styropyro - 2023-02-02
new side channel: https://www.youtube.com/@styro_drake shorts channel: https://www.youtube.com/@styro_pyro2 instagram: https://www.instagram.com/styro.drake/ patreon: https://www.patreon.com/styropyro backup channel and b-side videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz-3epzOdIyu-aXdeUaVP1A discord: https://discord.gg/styropyro In this video, I address the age old question: Is it the volts or amps that kill? I originally covered this topic in a short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wx6-ysokJU However, my explanation there seemed to generate a lot of controversy among "professionals" that work with electricity. I decided to make a more thorough explanation with this video. However, my stance on the matter is unchanged! English This video has been dubbed using an artificial voice via https://aloud.area120.google.com to increase accessibility. You can change the audio track language in the Settings menu. Spanish Este video ha sido doblado al español con voz artificial con https://aloud.area120.google.com para aumentar la accesibilidad. Puede cambiar el idioma de la pista de audio en el menú Configuración. Portuguese Este vídeo foi dublado para o português usando uma voz artificial via https://aloud.area120.google.com para melhorar sua acessibilidade. Você pode alterar o idioma do áudio no menu Configurações.
It's actually the frequency; because the higher the frequency, the more it Hertz.
Why is this not at the top 😭
@r@rockz9783because there is a pinned comment
Hahahahah watt are you talking about
comment is amped up bro
Shocking you would say that.
I love that pyro's defense for everything he claims is "well I'm not dead", and it's actually a super valid one.
Yes, but it's not a 100% valid one. Some things kill you by long time exposure and other things kill you if you have the wrong reaction in the wrong situation. So this argument only disproves immediate killing by electricity.
@benrex7775 Did you only watch 5 minutes into the video? Time affected is a huge point here.
Exactly, because when the argument is something will kill you, and it doesn't, no amount of flexing degrees or occupations will refute reality. Here Pyro is actually demonstrating the scientific method instead of the authority bias like others.
@billbill6094 I was answering a different question than you think. I was aware of most of what he said before I watched the video. I mean stuff like the radiation from the teslacoil could be long term damaging to the body. For example the UV of the plasma can cause skin cancer over the decades. Or the microwaves might cause cancer below the skin. And if you have electricity in your body it electrolyzes bodily fluids. Just because it doesn't have a short term damage, it might accumulates over the decades.
An electric shock can make serious damages to your heart. Making it skip a beat and in the long run could potentionally kill your later in life.
As a qualified electricity professional, I can definitely tell you that zappy things go ouchie.
Wait… REALLY?!?
Outstanding! The ability to communicate in such a succinct manner is becoming a lost art. You, sir, are a master of communication!
Woah, zappy things can communicate!?
lol
As a fellow electrician, Zappy thing from the neutral feels more ouchie than the black
The most annoying thing is when people insist that the answer is simple when it's actually very complex
Honestly... On one hand I'm glad that I no longer hold a view that is incorrect. On the other hand I am pissed off because now when I think about whether or not something electrical is dangerous the answer is "nobody knows"
How I feel about theology.
Like working on a car, everything is fine until one bolt breaks off, then you have to spend 2 hours trying to get it out.
@naidoeshacks real
Complexity is subjective.
as a guitar player, amps only kill if you drop it on someone
😂
Or they're vintage and have no ground and electrocute you.
WRONG!!! you can also trip and crack your head off of it. you are clearly not a super genius of music like myself. (i have never played guitar in my life)
got a point
Someone has never played a gig with bad grounding...
"I'm not an electrician or an engineer, but I do have a bunch of terrifying electrical devices"
this man is a national treasure
Not only that, but he says it in the same tone and relaxed enthusiasm as a ski instructor teaching 5-year-olds on a bunny slope.
national security risk at the same time tho
The fact that he has those terrifying devices and is still alive is proof enough.
If you're building a Tesla coil from scratch, you're both an electrician and an engineer.
@chaos.corner yet all the keyboard "engineers" can do is say he's gonna kill himself. A grand majority of them have probably never had this much practical, hands on, experience with high voltage.
I love how he always sounds like hes super excited and dead inside simultaneously
What else do you think the electricity is for?
