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hi everyone welcome back Kody slab so a
lot of you especially after my getting
electricity from moonlight video I've
requested that I build a boost converter
or a jewel thief these are of course
about the same circuit they just have a
different switching mechanism I will put
the circuit diagram up on the screen if
I remember to edit it in the search it
takes a low voltage DC input and outputs
a high voltage and today I'm going to
build one all of the youtubers are done
with electricity so today I'm going to
do it well doing a water change on my
fish
I mean otters close enough to
electricity right obviously there are a
lot of differences between electricity
moving to a wire and water scrolling
through is hose but the similarities are
enough that this type of circuit will
still work for instance here I have a
potential difference in this case it's a
gravitational potential between the
water being up here and the water
wanting to slow down here but
gravitational potentials are very
similar to electrical potentials you see
electrons are going to wha fall down to
a more stable State
similarly through how the water
molecules are wanting to flow down into
the bucket so it's as if I have a
battery here and the electrons are
wanting to flow down to the other side
of the battery from negative positive
just of course for this water another
similarity between water and electricity
that makes this possible is the fact
that water has inertia which is very
similar to electrical inductance in fact
I'm able to create enough inertia in the
water that when it stops the water
actually creates a vacuum behind it this
here is of course a cavitation bubble
and it shows you just how strongly the
water resists a change in flow is
creating a pressure differential of at
least 12 psi or atmospheric pressure
anyone who has turned on an off an
electromagnet without a shunting
resistor in the coil has probably
experienced a strong voltage spike which
I can recreate here see that how it shot
the water up and over top
the water level that's because once it
reached the top the water did not want
to stop moving similarly an electric
field does not want to stop being around
once it is started this means that water
flowing through a tube is very similar
to electricity flowing through a wire is
wrapped around a piece of metal in that
it stores some energy
see if I try to stop the water flowing
you create the pressure spike just as
I'm turning it off electricity does the
same thing when it has some energy
stored in a magnetic field except
instead of a pressure spikes creates a
voltage spike voltage and pressure in
this context are equivalent now because
I put a small hole in the end of the
tube see right here I let the water flow
and I like shut the water off water to
shut through that tube with a very high
amount of pressure that should be able
to use this to pump a small amount of
water up a great height now
unfortunately I can't just stick another
hose on here because the water would
flow into it when I turned it off but
when I turned the flow back on the water
would just flow out of this tube as well
I couldn't maintain a pressure
differential I need something that allow
the water to go one way but not the
other in an electrical circuit I would
use a diode but in this case I'm going
to be using a check valve these things
operate very similarly to diode and it
even has the same symbol so let's stick
this into the hose 60 a smaller tube
onto here let's see how high I can pump
this water so there's the tube coming
off of this other tube and throw it up
here about three feet above the surface
of the fish tank I've got a little dish
which will act as my capacitor this will
store the liquid once they get pumped up
here there we go and I'm going to turn
it on and off using my fader I'll see if
they can pump any water to this okay so
yes it is working and see there's water
being shot through the checks out
unfortunately not a whole lot all order
this will be very slow but it does look
like it is working there it goes
water is getting pumped up they're just
about to the point where it's actually a
greater potential than the original
water level in the tank there you go
makes less noise like my finger under
the water it's working it's up above the
water level of the tank it's very slow
and inefficient but there you go you
think about it this plastic tube
actually is acting like a capacitor as
well just with a very low capacitance of
course electrical wires act much the
same way just in yet oh it's so cool
it's actually working
pumping the water three feet straight up
to one drop at a time but the water
that's cooked in the dish up there is
going to have way more gravitational
potential and the stuff that is moving
down here
so there you have it by letting about
ten gallons of water flow down into a
bucket from the fish tank here I managed
to pump about 10 milliliters of water 9
milliliters of water up to the top of
the shelf
obviously the electrical circuits are
going to be far more efficient but
ultimately this has the same general
concept and this kind of shows you just
how accurate the flowing water
visualization to electricity really is
so hope y'all enjoy
I'll see you next time
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