Some were on low voltage electricity (240v) and other videos about High voltage electricity from substations and the national grid.
I remember those, they were a great source of ideas for things to try out on a wet Sunday afternoon.
Worst injury I ever did myself was a bad case of arc eye aged about 12years.
The real pisser? The carbon arc was only there as a source of negative resistance, what I was really trying for was a carrier wave in the LW band using an electric fire as a ballast, tank coil wound on the legs of a chair, and a tuning cap made of two foil covered boxes that could be slid inside each other. I got in trouble for that one, but mainly for using dads whisky as a source of alcohol to decompose to get hydrogen in the Paulsen arc housed in a couple of biscuit tins (Hey the stuff tasted awful to me, I figured I was doing him a favour).
Yep, I was the kid out in the thunderstorm with a kite and the key (Underwhelming, modern cordage is depressingly high resistance even when wet).
So, yea we probably do bet a bit overly worried about this stuff, but back then I was getting it from books that usually at least discussed the fact that this stuff could hurt you, youtube often fails at that, or (in some ways worse) does it sort of right but fails to explain that the nitration must be done slowly, or that the supply is not isolated, you know the little things that matter.
Regards, Dan.
Love that story, sounded a really interesting experiment!
I remember building crystal radios and remember putting the earpiece directly on a water pipe and hearing a radio station, blew my little mind.
My dad taught me to Arc and Mig weld as a kid, I was warned not to look at the Arc but did I listen, I didn't do it again after getting arc eye!
I tried my hand at making thermite with a 12v car battery charger, a nail and my dads headshell off his record player (magnesium)
when I was younger with encouragement from my friends. That didn't go down too well!
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