This right here.
is the wimshurst machine.
Welcome back.
And in this episode.
I have something to show you.
that I'm really excited about.
Okay I'm not that excited.
But.
I am pretty excited period because I forgot that this thing existed.
Until recently.
And.
It's actually something called.
The wimshurst machine.
So what it does.
Is it actually makes static electricity.
With these two discs. and let me show you.
I think this was created like in the eighteen hundreds sometime.
This will make like an electric Arc about four inches.
Just watch.
And the idea behind this.
The reason you can see a high speed camera here.
Because I had a good idea.
So on our behind the scenes Channel.
I actually went out.
And it was a really grueling shoot.
I decided to come out late night tonight.
And fulfill the request.
For lightning in 4K slow motion.
And do a little storm chasing.
Getting bitten up by mosquitoes.
It's now 1 o'clock in the morning.
And I am tired.
This idea stemmed off of that.
Because yeah it was a real pain in the butt.
And it didn't come out that good.
I won't bore you with the details. let's just jump right into it.
And get this setup.
So before we go ahead and film this thing in slow motion.
We have a lot of gas leaking.
From our see-through engine right here.
And I just want to see if maybe.
Maybe the spark from this wimshurst machine.
Will start a fire.
So let's see.
Whoa there it goes that thing burned up quick.
Let's get that towel.
That thing actually started a fire look at that.
Looks pretty good.
So we have to clean up our table and we're out of Windex.
First thing I saw on the Shelf.
Tequila.
Let's clean this table up.
We're going to start out this spark gap right here.
At about an inch and a half.
Start this up and see how it looks.
First we're going to do 4K slow motion.
then we are going to do it even slower.
Well that was pretty cool.
I'm going to grab it from here so I don't get shocked.
I got shocked earlier by this thing.
And I felt it in my chest.
It was no joke.
I guess this is some serious voltage.
So watch this.
Here we go we're going to come together.
and discharge it.
But it smells like static.
And Fabian was just asking me.
What that was.
And that's actually the ozone that's created.
By the spark.
So it's three molecules of oxygen I believe.
I'll put a link down in the description area below.
Yeah I can't remember exactly how the process works.
But I know it's ozone and that's what makes that smell.
So this time I'm going to go with about a 4 inch Gap.
And up the frame rate.
And see how that looks.
And then we're going to start that paper.
That I started on fire earlier.
We're going to start that on fire.
But this time I'm going to film it in slow motion as well.
5000 frames per second.
Stretched slow motion replay.
Now before we move on.
I just wanted to point something out really quick.
That I noticed about this.
When we put the balls.
These little conductors.
Too far away from one another.
And we spin this.
It doesn't actually Arc.
Once in awhile it will.
But we have a lot of noise.
Coming like from these columns here.
Or this area around here.
Here check it out I'm going to show you.
Okay here check it out.
Have a listen.
All right and that noise.
That like puff puff popping noise.
That's what I'm talking about.
It like gives me goosebumps. and it smells like static.
And here check this out.
I don't want to get shocked.
Watch this.
That's pretty cool.
So now that we're done with that.
Yeah let's get some stuff burning.
First thing that we need for our Spark fire test.
Is some ether.
Because we don't have any more gas.
We put our engine away.
And the paper towel.
So what I'm going to do.
Is I'm just going to get this paper towel. and douse it with either.
Okay I think we're good.
That looks good.
Let me put the ether down here.
In case we have a fire.
And then I'm going to take this right here.
put it in between.
I'm just going to crank this.
And make a fire.
Let me put this this way.
Here it goes.
Whoa that really flamed up.
Wow that was quick.
oh man look at that.
Let me get the towel again.
Second fire we had here today.
Here we go.
That's how you put out a fire.
With the sweaty t-shirt.
Before we get out of here.
I just wanted to mention. that not every video that we shoot is a complete episode.
We get a lot of messages saying oh this was incomplete and this and that.
So I just wanted to mention that.
Sometimes were doing viewer request.
Sometimes we don't even have time to shoot them.
But we have a really good idea.
That we wanted to post and share with everybody.
So we find a way to fit it in.
So that being said.
We shoot the best we can.
With the time that we are allowed.
And like I say in all the previous episodes.
I know the equipment is out of the reach of most of us.
But the ideas are not.
So if you have anything that you want to see filmed.
With our techniques.
Or in slow motion.
Just send us a message.
Or leave a comment below.
Everything that we use in this episode.
We're going to leave a link in the description area below.
So you can get more information about that.
I guess I talked enough.
Until next time.
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