"We've exceeded our electrical supply" "For the street?" "Nah for the whole f***ing neighbourhood" lol. Best channel ever.

Guy from electric company visits them for electrometer reading. "What the F**** happened??!!!" "It popped."

"Ohno we can't keep doing that, the neighbors lights are flashing! Just one more time go on!" 😂

The power company must love you.

"yea tha whole fahkin neighborhood's droppin like a sack o' shit" lol

Mum, the neighbor is torturing his electrical system "Gerald get away from the window"

2020: Photonic single-handedly restarts UK steelmaking with the arc furnace upstairs in the loft

Started working at an energy company this week, spent all week learning about meters and shit and had to rewatch this video to get my frustrations out.

"We can't keep doing it" ... "do it again" .. "and again". This is awesome.

This lad's bloody mental.

I love how this guy will bend glowing hot steel rods with his bare hands without even flinching.

It is a shame you didn't record the neighbors lights flickering, that would have been awesome!

The accent makes this perfect.

5:20 "The neighbor's house lightly fucking flashing" "No" "Swear on your fucking Christ!"

I love this bloke so much. Two middle aged men giggling like schoolkids over the neighbors lights. The fact the he's doing this on a carpet. The fact the only "safety" gear he has on is his trainers. The scissors to try pop the Stanley knife back on. I discovered this channel a just a bit late but going through his old catalogue of videos has kept me thoroughly entertained the last few weeks.

It's just a testament to his confidence in his wiring skills because his house hasn't burned down

A child only Nicola Tesla could love.

"Well I'm using it all, aren't I?" Fucking dying.

idk why, but I died laughing when he "put the kettle on."

"whys that happenin" "WELL IM USIN IT ALL AINT I!"

and all this on a carpet floor. a wonder his house is still there!

Fuck me, wait till this guy gets his electricity bill.

Kids, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME go to your mates house instead!

50v voltage drop at the neighbors'? MORE POWER! UNLIMITED POWER!!

[indecipherable British chatter] "What 'else can we stick across it?" This channel is fantastic

this guy's electricity bill must be ridiculous

My old man was a mechanical engineer, and he always used to say that the electrical engineers he used to work with were all a bit fucked in the head given the amount of times they had been zapped from industrial machinery. You prove his theory correct good sir. Love this guy & love the channel by the way!

"Im going to pour 500 eggs thru my electric meter." I love auto generated captions.

Let's run some numbers He said that at 250A on the primary he could get 20kA on the secondary, which on a 240V supply means there's about 3V across the secondary (P=IV, P=250*240, P=60kW, V=P/I, V=60000/20000, V=3V). Estimating for about 10m of cable, there's a resistance there of about 50μΩ, which, when shorted, makes for a current draw of around 64kA. I licked my fingers and measured the resistance between them with my multimeter (accurate and scientific I know) to be about 50kΩ, which at 3V, would draw around 0.6mA. (I=V/R, I=3/50000, I=0.0006A) If my brief googling is correct, this shouldn't even be a tingle, though if you've recently exfoliated your hands and dip them in saline you might feel more of a tingle, but not a painful sensation. In conclusion, my haphazard googling and back-of-the-envelope maths shows that holding the leads should be perfectly safe. You first though...

"We're gonna need a bigger house!"

Not in a shed, not in a basement, not even in the backyard. In an attic, on a carpet with a piece of tile as a 'work' surface.. Well, Emperor Palpatine had to start somewhere too.

For those who don't understand why the guy isn't getting shocked when touching the bare metal of the box cutter when shorting it out, it's because the circuit is from an isolated transformer. If you normally touch bare wire like in a service panel, that uses earth to complete the circuit so touching it completes the circuit through you. But a circuit from an isolated transformer, you touching the bare metal does nothing because the circuit cannot be completed through you unless you hold both ends of the wire.

XD wait a second you are draining so much power that the neighboor is getting power dips?

This quote of Hank Hill comes to mind: " Do you know how to start a man's heart with a downed power line?" Bobby Hill: "No." "Well, there's really no wrong way."

I love that even though this video is 8 years old, the quality is still on par with most videos of now

Damn I need this wire for my next sound system build haha.

" The whole neighbor hoods dropping like a sack of shit " " whys that? " " I'm using it all aren't i! " so fucking gold xD

