High Voltage makes plastic Fluoresce ?

Ғылым және технология

After experimenting with discharging a capacitor, I noticed that the plastic insulation on crimp terminals fluoresces after being struck by the radiation from the spark.
I've never encountered this effect before and I do not know what is causing it.
I first thought it was a fluorescent plastic and was reacting to the intense UV light emitted by the spark, but under direct UV light the plastic does nothing. I cannot externally replicate the conditions which cause this phenomenon.
If you know why this might be happening, I'd very much like to learn about it. Please let me know!
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  • @ibnalfreak
    @ibnalfreak7 жыл бұрын

    Your volume warning did not come soon enough.

  • @xyanide020
    @xyanide02010 жыл бұрын

    damn goodbye headset

  • @onebreh

    @onebreh

    9 жыл бұрын

    yeah like maze jokes :) i laughed realy hard to that! :))

  • @certifiedcjs1811

    @certifiedcjs1811

    6 жыл бұрын

    Neil Jotojot made my jump RIP ears

  • @sadas0

    @sadas0

    5 жыл бұрын

    I’m checking in what’s the state of the headset

  • @shimaafrazmanesh130

    @shimaafrazmanesh130

    4 жыл бұрын

    good thing my volume wasn’t too high

  • @cybernite99
    @cybernite995 жыл бұрын

    The plastic might not be visibly fluorescent under a UV lamp, but those sparks are probably put off very high energy UV which is being blasted, point blank, into that plastic. So, under those conditions, I believe it is possible for something originally materials thought to be non-fluorescent are likely to fluoresce.

  • @cybernite99

    @cybernite99

    5 жыл бұрын

    you might try a xenon flash lamp and get the same results

  • @danielbak7427
    @danielbak74278 жыл бұрын

    Windows has detected a failure in EAR.EXE program cause of the failure EARRAPE.EXE

  • @sdrake74

    @sdrake74

    5 жыл бұрын

    🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @MH-es9rn

    @MH-es9rn

    4 жыл бұрын

    Way too funny!

  • @Daedronus
    @Daedronus10 жыл бұрын

    sparks -> intense UV -> fluorescence or rather phosphorescence

  • @gravelanchinc9125
    @gravelanchinc91258 жыл бұрын

    Iluminati confirmed

  • @parikshitmusic510

    @parikshitmusic510

    6 жыл бұрын

    Gravelanch INC wtf man

  • @xavier6130

    @xavier6130

    5 жыл бұрын

    Gravelanch INC Illumination confirmed.

  • @20kilovolt
    @20kilovolt9 жыл бұрын

    I think the plastic has a triboluminescence property. can you try to highlight the plastic with a 405nm laser?

  • @venzoah
    @venzoah7 жыл бұрын

    That's a really cool sound.

  • @maxmanlyman2438
    @maxmanlyman243810 жыл бұрын

    I suppose it is phosphorescence which is caused by the blue and ultraviolet photons emitted from the spark.

  • @catx
    @catx10 жыл бұрын

    Well. I think it's still to early to rule out UV as the source. The distribution pattern looks most certainly matches how a light source is shining from the side and casting shadows. Intensity might be the key. If your UV light source is just not comparable with the amount emits by the spark. You could try put some samples of the same material near the spark but not contacting any electrified component to rule out direct heating or electricity. See if it still reproduces the results.

  • @djisydneyaustralia

    @djisydneyaustralia

    9 ай бұрын

    Yes that's true , like nuclear shadowing

  • @kyoudaiken
    @kyoudaiken9 жыл бұрын

    I think the ark generated UV radiation and this plastic was probably recycled from other plastic materials and there was some plastic in it that did contain phosphor.

  • @benderfender1218

    @benderfender1218

    4 жыл бұрын

    Most logical explanation so far

  • @sonicdash3818
    @sonicdash381810 жыл бұрын

    @DanTheAwesomeMan: simple, the high voltage causes a luminescent reaction in the chemicals of which said plastic is composed of, the plastic may consist of some electroluminescent chemicals and some resistant semiconductors, you may want to research what chemicals the plastic is made of and check further into it if you are super curious,

  • @baconnology9564
    @baconnology95647 жыл бұрын

    I think it's deep uv from the corona of the arc making the plastic fluoresces, search this in youtube "Corona Power Line Inspections by PDG Helicopters"

  • @plexifated6009
    @plexifated60093 жыл бұрын

    0:27 that scared the flipping hell outa me bro!!!!

  • @farooqishaq6974
    @farooqishaq69748 жыл бұрын

    The plastic has UV glow coating to identification in dark or low light conditions..your sparking creates UV which makes the plastic glow

  • @DarkIzo
    @DarkIzo6 жыл бұрын

    5 years later and eardrums are still getting popped

  • @sqrl1980
    @sqrl198010 жыл бұрын

    u nuked it with radio activeness or u just invented a flux capacitor

  • @jonidimo
    @jonidimo10 жыл бұрын

    Can you film with slow motion camera at 10,000fps.?

