Making 500,000 VOLT ARC with Marx Generator

Imagine being ElectroBOOM's wife, constantly hearing this stuff from the across the house wondering if this was it, was this the shock that killed him.

Imma level with you. That's TERRIFYING.

There was a guy in my HS physics class that built a massive capacitor… like 3 feet (1 meter) long. It was similar to EB’s “tiny” capacitor in that it was aluminum foil rolled up with wax paper as the dielectric. He charged it up, and because in and of itself the charging doesn’t appear impressive, he decided to discharge it… himself. It threw him about 7 feet onto the floor. The class was impressed, he was… ‘ok’… and I believe he got an “A”. Come to think of it… that very well may have been ElectroBOOM…!

1:04 the way he talks after getting shocked, he doesn’t sound angry or upset at all, just disappointed with his nearly lethal accident

“it can kill you” “Let me show you how”

It's a true Marx generator only if it seizes the means of arc production

0:56 that's the nastiest shock he's received alongside the Jacob's ladder

0:57 that's the fastest I've seen anyone move lmao

Mehdi: stands up super high voltage death tower Everyone: flashback to the jacob's ladder incident

0:56 It scared the shit out of me when he grabbed his heart. Please take care, we don’t want to loose you Mehdi.

This guy surviving these videos is like a testament to multiverse theory combined with the infinite monkey theorem. There is no way he could survive without so many universes to have come first where he hadn't.

Thanks I love your experiments especially the high voltage ones. You are so funny! But also very clever. Love your channel keep up the great work!!! Geoff

everyone: I am surprised he is still alive Death: Yeah me too

Normal person: "Never do __, you could die!" ElectroBOOM: proceeds to do __ Also ElectroBOOM: "I almost died! Here's how:"

That big shock, reminds me when I was under my desk unplugging a UPS to move it from my old power bar that I didn't trust and wanted to replace (it was rated for 12 amps, I prefer everything matches or is higher than the 15 amps of a wall outlet due to a fire in the past). The plug was being stubborn and I was twisting my body in an uncomfortable way to access it. To brace myself for balance I grabbed my desk, a steel desk, not thinking as I pulled out the plug and as it came out my finger slipped and touched one of the prongs. I didn't feel the shock in my hand or arms. I felt it in my chest back of my neck as that was pressed against part of the desk as well and ended up getting kicked back by it. My roommate was a paramedic and I yelled for them to come check me, said I took current across the chest and to give me a check over to confirm that my racing heart was just panic, I was having short term vision issues as well and wasn't able to move correctly and apparently had slurred speech. They looked me over and then informed me that it wasn't my heart that had them worried, it was that my breathing and voice told them my diaphragm was still acting up and my behavior meant my brain got some electroshock therapy. Took me 15 minutes to get to normal again. When I went back to work they grabbed a dog chain and forced me to use it to ground myself on the same arm that I was pulling plugs with.

You need to be a teacher

Marx Generator: *exists* Electrons: "We have nothing to lose but our chains!"

7:44 "I can raise the power supply to give it more voltage..." - Marx generator starts playing drum solo

9:06 the moment in the film where the experiment goes wrong and a supervillain is made

We used to make these in electronics classes though we used the classic Cockroft Walton multiplier circuit where you use diodes and caps instead. The smell of ozone coming off them was pretty full on from what I remember!!