This is a long post, please don't bother telling me I have no life to post something like this on youtube, I already know that :) I feel like a lot of people don't understand current and voltage and I feel like the people who do understand never explain it very well. So here it goes: This video is an example of a low voltage/high current power supply. The voltage is so low that he can touch both contacts with bare hands and probably not feel anything. "BUT ITS AMPERAGE THAT KILLS!" is what you might want to scream at me. This is very true, but also VERY misunderstood. Many people don't like this analogy, but I personally think it's awesome. Electricity is very similar to water. Pipes are the conductors (think wires), and how constricted the pipes are is resistance of the conductors. In this analogy, the pressure of the water in those pipes is the same thing as the voltage of electricity. The current of the water is... you guessed it, the current of the electricity (measured in amps). Now imagine that you have a constricted pipe (it has some arbitrary resistance), and you have no pressure on either side. You can guess that most likely, no current will flow. Now imagine you have equal high pressure on either side. Even though the pressure is high, it's the same on both sides of the pipe, so again, no current will flow. In order to create flow, we need a PRESSURE DIFFERENCE. Similarly, for electricity to flow across some conductor there must be a voltage difference. Notice, that in this analogy, the current of the water is induced by the pressure difference. It is the pressure difference that forces the water to move. Electricity is very similar. Also notice that you can increase current in two ways, one is by applying more pressure (voltage), but the other way is to reduce the constriction of the water pipe (reduce the resistance). This can be seen by the following equation: voltage = current x resistance. This is ohm's law. Death by electrocution is very often caused by the electricity screwing with the "wiring" of your heart and causing your heart to stop beating. The most relevant number to measure in such a situation is the current going through you heart. There is a certain amount of current, that when induced directly through your heart, has some high probability of stopping your heart. When people say IT'S NOT THE VOLTAGE THAT KILLS, IT'S THE AMPS, this is why. Notice, however, that there are two very large pieces of information that get cut out when people say something like the above: 1) It is very important to know WHERE that current is crossing. If 20 amps of current are crossing your hand, and ONLY your hand, you are not going to die. Your hand will be extremely damaged, but if no current is crossing the rest of your body, you'll probably be fine. 2) You CAN NOT HAVE CURRENT WITHOUT VOLTAGE. A 2V power can cause hundreds of amps of current to cross a copper bar. But the same voltage will do barely anything applied to any parts of the human body. Why? Because the copper bare has very little resistance. Again, think about water. You can have a very small pressure difference, but if you apply that pressure difference across the mississipi river, you will have MASSIVE current. If you apply the same pressure difference across a straw, it will be a trickle. Your body is a straw. Notice, also, that when I say 2V of voltage applied to your body it is actually not very specific. 2V of voltage applied where? across your finger? across your tounge? across two electrodes jabbed directly into your heart? All of these situations will cause different resistances, and therefore will induce different amounts of current between the two chosen points. All of this should naturally lead you to a very important question. If the only thing that dictates current is 1) voltage (property of the power supply) and 2) resistance (property of the material the electricity is passing through), then why on earth do power supplies have current ratings. A current rating on a power supply does not tell you what current will be supplied by that power supply. The current rating on a power supply simply tells you the MAXIMUM that power supply can reliably provide and still be within some sort of specifications. As you begin to approach that current rating, the voltage may begin to drop, or the device will begin to degrade (rapidly!) or some combination. Similarly, other voltage sources, like batteries, may not have current ratings, but none the less they have some sort of internal resistance. You will notice a very large difference between attaching a wire between the terminals of a 3V battery, and doing the same to the terminals of a 3V industrial transformer. Why? The 3V battery has internal resistance, and that means that as the current gets high the 3V battery will actually stop delivering 3V. It will drop to a very low voltage when shortcircuited. A 3V transformer, on the other hand, could very well continue to provide insanely high currents and still deliver 3V. Imagine two water pumps (I love water analogies!). Both are rated to pump up to 14 PSI of pressure. However, one of them can deliver that pressure up to 5 gallons a minute, and the other will be able to deliver that same pressure up to 50 gallons a minute. When they are given static conditions (like say blocked pipes) they will both pump up to 14PSI. You will not be able to measure a difference. However, give them both a very wide unrestricted pipe to pump through and you may find that the 5gal/min pump is pumping 6gal/min and is now providing only 7PSI, but the 50gal/min pump is maintaining that 14PSI and delivering a nice 12 gal/min. I hope that this may have helped at least some people out there.

"The whole fucking neighborhood's dropping like a sack of shit" "Why's that?" "Well, I'm using it all, aren't I?" "Fuck that" Lmao

**Power meter buzzing rattling and smoking from it's last dying breath** KZfaq subtitles: *[Music]*

lmao I so wish you'd pointed the camera out the window to show us your neighbors lights!

God-dam! I was on the floor laughing at these guys. Their accent and the way they talk is hilarious. I am a power systems engineer in Houston, Texas. Fuck safety. Keep going! I want to see more sparks, more smoke and more power!

I feel like I'm watching deep web style video when I watch this dude

Where is this Geeza? I miss him and his videos lots. Hes prolly gone to India now - very clever lad

(in a calm voice) "uhhhh!!!.....we've exceeded our electrical supply". EPIC! (7:22) How many people can ever say that? PI, you're the man.

His power company either loves him or hates him.

this guy is one of those people who gets sexually aroused about electricity isn't he.

5:16 that’s hilarious you’re making the neighborhood lights flash on and off probably giving a lot of people brown outs!!

Working with sparks, high current and hot wires, and a carpet installed???!!!! you are nuts.

You get a sense that the educational system is heavily flawed and compromised when you read the comments here. Almost no one knows anything about electricity.

