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Hi, I like to pick the two winners of the LCR multimeter from Circuit Specialists
Between the people who left comment on my video
How to pick random YouTube comments
hmm...
Apparently there is this website that you can copy the link to your video
And it loads all the comments, and you can pick between them - all the 11,000 of them. This will take forever...
So let me can tell you some stories. This is the story of the first time I was shocked
We were playing on the rooftop of our building.
Back in Iran we had access to the rooftops so we could go up there and play with the neighbors.
At night, we would go up there cockroach hunting. We would take our flashlight and look under everywhere and poke until cockroaches would run out
Sometimes they would just fly into your face you would run after them and bang bang bang bang.
Once during the day, we were playing hide-and-seek on the rooftop and my brother came to me and said "Hey Mehdi!! Come here."
"What what?!", "Touch this!!"
Back in Iran we have these metal coolers that work with circulating water in them
So I came around and said what's the big deal. Let's touch it!
*ACTING SHOCKED*
My brother was like...
SEE SEE!!!
And I was like yeah what was it? It felt like my soul is departing my body
So it seemed like that the live wire was somehow touching the body of the cooler and although I was wearing shoes that I only
Touched a live wire it still shocked me very bad
See there is always paristic capacitances between your body and the environment
So even if you only touch the live wire still some current goes through your body
And if the voltage is high enough, you will feel it
I think it was especially painful because we had a higher AC voltage in Iran it is
220 Volts compared to North American 120 volts AC
Similar thing happened to me later when I touch my in-laws fridge. When I told them they said; "Meh, its been like that for ages."
I don't think anyone back then really considered properly grounding anything.
Lessen learned? For anything that runs on AC power you should connect the
exposed metal body to earth ground
The reason is that if accidentally the live wire touches the expose metals you want it to short to earth ground and
Open a breaker so that you know that there is something wrong with the wiring inside your appliances
You don't want to know there is something wrong with your equipment, by counting the dead bodies around it.
Well..., it's still loading so let me tell you another story.
In Iran, they have european-style power plugs. Back then, we used to have this flat wall plug and a wall adapter that looked like this.
But then the standard improved to a recessed wall plug, and a mating plug that would go inside it.
It was much better because it would bury the live and neutral wires, and they were much less exposed
But then our old wall adapter wouldn't go inside this new wall plug
It was kind of dangling in midair
still making contact so we could use this but the power contacts were more exposed than ever.
I looked at those contacts
and thought just a few years ago. I'd touch the cooler and it felt weird.
Let's experience that feeling again. So a grabbed both lines live and neutral then I felt a PUNCH in my chest!
It scared the s**t out of me..
I WAS LIKE F***!
Except that I didn't swear back then, especially in English. Back when I touched the cooler, I was only touching one conductor
This time I grabbed both of them, much more painful and dangerous
I'm lucky, I'm alive
Lesson learned? There is a period between Standard updates that people die
Especially if the new improvement doesn't consider everything. They should have made sure that you can't use your old stuff without a proper adapter
Second lesson, kids are dumb and like to try everything. So you better...
...talk to them about everything before they find out on their own.
In general though I think that was a good improvement hiding the exposed power lines
Something in my opinion that the North American plugs are missing. Let me show you
Look at this I can turn on my lamp and the power wires are still exposed, now my fat finger doesn't get in there
But if a toddler his or her finger in there, it will shock them out of their diapers.
Okay, it looks like we are ready to pick a winner. I'll pick my 8 patreon winners a bit later. Let's pick our first winner
Ha!
*CLAPS*
"Meters give me." Okay, the guy asked for the meter.
Atharva Kahirsagar
I'm pretty sure it was as accurate as I could pronounce it, and the next person...
Erik! "GIVE ME THE MEETA!!!"
"Because I have a bad one." Great! So it will be a good replacement, now while you're here
Let's just read a couple of other comments.
Exor: "GIVE ME DA MEETTA!!!"
Che0po: "Don't give me one". Ok.
"GIMMME DA MEETTA!! Or I'll jump off a bridge!"
*GIGGLES*
"How has this guy not hit a million subs yet?"
I Think I did... I still have to make my 1 million video celebration
"GIVE ME DA MEETA!!! Please. thank you sir..."
Caroline Kimber; "Use commas."
"GIVE ME DA MEETA!!!" Not sure what else to put here LOL."
"GIVE ME DA MEETA!!! so I can blow some stuff up more controllably". "I watch always watch your videos in the bathroom...
...In case I crap my pants."
*GIGGLES*
"Give me the meteor or you know whatever the green thingy with the poking bits in is."
"For 60 bucks that is damn good meter. This hobbyist might skip eating for a few weeks and buy it."
Skip eating for a few weeks?
"GIMME DA MEETA!!!", "GIMME DA METER!!!"
"GIMME DET METTAH!!, I want to burn some wood, not at home though." "GIMME DA MEETTA. Thanks"
Well the good thing is that it's a pretty low cost meter so hopefully more people can buy it. I'll leave the link in the
description below. "GIMME THAT MEETA NOW!!."
"MILLION SUB Omg Omg Omg WTF?"
"Give me the meter!!. Nice Jacob's ladder!"
Jacob's ladder, should make a video about that. "Give me the meter! you send it to germany for free, right?"
Ummm...
"Gimme da meetta sir"
"Give me da scope, oh wait! wrong giveaway..."
"Would love that meter for my breadboard computer build!"
Bread board computer build? You're making a computer out of breadboard?
[Mumbling] Thats a crappy computer probably you're making... you don't need a meter for that.
"GIMMMME DAMETTAAAA!!"
"I like your videos, multimeter would be nice." "Give me a meter so. I can sell it on EBay"
*LAUGHS*
"Gimme da meetta please. Also, I think the problem was that you used plywood..."
"...I bet if you had used solid wood, like a framing stud, it would have worked."
You're probably right...
"GIMME DA MEETAH.. that you have."
Hmmm...
"Please Mehdi. Gimme da meter. It's been the stuff of my dreams for a while now"
"Gimme Da Meter, you are such a star."
"You make everyone watching very aware of the dangers very well. You scary dude"
"#GIMME DA MEETA"
"GIMME DA MEETA!!!! To check FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER!"
"comment"
"That meter shall be mine! Great video, as always!"
"GIMME DA MEETA!"
"would love to get one"
"Gimme da metar da"
"GIVE ME THE METTA, just finished my 12th and I am joining a college for pursuing electronic, so it would be nice if I had one of those"
"FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER! Is that one?"
"GIMME DA MEETA! Please..."
"I WANT DA METER! I am studying electronic physics, and I don't have the money to buy even a simple meter"
We need a crowd funding for this...
"Give me the meter just poor inventor.. Please"
*crying*
"100 comment"
Well, heh, see you're 106
"Not much of an artist but you are the only guy that makes me jump out of my chair every time. I like your videos keep it up"
Thank you. Well. Thank you guys for all the comments
I think we have read enough. See you in the next video.
"GIMME DA MEETA"..........