Making a Tesla Coil Magic Wand, to Celebrate 5 MILLION SUBS!

Thank YOU for 5 Mil Subs and Thanks to LulzBot at lulzbot.com for providing the 3D printers! To enter the giveaway make sure to follow / lulzbot3d AND post a tweet tagging @lulzbot3D using #ElectroBOOM and say why you need a 3D printer. The winners will be drawn from these tweets and will be announced next week Friday March 11, 2022. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!
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By: Mehdi Sadaghdar
0:00 Intro, 5 Million Giveaway Announcement
0:36 Making of the Tesla Coil Magic Wand
14:03 Testing the Magic Wand
17:14, Giveaway Time!

[@bigclivedotcom]

Yay! 5 million. Totally deserved.

[@AndrewMellor-darkphoton]

hi

[@joshm264]

You're not too far from a million yourself

[@Random_4400]

lol its you

[@omniyambot9876]

Sad electroboom don't pump good content anymore. I think he doesn't love to do interesting vids at the moment. I stopped contributing to patreon. Bigclive this time.

[@BradTech.]

No, no; no. YOU get back to making videos, I'm getting bored again over here good sir!

[@thetask1337]

the floating head drawing on the whiteboard is an excellent idea, please keep doing that!

[@kahe7436]

Yeah 🤣

[@goaty_the_goat]

@Pinocchio dude no

[@goaty_the_goat]

Yea he should keep doing this

[@komakozeee]

Oh yea i love that bit x,D

[@VerbenaIDK]

and also that can be used for memes

[@xardnaslp3171]

5:30."then we sand it until it's as smooth as your brains" Lmfao, didn't expect to get roasted like that

[@dougthomson5544]

He did say, “Sorry …”!

[@JoeyThe_Great]

@@dougthomson5544 Apologies

[@Jameswen-electronics]

He said apologizes

[@thedefaultguy7884]

Can we just appreciate his drawing skills the way he was explaining us the construction of the magic wand on the software 😂

[@yuzaki4757]

5:10 Why did that catch me🤣🤣

[@Flames_Spirit]

i just wanna know where is his building Tesla coil video i need it for electrician project

[@PlasmaChannel]

When you dropped that bulb, we all felt the tears of a thousand suns. Congrats on the 5,000,000 subs, and enjoying yet another RF burn!

[@mskiptr]

Aren't these lamps filled with like mercury vapors?

[@kwinters5550]

14:48 When you knock a fragile item over.

[@mskiptr]

@@ProtoV33MK1 Ok, I looked it up and supposedly it's ~4mg of mercury per a CFL lamp. (Let's assume it's all vaporized.) US environmental limit for concentration in air (by OSHA - work safety and stuff) is .1mg/m³ This would mean it needs to spread into 40 cubic meters (e.g. a 4m×5m×2m room) to not exceed these limits So yeah… Most likely not dangerous. Still better to ventilate the room and try to not inhale too much when it's still concentrated, but it's not gonna harm you from happening once

[@jondelaire]

You guys should try out the new Tesla coil design by Eric Dollard!!!!!! No more primary winding!!!!!

[@NGUUUH]

Waiting for you to recreate the wand. A nicer version though, as always :))

[@sebastianpiling7607]

It is good to see a legend not stopping, but evolving even after 10 years, and still keeping the old traditions and humor, you deserve that 5mil.

[@murderyoutubeworkersandceos]

Pity we don't see you improving your english

[@redakdal]

@@murderyoutubeworkersandceos Says the guy who can't even be bothered to put a period at the end of his sentence.

[@chrispham6599]

@@redakdal and he has the audacity to criticise OTHER people's English

[@razerss]

@@redakdal look at that guy's profile photo you commented to.

[@murderyoutubeworkersandceos]

@@redakdal oh yeah? And u trash were confused whether the comment was finnished, or not?

[@davidjones8942]

BTW, 3M Scotch® Self-Fusing Silicone Rubber Electrical Tape 70 has an elecrical insulation rating of 34k volts per mm of thickness.... that should be really useful in a project like that. Either between the two coils, around the screw that was too long, or between the secondaty and a solid ferro core...

