Hey, how are you doing? Today we are back in the lab with a new random experiment full of excitement!
For this experiment I just got back my 12,000-volt neon sign converter, like this thing.
This is Jacob’s Ladder I built for mad science Minionproject
and it is an arc of electricity to go up again and again.
Now, if you could go back in time and would reflect on the fact that the electric field genius Nikola Tesla
no decision had as solid capacitors and relays as we do today.
Instead he had glass, aluminum and salt water to build capacitor banks for his experiments.
Today for this experiment I thought it would be fun to build a simple salt water capacitor bank
and that we need only a glass bottle as cola bottles, which I picked up at the grocery store and some aluminum foil.
We will have to start with pick up the caps and remove the fluid and replacing it with water.
Salt water, to be exact.
Then we use a little bit of aluminum or some aluminum tape, which I got from the hardware store, to tie it around and our capacitor will be complete.
So let’s gather these materials and get to work.
These bottles are not the best, because they have an abnormal shape. It would be better to have some straight wall, but what the hell.
This is what we did. The bottles had no labels so basically we could not remove.
So we have just taken a simple piece of aluminum foil, the wrapped around the bottle and the flattened so that they have the shape of the glass.
Now it is true that the more the smoother the film, the better this will work, but I think they will do very well.
I’ve caught another piece of aluminum foil and I folded up the straws to make this homemade aluminum wires.
The go right into the middle of the bottles.
It looks like a nice bite-sized metal soda.
So what do we have left is to make the liquid inside. We use water with a little salt.
To make the salt-water mixture I have this cup filled with water and I picked up this real sea salt.
We could use the sea salt from a previous experiment we want.
What we do is we take a little of this and we put it in the water, we mix the moment until it is dissolved in the water.
Then we pour it into the vial, until the liquid reaches up to approximately the height of the foil.
That should be enough.
Now I have caught all the bottles for fun and they made capacitors and they all look the same.
Besides this, the film is a little lower, but that does not matter.
This is a basic capacitor, because the salt water inside acts as a capacitive plate,
the glass is the dielectric and the exterior, the aluminum foil, is to build up the voltage.
Capacitors have many applications in electronics.
I will not go into the theories why capacitors are so important.
Instead, I’m going to show what difference these devices when we attach to the bucket elevator.
So, let’s talk about jacobs ladders.
When we take the two high voltage electrodes and we attach them to the terminal, will make the electric arcs in the path of least resistance,
what is here below, where the two points are the closest.
As the air heats up around the arc, this will go up naturally.
And when it does, the electricity will continue to go through, because that is the path of least resistance.
Until it is high enough so that it extends so far that it snaps. At that time he comes back down and he goes around the circle.
Let us now for the fun of parallel connecting this bottle to the system,
and let’s see what difference it makes to the bow.
So here’s the quick setup I have for our parallel circuit
We still have our high-voltage electrode, which passes through this terminal.
But now you can see how a clip connecting the wire to the rod which enters the bottle.
On the other hand, we have a second clip which nothing attached to it, the high voltage wire that nothing is stuck in
and we have the outside of the bottle is wrapped in aluminum.
The idea is that we will see the same reaction when we connect them.
But when we let it make contact with the outside of the bottle, that reaction will change a little bit.
We have our power line and we connect them.
And we have the same response as before, great!
Let’s make contact with the outside of the bottle …
We have a bold halo.
It all looked nice, but nothing happens to the Jacob’s ladder until we make contact with the other clip.
Look!
That’s a bit different, is not it?
We go from a beautiful arch that rises to a very sharp bow remains down.
That scent you smell is ozone. We’re just ozone to make it!
That is actually poisonous, but not in small concentrations. Going so well!
The other thing you might notice is that it’s terribly loud.
It’s so loud, namely, that it would be a good idea to wear earplugs because my ears squeak.
We’re just little bliksempjes shooting at our desk, and that happens not only on our jacobs ladder,
but you can also see it when I close the bottle bowl itself.
We can shoot bliksemschichtjes between the electrodes and the aluminum foil on the outside.
It’s great to think how a little salt water can make a bit of aluminum foil and a Coke bottle such a big change.
But what if we still go the extra mile and we attach all the bottles out.
Let’s do it now!
* Evil laugh *
We are ready, we took our six bottles.
