Yup

That's from a laser

True lol

That can crush was crazy man!

COSIGNED!

why would they travel all the way to the UK ?

I was about to post this same thing!

Yeah, that's what he needs to do, burn purple spots into a $10,000 dollar camera LOL

Nimmo1492 Tells us he is going to do science an then cracks open a Budweiser? Needs a propper thinking drink like whisky.

A can of whiskey?

But keep in mind: After three pints you're still absolutely sober, but you had to pee for at least three times.

Nimmo1492 yeah a pint and think rubber gloves

Before you touch your pint, check carefully, very carefully, for tell tale signs of oily film. grease-proof paper and kitchen foil in or around the glass. Or your pint could be his home made capacitor and you could be his fuse, 😊😊😊

who wouldn't

Words of wisdom

Your gonna die if you'd meet him cause before he moves on the the second experiment....the room would burst into flames

And mine too.

Same

about 3 months late :p

Just what I was thinking when he split that can in half. Reminded me of that axe and Lynx episode.

How about exploding a can of Lynx with electricity? I dunno if it is possible.

I love how this video is gonna be 5 yrs old fairly soon and people still comment and watch it.... its like ashens and his videos

Lego you are copying everyone else in the comments that said the same thing 3 years earlier than you.. way to be original

I was going to suggest the same thing.

Me too

Ditto! After exploding the potato, you should have panned down to the floor with crisps or fries on it ... LOL

stray laser beams did that

LMMFAO mate

@@ianbrunskill6787 Laugh my my fucking ass off has the same energy as that video that's like "Oh yeah, Land of the free? Then why can't I dip *my my* balls in the burger king soda dispenser"

thanks mate. good input professional vs lunatic 1:0

Photon already knew that, he destroyed it with a couple thousand KILOAMPS

surfitlive worst that could happen is someone throws up beer and donuts all over you

Tropicz welcome brother 😂

Im a cat that does electrical stuff (note: i am the mtm cat)

id be surprised if you would not :D

I dont want to know what this is trying to say

NOOO Hes too accident prone!! he will be blown across the room and exploded!!!!

Purple Perplexing Pineapples you know that shits fake right?

@@leomadero562 electro boom is the "son" of photonicindution

He sat on a flaming chair didn’t he?

@@carolynmmitchell2240 he purposefully electrocutes himself to teach us what not to do.

That's a baked, or unbaked potato recipe.

Pop tit.

greetings, blue brother.

That ought to be insulting. Tesla was a hack.

Jakob blö dude 20 other people in the comments have said this same thing.

Hes german...

JaaackXDz Arent jokes supposed to be funny?

Tauch Sieder Arent you a bit late to the party?

JaaackXDz How about you just go back to bed? We don't take kindly to your type around here!

Not only he sounds like a Brit, there are british mains sockets (BS 1363) in his kitchen.

more like 2020 photon !

I think you mean 2021 photon

@@TechHowden I guess so now lol.

Bo le o wa er tt f t

How is that possible? I get have u can get 500kv and little to no amps. but having both insane amps and volts? How can he pull all that power from the wall in 5sec? A powerplant barely outputs that:p would love a explanation. cus I must be missing something out ^^

I'm no expert myself, but I am pretty sure it's because of the capacitor. The capacitor is storing energy over a period of time (we saw at the beginning of the video that he charged it up over a couple of seconds) then releasing it all in one super fast pulse. It's basically like a battery I guess - you charge a battery slowly (eg at 1A - 10A rate), but then some batteries can be discharged at up to 100s of amps (eg car batteries can do many hundreds of amps.) In the case of this cap, apparently it can release more than 80kA :)

It is because the power is dissipated in such a short amount of time

the 80kA rating on the fuse is the amount of current the fuse can safely break without then the risk of it welding together and carrying on conducting ! 320MW noway dude lol! The capacitor could be rated at, say- 4kV and 32mircoF- so check out formulas Q=CV (charge in coloumbs= capacitance in farads x voltage across cap in volts) & W=1/2C.V² (energy in joules= half x capacitance in farads x voltage across capacitor in volts squared!) ... so for energy at 4kV on 32mircoF cap - 1280 joules ! Whoop! ... i put a short on a electrolytic 1500mircoF cap at 200VDC - fuck, i knew it would bang, but it was loud as fuck!! ...calculated at 30j! wtf! Bet Photons was well loud!