[@23bobjr]

he knows. He knows a HELL of a lot more than you do.

[@davidjones8942]

@23bobjr well, what a complete ass you are. Since you don't know me, you have no idea how much I know....

[@Chance57]

@@23bobjr what's wrong with you, dude? Your body of knowledge is inconsequential if it doesn't happen to cross your mind during a brainstorm and engineers collaborate all the time. Good ideas can come from the less knowledgeable and often do if you're not arrogant enough to think you always know better. Do you think he's never incorporated comments feedback and suggestions into his work? You've got a weird vicarious superiority complex and you need to cut it out.

[@kennystevens2923]

@@23bobjr And David here knows more than you. Please, don't be a jackass.

[@EncoreBetch]

“It’s *badness* that makes it *great”* Such true words have never been spoken...

[@PaulVes]

I have a new favorite phrase, "Look at that fluffy plasma!". Congrats on reaching 5,000,000. You deserve it!

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I love sentences that seem like they shouldn't make sense but do make sense.

[@mviz2299]

14:47 "oh shit, I broke my lamp"

[@petruonisa9477]

Break 💡

[@baddgeeksquad]

E

[@baddgeeksquad]

Ye

[@marsgizmo]

Huge congrats Mehdi! Well deserved! 👏😎 3D Printing for the win! ..water-cooled magic wand.. 👀

[@damorin2154]

First

[@mr.fahrenheit7009]

Ok

[@gorkskoal9315]

yes but can it run crysis core?

[@limera1nx]

Not A bad idea tho, maybe consider using a thick, hollow copper tube as the primary and run water through it.

[@huben_1337]

or run mineral oil through it

[@caseyleirer9677]

I just ordered a DIY tesla coil, and I’m so excited. I’ve been learning programming, but I took a detour into electronics when I found electrobooms videos.

[@malikashtar7216]

same

[@desmondkajim847]

What’s the link to the coil

[@theinterruptedlife1783]

You sir are legendary, playing with literal electrons and creating arcs at will! So m any concepts are learnt while doing projects, I love it!

[@MarlonNardi]

Congrats Mehdi! Like I said before, the best professor ever!

[@MaThEuS-or6xt]

Um dia vai ser vc marlon que vai ganhar os parabéns por ajudar e divertir milhões de alunos, ja estou ansioso por semana que vem!!!

[@MarlonNardi]

@@MaThEuS-or6xt Muito obrigado Matheus! Vamos com tudo e te vejo semana que vem! Abração!

[@luizfigueira1008]

@@MarlonNardi kkkk achei q era o unico br que assistia esse canal

[@luizfigueira1008]

​@@MarlonNardie eu acompanho se canal tbm muito bom ​

[@Dukefazon]

This green screen - headless whiteboard thingy is amazing! :D Maybe 3D printed stuff wasn't a good idea with high volgate that generates so much heat, melting the filament :/

[@rubenstenlund]

@Pinocchio dafuc

[@sovietrussia3632]

The right filament would solve that, provided the printer can print said filaments.

[@bluedeath996]

If you used PEEK or PEKK it would have a much better thermal and electrical properties, but a wallet hurting price.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Another problem with 3D printed stuff: it's green, which means you won't be able to use it in front of a green screen to put in a magical background.

[@verakoo6187]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 thats just the color he used, u can get filament in almost any color.

[@gavingomes]

Love the voiceover 😂😂😂 thank you Mehdi, never had fun learning something new and complicated

[@brngrofdeth]

Congratulations on your amazing achievement. Thank you for everything. Love and blessings from Ontario Canada!

[@Jadiac5]

The electricity going over the surface being so clearly captured by the camera is one of the coolest things I've seen this year

[@AriKolbeinsson]

that was really beautiful

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

It's one of the rare instances of science in real life looking the same as it does in movies.

[@R.N.M-]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Was thinking the same :D

[@Rabbit-the-One]

Check out Kyle Hill's channel. You might like that one too.