We’ve fastened parallel to each other so that all six bottles make contacts both inside and outside.
Okay, I have my system parallel solidified it, let me show you how.
I have two clips with the high voltage terminals that go into it.
If I turn it jacobs ladder would do his regular work
A clip goes to the top, which is already installed, the second wait until he can touch the side while the system is working.
We could reach it in real time, with a hand on the back, and we can see what a difference it will make.
Here we go!
You can see the bucket elevator is working as it normally does, now let me make this connection with the capacitor bank,
He will administer the capacitor energy and we’ll see what a difference it will make.
Here we go!
It is very loud!
And you can see that I can actually touch each bottle with the same effect.
No matter how high arch is: when I touch the bottle, he goes straight down.
That’s because there is so much energy that the air can no longer raise.
It goes right through the path of least resistance.
The reason I have a hand behind my back, because it can stop my heart by the amount of power when I accidentally touch.
We are now working with a higher voltage and higher amperage, and that’s a dangerous duo.
If I keep it at a constant distance, you can see that it takes a second to build the tension,
but then it begins to flash if the voltage is high enough to bridge the distance.
That’s very similar to how lightning works: you have the clouds and the ground that as the capacitive plates work,
you have the air in the middle, which is the dielectric, and when the voltage is enough
you have a lightning bolt that connects the two and equalizes the tensions.
Very dangerous to be doing this, so it’s best ontzagwekkent.
Now Smell my workshop to ozone.
That’s the smell that you smell after a thunderstorm by lightning strikes.
That’s it, folks.
A very bold experiment that you can do with some glass bottles and aluminum foil to make a simple electrical capacitor.
Not very practical at the moment, but it is the one that used Tesla.
Nice that you participated in this crazy science experiment. See you in the next video!
This is Jacob’s ladder I built for mining
This is Jacob’s ladder that I built for my GE
This is Jacob’s ladder which I made for my crazy Minionproject science, and it’s going up a bow again and again.
Hi folks, I fall back here with the door in the house to invite you to my Instagrampagina.
I have a very active page where I daily images and stories to post on behind the scenes and every day is an adventure.
It takes only five seconds of your time to click the link in the description to follow me, as ‘King of Random’ on Instagram.
See you there!
For this experiment I just got back my 12,000-volt neon sign converter, like this thing.
This is Jacob’s Ladder I built for mad science Minionproject
and it is an arc of electricity to go up again and again.
Now, if you could go back in time and would reflect on the fact that the electric field genius Nikola Tesla
no decision had as solid capacitors and relays as we do today.
Instead he had glass, aluminum and salt water to build capacitor banks for his experiments.
Today for this experiment I thought it would be fun to build a simple salt water capacitor bank
and that we need only a glass bottle as cola bottles, which I picked up at the grocery store and some aluminum foil.
We will have to start with pick up the caps and remove the fluid and replacing it with water.
Salt water, to be exact.
Then we use a little bit of aluminum or some aluminum tape, which I got from the hardware store, to tie it around and our capacitor will be complete.
So let’s gather these materials and get to work.
These bottles are not the best, because they have an abnormal shape. It would be better to have some straight wall, but what the hell.
This is what we did. The bottles had no labels so basically we could not remove.
So we have just taken a simple piece of aluminum foil, the wrapped around the bottle and the flattened so that they have the shape of the glass.
Now it is true that the more the smoother the film, the better this will work, but I think they will do very well.
I’ve caught another piece of aluminum foil and I folded up the straws to make this homemade aluminum wires.
The go right into the middle of the bottles.
It looks like a nice bite-sized metal soda.
So what do we have left is to make the liquid inside. We use water with a little salt.
To make the salt-water mixture I have this cup filled with water and I picked up this real sea salt.
We could use the sea salt from a previous experiment we want.
What we do is we take a little of this and we put it in the water, we mix the moment until it is dissolved in the water.
Then we pour it into the vial, until the liquid reaches up to approximately the height of the foil.
That should be enough.
Now I have caught all the bottles for fun and they made capacitors and they all look the same.
Besides this, the film is a little lower, but that does not matter.
This is a basic capacitor, because the salt water inside acts as a capacitive plate,
the glass is the dielectric and the exterior, the aluminum foil, is to build up the voltage.
Capacitors have many applications in electronics.
I will not go into the theories why capacitors are so important.