  • @TheAwesomeManDan

    @TheAwesomeManDan

    10 жыл бұрын

    If you're offering to buy the camera...

  • @jonidimo

    @jonidimo

    10 жыл бұрын

    DanTheAwesomeMan yes please, call me .

  • @zariski

    @zariski

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@TheAwesomeManDan N95 in this days is cheaper.... i send to you one..

  • @Qui-9
    @Qui-96 жыл бұрын

    Could be phosphorescence but less than youd expect, normally unnoticeable. But a spark like that radiates a huge amount of UV and that might be what's causing the glow.

  • @tbobxtbob
    @tbobxtbob5 жыл бұрын

    thanks for a new way to light my house

  • @OffUltimateGamer
    @OffUltimateGamer8 жыл бұрын

    Well, you wasn't wrong about the noise warning! :D

  • @ozzie_goat
    @ozzie_goat8 жыл бұрын

    MY EARS!!

  • @nozumihishimatchi1880

    @nozumihishimatchi1880

    8 жыл бұрын

    What happend to your ears?

  • @ozzie_goat

    @ozzie_goat

    8 жыл бұрын

    Masai Uruhara Oh, it was just a joke.

  • @djisydneyaustralia
    @djisydneyaustralia9 ай бұрын

    Are you using the diode out of interest? Could you ve forcing a crude led perhaps from the intense voltage causing a breakddown in some way? Im vwry interested also now

  • @JoelHudson
    @JoelHudson5 жыл бұрын

    A possible thought, modern photosensors (in your camera) are sensitive to IR, could the afterglow be heat related? Just brainstorming hopefully without being struck by lightning

  • @mattq41
    @mattq4110 жыл бұрын

    This is a shot in the dark but perhaps the capacitor is charged enough to create a corona discharge after the main arc?

  • @RODALCO2007
    @RODALCO20079 жыл бұрын

    Cool !!

  • @MH-es9rn
    @MH-es9rn4 жыл бұрын

    Hey, my headset is glowing too. 👍

  • @j5892000
    @j58920005 жыл бұрын

    Intriguing.

  • @countryclublawnandtree9767
    @countryclublawnandtree97675 жыл бұрын

    That depends, did you take them off of florescent tubes?

  • @haloscorp4U
    @haloscorp4U10 жыл бұрын

    A blue LED will cause certain plastics to fluoresce. Maybe an abundance of energy at 440 maintained fluorescence that gradually dissipated with the charge.

  • @haloscorp4U

    @haloscorp4U

    10 жыл бұрын

    The energy was bouncing around in the polymer. Interesting.

  • @TramFahrerGTASAMP
    @TramFahrerGTASAMP5 жыл бұрын

    Quite peculiar, looks cool though. Also never seen something like this yet.

  • @sumobear1777
    @sumobear17778 жыл бұрын

    if you got a strong enough 405nm laser it can make some plastic glow also. I found out about it, I'm thinking maybe 2 years ago with the kitchen socket cover.

  • @GlawberOliveira

    @GlawberOliveira

    8 жыл бұрын

    Those are actually made to slightly glow in the dark you idiot. And from that I've learned you have old sockets

  • @christopherhurley2570
    @christopherhurley25707 жыл бұрын

    Given that you mentioned trying to illuminate the plastic with UV but didn't get a result.. I would wager that the spark gap UV intensity (and wavelengths) are strong enough to penetrate quite deep into the plastic. There may have been some UV fluorescent in the plastic but for whatever reason is no longer active in the outer layers. You could test this by cutting a piece of the plastic and exposing the fresh inside to UV. As others have said, it is definitely exited electrons releasing photons on returning to their ground state. It's further possible that the excited state is simply so high as not to be noticeable from any reasonably obtained UV source, and the extreme energy level itself is needed to excite the electrons enough, so that when they release their photons from within the plastic they do so in the visible spectrum.

  • @christopherhurley2570

    @christopherhurley2570

    7 жыл бұрын

    books.google.com/books?id=U0OB6pQSlfsC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=plastics+fluorescence+excitation+energy&source=bl&ots=t7n8U5zD2T&sig=6kAfrxVEir5pkWh-dI4RPAiYeM4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj8sruppvzOAhVM_IMKHX4gBTMQ6AEILDAC

  • @djisydneyaustralia

    @djisydneyaustralia

    9 ай бұрын

    I doubt it would penetrate the plastic as it's breakdown would be in megavolt per mm range and hf high voltage tends to travel on the skin of a conductor rather than penetrate it .

  • @TinaLucindaNekoMolly
    @TinaLucindaNekoMolly4 жыл бұрын

    It looks like a simple heat flash point transfer glow (in other words heating the material up to flash point for a few Milli seconds not long enough for it to combust but enough that the residual heat gives a glow)

  • @sumobear1777
    @sumobear17778 жыл бұрын

    if you got a strong enough 405nm laser it can make some plastic glow also.

