Making 500,000 VOLT ARC with Marx Generator

You can make a Lightening Bolt with a Marx Generator! I’m ZEUS!!

Below are my Super Patrons with support to the extreme!

Sam Lutfi

By: Mehdi Sadaghdar
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[smartereveryday]

Imma level with you. That's TERRIFYING.

[thememegeneer]

Mehdi: *stands up super high voltage death tower*

Everyone: *flashback to the jacob's ladder incident*

[icyexe]

“it can kill you”

“Let me show you how”

[grapesoda]

1:04 the way he talks after getting shocked, he doesn’t sound angry or upset at all, just disappointed with his nearly lethal accident

[benedikuto_]

0:56 It scared the shit out of me when he grabbed his heart. Please take care, we don’t want to loose you Mehdi.

[CyrisCloete]

Imagine being ElectroBOOM's wife, constantly hearing this stuff from the across the house wondering if this was it, was this the shock that killed him.

[Mr.caramel]

everyone: I am surprised he is still alive
Death: Yeah me too

[sayori]

0:56 that's the nastiest shock he's received alongside the Jacob's ladder

[JoelCreates]

It's a true Marx generator only if it seizes the means of arc production

[everythingok]

This is literally the most comfortable and fun way to learn something about electronics

[Povilaz]

When he said that he'll mount it on some plexi glass to make it vertical I immediately got flashbacks to "the Jacobs ladder incident"

[rickbailey]

There was a guy in my HS physics class that built a massive capacitor… like 3 feet (1 meter) long. It was similar to EB’s “tiny” capacitor in that it was aluminum foil rolled up with wax paper as the dielectric. He charged it up, and because in and of itself the charging doesn’t appear impressive, he decided to discharge it… himself. It threw him about 7 feet onto the floor. The class was impressed, he was… ‘ok’… and I believe he got an “A”.
Come to think of it… that very well may have been ElectroBOOM…!

[gabrielmandel]

That "is for me"part killed me lmao

[willlanger]

0:57 feels unsettlingly different than the other times he gets shocked in his videos.
There's no comedic element to this. It seems like he was legitimately panicked and in pain that bordered on being lethal (not saying all the other times they weren't.)

Absolute legend for including this, showing how terrifying electrical shocks can be for the human body.

Thank you for what you do Electroboom.

[ashwinc]

This guy is a prime example for " genius goes hand in hand with crazy".

[squirrel_killer-]

That big shock, reminds me when I was under my desk unplugging a UPS to move it from my old power bar that I didn't trust and wanted to replace (it was rated for 12 amps, I prefer everything matches or is higher than the 15 amps of a wall outlet due to a fire in the past). The plug was being stubborn and I was twisting my body in an uncomfortable way to access it. To brace myself for balance I grabbed my desk, a steel desk, not thinking as I pulled out the plug and as it came out my finger slipped and touched one of the prongs. I didn't feel the shock in my hand or arms. I felt it in my chest back of my neck as that was pressed against part of the desk as well and ended up getting kicked back by it.

My roommate was a paramedic and I yelled for them to come check me, said I took current across the chest and to give me a check over to confirm that my racing heart was just panic, I was having short term vision issues as well and wasn't able to move correctly and apparently had slurred speech. They looked me over and then informed me that it wasn't my heart that had them worried, it was that my breathing and voice told them my diaphragm was still acting up and my behavior meant my brain got some electroshock therapy. Took me 15 minutes to get to normal again.

When I went back to work they grabbed a dog chain and forced me to use it to ground myself on the same arm that I was pulling plugs with.

[entechcore]

Normal person: "Never do __, you could die!"
ElectroBOOM: *proceeds to do __*
Also ElectroBOOM: "I almost died! Here's how:"

[matthewtalbot-paine]

"Cleary I haven't learnt my lesson" he says electrifying himself for the 1 millionth time.

[zinova]

0:57 that's the fastest I've seen anyone move lmao

[disobeysilver]

Mans just restarted his heart n said “damn burnt my finger too”