Your Vids are the best! I just can't stop laughing at your antics. Awesome mate. Love it.

This is quite insane! Man, if he had all the amps he was seeking, he'd probably create a portal to another universe.

This is why aliens don't visit earth...

i can't tell if i want you on my side after the apocalypse or if you will be the guy that causes it

You are the only person I know that is capable of putting your neighbors electricity out. Fantastic. I love your videos.

I haven’t laughed so hard. And to start 2020 off with a laugh this big. Thank you. :-) When you saw the neighbors lights dim.

I would love to sell you a life insurance policy.

having the feeling of watching some psycho movie awesome, dude

Lmao the neighbours lights... this was hilarious. Your videos are great. Looking forward to new ones :)

That transformer pulled down the neighborhood's power supply? 0.0

That must have been fun to explain to the electric company

Aw Photon man, hope you're holding up good and still getting in some playtime. You're the original KZfaq electrical destroyer/genius and inspired so many others to do cool stuff.

I'd love to hang out with this bloke. He's absolutely mental!

And that proves that this guy can forge swords.

Whenever injury occurs, it is going to be written about in a medical journal.

5 mins into the video I was crying with laughter, love your work photon

We'll be seeing these guys star in a LiveLeak video in the near future.

I'm not an expert, but if I had to guess, I would say that the circuit is extremely low voltage. A transformer will either increase the volts/decrease the amps OR it will increase the amps/decrease the volts. If the volts were low enough, even the rubber of his shoes would isolate him.

That's awesome. "I want more!" Damn electric meter spinning like a top.

This guy is Doc. Brown from Back to the Future when he was young.

Back again in my recommendations. Pls come back

I loled when you brownouted the whole street.

People who say that what he is doing is dangerous: Yes, while playing with high voltage high current power supplies has the potential to lead to a disastrous situation, this is usually not the case with Photonic as he takes many precautions that may not be so obvious to the untrained eye. Notice that most of his videos involve making things explode or glow red hot or "pop" or burn or whatever the outcome may be. What is actually happening is that he uses conductors to "close the circuit" on his beefy power supplies. This causes a massive surge of current which would otherwise be impossible to obtain without his equipment due to the unavailability of high voltages, fuses, limitations in household circuits, etc. The massive current and subsequent resistive heating (friction) of the material and then finally the "pop" or whatever is just damaging to whatever he is heating (e.g. a kettle pot, dildo, iron rod, coconut, etc.) If the power supply is rated to handle the power, everything else is fine. He is also usually ok to handle these massive wires without gloves or any other protective gear because electricity follows the path of least resistance. The current will flow through the conductor he is trying to explode and the wire rather than his body (as long as he doesn't touch the wire and yes this may happen accidentally). Now, flying projectiles, resulting fires, etc. may be dangerous, but the actual electricity is not in most cases. But then again, so is crossing the street or going down a flight of stairs or playing a game of football. All of you take relatively pretty big risks every day without noticing so please refrain from criticizing an expert electrician for being "stupid" or "incompetent" for sacrificing a small amount of personal safety for entertainment. Michele Romeo

How this video doesn't have a billion views is beyond me. THIS MAN USED A NEIGHBORHOOD'S-WORTH OF ELECTRICITY! Craziest vid on KZfaq. Andy is such a legend.

lol i hear a siren faintly in the background did u sag the police station power aswell ?

the people at the power station must love you

I cannot get enough of this guys personality and video edits lmao

I love you man, you know your shit and just straight up messing around. You deserve way more subs

10:17 That mad scientist laugh. xD

Guys sounds like captain jack sparrow

Your bloody nuts but in the good way, never laughed so much, I had accident with 125A 3 phase supply running from 2 diesel generators synced up, (main and backup) 125A connector went into meltdown, then short circuit 1st generator stalled, 2 reved right up to max rpm in secconds and exploded shooting con rods and pistons through engine block, oops.

What is your electricity bill

You guys are insane. 😂 Your vids are great!

4:23 - 4:26 - the most funniest and epicness laugh in the universe xD

Famous quotes from photon; "We're gonna crank it right up" "WE POPPED IT"

you guy's are absolutely nuts. love the video.

Iv just stumbled onto this channel.. And I'm loving it.

Brilliant! When it got to the Stanley knife, I had to pause the video so I didn't die laughing!!!!!!! :D

Those video clips towards the end are from the movie, Pulse, one of favourite 'B' movies.

honestly, you make such awesome videos. well done m8

Dude you are the funniest KZfaqr I've seen mate. This channel is gold. Subbed.

Well I like that. But I want more!

Just imagine the neighbours watching a scary movie or something and then their lights just start flickering out of nowhere.

You're absolutely insane, I love it.

I think this is the most badass video of the entire Internet. I love ya.

this was probably a spare electric meter

this guy is the electrician version of jackass

Just popped up in my time line. We miss you photon, come back soon 😁👍

As said there is a fine line between brilliant & insane and this man pogo back n forth

just out of curiosity, what's your average months' electric bill look like?