YES!!!
That's the best description I could possibly imagine.
Perfect description
all college student be like
I work at an electrical place, and trust me. This is ALL wrong. It’s actually the electricity that kills
Only if it's the Dark Side of the Electrical Force.
Wow you work at an electricity place, that means shit, I work at a bakery doesn't mean I can bake does it genius.
Like literal? Is the place actively charged, or just has an electrical potential? Water kills as well, ask anyone who wasn't on an Arc... :) Okay, okay, joking aside, you are right, you are, just like any other given object within reach of you right now, any single object around you could kill you or another person, it just requires common sense and a touch of creativity to stay alive.
@jase4270 The joke went over your head.
@jase4270 Nah you got to be 6 feet under because a joke like that shouldn't have gone over the head of anyone taller than 1 inch
We should spread more misinformation in the comments so Styro can upload more of these cool demonstrations!
so true
Just diss moths, he'll be all over that. He loves his moths.
Only from nile green
Oh hi nile green
Moths are lethal!
Styropyro has the most sober crackhead energy I’ve ever seen. Like well spoken, up beat friendly dude. Let’s disco with death and play with lightning bolts lmao. Very smart very creative guy, love his uploads and personality. The dude is a YouTube gem 💎
I've been subbed for years, and very glad he's been uploading a little more recently.
If someone told me styro was a full blown crackhead who made a YouTube channel to buy more crack. I'd believe it lol
I would say he’s not very smart. He is a genius. Thats why he seems half-crazy
He's Doc Emmet Brown prequel years ;P
I love him!
I love how so many of us half jokingly say "I'm so glad Styropyro uploaded another video, because that means he didn't electrocute himself" and Drake just drops "testing high voltage electricity my haters say is lethal on myself"
no way is his name drake
@carryingautoclicks7501 yes it is
@carryingautoclicks7501he can make sick tunes with electronics
@franciscosoares2440 holy shit
styropuro, uhh i mean drake the kinda guy to take heavy precautions so he doesn't end up being the slaughter gang CEO
As an electronical engineer, I shut up and listen to what the boy with crazy projects has to say.
As an electrician I will stop saying amps kill. Thank you for the excellent educating skills
Watts Kill* ?
(note the *)
No, its a useful understanding in your work.
Saying Amps kill is probably good enough to convey a point, sort of like the bohr model is not actually how an atom looks or works, but is good enough to convey a point. Good to know that it isn't the full story though.
I belive you because you have money
Without Volts you won't get any amps.
Its the stupidity that kills. Volts and Amps come later.
only right answer scrolled a while to see this
sooooooo true
11:33 “so I built this Tesla coil” yep he’s definitely insane.
He also made 2020s most powerful handheld laser and 2025s too
That's honestly not the most silly/wild thing he did for this channel.
@God_Of_All_Nanuqsaurus he wired 100 car batteries in parallel. That’s so powerful the magnetic forces from all that energy torn apart the block holding something in place
@Goofy-dude246 And the macrowave
But the good kind of insane.
How to prove something won't kill you: Normal People: math and common sense Styro:"If I do it and don't die it doesn't kill you'
Isn't that the normal way???
Yes@AltoNewbii
Nothing like a real world experiment!
everything styro does will kill me no matter what
nah, he already is extremely confident that it wont kill, thats why hes showing it to the audience IRL and not just from knowledge.
Just the fact this guy is still alive absolutely proves that he knows what he's talking about
The craziest scientists are the ones who know the most.
literal living proof
@MCWaffles2003-1for real
❤😂🎉
I've been trying to figure out how old styropyro is, and I think this video confirms he's actually thousands of years old and is immortal.
yeah he just pretends he's 30
I'd say so myself
umm he was the first bolt of lightning and when he dies we loose something needed
Like a Newt Scamander -ish Nicholas Flamel.
Typical immortal behavior. He's bored of life so he does dangerous stuff that takes him to the edge, everyone gets there after hundreds of years of life
This feels like a very elaborate science diss track, i didn't understand most of what was in the video, i'm new to this type of content, i learned the term "high voltage youtuber"
Styropyro : touches litteral plasma and laughs,
Electroboom : plugs a lamp and dies
then comes back to life after bleeping about 1600000 times!
