AC VS DC - Pain Test (Experiment)

[@chaosopher23]

"Don't try this at home." "Do it at a mate's house, his parents aren't home and he has a better camera!"

[@painfulwill]

Owww, a dalekkkk

[@camilomason4560]

Willian Mailhot what?

[@ariad7452]

I can hear Mehdi Sadaghdar's ( ElectroBOOM) voice in my head when you said "full bridge rectifier"

[@eduardogarcia4452]

Aria D. A. Hahahahaha totally true!

[@katelynhamer4619]

Aria D. A. FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIAAA

[@AsymptoteInverse]

I hear him every time somebody says rectifier. :D

[@alloutsavage7110]

Hobo Sullivan I hear him in my head every time someone gets some not so good electrocution

[@antbuildshouses]

IKR!!!!!!!

[@DIYPerks]

Interesting finds! I always wondered what the different levels of pain would be. Thanks for the tests!

[@mtunayucer]

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[@cringemaki]

D: DIY Perks Here Nice c:

[@verargertesspielen4629]

Omg, DIY Perks in this Channel..

[@acgandhi]

+DIY Perks No DIY Perks, you're supposed to say "Super Finds!"

[@jacobjames2169]

What are you doing here ?

[@dr07828]

Man, you are crazy. The way you are doing that experiment is putting current through your heart.....

[@angelioto007]

This experiment reminds me elecroBOOM channel :D

[@b3kstudio]

I've been playing portal while watching this video. While you said, that let's end this torture, GLaDOS said: "The experiment is nearing its conclusion."

[@Mrvideosandgames]

Please, please be careful with any AC current flowing past your heart!

[@pythoncake2708]

+Mrvideosandgames yes he can make it with two fingers this is not so dangerous

[@drinkrealale]

+Mrvideosandgames Please be careful with DC past your heart also lol. AC voltage pulls you in and then throws you back then pulls you in again because it's a sinusoidal positive to negative and back to positive polarity!. Remember voltage doesn't kill you. CURRENT KILLS YOU eg. +500mA = DEAD. voltage is the pressure that pushes the current along.

[@Mandrag0ras]

+drinkrealale I'm one of those who believe otherwise. It's the voltage that is deadly, not the current. I have at least one on my side. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnXJY6Gem92JsMk If it's current that kills you then don't ever dare touch a usb port. It can deliver more than one amp, so you are dead.

[@sdgelectronics]

+drinkrealale DC across the heart is less of an issue, it's unlikely to cause fibrillation.

[@pythoncake2708]

drinkrealale yes! :D

[@peterschiller2451]

When doing such tests, never do it from arm to arm (like in this video), because your heart is between them ^^. I did a test with DC and AC to see how it feels and what the difference is. But I attached one cable+ on my under part of my right arm and one cable- on the upper part my right arm, I mean one near the elbow and the other near the wrist on the same arm. But I needed more than 50Volts to feel something. I remember when I was a kid, me and my college were electronic freaks and so one or two times I had encounters with different voltages, because of lack of attention. I've got contact with 220Volts about 20 times :). But the one I remember and I will never forget, was the 380Volt AC. I think I jumped about 3 m back after contact. Nowadays I know how dangerous these accidents were. But I learned a lot about electricity and electronic by learning by doing (and painfull feeling).

[@neutronenstern.]

Well if you've got an audio amplifier just check its max output voltage. If its below 12 V you can do this experiment if you feel lime wanting to have pain. (dont do it, if your heart is weak or something or just dont do it if you want to be safe) But you can basically touch the two wires of the output (left OR right) and plug your phone into the amplifyer while controlling the frequenzy of the output with a frequenzy sound app. If you dont feel anything crank the volume up. If still dont feel anything at any frequenzy you will have to put the output to the side, where you are touching the wires (left or right speaker turned on with the app). Then you will see, that very low frewuenzy is not that painfull, low frequenzy more and high frequenzy less again until you wont notice it anymore. But be sure to not do this for a long time, cause the electrolytes of your body could split up due to current (blood also) then these might get toxic

[@minecrafter9099]

+GreatScoot I've seen a video that the frequency is also an important factor to tell if it hurts or no

[@greatscottlab]

+minecrafter9099 Correct. The higher the frequency the more current can flow.

[@minecrafter9099]

+GreatScott! The video I've seen showd the opposite I think above 500hz or something like that you can't feel the power, by the way the channel is electroboom

[@greatscottlab]

+minecrafter9099 Because the human body is quite complex and can not only be described as a capacitor and resistor. What I told you was the theory behind capacitors.

