haha, made my day :P

David Cruise people who touches a live one doesn’t deserve to live

Electrocuted to death is redundant.

@@tubegerm6732 In this context, it works. Quite nicely.

@@moehoward01 fair enough.

We might be the same person.

+THEGAMINGDAN unless you are American and female.

+Xenro66 lol

elecyroboim is yesssss

+dowRaist ElectroBoom ?

+Michael Burke electric water grinders come close.

What about a CHINESE hairdryer?

Ur dumbass nigga

Try Francium kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o5iChMJ42K3ZeWQ.html

@@LittleNippers5 oh

Furthermore, the Fe2+ ions are oxidized at the anode to Fe3+. With the oxygen ions floating around, that forms iron(III) oxide, or red rust, which is responsible for the crusty floaties and appetizing mud color the solution develops. That's why the aluminum and iron electrodes have different threads; if you got the polarity reversed, you'd end up removing any rust on the iron rods instead of creating lots and lots of new rust.

@@zherron42 and MultipleMonomials thanks for the detailed explanation. I realised the "contamination" was being extracted from the electrodes but couldn't be bothered to Google exactly how. Cheers :)

This is the explanation I was looking for. Thank you.

It sickens me that somewhere, at some point in time, a clever engineer thought of this.

Is it called electrolysis

I don't think it's legal.

If it was legal, though I'm not terribly knowledgable of EU or UK regulations, I doubt it would be labelled completely in Mandarin. Check the first few moments of video as the label sides are flashed around, there's not a single Latin letter.

It's direct current, you don't have to worry as much about it as A.C. I really think Clive is being a pansy, I would touch electrode while on.. it'll just hurt a little

I did not see a transformer in there. where was it?

carolyn mmitchell What are you, the reincarnation of Edison? No, DC is FAAAAAAAR more dangerous given the constant voltage. It is like the different between getting shot with an automatic rifle verses a semi-automatic one. Yeah, both can have the same power and both will kill you, but the killing is at least slightly delayed with the semi-automatic (AC) given the breaks in firing just as how AC is referenced to a neutral point (often 0V). Also, AC requires a DC signal to stay stable. Kill the DC and you have just pushed the current over. DC? Shit is going to keep going until the original current source is killed...or you are. Guess which will happen faster?

+yamatoneko1 I knew before he said it, was saying to my self, that's gonna be 10A. Why not? hah

+Alex Wright I thought it's 1 amp but forgot that the thing is chinese :)

There have actually been multiple case studies regarding water electrolysis for the removal of inorganic arsenic

Missed opportunity to sell fuses by using lower amp fuses

funny, its an electrolysis device,,, and you could have the cleanest water in the world, but it will ALWAYS pull the iron and other minerals out of solution.. leaving you with dirty looking water thats perfectly safe to drink, lol we need those minerals... if you let that thing go, it would turn it to pure water, and thats no good for humans to drink on a regular basis.. even reverse osmosis keeps the minerals.... kills everything else though...

INEBRIATI CONFIRMED

***** Hah! I made your day and you couldn't even give me one like?! :P Hah, do you know what show I got that show from?

I wish !!!!!

Splitting the Beer atom!

Free beer

I wonder if the people selling the filters even know if they're scamming people.

+Jim Conner Or the seller got too many claims of "item never arrived" from the scam artists.

+thelol1759 Oh yes they do. I used to work for a water filtration company and the sales team used these all the time while knowing it was a scam.

mknechtel 😕 well I guess its a living...

I could see someone passing these out along with a lighter and a pack of cigarettes to scam artist. Scammer uses the device. Attempts to light a cigarette but ignites their hand from the hydrogen released by electrolytic reaction. Tries to put it out with the glass of water only to get burned from heat dissipated in the water from the electric current passing through it. Goes to hospital to find they have developed tetnitus from heavy iron oxide exposure on the wound. Someone really has something against water filter salesmen.

exactly

Except without Ashens's smarmy local-radio DJ voice.

At least a Popstation won't kill you (Though some of the stuff Ashens eats might)

I was thinking the same thing

***** Yeah, I'm pretty sure I saw them do a crossover once when ashens was reviewing something electronic.

Passenger depends on the country, UK water tastes like chlorine to me and I cannot stomach it.

RetroKid That is deionized water. If you drink it the way you drink normal water, it will disrupt the electrolyte balance inside your body, making you feel bad. Continue drinking it, and bad stuff like organ damage is a possiblity.

jodie: the bottled water still is not some distilled water maybeh?