Why he laughin so much? He off the za
electroboom: uses tap to pay
cashier: explodes
inside every man are two wolves:
That’s electricity for you!
It's like arguing what kills: a bullet, weight or velocity.
Well, all of it combined.
It's not that deep, please stop replying to it ffs🤦
best explanation, holy fuck.
Quiet down, or you'll reignite the 45 acp vs 9mm debate back in here
What if
3kg bullet
But
0.1m/s
@crackedemerald4930 if it's very pointy - can kill😅 same as electricity kills only when it goes through vital organs
and also again, where it gets you. if the bullet has managed to reach your heart, probably not gonna live. grazes your shoulder, well can't say for sure since I haven't experienced it myself, but probably going to live(assuming you get treatment).
We have gathered here on this momentous occasion... to appreciate the never aging styropyro
Some say he’s older than Paul Rudd…
202
???
210thlikrt
211n
O2
W?
thank you later for what? a decreased attention span? learning less from the videos I watch?
I think the electricity has killed all of Styro's skin cells so he can't age.
It is the vamps...
0:12 bro is dueling Voldemort
He is dueling palpatine
@DeathBull_7 He is dueling Sauron
@Earendil-sireall three at once damn
You mean Voltemort
Honestly the defense of "if I'm wrong, I'll be dead. Look at that, I'm still alive!" is actually really valid
It's actually one of the most valid and scientific ways to prove a point.
I've been hit with 120 volts and 277 volts and I'm not dead either. Not really a great argument.
@dayofwrath1apparently they aren’t 100% fatal. Seems legit, have you tried to do more statistical samples? 😂
@silly-youtube6053 it depends on other conditions than simply voltage and amperage. It's OK if you don't understand.
It's called 'proof by counterexample'
"Your mother's capacitance is higher because she is physically large"
The savagery
Something I have learned as a rule of thumb for nearly all topics is that if someone tells you "it depends" rather than a simple straight answer, they are probably the real expert.
Yes! The universe as a whole is incomprehensibly complex
@Dogedows
Understatement, but an understandable one!
YES, I’ve noticed this too.
Yup, if something seems incredibly cut and dry someone is lying or stupid.
@NoConsequenc3 Honestly I think its more often someone is just trying to sell something even if its just entertainment. Like "This is the fastest car in the world.."
8:55 if thats a static shock on steroids, then lightning is a static shock on captain america's super soldier juice
Lmao
the fact that styropyro is still alive after all the stuff he's built and done.. he's got the most qualifications of anyone on the internet
stop licking 9volt battery's🤣🤣🤣
Compared to Nikolai Tesla, Styro's vidz are Tame.
Entertaining for sure, but not tickling the clouds with arcs.
@user-mp3eq6ir5b Counterpoint: Nikolai Tesla isn't on the internet.
He certainly has the best posture… speaking as a physio 😉
How come both of you nerds get Nikola Tesla's name wrong?
I absolutely love how you back your findings up with numbers. You do the testing, and show the data. Pretty hard to contest that.
the only hard part is people who just read the name of the video and then comment what their 2 braincells thinks
styro is amazing indeed
@BamsyTheSergal Like the pinned comment?
Thats the way it should be, way too many times people just say random things and act like they are facts. Ive specifically teach my kids to say "I believe" or "im pretty sure" ect when they say something about a fact they arent 100% sure about. Its always been a pet peev of mine when people say stuff that isnt true.
Your videos have old youtube vibes to them and i love it
PLEASE STOP THROWING APPLES OUT OF THE WINDOW THE DOCTORS ARE GETTING EXTREMELY SCARED
Explain yourself about throwing apples out of the window in relation of the above video on how to kill you're with electricity
@Nightmare_Eyes5 Ok, Ive watched this stupid boy playing with power, what do you want me to say?
@ben4518 how was it?
@Nightmare_Eyes5 The video teaches bad habits to young people thats its ok to play around with very HV. It's only when they get bitten & the parents attend their funeral...The questions are asked. I personally would rather be chased by an xl bull dog. I hope this answers you're question
I remember the White Rabbit MythBhsters spinoff having the guy wear a farraday suit, except there was a hole and it shocked his hand.
