Ultra High Energy Destruction + Can Crush

[@justaguycalledjosh]

you can see the blue spots where he's burned out the sensors on his camera, the hallmark of a truly impressive channel.

[@algodoomarbleracing]

Yup

[@Snape1337]

That's from a laser

[@aleksbajic8917]

True lol

[@girthiusmaximius8486]

OMG I GOT A IDEA, SLO MO GUYS + PHOTONICINDUCTION = EPIC HIGH VOLTAGE HIGH FRAMES HIGH AMAZINGNESS

[@girthiusmaximius8486]

about 3 months late :p

[@rippspeck]

Just what I was thinking when he split that can in half. Reminded me of that axe and Lynx episode.

[@girthiusmaximius8486]

How about exploding a can of Lynx with electricity? I dunno if it is possible.

[@LynxBlack]

I love how this video is gonna be 5 yrs old fairly soon and people still comment and watch it.... its like ashens and his videos

[@carolynmmitchell2240]

Lego you are copying everyone else in the comments that said the same thing 3 years earlier than you.. way to be original

[@wrxsavvy]

YOU NEED TO GET TOGETHER WITH THE SLO-MO GUYS DUDE!!

[@MrBen527]

That can crush was crazy man!

[@OhenaOtweasee]

COSIGNED!

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

why would they travel all the way to the UK ?

[@ElTurbinado]

I was about to post this same thing!

[@galacticovergrow]

Yeah, that's what he needs to do, burn purple spots into a $10,000 dollar camera LOL

[@Nimmo1492]

Photonic is exactly the kind of guy I'd love to have a pint with

[@thomas316]

Nimmo1492 Tells us he is going to do science an then cracks open a Budweiser? Needs a propper thinking drink like whisky.

[@Mybwain]

A can of whiskey?

[@196Stefan2]

But keep in mind: After three pints you're still absolutely sober, but you had to pee for at least three times.

[@kevinscott9499]

Nimmo1492 yeah a pint and think rubber gloves

[@wilsjane]

Before you touch your pint, check carefully, very carefully, for tell tale signs of oily film. grease-proof paper and kitchen foil in or around the glass. Or your pint could be his home made capacitor and you could be his fuse, 😊😊😊

[@jonthehotdog3148]

I wish this guy was my science teacher

[@niclaswyatt866]

who wouldn't

[@dumdum7786]

Words of wisdom

[@garganacle]

Your gonna die if you'd meet him cause before he moves on the the second experiment....the room would burst into flames

[@ts-jq3st]

And mine too.

[@XxchimeloxX]

Same

[@gskaloyan]

I wanna see this thing redone with the slomo guys present. Can you imagine what all of these must look like super slow motion?

[@Sembazuru]

I was going to suggest the same thing.

[@Halterung01]

Me too

[@MegaPoxie]

Ditto! After exploding the potato, you should have panned down to the floor with crisps or fries on it ... LOL

[@harleyspeedthrust4013]

"quick test on the transformers just to make sure we've got an output" **electrical hell noises**

[@Dan-vq4pz]

I love the ringing of the bus bars after the discharge... please come back Andy

[@Winlonghorn_iso]

I love how there are spots burnt into his camera's sensor

[@Snape1337]

stray laser beams did that

[@australianstig]

Photon, I wouldn't call that cap a "Thunderbox" as that's what we call a backyard shithouse here in Australia :P

[@ianbrunskill6787]

LMMFAO mate

[@EvelynH-tj1qt]

@@ianbrunskill6787 Laugh my my fucking ass off has the same energy as that video that's like "Oh yeah, Land of the free? Then why can't I dip *my my* balls in the burger king soda dispenser"

[@richo61]

Just one correction to make: The breaking capacity of the fuse is NOT the current at which the fuse will rupture. The fuse that you destroyed which had a breaking capacity of 82kA - it has the ability to interrupt ("break" ) a surge of 82kA - you probably destroyed it with a couple of thousand amps. Why "breaking capacity" is important - if your 50 amp fuse blows but the circuit supplying the current has the energy and low source resistance the gap left by the fuse can sustain an arc and a huge fault current can continue to flow - which is bad. (fires can start if that fault current continues to flow ) So in high energy circuits you have a fuse which is rated to "break" that high energy High current arc/ fault current. Here endeth the lesson.