[@minecrafter9099]

+GreatScott! Interesting :) I like your vids, I know that's not the main objective of the channel but how about a vid about breadboard arduino?

[@greatscottlab]

minecrafter9099 Already did it. I think it was Electronic Basics #3.

[@laurynasragauskas3383]

Jeez, how old are you? I REALLY thought you are way older :) Probably cause of the sheer amount of knowledge and experience you have and put in the videos. Keep up the good work. Sincerely, happy subscriber.

[@thomashobbes320]

I really enjoy your content. Just wanted to add that it's very dangerous to send currents from one arm through your heart to the other arm. It's a really bad idea.

[@RozinhaKaname]

Scott looks like a CHAD, No homo plz

[@BertGrink]

+GreatScott! Damit, Scott, you really go that extra mile for science! I'm deeply impressed, and my respect for you has just risen several degrees.

[@timadams3628]

Yeah, careful with the ticker there Scott. Heh I'd suggest just a hand, or maybe hand to elbow, but not through the heart. :-/

[@Ministryofshorthanddictations]

A genius with beauty.

[@meh.7539]

GreatScott: Don't try anything above 50v. Also GreatScott: Let's go to 60v.

[@MCsCreations]

Man, your ears got REALLY red! O_O

[@cbr7170]

You need to have some massive trust in that guy at the transformer haha

[@geryvalhart]

I thought it was electroboom channel Btw, I am glad you are still alive

[@Gurke01]

Hey Scott, im gonna start with an electronics lab when i wondered, which parts do I need? Can you recommend an Electronic component kit or some sort? Btw Nice Video!

[@Gurke01]

Thanks, that looks ike an great bonus to my "arts of electronics" book!

[@ХареКришна-т7г]

please who claim Great , Boss and so on Dont actually are what they . but you are Great, man.

[@tammasus]

Wow! Scott looks so different! Five years

[@chaitanyagoswami2393]

3:59 FULLL BRIDGE RECTIFIIAAAAA

[@elod88]

AC or DC currents can cause fibrillation of the heart at high enough levels. This typically takes place at 30 mA of AC (rms, 60 Hz) or 300 - 500 mA of DC. DC current can cause electrolysis in your blood&body , you will feel the effects later on

[@morlanius]

I think you could have thought about this a little better. applying the voltage on each hand means the current path is accross the chest making it more dangerous. This stuff should be done in a way that the current path does not cross the heart.

[@greatscottlab]

+Morlanius I was aware of this. I have done this before and I know my boundary very well. It doesn't look like it that much in the video but this was all well planed and with low risks. I chose the hand to hand path because with this setup happen the most electric shocks.

[@morlanius]

GreatScott! Glad to hear it, it would be a shame to loose a great youtuber such as yourself, yet still would be interesting to see how many views that video would get.

[@rahimshah4699]

Love your stuff man.

[@phinok.m.628]

Well, would have been worth mentioning the peak of about 28.3V at 20V AC... Not to mention the humidity of your hands, surface area you are touching, etc. affecting the current going through you. But apart from that, interesting results.

[@peaceandlove5855]

i see a demonstration of what we have learned before , big thanks & be careful next time ;)

[@warpman74]

Ouch, that was painfull to watch! Having been shocked with 230 V AC a couple of times I could almost feel it when you started to crank up the AC-voltage, great video though, very interesting to see how low the nasty limits actually are!

[@ttheek]

is this GreatScott or MinorScott?

[@deangreenhough3479]

As always I learn a lot here. Great work

[@DantalionNl]

nice variac those are always extremely useful.

[@reneeee891]

I love the respect from other youtubers

[@ryantoomey611]

This is interesting , because I have always heard that anything less than 50 volts is safe because you cannot get shocked, apparently that is not the case. I have also heard that 100 - 200 mA can be fatal but this video mentions that anything over 10 mA can be fatal. I am curious if the person in this video wet his hands before the test to show the worse case scenario for the voltage level to get shocked.

[@Elektrotechniker]

I like the Fact that he has a liqueur dispenser hanging on the wall at 0:24 😂

[@a_921]

That...looks dangerous I've been zapped by AC once when I was a kid. I only felt it as a "thud", but I flinched back immediately. The other kids that were there ran like hell to get an adult. I couldn't understand why they were so upset

[@RaviJani]

look at your ears turning red

[@danimaster6647]

This is interesting! I also made the experiment but could barely feel 20 volt ac. However I was also trying it on my tongue and couldn´t go higher than 5 volt.

