The magnetic field surrounding a current-carrying wire is a relativistic effect. So you can demonstrate relativity in your home without fancy equipment. You can also measure the speed of light with a microwave oven and cheese.
Most people in the world have at least a basic understanding of electrify but then you have American college students on Spring Break who don’t seem to know much about anything. https://youtu.be/0q_cEJiRGQI?si=crub6P2ma0k4NDRg
I’m on a GPON. It’s nice, tho I have slightly modified the hardware I don’t technically own so it doesn’t shut down everything but POTS after 15 minutes on battery during a power cut.
Think they’ll notice? Considering how distracted the tech who installed it was by my fat orange cat, I doubt it.
He wouldn’t leave the tech alone. Sat on his tools, yelled at him when he tried to talk, tried to yank his tablet out of his hands when he was activating service, etc…
If there is someone new in the house, the orange boy makes himself the center of attention.
I tried, but after watching a video explaining how the electrical energy doesn't technically run inside the wires, but via an electromagnetic field around the circuit. And the electrons inside the wires moved very slow from negative to positive.
This is why I became a professional Lightning Wizard.
To weave wires of semi-precious metals into arcane sigils in order to channel the phenomenal cosmic power generated across the continent into a single building.
I put the might of the sun at one's fingertips, just be careful and respect it!
I'm sorry everyone calls your channel the Autism Channel. It's just that you have that perfect cadence, that medium-level snark, predictable format, and the perfect niche that every neurodivergent has needed since Frank Rogers died, and we need you. You keep outing NDs with your videos lol
Magical wires? I thought the electricity was wirelessly transmitted through my home and that the giant lines coming to my house were for the landline!? You clearly got the facts wrong!
i replaced my old scratched-up nonstick pots and pans with stainless steel ones recently and decided to get one of those induction cooking plates and now i can boil a pot of water so fucking fast. thank you mr refrigeration cycle man.
If you don’t have some barkeepers friend yet for those new stainless pots grab some! Amazing for any tarnishing or surface mars on the pots.
Induction is the GOAT.
Unsure of your meaning? Barkeepers friend is for removing tarnishes, scratches and burned on material. My pots occasionally “blue” on high temps. This removes all of this nearly instantly
Ok. Mine (15yr old SS) haven’t had discoloring effects from food or heat, so I’ve only had to deal with just burnt and stuck food. Boiling some water or burning it more solved that, with the occasional scoring pad
Ah yeah, no this is for more intensive things
My induction range can managed to cause discolouration on high heat settings and it gets pulled off immediately with barkeepers, I think it might be an interaction with the extreme heat and whatever is in the pot on the high settings
I really liked your explainer on watts and energy. I just got solar + batteries installed and it has been online for 4 days, so I'm just geeking out watching energy flow in every direction
Serious comment, it's way easier for "guys" to like fire. The fixation on thermal power plants is because it involves fire. I get it, I'm a fire guy myself. It's a very deep rooted emotion.
I can appreciate electricity because I took E&M classes. That's the essence of our educational divide.
Too much theory, not enough practical demonstration. The most important part was scrambled eggs. Running a bunch of appliances for their intended purposes and then counting Whs would probably be a good video.
A cooking channel I follow once did a small test of electric appliances and cooking methods. And basically, the smaller and more targeted a device is, more efficient it is, because it heats less stuff. Electric ovens are wasteful because they heat a lot of air and run for a relatively long time.
That's what gets me, here. Yes, it's going to save a little bit of energy to use a toaster oven rather than a full-on oven. But the savings are hardly going to materialize.
Cooking just isn't energy-intensive compared to everything else in a house.
Another thing that's tricky about ovens? Better ovens are insulated.
Gas ovens make kitchens crazy hot because they're belching out the exhaust. My electric oven barely heats the kitchen when it's on and takes ages too cool down since it actually holds in its heat.
I wanted to teach people how to think about this. Everyone can do their own practical demonstrations and they should. They'll learn way more than they ever could watching a guy on the internet.
Electrical engineer, long time utility dude, and electric transportation player here- wonder if we should try and do something together @techconnectify.bsky.social ? DM me.
I still don't know what you are referring to, Google says the US is only in sync with 40 countries. Does every electric generator spin the same regardless?
Funny thing is that the best technical solution to "sometimes wind doesn't blow or sun doesn't shine" is a fully global grid, not massive regional storage. There's a constant beam of energy hitting somewhere on earth from the sun. Super high volt lines could do it, Main problem is political.
I tried to explain kWhrs (to help them understand their bills) to my friends and mostly failed. Until I compared it to a conveyor belt feeding bars of chocolate into a chocolate-eating-machine, which speeds up and slows down, depending on how hungry the machine is. They totally got it then.
Agreed but it's not "magic" nor a "milacre". It's just some of the most interesting scientific progress people have ever done. We should owe them for that not a fancy deity.
I haven't watched your newest one yet but recently watched the one on 240v in the US and it made me realize how much I take for granted the giant wires sending power across the city and the fuse box doing its thing all so I can make toast.
also maybe make us brown our pants a little. You expose the wrong nerve somewhere and you get the insta cook experience. Or at minimum you get to see just how much energy a cathode ray TV stores. Which wouldn't be an issue if it happened in a professional environment, and not teenage me being dumb.
And he has added content that can help budding makers go from having no idea how to drive a wheel with a chain or what a cam is good for, on up through making arcade machines with PID controllers.
