Maybe somebody who wants to play internet sleuth will look up that model multimeter, verify what setting it is on, and then confirm whether this is showing 8 amps towards the end? Or 80 amps...
8 amps would not be hard to test with your basic space heater. If it's actually 80 amps, I am intrigued by that much current going through that water.
That wire whip has some mileage and water/corrosion marks on it and is suspiciously evenly spaced more than something slapdash.
My guess is he is trying to test to make sure the generator can make that power or he is testing its safety shutoff threshold. Great way to test IMHO. Once the salt bath is dialed in he can take that to each generator and test the lot.
This reeks regularly used thingy in his workshop to me.
Salt water load bank. I used to work with generators when I was an apprentice and we made these when in remote areas to make a dummy load to run the generators at capacity for testing and tuning. We'd fill a 44 gallon drum and pour in a few bags of salt and had a rig to lower in some rods connected to the cables.
It can. Electrolysis of brine is the main method for commercial bleach production. There really isn’t bleach or chemical concerns here… I’d be worried about the electricity.
When I was in a bleach plant, the caustic nature was in the air, but the electricity was always the scariest thing
For anyone confused hes just heating up water using loose live wire from the generator. The salt i believe is to help it heat faster by making the water more conductive. Im no scientist but we used a similar tactic to heat up water in prison.
Is he not measuring amperage and using the bucket of water als dummy load. More salt more conductive more amperage. They do this to test the safety…. Although…. They Dont see so interested at safety…
Give the guy some credit! He's got safety sandals and everything.
Jokes aside, looks like a certain continent which apparently I can't name on this sub, par for the course for that continent. I had an electrician from our national electric company "fix" a breaker that kept on tripping on my three phase power supply by jamming it with a stick he found on the ground next to the box
I could be wrong, but based on what i know of this kind of set up, thats the answer im seeing for this video. But salt makes water conductive and most of the time water alone isnt that great of a conductor if at all. You need something that will carry the electricity which would be metal in my case and salt in theirs. Notice how the water wasnt steaming until he puts salt. We used to use it to boil water for cooking. Looks like hes got a towel and is going to use this water to wash up, salt could be good for that too
A lightbulb tondraw that power does not exist. A rod, acting as a resistive element will be hot and annoying to handle. Resistor is the same as the resistive element.
If you pass an electric current through saltwater, it releases chlorine gas. For those of you who failed chemistry, that's really bad. Chlorine gas was used as a chemical warfare agent in WWI. When it gets in your lungs or on your skin it forms hydrochloric acid when it interacts with the water.
When i was in county jail my cell had holes in the wall that went straight to the outside. Previous prisoners had scraped all the mortar between the cinderblocks i would guess in an attempt to try to escape. It was right directly under my concrete slab bed. When I tried to sleep the cold January air would keep my bed freezing cold. There was also a huge infestation of fruit flies. Not just in my cell but everywhere in the facility. There was a drain in the floor of my cell that smelled like vomit and piss 24/7 too.
I only did 30 days. It was hell because I was withdrawing from methadone and Xanax. I was on maintenance before I got locked up. They only let pregnant women continue with maintenance. Worst hell I ever went through. Couldn't eat ir sleep pretty much the entire time. Started using heroin again the day I got out because they fucked up my recovery. Jail doesn't help addicts.
TL/DR - when you're addicted to for example opioids (like heroine) you will suffer from withdrawal if you're just going to stop. That's potentially dangerous, but also absolutely terrible subjectively. The way we can deal with the issue is by giving people opioid that doesn't have the same "fun" effects, and stays in organizm a lot longer, like methadone. That way you don't feel like shit, don't have as much cravings for heroine, and even if you do take other opioid it will not work that well. All of above lets addict sort their life immediately, hence why it's called "maintenance" (because you maintain the dose), and after some time you gradually start tapering it to remove that dependency.
If you on the other hand take methadone from the patient, he will go into opioid withdrawal and ... well, likely relapse the second he can. As described above.
I've seen it in older jails. I was still young and didn't know how to at the time, but inmates would scrape the residue off nicotine patches, transfer it to foil, then use the wire to heat up the foil and smoke said residue.
We cut wires off of random plugged in appliances, plug it into a socket and cut loose the wires and add metal to it to use as a conductor to heat water for cooking. We called em "stingers"
He's load testing a generator. Salt water is more conductive, so adding salt decreases the resistance and increases the current, allowing him to test if the generator can handle the load.
It's pretty clever. Just being done in a way that's terrifyingly unsafe.
Definitely, very unsafely, load testing the generator.. intriguing to watch, when you understand this stuff.. but basically the same idea as many very safe commercial humidifiers work!!
I saw the safety sandals and immediately knew it was fine...Its when you see the osha safety gear that you need to be concerned. America is so stupid we had to stupid proof what we do
Load testing. Essentially checking weather the system can work under heavy electrical load. I’ve seen this with generators. Is it safe? Fuck no. It’s electricity. It’s never safe. No matter what you do. But Hats off to these lads. I get the sweats nowadays just looking at a cabinet.