[@zoolkhan]

thanks mate. good input professional vs lunatic 1:0

[@ntdfmaverick]

I'm rewatching all the oldies now! Love this channel. Haha.

[@anthonyvolkman2338]

My 100kv PSU is a sweet thing as well. It pulls an 8.5 foot and runs off a power supply that steps 120 vac RMS to 380 vac RMS (big transformers used like in his vids). I feel happy that I finally can have some crazy stuff like him. Then the 200 mv power supply at over 1000 amps continuous.

[@nvmyutube]

ive never seen a can get split in half with electricity before thats amazing ! good work as always Mr Photon !

[@juvnchy]

So many electricity nerds' I feel welcome at last

[@carolynmmitchell2240]

surfitlive worst that could happen is someone throws up beer and donuts all over you

[@donhartman2406]

Tropicz welcome brother 😂

[@peanutbutter5675]

Im a cat that does electrical stuff (note: i am the mtm cat)

[@WillingToHeaven]

It's guys like these who drive science forward. Beautiful.

[@WhoWantsToKnow81]

Christ Almighty... can you imagine what the magnetic field strength of that can crusher would be?? HOT DAMN

[@KebradesBois]

"Potato all over me..." immediately subscribe. ^^

[@halofan4646]

I dont want to know what this is trying to say

[@The-Bloke]

"80 thousand amps. Yeah I'm happy with that." Awesome line :) Am I right in thinking you had at least 320 million watts of power (4,000 * 80,000) ? That's.. startling, frankly.

[@lunajamba]

How is that possible? I get have u can get 500kv and little to no amps. but having both insane amps and volts? How can he pull all that power from the wall in 5sec? A powerplant barely outputs that:p would love a explanation. cus I must be missing something out ^^

[@The-Bloke]

I'm no expert myself, but I am pretty sure it's because of the capacitor. The capacitor is storing energy over a period of time (we saw at the beginning of the video that he charged it up over a couple of seconds) then releasing it all in one super fast pulse. It's basically like a battery I guess - you charge a battery slowly (eg at 1A - 10A rate), but then some batteries can be discharged at up to 100s of amps (eg car batteries can do many hundreds of amps.) In the case of this cap, apparently it can release more than 80kA :)

[@dissidentundead249]

It is because the power is dissipated in such a short amount of time

[@tomlloyd9372]

the 80kA rating on the fuse is the amount of current the fuse can safely break without then the risk of it welding together and carrying on conducting ! 320MW noway dude lol! The capacitor could be rated at, say- 4kV and 32mircoF- so check out formulas Q=CV (charge in coloumbs= capacitance in farads x voltage across cap in volts) & W=1/2C.V² (energy in joules= half x capacitance in farads x voltage across capacitor in volts squared!) ... so for energy at 4kV on 32mircoF cap - 1280 joules ! Whoop! ... i put a short on a electrolytic 1500mircoF cap at 200VDC - fuck, i knew it would bang, but it was loud as fuck!! ...calculated at 30j! wtf! Bet Photons was well loud!

[@t.t.miller7329]

TheBloke here's a idea if you want to try that...try REAL HARD to rent a apartment right next to some high tension power lines (the really BIG ones on those big metal poles)...then run a LOT of cable (as big as you can find) right under those high voltage lines...then make your own video of what happens when you suck lots of power away from those high voltage lines...?? ;)

[@oleo007]

Photoinduction you are my hero!

[@user-cd7vm7ky8g]

ElectroBOOM, beat that!

[@leomadero562]

NOOO Hes too accident prone!! he will be blown across the room and exploded!!!!

[@carolynmmitchell2240]

Purple Perplexing Pineapples you know that shits fake right?

