I need to set my sights on a new goal!

 

When all is said and done those are expensive pops. Fuses like that do not come cheap.

Ron

 

What was the total capacitance? I missed it in the video. Still 3 kilovolts there's a very high voltage and we'll send your soul straight to its reward if you play with it wrong.

 

When all is said and done those are expensive pops. Fuses like that do not come cheap.

Ron

Yes, you're right, 900 bucks

https://spwindustrial.com/gould-shawmut-amp-trap-fuse-5000-amp-600-volt-a4by5000/

 

Yeah i was going to say, "Next up, paying for a new 5000 amp fuse".

 

It's really amazing how far those huge cables jump apart when they handle so much current.

But, that's confusing since they are the same polarity. Applying the right-hand rule, they field in the between the two wires should result in attraction, not repulsion.

I am missing something but I can't see what it is. It can't be attraction of the two inner wires because not are they much farther apart but by the same rule, they should repel.

It could be that there isn't as much influence of the magnetic fields as I think and the movement is caused by something else. OK, but if that's the case, what is causing the movement (even if it is the rest of the circuit with the fuse and switch) there is a lot of force being applied to the wires.

So, what am I missing?

 

It's really amazing how far those huge cables jump apart when they handle so much current.

But, that's confusing since they are the same polarity. Applying the right-hand rule, they field in the between the two wires should result in attraction, not repulsion.

I am missing something but I can't see what it is. It can't be attraction of the two inner wires because not are they much farther apart but by the same rule, they should repel.

It could be that there isn't as much influence of the magnetic fields as I think and the movement is caused by something else. OK, but if that's the case, what is causing the movement (even if it is the rest of the circuit with the fuse and switch) there is a lot of force being applied to the wires.

So, what am I missing?

Hi there,

What place in the video are you looking at.

What i noticed is that the wires have some elasticity and some inertial mass and the current is a pulse, meaning it starts and then stops abruptly.
When the current starts, the wires start to move toward each other, then the current stops but the wires are still moving toward each other. They bump into each other and then bounce apart. When they bounce apart of course they then move away from each other, and that is due to a different type of response other than magnetism.
It could also be that the current draws the wires together and holds them together for a short time but under force. When the current stops the force stops and the wires, due to their elasticity, bounce apart.

That's what it looked like to me in one place in the video anyway. I can check the place you were looking at if you tell me the time in the video where you saw it.

 

How many farads were those capacitors total?

 

How many farads were those capacitors total?

Yeah i didn't see that either.

 

I think they should have screened the pneumatic switch, that is a huge source of sparking and it masks the fuse blowing. Placing the pneumatic switch inside a wooden crate or something would have allowed us to see just the fuse's behavior.

 

I think they should have screened the pneumatic switch, that is a huge source of sparking and it masks the fuse blowing. Placing the pneumatic switch inside a wooden crate or something would have allowed us to see just the fuse's behavior.

I have a feeling they were going for the "Wowness" factor.