Passenger destillated water can even harm your body

jo jim I know I'm late, but that's not the half of it. It is extremely deadly to drink deionised water instead of regular water, it leaches the minerals from your body, which can destroy your nerves, turn your bones to powder and worse. A glass once might not hurt, but any more and you are risking a very bad time.

@Jeroen van den Ploeg rainwater has no minerals that's why

+Sarah Watt (NuclearSarah) This is basically how Electro-Plating works. Usually steel, copper, zinc, palladium and in some circumstances, gold and silver are used in electroplating.

I never studied electroplating, but there are all sorts of things that work off of similar physics. Discharging and recharging batteries is very similar to galvanic corrosion, and the reaction used in thermite can be predicted using the same data that predicts the direction of galvanic reactions.

+Joseph Stalin Not with 240 volts and with a lot more amps.

Mentorcase It's the principle I was getting at. The voltage doesn't really matter, it can work at 240V, as long as it is DC, which this device is. Seeing as it is going through a bridge rectifier.

+Sarah Watt (NuclearSarah) I thought as much regarding the iron-oxide particles, though I've never formally studied such things, seemed off to me then it clicked that electrolysis generates oxygen, which could bind with the iron from the steel that would come away into the water. Yay science!

Distilled water is actually mildly bad for you. There are no beneficial minerals in it.

DNB As opposed to all the chlorine and mind destroying fluoride in tap water? I only drink double filtered rainwater I collect myself. Should I need a drink in town I buy distilled water from the laundry section of a supermarket as almost all spring waters have added fluoride. Drinking distilled water from time to time will do no harm. It is just pure water and nothing else.

@@benlittle7799 Sounds exactly like General Ripper.

@@benlittle7799 : It's actually bad to drink large amounts of fluoride (***I don't know how large). It accumulates in bone and teeth and makes them brittle. It makes no sense to add to drinking water. It makes sense to brush your teeth with NaF toothpaste and spit it out

@@dnb5661 Distilled water is the only water you should consume if you care about your health. It's simply pure water, H2O, nothing else. The "beneficial minerals" in mineral or tap water are NOT beneficial minerals. They are INORGANIC minerals that the body can't assimilate. They are toxic to the body, and cause cataracts, atherosclerosis, arthritis, etc. Only PLANTS can use INORGANIC minerals (aka dirt...) and convert them to organic minerals that are then usable by humans. Getting your minerals from your water is skipping the vital step.... it's like eating dirt. You're not a plant. Here's a free gift for you: aquariusthewaterbearer.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/The-choice-is-clear-by-dr-allen-e-banik-14-pages.pdf

Hah, so true :)

It is a secret form of Chinese population control.

maybe they were just stoned during chemistry class

Shroom Duke we didnt even have the accel. of the earth or experiments like that

I remember chemistry class. I was banned from it.

thany3 it's DC it won't kill nobody

110V or 220V will kill u no mater DC or AC

not necessarily

Most necessarily

110v dc wont kill you rofl

+BillyNoMates1974 The real problem is, that in a nation with the population of China, and with overall, such a poor educational record, there are an unimaginably huge number of people who'd take this product at face value...

@@cogidubnus1953 Hmmmm..I'm 1953 too. With the raw material China has, Darwinism is their only hope.

Hahaha! Thumbs up ;)

+cidshroom The people designing that ship should have been shot on the spot. (working with metals on a daily basis here)

Mp57navy I know, I have basic experience with boats and I knew this was possible. I just refuse to believe this is a mistake, I think someone thought they could get some extra maintenance revenue in. I mean they had to drydock a brand new ship, to remove the drive system to fix the corrosion! On a ship that's already about 3x more than the original estimate of $220 million. It's completely absurd! SpaceX should found MilitaryX next. Maybe they can make military hardware about 1/6th the price, the same way they did with rockets.

+john carlaw Exactly, these are not small firms. They employ extremely talented people to oversee the development of these ships. I think it had to be a conscious choice somewhere down the line, I refuse to believe it was accidental. If it was somehow accidental, it's incredibly embarrassing, and points to something being VERY wrong in their design/approval process. It's a shame, because I think it looks like one sexy ship!

People from the enemy infiltrated the defense force and deployed electrolytic warfare ;)

Make sure they know how dangerous it is. Even when the power switch on it is off.

Distilled water is "control" you could buy a £500 lab grade one if you wanted. . But if it shows you the same .. then what ?! Yiur "experiment was as scientific as a dog licking it's own balls

If you do a parts per million test you'll get real results which actually match what this device does.

i dont think it matters where you live, your water is going to have tons of metals and other nasty shit in it. ive seen this done on distilled water and it stayed perfectly clear while the tap water was a disgusting green and black.