[@gabrielvieira6529]

@@leomadero562 electro boom is the "son" of photonicindution

[@xeon6038]

He sat on a flaming chair didn’t he?

[@_neophyte]

@@carolynmmitchell2240 he purposefully electrocutes himself to teach us what not to do.

[@ulfy01]

This is absolute insanity and I love it.

[@IsettasRock]

The potato did very well. It would be nice to see if this would cook a hotdog instantly.

[@chrisfitton7055]

Love it . Nuffin better than sparks ,arcs & desruction. Always good to learn a little too.

[@KanyeTroll]

use a full can of beer next time!

[@jorpjorp]

I'd love to see a scaled up can crusher done on a propane tank or something. Really, the possibilities are endless for such a thing.

[@Sodorii]

You sound like a Brit, the slowmo guys here on YT are Brits and they are really good at it! Please ask them if they want to team up for something just like this would be so amazing :D

[@JaaackXDz]

Hes german...

[@guiltyguildleader]

JaaackXDz Arent jokes supposed to be funny?

[@JaaackXDz]

Tauch Sieder Arent you a bit late to the party?

[@Sodorii]

JaaackXDz How about you just go back to bed? We don't take kindly to your type around here!

[@jur4x]

Not only he sounds like a Brit, there are british mains sockets (BS 1363) in his kitchen.

[@RODALCO2007]

Great to revisit this video again. Thanks Andy.

[@alexroman6246]

Nikola Tesla`s friend:D

[@davecrupel2817]

greetings, blue brother.

[@Tadesan]

That ought to be insulting. Tesla was a hack.

[@onixtv4034]

You make me wanna buy 100 of those transformers.

[@bulbman256]

2019 photon?

[@troxbox8706]

more like 2020 photon !

[@TechHowden]

I think you mean 2021 photon

[@bulbman256]

@@TechHowden I guess so now lol.

[@lancebladeson]

so is this what its like to be a real mad scientist? this is some cool stuff glad i subbed

[@morjhult666]

you should team up with the slowmoguys PERIOD

[@carolynmmitchell2240]

Jakob blö dude 20 other people in the comments have said this same thing.

[@mrijk1946]

You are my favorite crazy youtuber

[@schlusky]

7:14 how scientists make mashed potatoes

[@fartpluswetone8077]

That's a baked, or unbaked potato recipe.

[@moris815]

Brilliant keep it up, the largest fuse I have blown was 400A yours make that look like a plug fuse

[@gavinstarr7172]

You've got to love .25 playback speed at 5:00, 6:02, 6:45, 7:04, 7:18, 8:50

[@Mukeshmiktecrep]

I wanted to see it happening ............... and you did it............ that was awesome.................

[@gibbytravis]

Here's what I don't get, the globe on a Van de Graaf generator acts like a capacitor right? Why is it that you can store up 200 kV on it and while it might sting for a second, it doesn't do any real damage because the voltage drops off so quickly; but your capacitor which only is charged up with 4 only kV can make a potato explode. It's not connected to a source of voltage anymore, so how does it sustain high voltage long enough to harm someone?

[@pivotmastex]

The electric charge in this capacitor is much much higher than in a Van de Graaf generator (note that electric charge is measured in Coulomb and is unaffected by the voltage). The voltage is not defining the "dangerousness" of an electric discharge. For instance a discharge of 100kV and 1C is more dangerous than 200kV 0.5C. There has to be enough voltage to let the current flow (you can touch a power source with 0.1V and 10000A without getting hurt), but if there's already enough, there is no profit of using more voltage.

[@gibbytravis]

Der Kuchen Suppose you let an ordinary Van de Graaf generator charge up this capacitor for awhile. Could it build up a lethal charge? If you made a Van de Graaf generator with thicker metal and better insulated from any ground could you build up enough energy to explode a potato the way that this capacitor did?

