Electrical Arcs at 1,750,000FPS - The Slow Mo Guys with ElectroBOOM

There is actually a very handy image search feature in the phantom software that would have helped us scan the images for significant changes in pixel values and found the arcs much quicker at 1,750,000. Just need to connect the phantom via ethernet to a laptop. Guess who forgot their usb to ethernet dongle for their USB-C only laptop? Heyoooooo.

I don't know if Dan will speak to me after going through so much pain!!😈

This is why I love ElectroBOOM. The fact that he knows so much about electricity and is willing to put himself (or Dan) in the line of fire for our entertainment.

It's so cool how nature provides you with a relaxing soundtrack whenever you're in slow mo.

The first Tesla coil experiment played the tune to the pink panther but the movie studio claimed the entire video so I had to cut it out. 😢

Mehdi switching between awkward nerd and evil genius is the perfect portrayal of an engineer‘s emotional range :D Thank you guys for this collab, it was so fun to watch!

it speaks volumes to what you guys are doing, the fact that that obviously brilliant electrical expert is still able to learn things about his own profession by seeing the footage you come up with. great video

Mehdi's excitement is palpable. Working with this every day and now knowing the secret slow motion world buried underneath must be so exciting.

I swear Mehdi is on a quest to see how many Youtubers he can trick into getting shocked

The arc pathfinding is really cool to watch

At that framerate, light travels at about 170 m/s. That's just astounding.

Electrical engineer here; My guess on why the marx generator lights up all at once would be that Mehdi IS technically correct, they are filling up from left to right. However, once the first stage is fully charged, my guess is that the impedance between the two discharge nodes is effectively infinite (acting as a perfect open), because there is another path of least resistance within the circuit, going to the next stage capacitor. Once that next stage capacitor fills up, rinse repeat down the line until you finally fill up the very end one. When that one fills to its max capacitance, there is nowhere left for the current to 'freely' move, so everything 'overflows' all at once.

dan is that guy who agrees to do everything no matter how dangerous it is

Medhi: "let me increase the power a little bit..." Dan: *concerned stare*

Aww! I like how you can tell the guest gets excited it the middle when he can actually see the AC frequency because he starts rocking back and forth ❤️

ElectroBOOM, such an awesome and humble guy.. great collab! 😁

Working with Phantoms and searching for that one segment of spark is no joke. I was lucky to film with Phantoms a few videos back, and it gives me a huge appreciation for what Gav and Dan did for this video. What great footage you guys captured, resonant frequency and all.

I love Medhi. You can tell immediately how genuine he is and how much he absolutely loves what he does. So much fun to watch him with Gav and Dan

that is crazy. electricity is SO fast that even 1.75 million frames per second can't make it look slow. incredibly humbling if anything, who knows if we'll ever be able to perceive the true magnificence of it

6 minutes and 20 seconds in and this is already the Slow Mo Guys video that feels the most like you guys are three legitimate scientists, the way you hover over the playback screen with these intense stares of fascination, so epic lol