There is something so funny about the blank and emotionless smile that you do when your around stuff that could kill you in an instant. Love your youtube channel man!
I love you too.
love you too <3
isn't the entire point of the video we just watched that it couldn't kill you? At least the stuff that he did
@HearMeLearn Yeah I made this before watching the entire video. I just saw the intro part where hes messing with the tesla coil and he was doing the face.
@bigearsinc.7201 lame
As someone who is a master electrician and has a huge love for very high voltage and dangerous projects, any time somebody asks if it's the amperage that kills, my response is always "it depends." There are so many variables in play.
Thanks for this upload and explaining how electricity can be lethal. I also just appreciate seeing all of your wild electrical devices.
Just curious, what have you done to qualify yourself as a master electrician? Not trying to say you aren't, simply interested in what determines when an electrician becomes a master of their craft.
@The Roober It's literally a qualification called "Master Electrician" I believe.
@daddy-piccolo Most likely a master's degree from a university
@daddy-piccolo you get trained by a green skinned midget on some lost planet who is also a master
@The Roober Certainly! I went to a trade school. I'm very fortunate that the company I worked for at the time paid for it, so long as I worked for them full time, and my grades stayed at A+ I could be remembering that wrong, but I'm certain it was A+ grades.
It took four years of an apprenticeship while working, so at minimum 1,000 documented hours of electrical work to get my Journeyman license. After that, I needed at least one year of working as a Journeyman to be able to take the Masters test to become eligible for a Master electrician license. Once I had finished all of that, my State's Department of Regulatory Agencies (Division of Professions and Occupations) reviewed everything and approved my license, granting me the title of Master Electrician.
In the US, it varies state by state, but it's generally correct that someone must have at least 1,000 hours of work in one trade, then approval from a board of directors to be certified as a Master of their trade.
I hope that helps explain the process!
He returns with the gift of safety
😂
18:12 I do want to point out, if someone has their hand on the electric ball and another person touches you, you feel some sort of current through you and it genuinely feels like the exact feeling of getting shocked through the wall outlet
Oh no. That is WAY weaker and all you feel is it burning your skin not shocking you.
If anyone was wondering, the sign he holds up at the intro says "Don't Enter, Kills!" ( Не влезай, Убьет! ) which is basically Cyrillic "DANGER KEEP OUT!" There is a lack of fluff and subtle politeness in some Slavic languages that I just adore.
I also love that you stuck "you sound and look like a lesbian" in with the other criticism about amps vs. volts. That was masterful.
The top writing is in georgian and the bottom one is the one you mentioned about
And when he gets a shock he sounds like he's 6. That giggling is really cute.
Dude that sent me when I saw that
@jacobprice3079 Where did it send you?
i’m croatian but can read cyrillic and i can usually understand these signs, including this one!
I'm an electrical engineering student and I clicked on this link thinking that I already knew the answer. I ended up learning some new things. Great video!
Same, now I have a bunch of voltage/current/power stuff running through my head unrelated to my EE exam tonight, whoops…
@guydunn5354 Hopefully someone decides to be a smartass with the professor and claim that "iT's THe CuRrENT tHaT KIlLs" so you can jump in and get some bonus points
Don't get fooled. Ohm's Law is still at work.
@WCM1945
Of course electricity is always conservative and follows the path of least resistance assuming also resistance change depending on thermal tolerances. Other than batteries most devices that are high amp are generally higher voltage also. So saying that amps kill is simply a good way to keep most people safe especially when they don't understand what they are messing around with. Working with live capacitor banks or step up transformers that store hundreds of volts and tens of amps you learn to be less conductive and pay attention to gapping stored potential differences or you soon will...
as an electronics engineer i'd like the electrical engineer to read my comment above . lol
7:55 the editor's note killed me faster than electricity ever could
Haha! Wow! Great spot! I didn’t see it first go, only when I checked your time stamp 😂
Yo I wish this comment got blown up
LMFAO I missed it also.
Glad someone else noticed this!