I am currently confused about magic wires in my car window? Never had a fancy car and now i can’t fix the drivers window unless i turn the car off and on again?!
Wtf why?! Anyone have a manual for a 2009 sierra Jimny electric window?
There's a computer control, separate from the ones that control the engine, etc. called a "Body Control Unit" in many GM cars, it can SOMETIMES affect window operation. I bring it up because you mention it seems to reset with with power on/off sequence. This points more to the BCU than the switches.
My boyfriend does horizontal drilling to bury fiber optic cable. When it gets cut your world stands still. What he drills through and under is crazy and repairing that cable seems like magic too!
I just watched your watts video. Loved it. Thank you for your words & work. Love your shout out to solar power.
I used to work for a company that sold solar energy systems. I’d regularly have to explain to people about watts per hour. They’d buy a system, then drastically change their load.
My brother and I live on opposite sides of the US. We hang out every Saturday (for many years) and have a specific list of "channels" we watch, together, as a routine, every week, when a new video is published. Your videos have been a fundamental part of that.
That last video was the greatest way the subject got explained to me. I struggled with the whole kWh thing, and grew up around "More watts means its more expensive to run" and everything.
With this video, and the whole channel tbh, I just feel more confident doing stuff around the house. Thank you
I understand them … but they bite me.
Joking but serious.
Some of us don’t get along with electricity.
Electrical things of a certain nature tend to act up around some people.
Some of us get really sick around too much unshielded electrical stuff.
It’s not made up.
Many are electrically sensitive.
I, too, started down wondering about the magic wires. And the more I study, the more I want to scream into a pillow at the absurdity of it all. Thank you for making the magic wires fun and informative while on the “less pillow screaming side” of physics 😊
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I've always been fascinated with worlds within worlds and we have so many new worlds to discover at many levels of inspection in so many things :0
What the fuck.
The branch lit on fire when I poked at the wires and now the wires and everything else is gone.
My branch is mighty! The wires are weak! All hail the mighty branch!
At least I hope they redid the electric wiring when they split the house into a duplex in the 70s.
The phone lines were installed in the 1930s, I think. 😅
Just saw a video where someone bought an old DSLAM and got 3mb/sec over wet string.
Then fiber optics came to our neighborhood. Oh my gods, I can never go back!
Think they’ll notice? Considering how distracted the tech who installed it was by my fat orange cat, I doubt it.
Mine is currently sitting on me demanding pets.
If there is someone new in the house, the orange boy makes himself the center of attention.
I think I somehow understand it less now 🤷🏻♂️
To weave wires of semi-precious metals into arcane sigils in order to channel the phenomenal cosmic power generated across the continent into a single building.
I put the might of the sun at one's fingertips, just be careful and respect it!
I can appreciate the work though.
If we work at it, we can get a Technology Connections version of magic the gathering - five colours of magic, one for each technology.
Induction is the GOAT.
My induction range can managed to cause discolouration on high heat settings and it gets pulled off immediately with barkeepers, I think it might be an interaction with the extreme heat and whatever is in the pot on the high settings
Seriously, I barely feel 120V here in the US, last time I did electrical work in my house I left everything on.
If I fuck up with metal tools, worst that can happen is a quick POP and it trips anyway.
If only they weren't put in by coked-up weasels in the 1970s.
I can appreciate electricity because I took E&M classes. That's the essence of our educational divide.
Seriously, think about all emag can do. It's more magic than most actual magic systems (mana/qi/ki/etc) and more comprehensively explained.
Also I wouldn't doubt the proto-indo-european root "magh" is somehow related to the magnetes tribe (-> etymology of magnet)
That's what gets me, here. Yes, it's going to save a little bit of energy to use a toaster oven rather than a full-on oven. But the savings are hardly going to materialize.
Cooking just isn't energy-intensive compared to everything else in a house.
Gas ovens make kitchens crazy hot because they're belching out the exhaust. My electric oven barely heats the kitchen when it's on and takes ages too cool down since it actually holds in its heat.
It's our greatest human achievement and it should be cherished, nurtured, respected, and loved.
(No offense to electron wrangling intended.)
If I taught grade school science, you'd be in the "video day" rotation like Bill Nye and Mr. Wizard.
Hey, that's neat!
... once ...
Bluetooth is somewhat messy standard, but in part it is USB through the air.
Wtf why?! Anyone have a manual for a 2009 sierra Jimny electric window?
Whenever I try it on mine the LED it’s already pretty bright on stage 2, and it behaves strangely on 3 - it either flashes, strobes, or is very dim.
Would you know why, by any chance?
Even if it is, some triac dimmers don't play nicely with certain bulbs or vice versa.
I recently bought a new one and it behaves the same with a dimmable philips LED. It’s a little better on 1 but still flashes on 3 or is extremely dim.
It's possible there's a failing capacitor on the touch controller, but it's also possible it's just an old design which won't work with LEDs
I used to work for a company that sold solar energy systems. I’d regularly have to explain to people about watts per hour. They’d buy a system, then drastically change their load.
Thanks for the great content.
With this video, and the whole channel tbh, I just feel more confident doing stuff around the house. Thank you
Joking but serious.
Some of us don’t get along with electricity.
Electrical things of a certain nature tend to act up around some people.
Some of us get really sick around too much unshielded electrical stuff.
It’s not made up.
Many are electrically sensitive.
*Electrified Nipple clamps 🤔👍😉
And the company sent me a thingy that said if I gave them a good review, they would send me 20 amazon bucks.
This story has no point.
I love my wires.