Full bridge rectifier!

[dkochan]

Electronics lesson for the day. Safety first!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI5Ftm1-jik

[xtian]

OMG. Medhi cracks me up.

[Ken Moon]

Thanks, that's just what I needed after a stressful day

Now I feel safe and warm in the knowledge that someone is stupider than me - ahhhh...

[dorrisant]

Ha Ha!

I always tend to watch him like this:

[John_P_WI]

There are a number of his "best of compilations" on youtube of his staged f-ups that are fairly funny to watch.

That being said, in the op linked video, playing with line voltage without isolation is a quick way to meet his diety of choice and is just damn dangerous. Guessing he is versed in power electronics and understands floating / isolation of line driven circuits. I wonder how many uneducated followers will give it a go and suffer unfavorable results??

[davidjon_99]

OMG, now that there is funny...and scary. There were times when I could bear-ly watch.

[Structo]

I hope his life insurance premiums are current.

[Phil_S]

I think that video disqualifies him for life insurance. While it is mildly amusing in its own way, I don't really think that sort of tom-foolery is funny. There is always someone out there playing with only 51 cards who will try to imitate it. Could be me, who knows?

[Firestorm]

Most electricians wire "hot." It's pretty hard to kill yourself unless you do it just right (or wrong, as the case may be).

[John_P_WI]

Most electricians wire "hot." It's pretty hard to kill yourself unless you do it just right (or wrong, as the case may be).

When I was 16 or so I saw an electrician make a peace sign with his right hand and touch his index finger to a wire and his middle finger to the box to determine if the circuit was energized. Which it was... guess he felt it was quicker than pulling out the meter.

[JazzGuitarGimp]

VERY FUNNY How to make a taser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkGVMWK ... 290.922811

[Phil_S]

Most electricians wire "hot." It's pretty hard to kill yourself unless you do it just right (or wrong, as the case may be).

Yes, I've seen them do it more than once. If you happen to be watching and they realize it, they will tell you they really should interrupt the power, but they're not going to.

Heck, this is "The Garage." I've got a doozie of a story about wiring it hot.

There was the time, maybe 35 years ago when my sister and her husband left me with their kids (who were about 3 and 5 at the time) so they could have a weekend away. I was happy to do it. They were in a new house and it started to rain pretty hard. The yard was part grass, part mud. It really was new. All of a sudden, the lights started to turn on and off like there was a ghost in the house. I called the electric company, and the contractor who built the house, and then I waited. I recall the front door was open with a metal storm/screen door. My nephew, the younger one was headed for the door for some reason and I pulled him back and then shut the door. After a short time, the utility company showed up and assessed the problem. They shouted to me to stay inside and not to touch anything on the exterior, like windows and I think, "uh oh." Then I see them get these ginormous rubber gloves that go up to the shoulders and boots that look like waders and tools attached to long non-conductive poles. I can't really see what's going on but it's serious.

It turned out the rain caused the ground to give way under the conduit that brought in the electric service and the weight of it had caused it to pull away from the meter. The exterior of the house, aluminum siding, was shorted and hot, which explains the backfeed that was turning lights on and off. (Turns out I saved my nephew's life as that metal door was probably hot; it was underground service so there was no option to drop the wires from the pole first.) They made the repairs in the rain without turning off the power to the neighborhood. You could say they "wired it hot!" It was impressive, what they did. Also, because it was on their side of the meter, it was the utility company's responsibility. I'm guessing the bill for work like this would have been rather substantial.

I called my sister when they finished. No sense worrying her for nothing. We talked about that one for years.

[Structo]

There is the infamous video of Zakk Wylde getting shocked when building a kit amp.
(sorry I couldn't find it right away)

He just touched the grid like you do to a cable when you touch the tip to see of the cord is hot.

I think Gerald Weber did the same thing in another video.

Mystery and Voo Doo abound!

[TUBEDUDE]

I'm suprised he didn't damage that nice DSO. He's really Sacha Cohen doing a character. Ali G. Electronics Shop.