"Alright, alright, I'll open up. Just please don't hurt me!"

The bad cop got him

@@MrChanw11 ACAB

“Oh you mean THIS gate key.”

Suicide cords - useful for electrocution and boiling water!

Ironically, you are correct. Touch the water inside of this thing while it is connected and running and you will electrocute yourself at 120VAC -- even with the plastic cover over the electrodes!

That sounds like an execution method devised for a prototype concentration camp.

​@@seronymus "prototype concentration camp" has to be one of the most horrifying strings of three words to think about

@@SoupVat Obamna 🥺 sends you to the humidifier fema camp 👍😵💀

Not really. Mehdi survives it not by accident ;-)

I'm crossing my fingers for a big Clive style sideways schematic... Even if its just 2 lines on a piece of paper

@@harriehausenman8623 Yeah, in most of his old videos, the explosions of capacitators and things are edited in, even his electric guitar video is fake :(

@@Straiferdt01 I never considered them to be fake, actually. To me it always was just a kind of slapstick comedy but with electricity. He know his electrons and was never in any actual danger. It's a little strange to hear that some people thought he might really zap himself by accident....

there is also the mandatory required yelling of curse words

*it _was_ comically timed, just by accident! And if he ever wanted to replicate, boy that would take some tries for sure...

definitely comically timed, funniest shit i've seen today

2:06

I loled

Yeah I laughed. He has great comedic timing in the way he speaks as well.

Could be extremely dangerous though cause that amount of power will blow up a low quality extension cord and could very well cause a fire, I'm not saying it's a terrible idea but when this can be sold with a 5$ extension cord that's terrifying

@@tenderjerky3504 Actually, even at five or six amps a 16 gauge extension cord would not overheat. If this thing builds up substantial scale on the electrodes and starts drawing 10-12 amps continuously as my old Duracraft did you might heat up the cord a bit but the NEC states that 16 gauge cords can carry 13 amps continuously if the cord combination is 99 feet or less. I am not a fan of 16 gauge extension cords (my main use for them is to cut the female end off and use the rest to replace an old lamp's cord) in general but even the $2 extension cord at Wal-Mart is 16 gauge and according to the organization that writes the NEC and designs most state electrical codes (not Michigan's, though -- our electrical code is virtually unchanged from the 1950's) this is supposed to be safe. Both the old Duracraft that finally quit working for me and my Sunbeam of this type came with 16 gauge cord attached to the electrodes. The cord itself didn't give me any problems, the Duracraft failed at the connection point where it was soldered (yes, soldered) to the electrodes after 20 winters of use. I still use the tank to this day when draining oil out of my van's engine while changing the oil and filter. That isn't the tank's intended use but it works!

@@tenderjerky3504 You're assuming it specifically tries to pull 120v, it might just pull as much as it can.

mans could be 2 wire grabs away from receiving the mehdi sadaghdar experience lol

The definition of "terror" is "extreme fear". If you're terrified of this, then close the shades and wrap yourself in bubble wrap.

Yup, this is very much quite only very terrifying.

@@RonJohn63 Hyperbole exists.

@@endig4501 this is the Internet; I deny that hyperbole exists.

It's far worse actually. A cattle prod has a controlled current so it shouldn't be lethal. This will go for as long as your breakers allow

That sits _in a pool of water_ in a plastic case.

Bro It is encased in plastic (twice) and grounded in normal operation. You literally gonna get shocked only if you disassemble it and grab both electrodes. Only really shitty thing about it is that there's no way to control current. It probably can trip your breakers if your water is too conductive. Or if you, idk, put it in brine or something.

@@koghs You sure it's grounded? I can't see the plug (haven't watched the main video, that's next), but the cable looks like it only has two conductors in it...

@@koghs Unlikely that you could get the water conductivity high enough to trip even a 5A breaker. Maybe not even if you use a NaOH solution.

Glorious

What would happen?

@@OutInLeftField2 death and destruction

@@OutInLeftField2 The 120 volts of electricity going into the meter demonstrated in the video could go through someone's body, instead. It would be severely dangerous, basically.

I like that :D

God I love Russian humor. I think my favorite is the old "today is worse than yesterday, but better than tomorrow."

тазик-эвтаназик? :)

Fuck me, that's a bit dark. I'll play along, 100% Russian confirmed.

I don’t think it’d be pleasant to die from electrocution, though, so I don’t think “euthanasia” is the right word...