[@minxxe2165]

'ac and dc' ACDC ^^

[@minxxe2165]

°^°!

[@mariusleoca7783]

I touched 310V DC from a full bridge rectifier with 2 fingers from my right hand. I felt the current flow through all my nerves but I can't say it was painful or dangerous. I could touch it again but you will immediately get the hand out of there.

[@barbasbandas6665]

Dont die! I need more videos!

[@LordPhobos6502]

Yup... one time I was building a nixie tube kit, and accidentally brushed my finger on the DC test points while the circuit was live. 170V DC. 'Pain' is a very simple word. It's not worth experiencing it on that level.

[@krisnadiimam4556]

thank you for your sacrifices. mind telling us the effects of amperage in this? low volt high amperage leads to serious damage i heard

[@ver64]

Fantastic , well explain. Good job

[@Darkbob-ew1lk]

That was pretty dangerous, the levels of pain in DC current could be smaller, but the damage on the muscles and nervs still are present. It's a fact that AC current it's safer to work because the pain level is higher and exist the posibility of let de contacts go between the 0v cross.

[@jeanpierredaviau7478]

Very good video and really informative. Nice boy, nice voice.

[@61barrackroad]

Interestingly cattle fences are 10KV & are more painfull if u get a glancing blow rather than just grab hold tight,partly because they are pulsed I think

[@mansawijaffar5128]

GreatAcott: 60 VDC is painful ELECTROBOOM: 160VDC is nothing ME: :-)

[@taktickerbeats2758]

woher kennst du dich so gut mit der ganzen Elektronik aus?

[@ichi4096]

make a second part with ac but with different frequencies

[@learnev]

From the video title, i thought that i am going to watch another electroBOOM video :)

[@Felixkeeg]

ElectroBOOM has made a similar video a while ago with applying voltage to his tongue as there is a smaller resistance

[@AZBTube]

DC current is comparatively safer because it flows straight and unidirectionally. On the other hand, AC current is alternating and flows changing its position from time to time. I know even 5V AC current is also very painful.

[@johanponin1360]

oh no I saw your face ! the magic of the voice has left

[@saikat-paul-vlogs]

great work bro

[@tylerwinters3607]

can you show us how to build an LED name plate like you do at the beginning of every video

[@maerufomer5469]

greatsccott, u r crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, i always wanted to know that, i even did this experiment but with low voltages!!!!!!!

[@midnightowl2323]

What I don’t get is I’ve seen people touch 120VDC and barely feel anything. But you had to quit at around 60VDC. Please elaborate on this

[@kaelthassunstrider4559]

I finally know what you look likee xD ps your voice is much better when you're talking to the camera for some reason. it's like you have less accent :o and ps you look cute :p

[@nico8273]

Really Nice ! But I think that it would have been better if you tried to avoid electricity passing thru your heart

[@christianjosephvalmocena5032]

for safer way to do that and higher voltage to handle.. for your body use two fingers with one hand so it wont cross your hearth not in two hands and handle the voltage higher..

[@darren414178]

Ha jst learnt about the rectifier in school. awesome vid as anyways !

[@thewanderingvoice7349]

Was not expecting baby face. But it's nice to know that I'm not the only person whose voice doesn't match my looks.

[@donaldfilbert4832]

Very educational. Also - very humorous and entertaining - smile ;) ;)

[@ziegelreview1828]

Du bist der beste das du so was machst

[@anilkumarreddy9522]

thank you bro for your valuable information

[@khandelwal_8080]

Evolution Of Scott's Beard😂

[@Borednesss]

I've only touched mains once.. helping my dad replace a ceiling fan, and someone before wired it so the switch controlled the light and the fan was always hot. The hot wire zapped me through the fan, managed not to drop it though

[@ARABUNITED2023]

good videos & good explanations

[@karlokezo]

Damn professor at my school let us experiment up to 100v ac, and told us that he once endured 180v.(but we were not holding contact points we were just touching them)

[@peter76654]

I connected few Li-On batteries together & my multimeter showed me voltage around 62 volts, when I touch it, I don't feels any pain, when I really concentrated I feeld something, but this was very weak

[@Arlbourne2live20]

If I live in a home with a solidly grounded system which causes harmonica and unbalanced loads do you have any ideas that I could buy or put in my home to stop or minimize the harmonica and unbalanced loads ?

[@debashisdas7557]

owww ooo This Is the frst Time I have seen yr Face in a video MAN!!!.....Ossamm..