Instead, I’m going to show what difference these devices when we attach to the bucket elevator.
So, let’s talk about jacobs ladders.
When we take the two high voltage electrodes and we attach them to the terminal, will make the electric arcs in the path of least resistance,
what is here below, where the two points are the closest.
As the air heats up around the arc, this will go up naturally.
And when it does, the electricity will continue to go through, because that is the path of least resistance.
Until it is high enough so that it extends so far that it snaps. At that time he comes back down and he goes around the circle.
Let us now for the fun of parallel connecting this bottle to the system,
and let’s see what difference it makes to the bow.
So here’s the quick setup I have for our parallel circuit
We still have our high-voltage electrode, which passes through this terminal.
But now you can see how a clip connecting the wire to the rod which enters the bottle.
On the other hand, we have a second clip which nothing attached to it, the high voltage wire that nothing is stuck in
and we have the outside of the bottle is wrapped in aluminum.
The idea is that we will see the same reaction when we connect them.
But when we let it make contact with the outside of the bottle, that reaction will change a little bit.
We have our power line and we connect them.
And we have the same response as before, great!
Let’s make contact with the outside of the bottle …
We have a bold halo.
It all looked nice, but nothing happens to the Jacob’s ladder until we make contact with the other clip.
Look!
That’s a bit different, is not it?
We go from a beautiful arch that rises to a very sharp bow remains down.
That scent you smell is ozone. We’re just ozone to make it!
That is actually poisonous, but not in small concentrations. Going so well!
The other thing you might notice is that it’s terribly loud.
It’s so loud, namely, that it would be a good idea to wear earplugs because my ears squeak.
We’re just little bliksempjes shooting at our desk, and that happens not only on our jacobs ladder,
but you can also see it when I close the bottle bowl itself.
We can shoot bliksemschichtjes between the electrodes and the aluminum foil on the outside.
It’s great to think how a little salt water can make a bit of aluminum foil and a Coke bottle such a big change.
But what if we still go the extra mile and we attach all the bottles out.
Let’s do it now!
* Evil laugh *
We are ready, we took our six bottles.
We’ve fastened parallel to each other so that all six bottles make contacts both inside and outside.
Okay, I have my system parallel solidified it, let me show you how.
I have two clips with the high voltage terminals that go into it.
If I turn it jacobs ladder would do his regular work
A clip goes to the top, which is already installed, the second wait until he can touch the side while the system is working.
We could reach it in real time, with a hand on the back, and we can see what a difference it will make.
Here we go!
You can see the bucket elevator is working as it normally does, now let me make this connection with the capacitor bank,
He will administer the capacitor energy and we’ll see what a difference it will make.
Here we go!
It is very loud!
And you can see that I can actually touch each bottle with the same effect.
No matter how high arch is: when I touch the bottle, he goes straight down.
That’s because there is so much energy that the air can no longer raise.
It goes right through the path of least resistance.
The reason I have a hand behind my back, because it can stop my heart by the amount of power when I accidentally touch.
We are now working with a higher voltage and higher amperage, and that’s a dangerous duo.
If I keep it at a constant distance, you can see that it takes a second to build the tension,
but then it begins to flash if the voltage is high enough to bridge the distance.
That’s very similar to how lightning works: you have the clouds and the ground that as the capacitive plates work,
you have the air in the middle, which is the dielectric, and when the voltage is enough
you have a lightning bolt that connects the two and equalizes the tensions.
Very dangerous to be doing this, so it’s best ontzagwekkent.
Now Smell my workshop to ozone.
That’s the smell that you smell after a thunderstorm by lightning strikes.
That’s it, folks.
A very bold experiment that you can do with some glass bottles and aluminum foil to make a simple electrical capacitor.
Not very practical at the moment, but it is the one that used Tesla.
Nice that you participated in this crazy science experiment. See you in the next video!
This is Jacob’s ladder I built for mining
This is Jacob’s ladder that I built for my GE
This is Jacob’s ladder which I made for my crazy Minionproject science, and it’s going up a bow again and again.
Hi folks, I fall back here with the door in the house to invite you to my Instagrampagina.
I have a very active page where I daily images and stories to post on behind the scenes and every day is an adventure.
It takes only five seconds of your time to click the link in the description to follow me, as ‘King of Random’ on Instagram.
See you there!
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