The World's Hottest Candle Can Actually Melt Steel-Plasma Candle

In this video I show you a plasma candle made from an ultra high frequency solid state tesla coil (HFSSTC). I talk about why it was tripping the breakers in my house and show you how hot these plasma candles actually are. I talk about why the color of the "flame" is white vs blue or violet.
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[@A_Jung]

Everybody: uses candle because of a power breakdown. The Action Lab: has a power breakdown because of using a candle.

[@CondensedComments]

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[@2nd-place]

In Soviet Russia, candle make power outage

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

Well done

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[@deuterium_oxide7382]

indeed

[@redcharget5894]

his house: constantly trying to protect itself from burning down him: *unacceptable*

[@unladen3560]

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[@mazedude5911]

Wow 🤩

[@mazedude5911]

Cool 😎

[@skyrotechnics3245]

him: moves it to the concrete his house: *understandable* *have* *a* *great* *day*

[@iurope4834]

His house: dont destroy me please The action lab: unacceptable i should burn my house down

[@sanjeen2503]

Two things: the steel wire is not melting but actually BURNING. The drop that formed at the end after cooling is called slag, and it contains oxides of iron. Also, the LED you mentioned that lights up near the coil seems to be a neon tester bulb, not a semiconductor LED.

[@hankaajindrich8622]

And those circuit breakers will be more like current protectors, and due to high frequency radiation, alternating voltage is induced in the mains voltage distributions and the current protector trips. The guy just doesn't know what he's talking about, but people like it.

[@Inertia888]

@@hankaajindrich8622 He's curious, finds interesting things, and does some guesswork. But he usually points us in the right direction, if we want to learn at a deeper level. I can respect that.

[@brnmcc01]

Yup, actually it's BOILING and burning as well. Iron boils at like 5000 degrees, and since the plasma is 11,000 degrees, that's plenty hot enough to boil iron.

[@joeylawn36111]

5:40 That's not an LED - that's a neon lamp. And if the generator induces more than 3V into a nearby LED, it'll burn out said LED. And probably the reason the generator worked on the floor probably is the steel rebar in the concrete absorbing some of the RF energy. Increased distance away from the breaker box may also help.

[@PlasmaChannel]

Thanks for the shoutout, and great video. I found it interesting that you tripped those breakers even without direct electrical connections! For beast mode, try putting salt on the tip of the discharge screw. The flame doubles in size and is bright yellow.

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i subbed ya. 👍

[@bela5307]

3rd lol

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You just gained a sub with this comment

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Salt: the most volatile substance in your every day kitchen

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I’m already subbed to plasma channel.

[@Tronzie]

Neighbor will be like ' I don't know why breakers are tripping all of the suden, and all neon signs are turning in be themselves, this house is haunted!' 😁

[@adrianroggeband1901]

Hi neighbor! My TV, wifi and phone are out

[@daPvta]

Neighbor is probably like "Vadim blyat!"

[@TakumisBizarreRacingAdventure]

I'd be more scared of your neighbors if they '😁' smile while saying this.

[@I_killed_that_beard_guy]

@@TakumisBizarreRacingAdventure hahaha

[@AhmedRazaAli_2009_pk]

Yeah

[@bobconnor1210]

Very cool! When that steel is emitting sparks, it has entered “kindling” temperature and is actually burning because of the presence of atmospheric oxygen. I use a hand-held plasma cutter in steel fabrication almost every day that combines moderate air pressure with an impressive plasma arc. Protect your eyes, it’s bright!

[@cherylm2C6671]

Not only that but intense UV! You only get one pair of eyes.

[@DigitalJedi]

> extremely hot > attracted to me > energetic personality Can I date the candle?

[@arthurnonimus]

Careful, you might get burned.

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Don't let your dreams be memes

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@@sivansharma5027 dreams memes let you don't?

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Hey everyone, today we're going to learn how to make a black hole. We're going to see if we can create a black hole by tearing through the fabric of reality.

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First, gather pieces of universe fabric. Then tear it with your nanoparticle scissors. Place into order of chaos.

