Interesting video about Electrical Arcs

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The Slow Mo Guys just published an interesting video on YouTube https://youtu.be/HDzVD-cqiWM about filming electrical arcs at 1.750.000 frames per second!

Something that the geeky nerds and/or nerdy geeks might enjoy.

By the way, some of their other experiments are plain weird, while others discover some pretty fascinating insights.

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ElecroBoom

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Mehdi zapping someone else for a change :D

Yep some weird videos

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But at home you can play with static easily by rubbing your bed at night with lights off. After a. Bit it gets freaky

Mercury Arc rectifiers

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I had a visit behind the scenes at the Volks Electric Railway back in the late 1980s. https://volksrailway.org.uk/
This is the oldest continually operating electric railway in the world.
They still used the Mercury Arc Rectifiers that had been installed in the late 1920s. What a sight.
Samantha

Arc's can cause house fires.

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Arc's can cause house fires. In Europe Arc fault detection devices were used. They did not work in the UK as we use a ring main system. Both end are joined in the consumer unit. Most countries use radial circuits.

It has been law since September to fit them into certain new build HMO's and high rises in the UK.

They are expensive but protect from earth faults, overloads and arcs. Some can even have their software updated by bluetooth.

Sorry I was an electrician in a previous life.

Leeanna

here is a similar video from my world

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here is a similar video from my world...the movies used to use these all the time and now you might see one or two on a set in a year across a HUGE lot like universal hollywood
We use HMI's now and LED is taking a large part of the market from Kino-flo/florescent

at one time I used to fix the arc lamps when I started out in my teens and now they are gone. All tossed in the trash or given away (I missed that freebee hand out! shoot! 1 guy did not and now ends up with most of the arc lamps in hollywood that he rents back to them at BIG$$$$)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOwBI8TfHAs&ab_channel=MoleR....

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