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wood fractal youtube video letal fatal hack
wraper:
Just so you have an idea with what these people are playing with:
ConKbot:
Anne's video is appropriate for her primary audience, Clive's is appropriate for his. If someones only exposure to the inside of a microwave oven has been a sketchy youtube video, with no previous electronics experience, and wants to grab a junk microwave, get some jumper cables and a pair of leather gloves and have at it. 'just dont' is perfectly sound advice.
500mA with more than enough voltage is so far into insta-dead territory, you need theory and practical experience to be safe enough.
Can the fractal burning be done safely? Of course. For cheap? probably. How to get there is the problem.
Marco:
I think Clive has the better idea. If you do it at least use a neon sign transformer and give yourself a better chance at surviving a mistake.
Not much more expensive than salvaging a MOT, leave the MOTs for the amateur welders ;)
james_s:
--- Quote from: John B on June 20, 2022, 10:28:47 pm ---Contrast that with the OP's video, which is more along the lines of "abstinence only" :-DD education. Having looked through the comment section of the video yesterday, the general tone of he comments were along the lines of "Oh my god, I had NO idea electricity could be SO dangerous", or people calling for banning and deleting of any comments or content that even suggests that the art can be done in a safe manner (again none of this sits right with me), so perhaps the message of the video is appropriate to the target demographic of her videos.
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Nothing makes me want to play with something more than somebody telling me I can't do it and trying to ban me from even talking about it. Banned from discussion I'll go at it alone.
For what it's worth, I've played with MOTs many times. They are very dangerous and I respect this. They can be used safely though, millions of people use them every day in their original application and it's just as possible to do other things with them safely.
And let's keep things in perspective, bicycles kill more people than MOTs. So do roofs and stairs (falls), swimming pools (drowning), and many other things. The world is dangerous and complacency kills.
wraper:
--- Quote from: james_s on June 21, 2022, 06:30:53 pm ---And let's keep things in perspective, bicycles kill more people than MOTs. So do roofs and stairs (falls), swimming pools (drowning), and many other things. The world is dangerous and complacency kills.
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Let's keep in perspective that ratio of those who were killed divided by total users is way lower for bicycles than those who played dumb games with microwave transformer.
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