[@wolu9456]

Remember Photonicinduction 's channel. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnLZpZd7qdyDiqs random video pic titled "Mad Science 500 keV"

[@Electrolab-Eletronica]

Congratulations Mehdi on 5 million subs! You really deserve it for sharing electrical/electronics knowledge in a unique and fun way!

[@marteloficina]

O seu canal Electrolab é muito bom, aprendi várias coisas sobre eletrônica e ainda não fiz porque não tive tempo mas logo vou fazer aquele seu autofalante de plasma usando flyback. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3awnH5_o7WFrqM será que com 24v o arco elétrico fica mais forte ou pode acabar queimando algo no circuito?

[@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer]

Congrats Mehdi

[@lilv728]

Mehdi you actually make learning fun. You are also hilarious man you may be the funniest guy on earth. You make understanding electricity a lot easier and I've always wanted to learn more about electricity. Just wanted to say thanks! Keep up the good work!

[@Dangerous_DM]

V sauce is recommended if you like this gay, v sauce is basically just random nonsense and it’s quite humorous

[@tomaspavelka4091]

Even that I'm building Tesla coils for some time, I learned from this video many new and interesting things. That epoxy stick with small ferrite cores is a pretty cool idea. Your sense of humor always gets me 😃 !!FLUFFY PLASMA!!😁

[@H34...]

You can use ferrite dust mixed into epoxy, gives much higher density of ferrite while also decreasing the maximum conductive length from the size of the rods to the size of the ferrite particle. I'd give it an external plain epoxy coat to cover any exposed bits of ferrite from the casting though.

[@michaelwojczik3740]

I wrote my Bachelors thesis about such ferrite-epoxy composits for inductive charging, so it should also work very good here.

[@RichardBetel]

Pro-tip that I learned recently: you can thin out the epoxy with acetone and then paint it on to the secondary coil with a brush. It'll be less messy. (learned about that from a video about making voice coils for home-made speakers)

[@ChristmasTurki]

Thanks pal

[@hopeful_krystal]

Like the acetone used for nailpolish?

[@RichardBetel]

@@hopeful_krystal yep! Be careful though: there is acetone-free nail polish remover. I think if you buy it at a hardware store, you'll get it for less per unit volume, though.

[@magic_cfw]

did you expect us to watch this for high quality epoxy use? or high quality content?

[@RichardBetel]

@Edward Elizabeth Hitler hmmm. I keep a box full of silica (with indicator dye) to keep my plastics dry. It had never occurred to me I should do something similar with acetone. Good tip! Thanks!

[@miskatoniceggo434]

Dued, you are honestly amazing seriously, the level of knowledge you have on this and then being able to share it in a fun way that gets people excited and wanting to learn more is a Unique quality that most try to learn, your videos have sooo much in them it's great, your awesome bro. I love aluminum welding, so it's awesome seeing that in other things like thus and music theory ect, all of life (:

[@agoogleuser8492]

Truly brilliant. I didn’t search this evening for videos of current day mad scientists testing dangerous electronic setups but I got it and I’m delighted. I subscribed and have lots to watch, where has this channel been all my life :-)

[@playbyan1453]

2:47 this is genious, I loved it when he doing new stuffs.

[@kirarodriquez8200]

"...as smooth as your brains..." Boom, you got us good 💜 Massive congratulations to you for 5 mil subs!

[@robinmuller8439]

Loved the video! Really happy for you to finally reach 5 million!

[@martijn3151]

06:12 love your shiny ball!

[@evancarpenter]

Congratulations!!! That moment at 2:40 is exemplary of how you think outside the box and are truly innovative! You make these topics so amazing and engaging!!!

[@ArnabDas_01]

I skipped that part and didn't notice it... until I read this

[@rfxcll]

Gotta keep the tradition running.

[@johnbeamon]

16:40 The highs, the lows, the f--- no-es. That was an emotional roller coaster, even more so than your runaway stand-up desk. Thanks for sharing this project with us.

