Australian Electricity Better than UK?!

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Australia is a beautiful place, both environmentally and electrically! Although I only travelled to Sydney this time...

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By: Mehdi Sadaghdar

[TheEngieTF]

"Where's all the snakes and tarantulas and crocodiles they promised?"

Even the Australian creatures are absolutely afraid of Mehdi and his electricity shenanigans

[adhillA]

7:20 The trams actually _don't_ use batteries for the rest of the network, they use Alstom's APS power system! It uses a third rail in the centre of the track, which is separated into short sections (less than half a train length), and the train activates them wirelessly as it goes overhead such that the only sections which are live at any given time are those which are fully covered by a train. This means the train receives continuous power, but there is no hazard from touching the exposed parts of the rail when crossing.

[natural_filosofy]

Big fan of your work—your mix of humor and real electrical engineering is unmatched.

I wanted to suggest a video idea I think you’d absolutely crush:
An electrical engineering breakdown of Jurassic Park.

Specifically:
• What kind of power plant would be needed to run all those massive electric fences?
• What would the reliability of such a system look like in a tropical environment with giant dinosaurs and storms?
• How could the park realistically conduct maintenance on those fences?
• Could any of it actually work—or would the park be doomed from an EE standpoint even without a power failure?

I think it’d be hilarious and educational to debunk Jurassic Park just from the electrical side.

Hope this sparks some interest—and thanks again for making science so entertaining!

[ChaseDarkFox]

As an Australian, the thing that really sets us above the UK is that most of our plugs don't have flat backs. The chances of impaling your foot on a plug end is severely reduced

[Jimmeh_B]

That "500v" socket is actually 3 phase 415v.
Probably best you didn't have a resistor on you for that one.

[nhand]

Those houses you were looking at are Sydney Terrace Houses. They were built before electricity was standard and mostly for poorer working-class families. The first terrace house I lived in had a "copper" tub in the laundry. Before washing machines all the clothes went in the "copper" and you'd light a fire underneath to boil the clothes. This was common up until the 1950s. Of course I had electricity when I lived there in the 1970s, by then the copper was just an eccentric bit of history.

[Flacidross]

lol, upside down camera when you got off the plane was one of the best dad jokes i think ive ever seen

[Shanghaimartin]

Man, it's so weird following a channel for so long and suddenly you are hit with the realization of the passage of time.
ElectroCute is all grown up now 😁

[OliversElectronics]

As an aussie aspiring Electrical Engineer and a huge fan of electroBoom, i was so excited when i saw him in public lol, Thanks for coming to Australia!

[theravenAU]

the houses with the in your face fuse boxes, they are designed like that, because most of the houses in that area are considered "Heritage listed" which means you can not damage the facade of the house or drill internal walls.. You will find that they run wires along walls and around corners to protect the house from damage..

[verebellus]

I love how involved you family is in your videos, so wholesome

[evolutionarytheory]

I love that Medhi is breaking multiple Sydney laws by flying a drone over Circular Quay. Nice.

[chris]

Fun fact about Australian sockets. It's easy to identify active and neutral. When looking at the socket, the left hand slot is active, you can make an A from it ( / into A ), the right hand slot is neutral, you can make an N from it ( \ into N ). For appliance wiring brown for active, blue for neutral and green/yellow for earth (yellow so colour blind see green). If you touch the brown one you shit yourself - easy way to remember!
For info, the shock you received, if that happened in South Australia, it would be regulatory/legal requirement to report it to the office of the technical regulator.
We also run multiple earth neutral systems.

[_Triple_S_]

13:16 That locked door to the Electrical room was quickly built in when they realized Mehdi booked a room XD

[Roboseal]

All electricity aside that transition at 16:47 was so clean medhi nice work!

[GerryRR]

"I don't follow the celebrity news" is such a sick burn

[TheGrosos]

Fun fact: The power outlet (AS/NZS 3112 or IRAM standard 2073) is the same in Argentina and Australia. Australia was the first to adopt it. Argentina's switch to it is believed to have been motivated by a desire to protect local industry against imported products while also improving security; they hoped that having a rare outlet people wouldn't import stuff. After Australia and Argentina, many countries around them also switched to this type of plug, like Uruguay and New Zealand.

[aL_]

Mehdi and Dave playing with their probes and shoving them in random places is so wholesome

[phxf]

The trams in sydney do not run on batteries, there is actually a third rail in between the two it drives on, and when it disconnects from overhead power, it gets powered from that third rail. The rail is in short segments, like a flat contactor strip, and it energises only the sections that are entirely covered by the tram as it moves along, so you can safely touch and walk on any sections that aren't under a tram. They do it because the wires are ugly. Australia is starting to use more buried wires and things like that to make the view nicer, but it's more expensive so only part of the line has it

[Sparky_D]

As an electrician, the thing with our light switches which is better than anywhere else I've seen is that a single switch or a 6 switch plate are THE SAME SIZE! Its a thing of beauty.