[@pivotmastex]

Travis Gibby Any HV source *will* get dangerous when combined with a high enough capacity capacitor. To get a powerful discharge from a Van de Graaf generator, the sphere probably needs to be massive, but my knowledge of EHV isn't high enough to estimate this correctly

[@AceFrahm]

Depends on the "size" of the capacitor in terms of Farads of electrons it can hold. I haven't looked at a Van de Graaf, but I imagine it is constantly leaking its charge to the environment or to the other side of the generator, thus never storing enough Farads to do serious damage.

[@pivotmastex]

Ace Frahm Just a little note to prevent the spread of wrong information: Farad measures how many electrons (in Coulomb) are stored per Volt. The capacity (Farads) is static in this case. :)

[@MrAce0r]

You... POPPED IT :D Dude the last two weeks I'we been watching almost all your vids. You are awsome, and so are you funky ideas and gadets :)

[@Smartzenegger]

Pop tit.

[@Aslyuriel]

You should team up with the slow mo guys for a video

[@DrLamalama]

Yeah ! Would love to see some super slowmotion sparks and destructions!

[@ObadiahtheSlim]

Oh man, my favorite two British youtube stars in one video. That would be something. A shame Gavin is on this side of the pond now.

[@user-ew6ky3go7q]

This guy is one of the best people on utube I've seen

[@84cmikey]

You sound like a typical british mad'e, but you obvioustly know your stuff. Great vids man, they're hilarious!

[@peanutbutter5675]

Bo le o wa er tt f t

[@Mosfet510]

**Holy Crap** That capacitor 'discharge' test made a hell of a pop/snap! Good GOD I wouldn't want to accidentally hit the terminals with any part of me..One of the best, to me, is the 300kv On A Television! 57 Channels and something on lol

[@benjorgensen1]

Please pretty please make a rail gun or coil gun CANON with that cap!

[@Graciashauf]

I AINT AVIN IT! I freaking love this channel!!!!

[@MrGangsterlicious]

Absolutely annihilated!!!!

[@Kragatar]

4:45 "I wanna see if we can make it burst." 5:03 Makes it vanish.

[@sn0wchyld]

build a coil gun with this lol...

[@SpeakerLoverEPIC]

And the coil goes BANG with a puff of smoke

[@ryank1273]

+futaba1994 Rail guns and coil guns are the same thing.

[@theomnipresent1]

+Ryan Kreder No they're not...

[@ryank1273]

theomnipresent1 WHATEVER!

[@embersaffron5522]

Not even close man, a railgun is a welder with balls, coilgun is ...well a coilgun

[@appletrump]

Finally some good KZbin content

[@jswiggle55]

Great!!! I was deeply satisfied with the potato...

[@mediaguardian]

In testing the MOT's you said you were going to "change it into DC and stuff it into the capacitor." I'm curious as to how you would do that since I would have thought you would need to rectify and smooth the 4kv output from the MOT's which would require some additional heavyweight components. Also, wouldn't the converted DC exceed the 5kv rating of your capacitor?

[@ghostl337]

The 3 dots.

[@bass0129]

beer and high voltage, talk about a good night of safe, clean fun

[@bjtaudio]

With the exploding 80KA fuses, even if you did not get 80k discharge current the fuse would probably rupture anyway as you have several KV DC on it, the sand is not quenching the arc as the voltage is too high, causing a prolonged arc in side the capsule and exploding it. So the fact that it exploded does necessarily mean you have more than 80KA fault current. You could prove it too, by placing a 0.1ohm resistance in series to limit the current to say 50K, use a long heavy cable as the resistor or make it out of thick stainless wire.

[@Phillll]

Hi, was writing to see what your capacitor was, thought I must've missed it. But then I saw nearer the end, 138uF at 4,500V - so that's a hair under 1,400 Joules. I have a couple of 5uF 25kV dc in the shed, & have always wanted to do this sort of thing, when I have the space & time. My 2 total 3,125 J, but I figure I'll give them about 30kV (They're VERY robust caps) for 4.5kJ max. They are rated for Pulse discharge application & very low inductance - i.e. very high current. They came from a H.V. test facility at a University. There were 16 available at the time, but 2 was all I could fit in my car boot on the day. When I came back for more, they'd gone :-( But I just wanted to know what energy you were using for the can crusher, etc. & now I know. So I have plenty :-)

[@godbelow]

Awww, I pawwwpped it.