[@mebs791]

@@luuliiquiinteroo3017 shut up

[@TantalumPolytope]

Congratulations 🎉 You have been selected by a scammer Don't send him messages to sort it out

[@danek_hren]

​@@luuliiquiinteroo3017🤡

[@TulgaD5]

Congrats for 5 M!! And wow, this looks very professional and done with a lot of love

[@TulgaD5]

Also the whiteboard is illusion 100

[@TYLERSWIFTSWORD]

1:45 BRO SAME

[@engineericly]

Congrats on 5M subs, You have had many electro shocks to get there!

[@boobtronic9000]

@Morozko Hehehehe there was an ad so it didn't work 😂

[@JaidenIGuessWasTaken]

12:26 nice safety margin on that insulator! always nice to see insulators fail in a flashover and not a puncture.

[@Stratiis]

:)

[@claudiogarciasarmiento7487]

finally he didnt get electred

[@amandawoodward5596]

I wish this guy was my science teacher back in high school. I joined the navy after highschool and became an sonar technician. I discovered a big interest in how electronics work and in conjunction with ElectroBoom's channel, I've decided I want to go to college for something with electronics. I was thinking electrical engineering but ultimately I want to be able to work on electronics doing troubleshooting. I loved the problem solving aspect as a technician.

[@sftf557]

2:56 That part was so nice, felt like some private lessons eheh

[@mckinleybates2829]

been watching this guy since i was 12, the fact he still kept making videos after all this time really shows how dedicated he is, he really has earned 5 mil subs the long way. congrats man, you earned this bro.

[@BabyOxide]

Since 12 Assuming u started when he started Your 22… He said 10 years … So atleast yr between 12 and 22 mmm I was bored 😂

[@BooBar2521]

Holy moly, this green screen skills are amazing. It literally looks like he is sitting there 🤣. Your visual explanations raised at 10000 🔥

[@AltonTRU]

Nobody notices that his shirt changes every time for green screen

[@Avidiy]

14:55 😂😂😂 "i borke my lamp" in sad

[@Avidiy]

oops AGIAN... 14:45

[@danek_hren]

14:50*

[@Bigman_Satn]

"The radiation interferes with my table"

[@gen_edits]

I have been watching every single video of yours from the beginning. Nice to see how far you have grown but still keep up the old humor which keeps bringing me back. Thank you Mehdi for entertaining us with all your explosions and near-death experiences. A well deserved 5 million subs tbh😇

[@jimhalpert9421]

Your new sketching setup is super creative and looks great on screen. Well done!

[@chrispham6599]

I agree! Green screening the whiteboards is genius

[@Wrangler2603]

Electro, you are the best... I just love how you handle the shocks like a pro. I am a noob when it comes to electronics, thus I shock a lot too, but mine is accidental, thus I do not catch mine on camera.. You on the other hand is educated enough to expect it, yet you do it for our entertainment purposes while teaching us... I just love this!!! It will not however change my luck for not getting shocked... Maybe push me a little more to try and also make it entertaining...😄😄😄

[@dinob1327]

New to your channel but loving your videos. Cracking me up every time. 👍

[@P1T4R0]

Omg😂 you could be the new TikTok text voice! 1:30

[@random22026]

5:15 Not only a magician, but a celery stalker. Top Tier 3D printing, B💥💥M-tastic! :D 18:01 Unibrow 3D

[@UnknownUnknown-lf4io]

16:44 Oh F***K NO!

[@dwmaddawgs]

Your epoxy electric motor setup is exactly how i fix my fishing rods! 😀 I use epoxy to adhere a winding of braided fishing line over the new line guide eyes. It's like homemade fiberglass.

[@fluffy6262]

01:49 that joke killed me. I have stomach ake from that, especially the laugh! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@blu0x7d12]

14:50 the genuine sadness in his voice broke me

[@bah3698]

He's scared

[@bah3698]

The mercury in the lamp

[@DavidLindes]

12:57/13:29 - nice imprumptu lathe! I dig it! (And the whole project, too, but I was expecting that; the lathe was a surprise bonus!) "It is beautiful" indeed!