[@studyspirit5465]

😂😂🤣

[@mrsqueakthecat.8061]

2020: I already tore that to shreds. 🥱 😴

[@mazedude5911]

Coow 😎🤩

[@aryanbansal624]

him: worlds most dangerous candle also him: pokes finger in its flame 3:02

[@Yusso]

First I thought he is using a sausage to demonstrate, but it was his finger lol

[@james-barnett]

It's not dangerous, it is at such a high frequency that it won't shock you, it will just burn you from the inside out, but he only held his finger in for a second or two, it would barely heat up his finger if anything.

[@aryanbansal624]

@@james-barnett hmm all i heard was (this flame can melt steel and is wolrds most dangerous candle lol XD)

[@james-barnett]

@@aryanbansal624 I am just using what I already know. This is a common, yet interesting experiment that people carry out.

[@unnamed8395]

Ye i also noticed that

[@alexscarbro796]

If you access to a RF spectrum analyser or RF power meter, maybe even an RTLSDR, it would be fascinating to see just how much RF interference (broadband noise power) this is generating!

[@Tb0n3]

The FCC wants to know your location.

[@victoryfirst2878]

Way to go Action Lab. This is a very unique video. Keep up the great work.

[@HienNguyenHMN]

"This flame is attracted to your fingers and is 11 000 K" Also: places fingers an inch away

[@haves_]

"I just found out I made an EMP jammer. Don't do that" 🤣

[@TheXlt1200]

All your videos are Fanatastic! So much fun to learn and very informative. Please keep it up!

[@synthead]

I love your content!! This was so interesting, and you are very good at explaining things!

[@agamingchannel3706]

I wish you were my physics teacher

[@infoandreasonings]

Same

[@brandonbenjamin9452]

He IS our physics teacher. At least that’s why I’m here

[@GalaxyGuy305]

@@brandonbenjamin9452 yes

[@shwynnsanity]

Ok

[@siddharth-wy2kp]

Ikr

[@danbert8]

When your electrical experiment is so crazy, even the safety systems for the rest of the house try to stop you.

[@denmonlord]

ElectroBoom : "patethic"

[@sammanning6178]

Photonicinduction: "That's cute"

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[@johnr5252]

I continue to be amazed by your science knowledge. I learn something from every video. Your explanations are first rate. Thanks!

[@joebenson7385]

One of the best videos on KZbin I have watched. Thank you

[@theninjapheonix2971]

I laughed soo hard when you said "but don't do that" that I had to show my bro why I was laughing

[@FTreba]

How did i never hear about AFCI breakers after 20 years in the field?!? Also: I'm sure the FCC loves that thing.

[@jamescollier3]

Lol. Maybe it's a Florida regulation

[@RabbitsInBlack]

@@jamescollier3 It's very new 2014 regulations. He must have a new house.

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@@RabbitsInBlack care of KZbin lol. Good for him lol

[@briand8090]

@@RabbitsInBlack AFCI have been part of NEC for USA since 2002. They were only required in bedroom circuits though and there is also time lapse between NEC and local code adoption. 2014 NEC expanded the requirements to pretty much all branch circuits in a home.

[@reecebeck971]

I'm fairly sure that these operate at 13.5mhz, not 15mhz like he said, so it's within the iso bands and the fcc won't care. They do still spew a lot of rf radiation even though most is spent in the plasma flame.

[@monkfishkilla]

This is phenomenal. Great experiment, great video

[@timtravasos2742]

Amazing display and demonstration.

[@SamayRainaOfficial]

Thanks! I finally understand how Dumbledore's delumintor works.

[@maxstriker9839]

Samay bhai idhar kese?

[@mayankraj1424]

Aree sir aap idhar...

[@hardiksinghvi9615]

'Nasha' ka T-shirt aise hi nahi pehna hai

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Aree samay bhai app idhar

[@annaaffkhan]

ooh bhai

[@drawinglife7580]

Thank for sharing

[@whatidoinmyfreetime2289]

Me looks at the candle Looks at moms sewing kit "Mom can you go get some more eggs"

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Møm - americans

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Wow! 🤯 l love this kind of science demonstrations. They never cease to amaze me.

