a video idea where it'll be relevant. I want to make a long version of my short vid "is it the volts or amps ...
2022-12-29 02:04:32 +0000 UTC View Post
i used the new meter to take some measurements and I found that I was driving the grid way too hard in my setup. fixing this brought on a whole new set of issues, but the performance is unbelievabl...
2022-12-20 05:22:27 +0000 UTC View Post
when it comes to my vacuum tube creations, most of what I have done so far has been a product of trial and error. part of that is the inherent nature of plasma devices. unlike many circuits nowaday...
2022-12-17 22:06:44 +0000 UTC View Post
I decided to break out the vacuum tubes again and build a classic vacuum tube tesla coil circuit. I seem to have gotten lucky picking circuit values because this thing is running HOT. The screwdriv...
2022-12-15 01:21:43 +0000 UTC View Post
i appreciate the input on the music track in my new vid. i ended up getting rid of the music except for in the build compilation since it felt too distracting. here's the new and likely final versi...
2022-12-05 18:08:50 +0000 UTC View Post