I want one of these in my bedroom

[LittleB]

Awesome Electric Arc Video

I want one of these in my bedroom


http://www.killsometime.com/Video/video.asp?video=Electric-Arc

 

[bvasgm]

Wow..what happened? It looked like the electrical wires snapped but it happened pretty fast.

 

[CyberPitz]

I'd love one of those in my room too, except i dont wanna turn into that dead crusty body in Ravenholm --;

 

[Razor]

Wow..what happened? It looked like the electrical wires snapped but it happened pretty fast.

It is just electricity jumping across a gap, i think the connection rod was purposely withdrawn for whatever reason and the electricity just carried on jumping between the two connection nodes. Probably a fair few thousand watts jumping between them.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Yeah, the connection was deliberatly disconnected, as there were two other ones behind it that did the same thing.

 

[MikeL15]

And also, why would a guy be filming electric towers if he didnt know anything was gunna happen? Still pretty cool.

I got something like that in my room. Not as big though. Its one of those electric things where if you touch it, the exectricity goes to your hand...

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

That ... was ... awesome. Imagine how many things you could fry with that kind of power.

A reference to Electric Six - "Danger (High Voltage)" might be appropriate, but that would be gay.

Fire in the disco,
Fire in the ... Taco Bell

 

[Greatgat]

Just imagine the things you could throw in that mother. Hot dogs... Action figures... The possibilities are endless.

 

[LittleB]

Just imagine the things you could throw in that mother. Hot dogs... Action figures... The possibilities are endless.

A Doom 3 DVD...

 

[MikeL15]

Woot... a crowbar... then itll become the "Dark Energy Crowbar " where you could like stick it through peoples and stuff...

 

[short recoil]

haha that's cool, as the ionized air rises upwards (it has been heated by the plasma) the arc follows the easiest path (the ionized air) until it is too far for the voltage to jump the gap.

You'd be ****ed if you were had by that, must be increadibly high voltage and high current to do that.

 

[Some_God]

Wow thats freaking sweet dude! I can honestly say that I creamed my pants after watching that!

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

haha that's cool, as the ionized air rises upwards (it has been heated by the plasma) the arc follows the easiest path (the ionized air) until it is too far for the voltage to jump the gap.

Thanks, Dr. Science! (heheh)
What I don't understand is how it gets into such complicated and conviluted (and pretty) patterns, if it prefers the shortest path? I understand small variations, and the bowing upward, but still. It gets crazy.

 

[short recoil]

Thanks, Dr. Science! (heheh)
What I don't understand is how it gets into such complicated and conviluted (and pretty) patterns, if it prefers the shortest path? I understand small variations, and the bowing upward, but still. It gets crazy.

Ionized air would quickly disapate and disperse in the air, the ionized air is much more conductive.
Gas dynamics will show you how it will create strange patterns from rising air, so you will get strange patterns where the electricity is arcing.
If you notice the arc starts off small, it has to, to be able to first arc in normal air (or be a starting high voltage) soon the ionized air rises and fresh air replaces the ionized air in the gap.....hence it goes upwards.