+Garry Gemmell I swear this channel is becoming more and more 'Scottish Electric Ashens'.

+JibbyVideos "Scottish Electric Ashens" - Is that Chinglish? Translation Please!

Chinglish: The example ash is youtube popularity (sub high) which the spealise of criticism cheap items of bad and food of rot. The ash setting (长椅) of brown sofa is setting of video location record. Similarities of the big clove and the ash many. However clove speak natanality of scot with attention electronic. Translation from Chinglish to English: Ashens is a popular KZfaqr who reviews rubbish Chinese rip off products and out of date food on a brown sofa. The two channels are pretty similar in ways (Only their hands are present and there's a fair bit of 'Pigeon English' on both channels) except BigClive is Scottish and focuses mostly on awful electronics instead of awful knockoffs and food. That was fun to type haha

I see,Ta for the update - so Clive is a bit of a copiest is he - which came first the bigclive or the ashens that is the question.

Ashens definitely came first, but I feel Clive is "Asheny" in his own unique way.

+gartmorn hehehehe

+gartmorn Wouldn't the static electricity medical (and only medical) device thingy be better?

Afraid we don't do things by halves here in Scotland! ;-)

LOL

haha

+ragenFOX Doesn't everyone drink molten iron? It's really nice.

Daniel Evans yeah but you can only do it once in a while... and by a while I mean lifetime

+Robert Condon (SunnyTurtle) - Because people watching this video might think it works, and get one for themselves?

RFC3514 more like to make sure these assholes dont get another dime.

+John Gamble Made in Scotland from g̶i̶r̶d̶e̶r̶s̶ Chinese electrodes.

+John Gamble Nah, Irn Bru is made from girders, not probes... :P

Shills are everywhere.

+Craig Nehring The bridge rectifier will explode, and thereby protect the 10A fuse.

***** It is commonly used by scammers, who electrolyze the naturally occurring mineral content in tap water to convince you to buy their "water filter."

Had some guy try and scam me today with one of these.

@@Kinovwperformance Should have tried to make him touch the electrodes. Ask him to pull out a bit of the nasty shit to look at.

Paul Mansfield was just gonna ask lol

+VEGAN WarriorⓋ Even distilled water (but that needs some sort of electrolyte)

You are correct and that's the scam. It is indeed iron, hence the different electrodes. Aluminum will not electroplate, so the "rusted" metal from the steel electrode stays in the water.

nope, the brown color is aluminum hydroxide, not iron. that's why they use an aluminum anode.

Time to get Chris Choi out of retirement.

+Bassotronics whiskey!

+Bassotronics Well, rust anyhow.

+Bassotronics The flavouring in Russian Vodka . . .

Oof

@@jamesvandamme7786 not rust, aluminum hydroxide. that's why they use an aluminum cathode.

+linas3001 That would be Scottish ;)

+linas3001 The more you watch, the more you learn.

+Ben Thomson Oh. Thank god I didn't call him English then.

+linas3001 I don't think Clive would even care. He's most certainly not a nationalistic idiot.

The only thing a device like this demonstrates is whether a solution can conduct an electric current. If it can, the solution will get gunked up with salts from the electrodes. For determining whether water is safe to drink, this is worse than useless. Honestly, some scientific literacy should be expected and required for nurses. This isn't even high-school level.

@@LibraMami Quit your job and go back to school. You're a liability and a danger to others.

@@LibraMami Wow it's scary that you are allowed to give people medicine! s

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4077681/

@@Camwize It is unbelievable, I agree. It is unbelievable that I did not become a statistic. It is unbelievable that as a single mother of two children not only did I work fulltime, but attend school fulltime, and successfully graduate. It is unbelievable that I passed my state boards on the first try. It is unbelievable that this ever changing world, is constantly developing new methodologies for testing, resulting in curious minds developing new hypothesis. Many conclusions have yet to be determined. I'd imagine why I have the privilege of administering medication, to my patients are as follows. 1. I follow the policies, procedures, and abide by the laws set forth by the professional licensing agengy, and the state in which I reside. 2. I ask questions, and relentlessly research, always advocating for my patients. 3. I exercise compassion, and empathy. 4. I recognize that no one individual is perfect, that we all perceive the world in a unique way, and not everyone is equipped with the intelligence to engage in a debate. (The response reminds me of things my 12 yr old would say to any individual he didn't agree with) In which he would be disciplined. Now I have some questions for you. 1.Have you always been a judgmental individual? 2.What life experiences resulted in such a distorted way of thinking? 3. How can one make an assumption as to the care one provides, by a mere comment or two? 4.Do you conduct yourself in the same manner at work, as you do in your home life? 5. Have you researched case studies on inorganic Arsenic removal by electrolysis? 6. What is your educational level?