[@Brandon-rc9vp]

I love how this guy has burnt pixels on his camera, real deal to the core!

[@SyncedCyberSoule]

7:16 Photon destroys a XBox!

[@5TyL4]

@oldboxes stfu ni'-$GGa go play terraria

[@michaelhawthorne8696]

The best video to date by far that I have seen from you, and I have watched loads of vids (The funniest being the washing machine with a brick thrown in).... 80KA WTF? Look at the beer can after the mega abuse and I think you can see the Flux lines in the deformed (Destroyed) Can. I admire your bottle to work with such energy producing equipment, Have you got a degree or two in this field or are you winging it LOL. I doubt you're winging it as you have produced a fine piece of power control equipment. (Love this and the way you present it)

[@poopyandme123]

this guy sound exactly like the guy on pirates of the caribbeans

[@dannywithnuggets]

+joey lapoo It's called being British. It's the same language used in America but sounds different. It's referred to as having an accent. There are places in the world where they don't even speak English! Wow, crazy right!?

[@stupickles6670]

+dannywithnuggets i assume he was talking about a specific person

[@jbh759]

+joey lapoo Liverpool Accent

[@TradieTrev]

Uhhh man those 3 broken pixels bring back memories.

[@Whatsthegeek]

You are probably higher that the giga watt

[@mobkiller800]

About a third of a gigawatt

[@Tadesan]

And of course they would say jigga watt.

[@almightyyak675]

Beer plus high voltage! Man you're awesome. lol

[@PineTreePal]

DRUNK SCIENCE!!

[@liesdamnlies3372]

I suspect anyone doing something like this (completely) drunk would soon win a Darwin award. I assume this guy can handle a beer. >.>

[@lopiklop]

***** I dont think he drank it, he's pretty smart about being safe. But you're right I'm sure anyone would be ok with just one beer

[@liesdamnlies3372]

Lopiklop Not anyone. There are common medications like serotonin reuptake inhibitors that typically greatly increase the effects of alcohol. Someone who needs to take 40mg of fluoxetine every day probably wouldn't be able to do much of anything safely other than sitting after a drink.

[@gabrielvieira6529]

I NEVER Get bored of this amazing video

[@DerZocker2000000]

how do you manage to get 400 mw to your house?...do you have a fucking nuclear plant in the basement?

[@GeneSeth]

He has a really big power supply

[@aaronaxvig]

+DerZocker2000000 400MW for a very short period of time. Watts are the rate of energy and have no time component. So say a typical house has on the order of 200V x 200A, that is 40kW. Also let's say that the 400MW lasts for 0.001 second. 400MW/1000 = 0.4MW = 400kW for one second to charge up for that release. That is still 10x what a typical house might have for service from the power company. But it took him a couple seconds to charge the capacitor. Also my 0.001 second number was pulled out of thin air so you could easily say that is 0.0001 to make the numbers work out. Even 0.00001 seconds seems plausible, which would be only 4000 watts for one second to charge.

[@davidemil55]

+Aaron Axvig I dont mean to be rude or contradictory. I agree Your overarching idea is correct, surges of high current and voltage for very short periods of time can be handled by the system even if it goes way over what it is rated for long periods. But the dimensional analysis of the watt is a joule per second (joule being a unit of energy) so time is indeed a component. You even used the word rate which implies time is a factor. Energy per time is = power (watts), basically how much energy is dissipated in a second. When you multiply watts by time the time cancels out and your left with joules or the more commonly used watt hours. In either case your left with just how much energy that system delivered in that time frame. So all that math that was shown making .4MW to 400KW really isn't accurate. But regardless you were right in answering the question that the short period of time makes it possible. Just wanted to clarify on the whole power energy watts part of your comment

[@yakir11114]

u r correct, jouls are the correct term that doesnt have a time component, or in other words watt-seconds (yes the term for timeless units of energy has the word seconds in it, but it makes sense because once the time and power are combined together into one term it becomes *total energy* which is timeless)

[@knotsochice]

Love it when you crush things with electromagnetic magic! Does the King know you're collecting death ray components? I wont tell!