In Soviet Russia, the humidifiers boil YOU!!

Yes but it's not in bright pink.

The very thing that helps it actually work is also making it grosser than it already was, yay

@@or2kr and electorlyzing salt makes chlorine gas that goes straight into your air and could intoxicate you in a bad deadly sort of way, yay! Also it smells bad

@@tfwmemedumpster The salt stays at the bottom of the tank for the most part. A pinch or two of salt will keep my humidifier going for two weeks worth of refills. Two refills a day (3 gallons) every day for 2 weeks. Boiling salt water is not going to make chlorine gas at these low voltages If I forget to add salt again after cleaning out the reservoir, the water output is dramatically lower.

@@tfwmemedumpster Because the device operates on AC voltage it doesn't make any pure elemental gases. If you where to operate the same device on direct DC it would produce even with the addition of salt primarily H2 and O2 so I would be more worried about it exploding then it releasing toxic gases. The reason you don't need to worry about pure elemental gas release is that the small amount of gas generated on one half of the sign wave will be consumed by the other half. The electrolysis isn't perfect which is how it dumps the electrical energy into the solvent to boil it.

@@Willcol100 so. This can be easily modified to be a hydrogen generator? Good to know.

Imagine Macaulay Culkin replacing the swinging paint buckets on the stairs with one of these....

It does not stop by default most of the time

@@poyopoyo4619 by nature, it has to stop working when the water level drops below the elctrodes since the water is needed to complete the circuit. so there is no float sensor or smart current or temp detection but this is still a thought-out safety measure - for cheap

@@rolls_8798 Also, to touch the water you have to remove the electrodes. And said electrodes are in a protective plastic shell. Actually decently safe!

@@qwertykeyboard5901 true. I still majorly dislike them because the design (the rim that holds water when it is upside down) makes it almost impossible to empty the water from and if it is tipped upside down (hard to do by accident, admittedly) the water pours out of the top through all the direct live wires. and there is the matter of the mineral buildup. there is a smaller handheld version which I find to be more acceptable. In India (where these are very common) people often put foil balls inside the unit and I've always wondered what it is for. Maybe to prevent as much buildup? I've never noticed an actual effect from it though.

Hey ,ive torn this thing down alllll the way too, taken the electrodes out, unscrewed those things, and put new ones in it, replaced the screws that were screwed into the the electrodes...mine stopped heating up completely, with water with all different kinds of water, also, mine was dang near 20 years old I think. I love that I've found someone else who's done this too though, I was so curious. Didn't test it with my meter though ,and now that's my next step,cus it's still not working.

Next week at the guards weekly meeting: How to use a Vicks humidifier to torture recalcitrant inmates.

You win the Internets today, my friend. 🤣🤣🤣👍👍

So true lol

Damn it...

😧 lion

I saw a face, but not a lion's, but instead a yawning gargoyle's.

That's the most badass metal thing that's ever happened to one of these things.

LOL... Hey, that's how you learn things, pushing the envelop. Sounds like something I would have done.

EVEN MORE SAAAAAALT!

@@westelaudio943 The whole room is VIBRATTTING

@@harshvithlani9399 bloody hell

Proper maintenance is part of any humidifier.

That's why I would use CLR.

I’ll have to do the same thing later.

and you cant even use deionised water because then it wouldn't work. caught between a rock and a hard place

And put salt in it

@@2_-_449 and breathe in all the nice HCl.

DONT HOLD THE WATER!! Unless you like potentually deadly electric shocks of course.

I think he'd also have to crank the voltage. It took about 10,000 volts for me to make a pretty nifty Jacob's Ladder in high school. Bottom was about 1 inch apart, to was about 5 inches to break the arc and send it back to the bottom.

@@playgroundchooser It already sparks enough to boil water. That itself would be impressive. Also, water has less resistance than air, and the electrodes are closer together.

@@JonesNate it doesn’t spark to boil the water

@@ErebuBat Only if you add too much salt it would (and trip the breaker).

Agreed. The white dust seems like a bad call for lungs and for electrical equipment. I use one of these as an apartment humidifier but yeah, 600 Watts seems like a waste. Still - I'm only using it during winter so the 600 watts is just inefficient heat - not a total waste. You can often pick these up at thrift stores for like $3 which is great - unless it's all scaled up inside.