Commenting to try to keep this higher in the comments because I fricken cackled when I saw that.
I've noticed with every field that the more experience/knowledge you gain more oftenly the answer to seemingly simple question becomes "it depends".
Nuance in the year of our lord 2025?! It can't be!
Honestly, you deserve a chair at a university. I have seen many professors who do not even have a shadow of the didactic gift as you, not to mention their equipment and their courage to experiment.
Definitely
Yeah
Most universities have free chairs. Just go sit at a bench or a desk
those who can't do, teach
@teathesilkwing7616 ys, but possibly not free "chairs of physics".
he's the only youtuber where when they say "don't try this at home" I don't feel patronized
Lol i have a feeling if he didn't say that alot of people would be hurt bc of how easy he makes things look I def have thought about it😂😂😂😂
NileRed with his Bromine?
@Ikxi Its a good mouth wash.
@CaptainLongenSchlongen😂
The only YouTubers I watch that say that are either ones doing stuff that could actually get you killed pretty quickly if you screw up like this guy or the backyard scientist or many others or it's people like technology connections in as far as I know only one of his videos, but there's a few others more generally where they're saying it more to cover their own ass than anything else.
So when I was a EE student, this question came up several times. None of my professors said it was Voltage or Current. The answer was always " It depends", as in there are a lot of variables that go into it, just as you explain. The one thing they all said is, "Don't want to get shocked? Don't touch it!" Its the only way to be sure.
Unless it's a high enough voltage, then you don't have to touch it
@ChristopherHeinz57 at that point why are your ever even in the vicinity of that thing with high enough voltage to create mini lightning
@skeptic_lemonhow else are you supposed to become the flash?
@dodonooblord6224 Tesla coil!
@skeptic_lemon because my job requires it
12:36, you look like you're Harry Potter, casting a spell.
Electricity in a nutshell is basically, "Yes, but no. It's complicated."
Why is it never a simple answer gahh
Plus basically the same when it comes to our nervous system.
@isavedtheuniverse its too nervous to tell us the true reasons.
That's why I stick to mechanical things. I don't have enough brain cells to be a sparky
@aniquinstark4347 I had to re-read your last name a couple of times before I realized it WASN'T 'Spark'. :facepalm:
This guy has a better understanding of electricity than most physics teachers will ever have
Nicely done educational video for the most part. However, the current measurement was not done correctly. Current at the bottom of the coil goes mostly to charge/discharge of the top load and coil capacitance. The arc current is only a very small fraction of the 3 amps that were measured. You should have held one lead of the meter in your hand and let the arc current go through the meter. That would be a lot more accurate measurement of the current that goes through your body.
If you really get 3 amps going through you at any frequency it most likely will kill you or leave really bad burns.
This guy has got his science very wrong, infact the i can tell you now that his arcs have less then 0.03 amps running through them, with out more info i could not tell you how many amps but i can ensure that is a magnitude less then he is claiming. if you dont believe me you can do some very basic math to work it out. For example i live in the UK, power from the wall here is at 240v, because we know P=IV in order for 3 amps to be supplied by the tesla coil while producing 100000v (thats the voltage he claims it is working at) you would have to put in 1250 amps at the plug (which is insane and not possable), that would be 96 times the number of amps a single plug can supply and about 12 times the amount of power you house can take as most homes have 100amps or less on the mains input before your fuse board. For all you out there on 110v power that would be 2727 amps required to create a 3 amp arc.
@cbullar4205 You are on the right track here, there are several things wrong with the presentation. Unfortunately you are going in the wrong direction, get out the calculations and try again. The higher the voltage the lower the current in a transformer in ratio to the turns of wire.
@tedmoss Im somewhat confussed by what you are trying to say, i have already pointed out that the higher the voltage the lower the current, its in the equation P=IV and given that in the case P (Power (Watts)) is a set value if I (current (amps)) goes up V (Voltage (Volts)) comes down and visa versa hence the outrageous claim that he has 3 amps at 100000v is just not possable on a wall plug as he is running his machine.
As i said realisticly he would be much closer to 0.03 amps (probably a lot less) but with out more info i could not tell you the exact figure.