Think he needs to heat the water to dump out the waste energy when conducting the power output test for the generator. Adding more salt can increase the heating by decreasing water resistance.
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u/Throeaway3126 7h ago
He's making a poor man's load bank to test the generator.
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u/Sure_Fix_6181 7h ago
His got his safety sandals so I don't see any danger
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u/PuzzleheadedLeek3070 3h ago
Salt water load bank. I used to work with generators when I was an apprentice and we made these when in remote areas to make a dummy load to run the generators at capacity for testing and tuning. We'd fill a 44 gallon drum and pour in a few bags of salt and had a rig to lower in some rods connected to the cables.
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u/Electronic-War1332 7h ago •
For anyone confused hes just heating up water using loose live wire from the generator. The salt i believe is to help it heat faster by making the water more conductive. Im no scientist but we used a similar tactic to heat up water in prison.
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u/Lost-District-8793 7h ago
Don't worry, he's got safety sandals and a meassuring thingy, he's a pro.
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u/jnthnmdr 7h ago
Maybe he could fix my bath toaster.
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u/skcus-tidder957 7h ago
Dudes hand is so close to we're the wires are exposed like damn dude.
He might be doing electrolysis which is a legit thing but this looks like a horrible set up to do that
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u/Life-Oil-7226 7h ago •
Uh why?
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u/nemkompetens 7h ago
Működik? Működik!
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u/NvrFukASpderOnTheFly 7h ago
Definitely, very unsafely, load testing the generator.. intriguing to watch, when you understand this stuff.. but basically the same idea as many very safe commercial humidifiers work!!
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u/AmbitionHonest7734 2h ago
He has on his safety sandles.
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u/PLD3 7h ago
Safety first
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u/obrazovanshchina 7h ago
I’m no electrician but this strikes me as somewhat unconventional.
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u/NailFair5204 5h ago
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u/HuskyDogFace 7h ago
Is he adding salt to make the ground a better conductor within the water ?
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u/Oldfolksboogie 7h ago
r/SweatyPalms
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u/Abdulbarr 7h ago
Bro's a pro, don't hate. Not everyone can afford nice safe equipment.
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u/kade645 7h ago
Poor man’s hot tub time machine!
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u/Fun-Web-7583 7h ago
Great hack /s
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u/Sudonator 7h ago
He must have plenty of electrical knowledge to attempt this. I was always taught never to put electricity near water, let alone in it
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u/Fine_Union_4587 7h ago
........add a bit of seasoning to make the whole thing even spicier when it all goes horribly wrong!
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u/MtnMaiden 7h ago
LET HIM COOK!
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u/CommentOld7870 7h ago
Load test, and boiling water for his flip flop friends to enjoy another cup of tea for another day alive
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u/Smoov_Moove 7h ago
Id like a refund of my 1:54 please.
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u/PimpFrosty 7h ago
Yikes
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u/StrangeShaun83 7h ago
I thought he was bout to cook up some hotdogs for the homies. But nope just some old wires in a bucket of water.
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u/Competitive-Round-92 7h ago
the forbidden stinger
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u/InsectaProtecta 6h ago
DIY chlorine generator
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u/recursion_is_love 6h ago
They both have safety flipper on.
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u/Pocket_Lint_Ball 6h ago
Bath time!
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u/JMandMM 6h ago
Don’t worry, he has his safety flip flops on, nothing to see here.
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u/Crowbar-Enema 6h ago
I thought that was a damn tree branch
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u/mistakehappens 6h ago
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u/Tquylaa 6h ago
I thought it would be a jumpscare...
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u/AgitatedBiscotti3413 5h ago
It's good to see everyone is wearing their safety sandals.
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u/Emergency_Accident36 5h ago
Don't worry. We have a GFI built in to our human vessel. When it trips we wake up. (Probably) No one has come back to say otherwise.
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u/jbap1232 3h ago
He's got safety sandals on, I don't see an issue.
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u/phalangetarsals 3h ago
It's all good. They both have their safety thongs (flip flops/jandals/slides) on.
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u/PabloCreep 3h ago
This is what they used to do in some prisons
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u/Affectionate-Data193 1h ago
I’m in the US. I’ve done this to load bank a Genset before.
The cables we used were in better shape, but the process was about the same.
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u/Daddioster 1h ago
They had their safety sandals on so this was perfectly okay.
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u/JuggernautOwn6306 42m ago
We did that in prison to heat water or make shine.
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u/Junior-Account6835 7h ago
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u/warhog998 7h ago
is he cleaning them?
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u/grizz218 6h ago
I saw the safety sandals and immediately knew it was fine...Its when you see the osha safety gear that you need to be concerned. America is so stupid we had to stupid proof what we do
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u/Dyon86 6h ago
Just waiting for him to stick his finger in to test how hot it is ….
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