+Lucas Solomon Hmmmm. Now there's an idea.

I wonder what will happen yes....I hope bigclivedotcom will solder the electrodes after switching the polarity....and film it (ofc at your own risk!) so I don't have to do it on my device :P.

five bucks says you won't see the water turn brown. because that wasn't iron oxide you were seeing there, it was aluminum hydroxide.

@@thomasneal9291 I would say rust.

+Luke Den Hartog Hello from the forum! (it's klh2000)

503technics Ohai :D

LOOK AT THIS OBVIOUSLY ""OVER"" WORRIED LUNATIC MAKING A SCARE TACTIC VID! YOUR ARGUMENT IS WEAK! IT'S FINE TO SAY ELECTRONICALLY THE DEVICE POSES THREATS BUT IT'S ANOTHER THING TO ADD PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO ""SELL"" YOU A WATER DISTILLER. FIRSTLY, ARE THE ONES MAKING DISTILLERS ALSO THE ONES MAKING THESE ELECTROLYZER TESTERS? SECOND, WHO'S 'NOT' TRYING TO SELL YOU SOMETHING IN THIS WORLD?! YOUR VIDEOS ARE MONETIZED. THIRD, SINCE WHEN DID YOU BECOME A HEALTH EXPERT? THE ONLY QUACK I SEE USING SCARE TACTICS IS YOURSELF. STICK WITH ELECTRONICS. STAY OFF GIVING HEALTH ADVICE. MY ONLY QUESTION IS, WHICH WATER BOTTLE COMPANIES 'PAID YOU' TO MAKE THIS VIDEO TO MISINFORM A WHOPPING 288,000 SUBSCRIBERS?

Lee Pee lol wtf your talking about?

No matter where you go in the world, unless a Chinese based company has a Western, Japanese, South Korean or Taiwanese background, then I think that most people are already more than aware that you should never ever buy anything electrical from the despotic, People's Republic of Cheap & Poorly Made Crap, namely China...

Well yeah, and the video title starts with "Deadly"....

+Maddin1313 AMEN!

+Maddin1313 If they decide to grab the electrodes, it just might. It'd at least hurt a helluva lot.

We need Jo Brand to pick up where Esther Rantzen left off.

I lol'd

Ha! It's made of girders...... very rusty ones

+SigEpBlue you also need to pee in it, for the american beer that is

Hey now.... ;)

Mickleblade no that's Mexican beer/soda that is set to go to America

Michael Vinson I touched it on purpose , not bad

hawkturkey smh... whaat?

+SGM 26 Rust.

+bigclivedotcom That's quite a bit of rust

+SGM 26 It depends on the minerals present in the water. Like iron, sodium, calcium, potassium and magnesium. The current breaks water molecules down to its basic components, hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen then combines with the impurities and some of the electrodes metal, other chemical reactions can occur, mostly it's rust because of the presence of oxygen and iron which causes a redox reaction between the elements.

+SGM 26 Mostly ferric hydroxide and an assortment of other iron compounds.

as others have said it should be mostly iron, but will depend on the exact composition of your local water what else it will throw off. The real joke is that the reason the positive is made of iron is that the electric charge is actually stripping iron ions off the rod and some atoms will be pulled into the aluminium rod likely creating reactions that both coat the rod and leave behind molecules that look awful. the idea that this shows water purity is hilarious. as it's actively adding metal and causing reactions that wouldn't happen without the electricity. OK some stuff is already in your water, but hydrogen and oxygen make water, fecking dangerous on their own, inert and useful together. I use this technique at 12v 2 amps to etch circuit boards. if you add salt into the water at enough quantity at allows the copper to get pulled off the board (positive charge) and it ultimately plates what ever random piece of metal you connect to negative in the water. I think jewelers use the same technique to plate things. like in ferric chloride your etch resist keeps the bits you want safe. i used a crocodile clip for the positive link to the PCB once, half hour later there was no crocodile clip :p just a lonely spring and an unfinished PCB lol. I solder a load on now and cover in nail polish.

It is indeed rust, but accelerated by the current.

Your channel is enjoyable and informative. Thanks !!

Don't be daft Clive, the water you tested didn't seem to be moving at all.

***** Rust is a salt...

Cosmo John I'm pretty sure I makes hydrogen and aluminium oxide the hydrogen probably made the water frothy and the the aluminium oxide coloured it.

