Just by reading the title I've thought - it must be Photonicinduction! Glad to see that I was correct. True madlad!
geerlingguy 11 minutes ago [-]
With any of the "high power experiment" folks on YouTube, I'm always glad when they upload again... you start to worry after a few years!
I love how this video has a modern "podcast" setup, yet the lighting and camera quality are still consistent with a decade ago when I started watching the zany experiments.
bArray 3 hours ago [-]
Good to see him doing well. I think he single-handedly keeps the national grid on their toes.
The most powerful circuit I ever made dealt with 100A continuous and 200A peak at 24V, this guy is is simply on another level I can't even begin to wrap my head around.
datas 1 hours ago [-]
He is the OG madlad. Been following his channel since the beginning!
bob1029 1 hours ago [-]
The mapping between audio gear and the power grid is pretty close. AC power and audio waveforms are basically the same thing. If you connect a speaker directly to normal mains power, it will operate briefly before burning out. You'll get a very loud 60 or 50 hz test signal depending on where you plug it in. There are some drivers large enough that they can withstand this power level indefinitely. The car audio market has some pretty crazy designs.
There are pro audio amplifiers that are capable of producing >120v RMS at their output terminals. I would be much more interested in seeing a youtuber purchase one of these and attempt to run a bunch of household appliances using it. Blowing up random shit with ridiculous amounts of power got pretty old for me as a form of entertainment.
aaronax 2 minutes ago [-]
> can withstand this power level indefinitely
What power level? 120V on a 15A breaker?
I = V/R and a typical speaker is 8 ohms which does happen to result in 15A at 120V. Interesting.
etcetcetcetceta 9 minutes ago [-]
true, I was speccing a bom for a huge output SET amp, slowly buying bits and pieces during lockdown, then I did a bit of wiring on my house and got a minor shock from the mains, threw out everything realising that such a mistake during the amp build would result in a major headache and lifelong trauma for my wife.
jcims 2 hours ago [-]
He’s alive!!!
Eupolemos 4 hours ago [-]
This is not really a HN subject, I think - that said, I really love this dude.
Popping up in my subscription-feed after 5 years was a highlight <3
And it def. IS nerdy :D
ytxm 3 hours ago [-]
He epitomises exactly who I'm hoping to bump into on the odd occasion I'd walk into a pub alone out of boredom. 50% everyday gentlemen 50% off the wall mentalist. Love his humour and mad schemes
gosub100 2 hours ago [-]
> This is not really a HN subject
you're right, it isn't about AI/Jev/etc
kotaKat 4 hours ago [-]
There was an almost NASA mission control-esque moment in a lot of my hacker-adjacent circles and chats when this video popped up.
If anything, we're all celebrating he's still alive!
beloch 4 hours ago [-]
Despite his best efforts, still alive.
KaiserPro 1 hours ago [-]
I was thinking about him about a month ago. I was looking at some large transformer and thinking "Hmm I bet photoninduction would like this"
whats remarkable is he looks _younger_ now than five years ago. perhaps I should playing around with megajoules of power.
Ylpertnodi 1 hours ago [-]
Perhaps it's the company he keeps? Jensen Wang would know a thing or two about that.
styro was inspired by photonicinduction, by his own admission
bittercynic 38 minutes ago [-]
"Only" 7MW XD. The coil doesn't remain a coil for long, though, and it's hard to predict the behavior of the rapidly expanding ball of plasma.
_joel 32 minutes ago [-]
5 years since his last vid, to make you feel old.
ablation 4 hours ago [-]
I seem to remember a few years back this guy made a lot of noise about a "free energy" (ahem) device he'd invented and claimed he was giving the plans to China and Russia as a way of getting back at the UK government for some slight or other, then promptly dropped off the face of the internet in protest(?) I guess he's back.
voidUpdate 4 hours ago [-]
IIRC it worked by using a big gyroscope to stay stationary while the earth rotated, causing 1 rotation every 24 hours. So not technically free energy, just taking it from the earth
I was quite worried that he'd gone off the deep end when he published that video
shaaaade 3 hours ago [-]
The way I understood his "free energy"-device back in the day, was supposedly trying to induce a current into a set of coils from the very tiny discrepancies between the earth's rotation and that of its magnetic field. How the gyroscope would play into it, is anybody's guess (alignment, I suppose?). Obviously, none of this would work, and I don't think he was in a particularly good place back then.
thenthenthen 2 hours ago [-]
I saw an artwork like this before, maybe by Anish Kapur?
grishka 2 hours ago [-]
I remember him showing a cube with an outlet and a switch that could power a lightbulb. He eventually revealed that inside were just a bunch of lithium ion cells taken out of disposable vapes
cedws 4 hours ago [-]
That’s not a very charitable interpretation. He was distraught about not being able to get his wife into the UK and was lashing out. He removed the video, he knows it was silly. Hopefully the situation was sorted.
ablation 4 hours ago [-]
It's just what I remembered, clearly I had no recollection of that part. My sympathies with him if he was in some kind of strife.
freshollie 2 hours ago [-]
His wife is mentioned as being behind the camera in the latest video, so it sounds like it was sorted.
KaiserPro 1 hours ago [-]
Yeah UK marriage visas are fucking expensive, long and humiliating.
Its one of those things that was borne out of tabloid panic (IMPORTING WIVES AND FAMILIES!!) which means that now everyone has to go through pain until a scandal or another panic causes a change.
xattt 4 hours ago [-]
Spoiler: it becomes a compact one-time use railgun.
emsign 2 hours ago [-]
Popped it
Rendered at 14:41:17 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
I love how this video has a modern "podcast" setup, yet the lighting and camera quality are still consistent with a decade ago when I started watching the zany experiments.
The most powerful circuit I ever made dealt with 100A continuous and 200A peak at 24V, this guy is is simply on another level I can't even begin to wrap my head around.
There are pro audio amplifiers that are capable of producing >120v RMS at their output terminals. I would be much more interested in seeing a youtuber purchase one of these and attempt to run a bunch of household appliances using it. Blowing up random shit with ridiculous amounts of power got pretty old for me as a form of entertainment.
What power level? 120V on a 15A breaker?
I = V/R and a typical speaker is 8 ohms which does happen to result in 15A at 120V. Interesting.
Popping up in my subscription-feed after 5 years was a highlight <3
And it def. IS nerdy :D
you're right, it isn't about AI/Jev/etc
If anything, we're all celebrating he's still alive!
whats remarkable is he looks _younger_ now than five years ago. perhaps I should playing around with megajoules of power.
I was quite worried that he'd gone off the deep end when he published that video
Its one of those things that was borne out of tabloid panic (IMPORTING WIVES AND FAMILIES!!) which means that now everyone has to go through pain until a scandal or another panic causes a change.