@@jeffjackelen744 You can soak the electrodes in straight vinegar (unplugged, of course) for 6-8 hours and the scale will come right off using your fingers to remove it. At least in the US you can buy a gallon of vinegar for $3-$4 so it is cheaper than replacing the vaporizer (you likely won't use the whole gallon for this). The cheaper "cleaning vinegar" is fine, the lavender added to it won't hurt this. You will probably only have to do this every 3-4 years unless you have crazy hard water. You do have to remove the plastic cover, though. A 32 ounce pitcher worked for me to soak the electrodes, set the unit on top with the electrodes soaking in the vinegar and let sit for 6-8 hours. After soaking and scale removal, wash the electrodes with water (with the unit unplugged), let dry for a couple of hours (just in case the connection points got wet), replace the plastic electrode cover, fill the tank, assemble and then use the vaporizer.

Does this count as a BigCliveDotCom cameo because of the camera angle?

@@vuthara8725 Well, since he demonstrated a similar thing ( kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fKqRh5Z3rJ3Gp6c.html ), except that while Alec has a carbon electrode, Big Clive's are made of steel that has chromium (toxic element).

I was just wondering whether is will burn a fuse when the water is to salty.

I have a whole home humidifier that is essentially this but scaled up (Aprilaire model 800). It draws 4.8 kW maximum, but it only runs for short intervals. The humidifier is connected to the home's water supply and drain. I installed it when I got frustrated that the standard whole-home wet-pad humidifiers could never reach their setpoints because they only wet the pad when the heater is running, and the heater didn't run frequently enough to humidify the house to the setpoint. What's cool about it is self-regulated. It adds more water from the home's supply when needed, but it also and drains water and refills with fresh water when the water becomes too salty and the humidifer starts drawing too much power. You can watch the unit, when you first turn it for the season, fill the canister to the top with fresh water. As some water boils off, the power uses increases until it hits the maximum (water becomes saltier), at which point the humidifier starts letting the water level drop (less electrode exposed) to control power. Yes, it uses a lot of energy, but that energy is also heating the house so it's not completely wasted. And there is basically zero maintenance - no bio growth because it's boiling water, no manual refilling, and no descaling. Basically the only time I have to touch it is about once every two years to replace the electrodes as they erode away.

I had one for a while. The instruction manual says to clean it by letting it soak in vinegar weekly. Mine stopped working I think because I got too lazy to clean it weekly and the buildup caused things to fail. Once it stopped working, I disassembled it. It was so badly degraded that the wires to the plug just came off of the screws attaching them to the prongs.

I’m a fan of them in winter in kids bedrooms. The vicks liquid can be added to the water and helpful for colds.

The whole room is vibrating.. EVEN MORE SAAALT

Well that’s TOTALLY NOT an deadly accident waiting to happen 😆

I didn't see the explosion containment pie dish, it must have been just off camera.

@@cheekychappy1234 Maybe there was a hotdog just out of frame too. :P

@@TheCodeDaemon I think I'll pass on an electrocuted hot dog cooked by those electrodes, though.

Not to worry.

Unreasonable force!

I read that in superintendent Chalmers' voice. Immediately followed by "What is happening in your kitchen?!"

Uhhhhh aurora borealis

a year later, I can confirm the exact same for myself. with my well water, it boils so fast that it made the floors and desk overly saturated with moisture instead of actually putting the majority of it into the air.

@@Deviated09 that sounds more like a thermal difference than boiling speed. If the floor is poorly insulated, you may well just have water condensing out of the air because of it.

@@Ornithopter470 I'd imagine it's partly that, and partly very rapidly boiling off water with the steam directed in a cone shape Not from poor insulation but more so keeping the bedroom cold.

Mine is brand new and barely puts out steam

@@gwengough7944 try adding a bit of salt

I am curious to see the power draw on this after a good descaling. however, I am content with this.

Send it to the guy with the laser cleaner restoration channel.

I want to take a small screwdriver and rap on the electrodes with the plastic handle to knock that scale crust off. 🤪

Just soak it in vinegar for a day

What were you in for? It's OK to say, I understand the charges were overhyped. DA's always do that.

Use this bad boy to make a ramen swole!!!

To be fair, a length of cable, a pair of razorblades and a small twig is also a prison soup maker. This one just comes with a fancy bowl.

God damn dude, I bet they have nicer prisons in Mexico than they do here in the US. They certainly have WAY less of an incarceration rate. Any other country on earth does, actually.