For arguments sake, say you are on a 240v supply limited to 13 amps on the plug, that would mean the input power is 240v times 13amps which equals 3120watts. So with this we can see that the max possable power is 3120 watts if no losses occur (which they do) so if we feed this into the equation P=IV we get 3120=I*100000 which is the same as I=3120/100000 which means I or current is 0.03amps. As im from the UK i have bassed the figures on whta we use here, how ever i believe that US would be about 120v at 20amps limit on a plug which means the figure would be even lower still at 2400 watts or 0.02amps @ 100000v.
I have gone and changed my wording in the origional message as i can only presume there was a miss understanding of what i was saying as i was pointing out how rediculus the claim of 3 amps is rather then showing what a more likely figure is as i have done here.
@cbullar4205 hes not using a wall plug. at the end of the video he shows whats powering the coil. Also he lives in a cabin in the woods, im sure he gets more power to his place than most people as hes a chemist and probably needs certain power ratings in his home which he had custom build
I love his "one way to find out~" as if death is just a toy.
Those comments are the epitome of the dunning kruger effect
If Styropyro says "I gotta get out of here" in a lightening storm, then I need to be more scared of lightening storms.
Cheers to that 😂
him scared of lightning also him, oh a tesla coil let me point this stick at it
Also what appears to be some sort of tornado on the far left
he was close to the lightning he could've got electrocuted, you probably view them from a distance
He was in a car, that's a Faraday cage.
Fun fact about the Osha 50v regulation: in my recent electrical safety cert training the instructor talked about how at the time those regulations were established the telephone companies had a substantial lobby, and they happened to operate their lines at 48 volts, so yeah the real reason the limit is set at 50v is bc the telephone companies didn't want to be regulated and they could pay enough to strongarm the govt lol.
Edit: should probably mention the instructor my company uses actually sits on my state's board of electrical examiners.
Important historical comment
Many old houses that used to have land lines have copper lines that still carry those 48 volts, even in a power outage. I'm a curious electrician and I've found about 90% of the homes that have the solid copper red, green, yellow and black (in my sector) have power. Charge your phones, have lights and more in a blackout.
Also it used to be telephone company, not companies. Bell ran the world and invented everything.
You know who else sits on the board of the NEC? CEO's of major electrical parts companies, Legrand, Hubbel, Leviton and others. Why do you think GFCI's are required everywhere and cost $35...
I mean this is true, but bear in mind engineers certainly didn’t choose 48V by accident. I’m sure much effort was made to find a compromise voltage that minimized transmission losses while maintaining an acceptable safety margin.
No way 48V was chosen by accident!
@Corey Moullas while I'm sure there were technical reasons for the 48v standard I would wager a month salary that safety was bottom of the list, if it even made the page! You gotta remember this was established at a time when ppl were smoking cigarettes with asbestos filters for Christ's sake!
Edit: oh and let's not forget knocking back shots of radium tonic to wash down the bread cut with plaster and the cheese preserved with embalming fluid lmfao
@BariumCobaltNitrog3n You can't get very much current out of the phone line though. It's current limited to ~30mA. You can put a bare LED across a phone line with no current limiting resistor, and the LED lights about normal (I'm talking like an indicator LED, not a high brightness lighting LED). I discovered that as a kid playing with LEDs and phone lines. So yes, you get "free power" from the phone company if you still have a landline that runs to your house, but the amount of power you can actually get from it is minuscule. It certainly will NOT charge a phone during a power outage. Now as an adult (and engineer), I'd actually measure the voltage and current with an LED across the phone line, if I had a phone line. Only fiber runs to my house :(
@ElectroBOOM - 2023-02-03
Everything very well explained! Thanks!
@ryanschenk2946 - 2023-02-03
I'm still lost, I need someone to explain it with more electric shocks. Know anyone who could help with that?
@charlo12 - 2023-02-03
half of the video flew over my head
@MapOfEurasia - 2023-02-03
"What is that? A crossover episode?" 🤣
@SockyNoob - 2023-02-03
So no video saying it's wrong? Good
@nottsoserious - 2023-02-03
Electrical Engineer™ Certified good information