[@thatmemeenjoyer1327]

congrats on 5M! i love yours videos! i learn alot of new things from you ... Thanks!!! keep up the work!!!!

[@artsycosmie887]

im always satisfied by him not only succeeding in his creations..but still managing to electrocute/burn/blow something up in the process one way or another.

[@theobserver314]

16:45 "oOoOh! fUg nO!"

[@SnarkDADmin]

I laughed so fucking hard at how his pitch shifted

[@danek_hren]

​​@@SnarkDADminsadist

[@manifaridi9200]

Ahhh self burns, those are rare XD @ 1:50

[@manifaridi9200]

@WhatsApp ➕➀➈➃⓪➁➈⓪➀➁➅⓪ Hello Mr. Scammer. What about scamming someone else, huh?

[@MichaelJavier1]

yup same thing that my parents say 1:50

[@LykMike]

Congratulations! Love your vids I've watched you for yrs!

[@SovietVenturesInc]

Your tutorial-talk whilst explaining the process is great and I want that voice to narrate everything narratable

[@_Lythe_]

I’ve been subscribed to your for a couple years now and have watched you grow from 800k to 5mil now! It’s nice to see you get the attention you deserve! Good luck my friend and I’ll keep watching keenly.

[@androkles04]

The "oh fuck no" sounded so different than normal that I burst out laughing. Great episode!

[@Domikazi]

I rewound and watched that part like 3 times. Fucking hell.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

The comedic timing was perfect.

[@lydonharriparsad2236]

brilliant, i really enjoy your projects. i once used a 3pin car head light and mis judged them as LNE. if i had some brilliant test equipment i probably wouldnt have known electronics today.

[@antimaster6432]

13:25 magnetokebab

[@bs321321]

This is the best episode of "How It's Made" ever.

[@offroadlovers6625]

5:47 I can't stot my laughing 🤣

[@keltudabigboss9716]

Apology

[@HanshaniLavanya1]

Stot 💀😂

[@LaurentiuGavrea]

The most comprehensive real science most useful lesson I have ever met about Tesla Coil amazing principles and secrets, now right from my favourite HiTech genius wizard-teacher! Forever subscribed as addicted, of course ! Genius idea to include epoxy full filling and ferrites core then divided them to both increasing inductance and high voltage insulation!!! Many thanks!

[@Owen_loves_Butters]

15:25 I appreciate the accuracy there :)

[@00kidney]

Congratulations on 5 million! You really deserved it! And I cannot imagine how much solder fume you had to sniff to get there!

[@mr.fahrenheit7009]

Ok

[@killjoy2131]

How does a channel go from double-O-kidney to ''Katherine'' and still talks about the all natural alternatives that will save the world?

[@Da-Real-Gigachad]

Probably too much fumes.

[@frankierzucekjr]

Lmao. At 16:28 slow the video doen to .25 hahaha it's hilarious. Seeing the yellow/orange spark and hearing you say ouch in slow motion. Can't wait for the Slow Mo Guys and you to collaborate. It's going to be epic

[@RobertJ1983]

I loved the subtle edit of "majic" to "magic". I laughed so hard. It was so funny.

[@wardmayfield2289]

Came h ere from the Slo-Mo Guys collab. You are gut bustingly hilarious, educational, and simply put a joy to watch. You got my subscription!

[@diosealorwh]

Damn, this actually looks like it's going to work. Just needs some engineering fine-tuning on the insulation and it's gonna be cool af

[@AtAGlimpse_UB]

15:47 reminds me of the deadly jacob's ladder.....

[@ModeratelyAmused]

10:54 Well placed product placement for future sponsor consideration.

[@markb5214]

Hi, I really love these projects, they’re incredibly informative and a little bit dangerous at the same time. I would like to make a suggestion about the wand. The primary winding overheated you say because of arcing. I don’t believe that is the case, I think it is because of the thickness of the wire. You have a high frequency resonant circuit and a high frequency alternating magnetic field. This is inducing a lot of current (eddy currents) in that thick copper wire causing it heat up and waste a lot of power. I would suggest replacing the thick copper with much thinner enamelled wires bunched together like a rope with all the ends connected together.

