Spreading fear. Im an electrition and if plug it in to a GFI plug you cant die. I install them for a living.

SO AWFUL!

So that means even if you are a licensed electrician or a certified electrician, and even if you have the credentials to do electrical work - doing this DIY fractal burning can still kill you or fry you! Scary enough!

@@charlessmith263 it can be done safely but if you need to watch a video to know how to do fractal wood burning there is a very high chance of death or severe injury

@@charlessmith263 An electrical engineer stands a better chance than a certified electrician, because they are more trained to deal with more unusual field strengths and shapes. Some electricians might have a pretty good feel for how the field intensity changes and can jump around, but really, the even in higher voltage industrial environments, and high voltage distribution systems, all of the gear and hardware is designed and carefully tested to make the electricians job as safe as it can be. But these DIY rigs on a board and workbench throw all of that out the window. And it's not right to say electrical engineers would in general be a little more aware than electricians, because even though they have a lot more theoretical knowledge, once you leave school and specialize in one of the forms of electrical engineering, there is a very good chance you will never have a chance to get practical experience in this particular high voltage area. There are probably a lot of linemen who have seen downed power lines who have a better practical understanding of the forces here and how they act. The problem is the current is going to find the easiest path. That "easiest path" is always changing as it burns. That's why the patterns go the way they do. One little slip, and that path locks on to the very good conductance of all kinds of tissue, and you are internally lichtenberged to hell.

@@charlessmith263 Most people who die in plane crashes are pilots (usually private). Most people who die in electric accidents are professionals working with electricity every day. Yes, it goes without saying.

3 position dead man is industry standard.

Oh, sorry dear. Thanks for the warnings.

My son died 2018 doing this

Something I think he forgot to, that I believe the coil still holds energy for a little while, even after it is disconnected, I have actually been thinking about buying a ready built kit , they are around thousand dollars so I see, from the US, You can create some beautiful pieces of art , but if it all goes wrong at the price,

Very decent of you to warn folks. Sadly, "teenagers" think it won't go wrong for them, that they are indestructible. Some folks never get beyond being teenagers, for better and worse.

I'm so so sorry for your loss

Cause they are pretty hard to electricute yourself if you are careful. Especially if hooked to a GFCI plug. Dont listen to this Trump supporter.

Yeah it’s like close to the same amount that powers the electric chair.

(Deep dramatic sigh)....get the cotton out of your brain. The foot switch is for that. The safety switch for each had helps assure you hands are not in places they shouldn't be.

@@DoRiteFabricationhave you read the multiple comments of people talking about their loved ones dying trying this? Clearly not a remotely safe thing to be doing at all, foot switch or not.

That table likely is grounded well.

The problem is that because of the transformer, the high voltage is isolated from ground, so the GFCI will not be able to detect that you are dying.

A GFCI (aka RCD) is not going to help with this, because these safety devices do not actually do what the common description of them suggests that they do. You might think that they detect current leaking to ground (aka earth) directly and shut the power off when this leakage rises above a certain level, usually around 30 milli-amps. If the GFCI actually worked by directly detecting current flowing to ground, as the name implies, then yes it would help. But what the GFCI actually does is detect a mis-match between the current flowing in through the live wire and the current flowing back out through the neutral wire: If there is no leakage, then these will be equal and all is good. However, in the situation where you are using a high voltage transformer, all the GFCI device is protecting against is leakage on the primary side of the transformer. The high voltage coming out of the secondary side of the transformer could all be flowing to ground and the GFCI will still do nothing. GFCI devices still have their places - such as power sockets in kitchens or bathrooms, where there are sinks or baths with water in them and copper pipes carrying that water, where the pipes themselves are usually grounded too. But for protecting against high voltages generated on the secondary side of a transformer, they will not help at all.

@@RambozoClown EXACTLY. Exactly.

The problem is when people are electrocuted, there is not necessarily any "leakage" to ground. Especially on the primary side.

Nope, you need a high voltage - that's why it's so dangerous! But this is madness to play around with a microoven 50 Hz transformer. With no load it can generate up to 4000 volts on it's secondary winding. If you got electrocuted >70% chance to die, and 30% to survive with a horrible skin burns and heart injures, missing fingers and crippled limbs. If one still want to try wood fractal burning - try a source with *more than 20 kHz frequency* and less than 30 mA current, never touch the device by both hands, + use all of this video's pre-cautions! High frequency transformers can still burn your skin, but they are far less lethal, cause they won't cause a muscle constriction and has less chance of heart damage (above 20 kHz less current goes deep inside the body). Note that all of this still has a chance to kill you!

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High voltage can arc through the air in the right conditions. Honestly, is a DIWhy craft worth punching your ticket?

@@diego2112gaming Well I was thinking of doing it in the rain...

@@thundertiger76 You'll excuse me if I don't find the humor--30+ years as an electrician and a former first responder. But hey, you do you.

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No. On the supply side of the transformer there's nothing wrong, even as the high voltage side is killing you.

if you stay multiple feet away, use a neon transformer instead of a microwave one, have secondary switches, and are knowledgeable about electricity.

transformers aren't capacitors, and don't hold a charge. Once the power is cut, they are fine.

Never hold the electrodes, clamp them, turn them on, turn it off move them, never hold them. You get the conductive solution on it, by mistake, spill etc you fry, never ever hold the electrodes don't care how well insulated they are never touch them when in use.

Yessir, I know the company you are talking about and have asked them for details about any agency approvals.........crickets chirping. It is highly, highly dangerous to sell anything that could be classified as an appliance without at least covering your @ss with a UL approval. And my guess? The guy is just importing these from China.

Actually, those voltages penetrate, so the burns are internal. It turns out blood is an excellent conductor too.

You can still pass enough current through 10 AWG wires to kill someone. However, what you are doing by replacing the secondary with 10 AWG is lowering the voltage and increasing the current. The voltage is proportional to the number of turns, so if your new secondary has half the number of turns as the old secondary the voltage will be half but the current will be doubled. What you describe building is a poorly-designed welding transformer, as 10 AWG is not suitable for that use. That would also not work well for burning wood.

The power involved here will just kill you through the gloves.

sorry it's 34...and counting

Use a Neon Light transformer...lower amperage and burns slower , but that allows you more creativity, not just smoke and flames and arcs! It is my hobby!

If those gloves are the Chinese ones I see on Amazon, I wouldn't trust them to protect me from a 9V battery. Also, guns are safer. They don't randomly kill you through a nick or manufacturing defect in the glove.

You obviously missed the point of what was said. Fractal burning has, as do guns, rules that when they are followed, is safe. I'm curious as to how you could look at a picture of 12,000 volt gloves and determine that they were Chinese and a nick could kill you. Silly talk You couldn't chew through these gloves in a half an hour if your life depended on it. Also the "rules". which you have no understanding, dictate that you position the dead man switch so you can't touch the equipment when it's "hot". Guns are safer? I don't recall any child killing his brother with fractal burning. I don't recall anyone killing their spouse with fractal burning mistakenly in the dark. I don't recall anyone killing anyone in a robbery with fractal burning. Yes indeed guns sure are safe.@@washellwash1802

You...can't stop? 🤨

Bullshit. I hooked mine up to a hotdog and it surprisingly didn’t do anything at all. 😂