@@Bacopa68 didn't do it. Lawyer fucked me. #Shawshank

That still wouldn't complete a circuit. You'd need to short the plug and then it would show up in continuity.

@@NishithThakkar Measure continuity between one electrode and the plug. Then the other

Yes, especially since there's water everywhere! Big Clive would not be happy.

@@NishithThakkar The multimeter completes a circuit between the two probes.

@@face1990 No it doesn't, because the electrodes are directly wired to the plug, which is open. Your path would come out of one probe of the multimeter, into the first electrode, through the wire, hit the plug, and then the circuit would be open and you would not get continuity because the two prongs of the plug aren't connected. Nishith is correct that the plug needs to be shorted to complete the circuit.

Electrolysis Mainly occurs in DC current, but maybe it happens in small amounts with this much constant AC?

@@Boomchacle that's what I figured

I think electroplating might be a little more relevant in this scenario; Whatever the anode and cathodes are made out of is a dark metal. I would argue that the electrical current is moving the metal from one peg to the other, but not at 100% efficacy so the metal is getting lost inside of the limescale which effectively darkens it.

@@cazomsdragons2625 didnt alec say the electrodes were carbon?

Limestone is some grey color, there is not jute calcium in water.

That is weird, mine boil hotter with a bunch of scale on the electrodes. Your scale must have a drastically different mineral content than mine. Water mineral content varies by region so that is reasonable.

300W?

Depends on the salt content. You could pull over 1000w with enough salt

Bet they charge a lot more for these than what you can get a Chinese dip mains water heater/boiler for (though I'd suspect better longevity and less leached stuff from the electrodes) BigClive got his baby-cutor (bucket heater) up to 5kW IIRC...

@@ninjamaster3453 flashbacks to AvE "load cell" (a.k.a a big bucket full of 'ol angry Pixies)

@@ninjamaster3453 Agreed, and I would guess that cleaning it would actually reduce the power draw. That stuff is what's left by the H20 evaporating away through multiple tankfuls.

I haven't seen anyone mention that the admittedly gross-looking scale is more or less harmless, and the mold that grows in other style humidifiers is far more dangerous. Wick style and "cold mist" style humidifiers will spew mold spores around your home if you don't take proper care. Meanwhile the electro-boiler not only kills anything in the jug whenever you use it, since it's boiling water your only adding pure water to the air... all the grossness stays in the jug.

@@MrVTPhil Good points. I take mine apart and peel off the scale once a year at the end of the season. It's also really easy to make replacement electrodes for it, just drill and tap some graphite crucible rod, takes 10 minutes. Granted, it might be overkill, but I don't like throwing away what I can fix.

There's probably also iron oxides and manganese.

From what I was able to find over the course of his videos including the word processing type writer video where he talks about HS, I believe our dear TC is around 30.

And they worked great! I remember being 4 years old and my mom setting up and running the vaporizer in the room. Glass "bowl" and bakelite plastic unit w/electrodes (long metal tangs).

@@colemanadamson5943 Yeah! But I don't remember the glass carafe looking like that -- it's been 50 years since I last saw ours -- so maybe? I remember the black bakelite top with the cord plugging in right behind the reservoir at 90deg for the [brandname] menthol goo for the steam to blow across to evaporate.

just filling landfills full of slightly used humidifiers... we're so fucked

@@howdareyou41 Exactly my thoughts

The Sunbeam and Vicks ones are pretty easy to clean though. It maybe takes me 5 min tops.

Sounds like the one we had when I was little. Then we moved to Florida where if anything you wanted a dehumidifier.

My family had one in the '80s. Somewhat noisy, uses a lot of power, not very effective. The only pro is that it doesn't get all that gross. I haven't seen them since.

I had one for a while. It turned out to be really hard to clean mildew off the discs; I don't actually remember how effective it was as a humidifier.

DeVibliss made my first asthma nebulizer pump. They were mainly a hospital and doctor office item back then (I was the second person in Michigan to have one at home in 1987) and cost $4K. Now they are cheap (I have seen them sold online new for about $30) and most people with asthma have them at home.

@@mharris5047 Wait, is this how asthma nebulizers work? I remember my brother using one as a toddler (on loan from the hospital, so we were VERY careful with it). This was about 2001. The entire inner workings of the device were concealed in beige plastic.

That's why you want 3-phase power for electrode boilers. That leaves the water at a comfy neutral midpoint.