[@Leon3cs]

14:23 the magic wand doing it's thing

[@matthewbertrand4139]

1:05 pictured: ElectroBOOM casts _chain lightning_

[@wildman8060]

Omg its amazing to see how much his comedy has grown in all this time. It's amazing

[@Beencheeling]

Damn, you are a proffesional editor, this and your skill with electronics made you skyrocket

[@jmcdowell994]

Heartiest congratulations Professor ‘Boom’ Mehdi!! I have been watching and learning so much from your videos since the dawn of Electroboom. Seeing the way your channel has evolved over these ten years has been very impressive to say the least. Here is to the next ten years (looking forward already to what they will bring) and ten million subscribers!! A thoroughly deserved milestone!!

[@chemistree6558]

1:27 sounds like kreosan english

[@Leonharden]

nice project, try using a hf litz wire for the primary winding to get less skin effect which in reverse will reduce the losses and heat of the bottom rod

[@_add.it.ya_]

Congratulations mehdi

[@nicolasabdelkarim4052]

Don't watch this with housemates around... 12:10 *clap clap* ouuch *clap clap clap* ouch... Hard to explain 😂

[@OkNoBigDeal]

2:48 was genius and hilarious.

[@Healing_Coding]

Psychologist: quiet, Mehdi's flying head does not exist, it can not hurt you Mehdi's Flying Head:

[@windowsxpmemesandstufflol]

@@Healing_Coding mirrored

[@majdabbas2673]

He’s an expert,but acts like he has no idea what he’s doing has to be the funniest part in his videos

[@skulllord124]

Congrats on the 5 million subscribers I have loved ur channel for years

[@ArtoPekkanen]

Congratz on the 5M subs my dude, you've earned it :) Also I have to you say you're pretty rad ... I haven't heard many people manually making coils with 700 turns with thin wire :D that requires some serious skills and patience.

[@budderbuddha52]

1:40 EMOTIONAL DAMAGE

[@ShadowCammando24]

always loved this guy channel. Congratulations on 5 million subscribers!

[@sprk_music]

I've never seen something like you did with your head over the whiteboard 😄 awesome idea

[@alexandervp7922]

Congratulations! I love how your projects have become so professional, i remember the good old days of pvc pipe and duct tape

[@prakhar6334]

1:22 my thing just turned on;)

[@bah3698]

💀

[@rifeenjn9196]

masterful use of your grrenscreen sir. never seen someone use it like that and i tip my hat to you, it works fabulously.

[@varaniversum7614]

Congratulations to your 5.000.000 Subs! Thank you very much for your amazing and funny videos :-) Will you show some batterie experiments and how to use solar panels for some interesting stuff, do you think it could be possible to use fire to power up solar panels?

[@cmsingh7533]

Mehdi really deserves appreciation for his great efforts... Congrats for the little milestone

[@diekedrake]

When I saw the title, I thought: What a absolute madman, would he really? You did not disappoint! The ferro core was a really smart addition.

[@DeadVirtue]

6:34 Nice drawing 👌

[@zacharygreeno9044]

I've always wanted to make a Tesla coil, now I know how they work (as well as what not to do😂) and a new favorite KZbinr, I have been getting more and more into this stuff thanks tobyou

[@PrankEmJohn1620]

1:15 Electro looks like Gargamel from the Smurfs when he say ALAKAZAM and then you know the rest.

[@N30N_4U]

Exactly lol

[@AlphaDuplo]

It's crazy how quick you sub count rised in the past years. One of the few channels I still stick to over so many years. Well deserved! :)

[@bossbosses4362]

Jahiammarshall 💋

[@ReinerFrost]

The background commentary is top tier. Loved it

[@stratussol2475]

He needs all the subscribers he can get, he is such a great electrician and entertaining educator