[@johngarland1641]

You should contact the slow mo guys..Imagine the footage

[@Like_Ike]

yo u are definitely undoubtedly the life of the party aren't u!!!??? I love watching ur vids man u keep me goin on here for hrs with entertainment!

[@trilbymctip8317]

_Le Reddit Armie_ has arrived! Prepare for upboats! xD - Trilby McTip, Redditor

[@slavko5666]

For a 2012 video, the quality is really good.

[@ReginaldPLunix]

Shortly after this video was made, the capacitors were installed in an Apple iPhone 6 Plus (RIP Stephen Jobs). Battery still only lasts half a day though! If you would like to debate me, head on over to /r/android. But be warned. I'm a Reddit power-user. Have a nice day!

[@underappreciatedsoundtrack8870]

I like a capacitor with nice big fat leads.

[@ivanrodionov9724]

id be surprised if you would not :D

[@fairyheli2]

80ka @ 4kv, apparently that's 320 megawatt! that's a ridiculous amount of power! no wonder that bulb exploded!

[@ryanfish91]

your sense of destruction is intriguing

[@boomboom314159]

This is one of the coolest videos I have seen on youtube!

[@Leroys_Stuff]

Still rewatching these in 2020 miss ya

[@ThermoNuclearLlama]

If ever I'm having a bad day I watch this video and all is good with the world!

[@Supernova08523]

I've learned more here than collage. Thanks photon!

[@richardsandwell2285]

Excellent, I loved the can crush.

[@mastopage3120]

I like this guy lolll Please don't stop destroying thing. Great video as always.

[@UltimatelyEverything]

Damn 2012 now this is a blast from the past right here

[@joohop]

brilliant vid mate

[@pedrobarbio]

sir, u satisfied my apetite for destruction. u gained a subscriber

[@FaisalAlmalki223]

You could build a legendary coilgun or even a railgun with this beast!

[@elmouhtijbrahim3988]

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[@thenatha134]

Great little video, thoroughly enjoyed it!

[@bdf2718]

You've just redefined the electrical safety mnemonic SIDE. The old meaning was Switch off, Isolate, Discharge, Earth. You've redefined it with beer. Slurp, Imbibe, Drink, Eructate. Beer and high voltage. It's all fun and games until you piss on a 5 kV capacitor.

[@andredalmolin]

I miss this channel videos so much. Good times when these videos where made.

[@brianjrichman]

This just showed up in my suggested videos. I had forgotten about this particular video, great fun indeed.

[@BrokenSet]

Electric mage PhotonicInduction shows off his wand of detonating-via-high-current.

[@gabrielvieira6529]

If this AMAZING guy had an slow mo camera.....

[@SweetTeasgood]

I don't see how this is any good for my survival but im watching these videos anyway

[@jennaorlowski9228]

My favorite was the potato popping... But also your catchphrase Ooooo we popped it

[@bobvincent5921]

Impressive! Din't know I could laugh so much

[@DrugedSheep]

Not only it would shred your arm to bits, but the huge current would also instantly kill you.

[@wcocowcocow]

would a 4kv 9400uf cap bank be very nice? im making one but it would be nice to have a 5kv volt meter instead of having to measure of one cap 400v each... any ideas of where I would get one?

[@BigEsGarage]

I love this channel. Your freakin crazy and safe at the same time.

[@dumdum7786]

This brings a whole new meaning to, everything I touch gets broken.

[@paulstubbs7678]

I've got to get one of those caps. (what are it's specs) What about the speakers and other 'victims' you showed at the start.