Maybe yes, but I noticed different colours on several tests I did do with my device (just for giggles). Cold tap water, hot tap water, boiled water and when I find distilled water I will test that as well (wonder if the water gets coloured....if it does, the electrodes have some molecules emitted into the water right?).

The chemistry is quite simple. The gas bubbles at the negative (aluminum) electrode are hydrogen from the electrolysis of water. The brown is oxidized iron (iron(III) ions to be precise) from the positive electrode. If you look at the iron electrodes in the video, you can see some minor pitting on their surface. The current builds as more ions form in the water. Since distilled water doesn’t have much in the way of ions in it in the first place, you won’t see the same effect with it. Quackery is an excellent description. A note: as more current is passed, the more alkaline the resulting solution will be.

nope. the brown color is from the production of aluminum hydroxide from the aluminum anode. that's why they use an aluminum one to begin with, exactly to ALWAYS produce the same amount of brown color to the water, regardless of water quality.

@@thomasneal9291 so how come distilled water stays clear?

@@coinop7278 distilled water isn't really conductive, in comparison to water with a few ions in it. Because it's not that conductive, there's not much charge flowing and that's why the metal rods aren't visibly breaking down. If you'd leave the rods for longer in there, the rods break down initially slowly, then because they release ions into the distilled water the conductivity increases, making the breakdown of the rods quicker, making the water more conductive etc. So there's simply a delayed reaction, your distilled water would look the exact same if you leave it in there for long enough.

+Christian Gerefalk I tend to look at it as they have a firm understanding that there are many stupid, ignorant, and/or ill-informed people who are very gullible and willing to give them money. They also don't give a shit if their products kill you. Because they know there will be another sucker waiting to take their place.

+Avi Tech AGREED!!!

+Avi Tech - Using natural selection as a valuable research tool.

well they do have a population problem

OblivionSundae social media is for sheep

I was thinking the same.

I bet your thoughts had better spelling though.

thats was my thinking also

rimmersbryggeri eh I doubt that, it seems his brain has failed in spelling area.

+TheUnnamedGent Genocidal ebay sellers.

+TheUnnamedGent eBay has its own section like KZfaq - best not go there...

I just received my device today....took 10 days to get it at a low price of 3 1/2 dollars. It's a fun device (but never touch the electrodes...I measured the voltage and it did say 450V). I ordered mine on Gearbest (price went up in the past days). www.gearbest.com/testers-detectors/pp_413673.html

It's all fake. The colouring is based on the conductivity of the water causing fast corrosion of the electrodes.

+bigclivedotcom Thank you for clearing that up! So would you say there is no truth in some waters being 'safer' than others?

+Maia Any clean drinking water is fine.

Some water is absolutely safer than others. But if you live in a first world nation, then the water coming from your tap or any bottle is going to be perfectly safe

Unless you live in Michigan.

+shurdi3 Yep! You can see the bubbles forming on the electrodes :-)

+Luc Everse Yeah I was thinking of water electrolysis.

We had similar bubbles with all the electrode boilers though. We need a lighter

Do you mean space shuttle fuel?

+Barrybados©. so do you wan them to open and search through any package with anything electrical in it?

Yeah and check for bombs and that at the same time .

+Barrybados©. How many letters and parcels do you think pass through sorting rooms every day? Far too many to ever check.

+Barrybados©. It's not Australia

+Barrybados©. - Shit is easy to detect by smell. And you can order one of these from Australia just fine. In fact, there are a couple of Australian websites dedicated to exposing quack electronics - some imported, some produced locally, some even subsidised by the government. The notion that people working in customs know everything about physics, chemistry, engineering, etc. (and can read every language) to determine if every item fulfils its manufacturer's claims is a bit silly.

+Phoenix Marzrover It's fake. They tell you that the rust is just the impurities in your water being visualised.

+bigclivedotcom #science

+Phoenix Marzrover To people who don't know how it works, they think the murkiness is created by a reaction with the "impurities" already in the water. Anyone with knowledge of electricity and electrolysis can see it doesn't test anything, and anyone scientifically minded enough to "test" the water after unnecessary and expensive filtration will see nothing is different. However, lots of people have neither of these qualities.

+Phoenix Marzrover How is Trump a presidential candidate? -> Your argument is invalid.

+OriginalPiMan I'd wager that yellow cloud is aluminum chloride :-) I'm glad poster didn't drink the water.

The colour is caused by the electrode corrosion and conductivity of the water. Just because water is slightly conductive doesn't mean the minerals in it are bad. Be very careful to unplug this device before touching it, as it is extremely dangerous.