[@Krish-su4oh]

Cool and very thoroughly explained.

[@zildiun2327]

2:21 Dangit, why didn’t you post this BEFORE April 1st? Now I have to wait a whole year.

[@zildiun2327]

@Jason Park Hmm...true >:)

[@masroorwani7277]

Really need this candle to light up my life

[@GalaxyGuy305]

Lol, same 😂😔

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@@MysticLGD you need help man?

[@mayaalvarez205]

Same :((

[@serosero]

Oh you'll light up your house alright...

[@KodiD420]

This is honestly mind blowing.

[@tammy7098]

2:28 i like how he added “but don’t do that” later

[@prizim]

i wonder if you were accidentally making your neighbors super angry hahahah

[@vedangsinghal4754]

Imagine of it actually went that far. Thats a mega f for the neighbors

[@GalaxyStudios0]

@@vedangsinghal4754 no it would be a mega hurt for the neighbors

[@canthandlethislol]

"attracted to you" 😳 🌹😳

[@epikherolol8189]

@Esperantrul Tristam I'm also attracted to you 😳😳😳

[@epikherolol8189]

@Esperantrul Tristam attracted to you through fire I mean 😂

[@kiranm5574]

ಠ_ಠ

[@infinateU]

Thanks for clip, super sweet.

[@HarnaiDigital]

2:20 Oh! So that is the reason why always my electricity stops working After my Friend walks by. LOL 😂

[@sleepingfurret9042]

What

[@shazam6274]

That green item you called an LED is NOT an LED, it is a gas bulb with argon with an internal phosphor lining making the green color similar to a neon light bulb. This is also an excellent, short-range radio jamming device.

[@qbertangry]

if this can be done on larger magnitude then ladies and gentlemen you have yourselves an EMP!

[@briand8090]

I don't think the AFCI's on the other circuits were tripping from some sort of EMP event; otherwise, they would trip almost simultaneously. It was probably due to them sharing a common ground. The reason the device worked on the garage floor and didn't trip the AFCI's is probably due to the steel reinforcement within the concrete slab giving it a grounding path that does not return through the main panel.

[@danmoretti8898]

@@briand8090 All concrete flooring acts as a conductive pathway to ground, just a head's up for anybody screwing around with high voltage in their garage.

[@DatCheeseCake]

Great video, man!

[@freekingawwsome]

@The Action Lab thank you for the share

[@mikeselectricstuff]

That "LED" was a green gas-discharge bulb, not a LED

[@tomg0]

Yeah lol... Surprised he made such a basic mistake. An actual LED would also work though.

[@honkleretta1050]

@@tomg0 - NO.....and LED would just melt and catch on fire

[@glockenspielsdesk]

im glad im not the only one who noticed that

[@thereare4lights137]

Doh! I came here to point out the very same. That it was a green neon bulb and not an led. I'm surprised he made such a collassal error, lol. 😆

[@tomg0]

@@honkleretta1050 Yes it would. I’ve tried it. It’s just running at a higher frequency. Heck, you can even light up an LED with a 10 W two-way radio.

[@filipenegreiros9557]

"But dont do that" - The little devil in my left shoulder was like "WTF HE WAS TALKING TO ME???"

[@quijybojanklebits8750]

Well I guess I found my next prank.

[@pianoterry]

Scary information to be sharing. The fact this device trips breakers should be enough to warrant some looking into. Great video, excellent info, cool teacher! Take care.

[@tomshepherd4901]

Cool. I used to have a carbon arc welding torch and the light and heat it generated was insane. This is basically the same concept on a smaller scale.

[@snil3464]

Perfect device for the professor that assigns 10+ pages of homework over the break

[@GalaxyGuy305]

My favorite youtuber back with some cool experiments!

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Man I love your videos. I wish I had known how fun science is when I as in high school. It might have altered the course of my life. Thanks for this!