[@glgermain]

When I was younger, one of my car cylinders was missing, and a mechanic told me to remove the spark plug wires, one at a time, to find out which was missing. He forgot to tell me to turn the car off between removals. I pulled the wire out of the running car, and the shock throw me on my ass against the wall about 5 feet away. Was that high V and low A? Anyway, I won't ever do that again!

[@isaacshiellsthomas992]

I found a 400v 39 micro farad capacitor, could you Make a video on the potentials it would/does possess plz

[@Mixbag]

modify an xbox one power supply from 5v 1a to 5v 10a ?im sure only slight modification would be needed and would make for a good bench power supply

[@jasonfisher7045]

I've had 120 volts go through my index finger before, but it didn't really hurt, it was just startling.

[@ricardoelectronicsrepair]

Its funny, i was get shock from 250v both prong isolation transformer, but not as nearly the pain on only 1 prong 220v electricity live wire even actually im in good isolation from ground lol, ac 20v after transformer i dont feel anything except autotransformer though 😁

[@FlowwUP]

You live in Germany? Muss ich dich jetzt noch langsam total lieb haben? :D

[@mathiosa2263]

You should of played thunderstruck in the background..

[@yerffejmurffy]

Are the AC voltages listed in the video RMS or Peak to Peak?

[@jonny121995]

so we need a FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER!!!! -Electroboom

[@themattrixrevolution]

how about reverse polarity? and when welding we use 22v of DC on mig , it's plausible to survive that am I right?

[@pjtruslow]

would not have done that across my whole body. maybe across a hand or arm with the rest of my body isolated, but i guess you're free to make decisions for yourself

[@dantontecho]

Wasn't it better if you put only one hand in both plates? what if the current passed through your heart?

[@abubakr4081]

if i could have a dollar for every mention of electroboom

[@ElvargMovies]

Oh. Jetzt weiß ich, wie du aussiehst :) Die geile Stimme muss ja irgendwoher kommen.

[@galacticgamers8705]

I love your vids I am 10 and am an electrical engineer I own a lot of arduino if you stop then It is hard for me to learn because they don't teach that in elementary I am very inspired by you

[@parasrajora9499]

I forgot DC can be fatal and touch or say worked by holding -50V and +50 DC wires from audio amplifier transformer(rectified) together which mean potential difference between them is of 100V (multimeter showing 110V) and i suddenly realise DC can also be fatal and that too above 100V . I immediately throw the wires and turned off the mains. I am still guessing why i didn't get any shock . came to this video and they says 40V is limit.

[@ScienceMarcYT]

I touched the 24VAC output of my transformer with the tips of my fingers between both of my hands. I didn't feel anything. Do the tips of your fingers have a significantly higher resistance than your palms?

[@AshBashVids]

The resistance of the skin depends from person to person.

[@fortun8diamond]

I used Ohm's law. I calculated that if you touch 120V, and human skin is about 130000 Ohms, then the current is just under 1 mA.

[@luongmaihunggia]

When working with electricity, sometime people can't think of the most obvious solution... FREAKING TURN OFF THE POWER

[@nycto7803]

I've actually been shocked with 12v DC from an Xbox 360 power supply (touched the metal part that's supposed to connect to the Xbox) and it left an internal scar. :(

[@arv1ndgr]

Thanks a lot for presenting real time test. One doubt I always had, whenever I accidentally touched 220v I felt AC like vibration, till I untouched. But in that short time, I was able to feel current waveforms drop to zero very rapidly. How did feel to you when you touch DC? Was it same as like AC? Egarly awaiting for your response. Keep up your Good videos....

[@arv1ndgr]

+greatscott I^d be glad to get written back by you...

[@arv1ndgr]

+A rv +GreatScott!

[@rentacowisgoogle]

So you decide to test across your chest?!

[@Jan-fw4bs]

i once got a shock from 110V AC(thats what i measured without load, so with my body as a load probably alot less cause it came from a small PSU) but still it quite hurt and my arm moved uncontrollably :I

[@jorgebeniti6898]

thank you

[@gnsgr6433]

Can I ask something? If the AC and DC currents were limited (let's say, by a fuse) to only 5mA which isn't dangerous, could you go to voltages bigger than 50VDC and 20VAC? Thanks.

[@plankins4702]

4:01 electro boom would say FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER

[@MsSomeonenew]

Well if you are going to do AC voltages then bust out the oscilloscope, the shit voltmeters come up with is some approximation of RMS voltage, for this experiment you need to know peak voltages which are a good deal higher then what a voltmeter will show.

[@greatscottlab]

+MsSomeonenew RMS* square root of 2 to be specific.