TheBloke here's a idea if you want to try that...try REAL HARD to rent a apartment right next to some high tension power lines (the really BIG ones on those big metal poles)...then run a LOT of cable (as big as you can find) right under those high voltage lines...then make your own video of what happens when you suck lots of power away from those high voltage lines...?? ;)

Yeah ! Would love to see some super slowmotion sparks and destructions!

Oh man, my favorite two British youtube stars in one video. That would be something. A shame Gavin is on this side of the pond now.

And the coil goes BANG with a puff of smoke

+futaba1994 Rail guns and coil guns are the same thing.

+Ryan Kreder No they're not...

theomnipresent1 WHATEVER!

Not even close man, a railgun is a welder with balls, coilgun is ...well a coilgun

The electric charge in this capacitor is much much higher than in a Van de Graaf generator (note that electric charge is measured in Coulomb and is unaffected by the voltage). The voltage is not defining the "dangerousness" of an electric discharge. For instance a discharge of 100kV and 1C is more dangerous than 200kV 0.5C. There has to be enough voltage to let the current flow (you can touch a power source with 0.1V and 10000A without getting hurt), but if there's already enough, there is no profit of using more voltage.

Der Kuchen Suppose you let an ordinary Van de Graaf generator charge up this capacitor for awhile. Could it build up a lethal charge? If you made a Van de Graaf generator with thicker metal and better insulated from any ground could you build up enough energy to explode a potato the way that this capacitor did?

Travis Gibby Any HV source *will* get dangerous when combined with a high enough capacity capacitor. To get a powerful discharge from a Van de Graaf generator, the sphere probably needs to be massive, but my knowledge of EHV isn't high enough to estimate this correctly

Depends on the "size" of the capacitor in terms of Farads of electrons it can hold. I haven't looked at a Van de Graaf, but I imagine it is constantly leaking its charge to the environment or to the other side of the generator, thus never storing enough Farads to do serious damage.

Ace Frahm Just a little note to prevent the spread of wrong information: Farad measures how many electrons (in Coulomb) are stored per Volt. The capacity (Farads) is static in this case. :)

About a third of a gigawatt

And of course they would say jigga watt.

+joey lapoo It's called being British. It's the same language used in America but sounds different. It's referred to as having an accent. There are places in the world where they don't even speak English! Wow, crazy right!?

+dannywithnuggets i assume he was talking about a specific person

+joey lapoo Liverpool Accent

He has a really big power supply

+DerZocker2000000 400MW for a very short period of time. Watts are the rate of energy and have no time component. So say a typical house has on the order of 200V x 200A, that is 40kW. Also let's say that the 400MW lasts for 0.001 second. 400MW/1000 = 0.4MW = 400kW for one second to charge up for that release. That is still 10x what a typical house might have for service from the power company. But it took him a couple seconds to charge the capacitor. Also my 0.001 second number was pulled out of thin air so you could easily say that is 0.0001 to make the numbers work out. Even 0.00001 seconds seems plausible, which would be only 4000 watts for one second to charge.

+Aaron Axvig I dont mean to be rude or contradictory. I agree Your overarching idea is correct, surges of high current and voltage for very short periods of time can be handled by the system even if it goes way over what it is rated for long periods. But the dimensional analysis of the watt is a joule per second (joule being a unit of energy) so time is indeed a component. You even used the word rate which implies time is a factor. Energy per time is = power (watts), basically how much energy is dissipated in a second. When you multiply watts by time the time cancels out and your left with joules or the more commonly used watt hours. In either case your left with just how much energy that system delivered in that time frame. So all that math that was shown making .4MW to 400KW really isn't accurate. But regardless you were right in answering the question that the short period of time makes it possible. Just wanted to clarify on the whole power energy watts part of your comment

u r correct, jouls are the correct term that doesnt have a time component, or in other words watt-seconds (yes the term for timeless units of energy has the word seconds in it, but it makes sense because once the time and power are combined together into one term it becomes *total energy* which is timeless)

I suspect anyone doing something like this (completely) drunk would soon win a Darwin award. I assume this guy can handle a beer. >.>

***** I dont think he drank it, he's pretty smart about being safe. But you're right I'm sure anyone would be ok with just one beer

Lopiklop Not anyone. There are common medications like serotonin reuptake inhibitors that typically greatly increase the effects of alcohol. Someone who needs to take 40mg of fluoxetine every day probably wouldn't be able to do much of anything safely other than sitting after a drink.

@oldboxes stfu ni'-$GGa go play terraria