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You are so good in explaining a complex theory 👌

[@xiaoshen194]

1:00 wow. I only studied about MCBs in my high school. Thanks for the info🙏👍

[@Khodazmoon]

Finally something new in KZbin that got my eyes.

[@valethewolf49]

Awesome & Informative!!

[@ashishbanerjee8436]

Thanks for the wonderful video

[@j.columbus9240]

For the first time I understand what megahertz means. Thanks for that. Loved the video.

[@dinosaurdrew7431]

Wow, I just bought a plasma candle 2 days ago. And my favorite KZbinr uploaded a video about it? What a awesome day I have.

[@a64738]

Well that is how google works... It spies on you and then serve you videos and advertisement based on their spying on you. Expect to get served videos about plasma candles for the next month lol ;)

[@horusbay]

2:28 "You can trip all the breakers in your friends house, but don't do that..." Come ON!! My devilish side will NOT let this pass! 😄

[@theotherside931]

*Thanks for the info on the AFCI. I'm going to buy it. Power fluctuates a lot in my country.*

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I can't stress enough how good your videos are. Keep at it.

[@NVAfilm]

How do you come up with all these great videos. You are like a modern science guy. 💚

[@mpowersmedia3219]

This is one of the coolest experiments I have ever seen. Makes me think of this could be used in practical ways or products. Would it be safe and if you made the frequency slightly lower would it still work but not be as hot. The used could be extraordinary.

[@Joshualbm]

Looks like a neat way to do small welding and brazing/soldering projects. Once you get used to the way the flame attracts to different materials, I imagine it would be possible to do some very fast metal joining with minimal heat exposure.

[@Joshualbm]

@@andreyrevyakin7272 You would only heat the metal up enough to melt brass or silver solder, not enough to melt the steel.

[@Inertia888]

@@Joshualbm Sound like a tool for a jeweler?

[@juxtapode2781]

his mouth: "don't do that" his eyes: "I want to prank my friends, and I know you want to do that too"

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[@alexmayer8877]

The neighborhood definitely enjoys their tripping fuses😂

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😂😂

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I learn more science here then I ever did at school AND you make it fun!

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"hello everyone today i'm going to show you ...." :)) beginning of every wonderful phenomena xD love it

[@callmeandoru2627]

A friend of mind is writing a detective novel, and when I show her this video, she says it's a genius idea and would try to include it in her novel somehow

[@EikottXD]

Dude you could totally go around tripping peoples breakers with that thing! Or something like it modified. EDIT: lol he just said that after I wrote this.

[@glumpfi]

Hahaha i just wanted to write exactly that, paused the video, read your comment and in the next second he said it in the video :D

[@EikottXD]

@@glumpfi Great minds man. Great minds..

[@james-barnett]

That my friend is a criminal offense, and it is called electromagnetic interference.

[@youravghuman5231]

It can be an emp tho

[@savageraccoon787]

Use it to take out security cameras. 😄

[@jerkycam]

I had no idea the breakers could do that. So much learning!

[@SFCrafting]

Great video brother

[@boredasallgetout1379]

"You can use an LED as well" Proceeds to use a green neon indicator bulb

[@Cambesa]

Wow such a strong pulse, pretty cool

[@fuelban]

Another top end video, highly interesting and appreciated.... Thom in Scotland.

[@JOYSongs]

will it still function in a vacuum? Is this kinda in the simplest way how the VASIMR engine works? Plasma in a vacuum sounds like a cool experiment for you to make a video about.

[@JOYSongs]

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[@Ithirahad]

It functions by turning the air into plasma, so no, it won't work in a vacuum unless there's a gas jet being blown over it.

[@karlkarlng]

No you will need to bring air with you into the vacuum

[@alucardlord9032]

do you guys, consider this flame as a fire or not?

[@trueredlucky954]

@@karlkarlng kinda defeats the purpose x)

[@monh964]

What an awesome feeling when you figure it out after many failures.

[@nadexturbo9807]

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[@After_Tech_Industries]

4:29 You can use it to weld a micro model go kart together with little additional material

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Freaking awesome! Your channel rocks!

[@ChrisSeeboth]

Love learning about all the different “species” of air 😆

[@courtneycain3842]

I don't just wish you were my teacher I wish you were my friend so I can have lifelong knowledge lol

[@aSpyIntheHaus]

The emitted radiation demonstrations using the inert gas tubes an the LED was really good. Love your work

[@001vgupta]

Nicely explained AFCI breaking due to Tesla coil usage. Cool gadget.

[@SteveMould]

Does it smell?

[@sushi3377]

Yea smells like ozon

[@silence.8226]

lmao 1 month ago and verified but 5 likes

[@malasoy284]

​@@silence.82262 years later it's at 7 likes lol

[@MAGATRON-DESTROY]

It went from ozone to a bacony smell but maybe that's because it roasted my fingy

[@gigachad8894]

So this candle find me attractive...cool

[@tonybloodloss]

That's how people end up in surgery

[@bh2020_]

Great video!

[@haidershah3554]

Bestly explained.

[@robinbucur1766]

Since the flame is made of plasma, I wonder how it would react if a magnetic field were to be introduced in the area. I also wonder how the magnet behind the field would behave 🤔

[@sebbes333]

4:27 You CAN use this to weld, right? (is this technique used in some actual welding? What's it called then?)

[@glonkfpv]

A welder has more current and less voltage. I run 17.5 volts DC on my MIG machine and about 120 amps. This is about 30,000 volts at 15MHz. Maybe .2A if that at all. This is at such a low power compared to a welder

[@sephypantsu]

I'd think this is similar to plasma arc welding

[@Mi_Fa_Volare]

@@glonkfpv Do both emit UV-C when melting metal? I hope he did not have a painful night after doing that.

[@glonkfpv]

@@Mi_Fa_Volare MIG welding definitely emits UVC from the arc. This, I'm not sure

[@henrym.5884]

Very intresting. Thanks.

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Very cool......thank you for video!

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Your channel has come a long way from when I first discovered it. I used to think you were a clickbaiting fraud (no offense intended, just being honest), but I've come to have a great deal of respect for you from several videos where I've learned something. Your videos are some of my favorites now. I'm impressed and proud of you, and I am excited when you post something new or the algorithm recommends something of yours. Thank you for being another good learning resource.

[@CarolinaGunGuy]

Everyone: *"Where do I buy this?!"*

[@Ikbeneengeit]

Make it, builds character 🙂

[@keltonbailey]

@@Ikbeneengeit It took me 2 weeks to get mine in tune, but it was 100% worth it!

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[@ArmchairDeity]

3:31 - dude… a fire that BURNS OTHER FIRE!!! That. Is. Amazing. I’m entranced. Wow.

[@tahanlaoboy]

Nice, and good for the future welding machines

[@beersnarkunbleached5660]

This right here is a really tiny, unstable lightsaber. In a few decades, we might get a full-sized one

[@colinyoung3685]

The hacksmith has a decent approximation of a plasma lightsaber already.

[@a64738]

There is a video of someone that made a real light saber like this with 50cm long thin plasma flame like this.

[@cosmaprismo]

"it is attracted to you" impossible

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Gratulation for π subscribers ! Good work.

[@micultimy91]

UHF Tesla coil principle is used on the industrial plasma treatment processes in order to help the high strength adhesives penetrate the surfaces and ensure a proper bonding of two parts.

[@damn6039]

Did you really not wear gloves while doing this? Your chemistry teacher just got some allergies

[@goatedlogic]

That's more hotter than my bars.. I don't have any *:(*

[@tahsintanveer1808]

Electroboom: Finally a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!!!

[@RaivoltG]

I'm definitely going to be walking around homes, with my circuit breaker breaking welding plasma candle! It's going to be a fun day!

[@daoneandonly5361]

Can you make a video about White Flame?

[@JohnDlugosz]

links to a video called "Black Flame"... so you should watch it as a photographic negative?