  • @questioneverything6860
    @questioneverything68607 жыл бұрын

    Could still be UV, but a shorter wavelength / more energetic part of the spectrum..

  • @dumass00072
    @dumass0007210 жыл бұрын

    *Well, the manufacturer would be some important information to be presented with!*

  • @King-Julien
    @King-Julien6 жыл бұрын

    the volume warning help me a lot. I left the sound because I thaught it was a troll and you whuld do it at a low Hz

  • @rightleg5920
    @rightleg59204 жыл бұрын

    That's cool

  • @militarymom8837
    @militarymom88374 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for changing my earphones to hear aids.

  • @whocoulditbebutme7350
    @whocoulditbebutme73509 жыл бұрын

    perhaps you will find this reading enlightening "Plastics emit fluorescent light when exposed to a brief flash of light, and the emission decays with time in a distinctive pattern " Read more: www.theengineer.co.uk/manufacturing/news/new-process-simplifies-recycling-of-plastics/1019102.article#ixzz3B8OMdFti

  • @whocoulditbebutme7350

    @whocoulditbebutme7350

    9 жыл бұрын

    a few days after I had seen your video I read that article so I posted it in case you were interested

  • @TheAwesomeManDan

    @TheAwesomeManDan

    9 жыл бұрын

    whocoulditbe butme Thanks that's really interesting! I just wish they explained the physics.

  • @TechTins_Projects

    @TechTins_Projects

    8 жыл бұрын

    +DanTheAwesomeMan Great video! Very thought provoking. What you might be seeing here is phosphorescence which is same process as fluorescence but causes a delayed effect. The physics of fluorescence is to do with energy states in atoms. These states come in discrete energy packets of E=hv where h is a universal constant (planks constant) and v is the frequency of the incident light. The light produced in your spark is equivalent to millions of photons (the larger the spark the more of them) many of them carrying this fixed energy amount of hv. What is happening in the plastic, is those hv photons of light from the spark that reach the plastic, cause a similar number of electrons in the atoms of the plastic to move to a different energy level (the energy gap being hv). All these electrons then drop back to their original position and in the process re-emit the energy at a different frequency v (i.e. Its a lower frequency because some of the energy will have been lost due to collisions in the material). So what your seeing is the consequence of many of these 'excited' electrons re-emitting light whilst moving back to their original stable state. Now, that particular plastic material might hold onto the energy for a longer time, before the electrons return to their original states. This effect is called phosphorescence. The details are a lot more involved and need a bit of quantum theory, but this (I believe) is the general essence of what is happening.

  • @TechTins_Projects

    @TechTins_Projects

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Tech Tins Great channel BTW. I've subbed to you my friend!

  • @yxshmusic

    @yxshmusic

    7 жыл бұрын

    Tech Tins wow man you know a lot! keep it up I knew all that but to be honest your E=hv equation was not know to me keep up your knowledge

  • @electroimpex8897
    @electroimpex88977 жыл бұрын

    WOW

  • @colemanbinyon7063
    @colemanbinyon70634 жыл бұрын

    You just overvolted my headset

  • @torukmacto4879
    @torukmacto48797 жыл бұрын

    Schicke mir mal die Schaltung. Vielleicht kann ich es nachbauen und beweisen das es so ist...

  • @davidclay1362
    @davidclay136210 жыл бұрын

    you tortured them into it

  • @asstuties86
    @asstuties869 жыл бұрын

    maybe the plastic is coated with some fluorescent paint. Try put a UV light next to it and see if this glow happen again.

  • @tonibeba8911
    @tonibeba89116 жыл бұрын

    Wooooow

  • @yield_yt
    @yield_yt7 жыл бұрын

    I witnessed this phenomenon as well!! I shorted the two leads of a 250v capacitor bank that I made over a sheet of paper and it glowed a little!! No idea why though

  • @GRBtutorials
    @GRBtutorials4 жыл бұрын

    UV fluorescence?

  • @shobhitchaudhry5606
    @shobhitchaudhry56069 жыл бұрын

    The wires under the plastic might be glowing

  • @GlawberOliveira

    @GlawberOliveira

    8 жыл бұрын

    How about NO.

  • @TheOriginalEviltech
    @TheOriginalEviltech10 жыл бұрын

    Maybe it's something like the OLED's working principle...

  • @plasmafox2
    @plasmafox28 жыл бұрын

    it might be that the UV from the spark excites the plastic. Try shining a UV led at it.

  • @arief372

    @arief372

    8 жыл бұрын

    read the description bro

  • @RyanJensenEE
    @RyanJensenEE11 жыл бұрын

    hmm... interesting...

  • @BoxxerCore
    @BoxxerCore7 жыл бұрын

    Hahaha ... Volume warning! Just as I am my mouse pointer is approaching the volume icon ⚡😨😲😵

  • @domestic6128
    @domestic61285 жыл бұрын

    Hold it

  • @SilverKnight124
    @SilverKnight1247 жыл бұрын

    is it melting?

  • @MisterTalkingMachine

    @MisterTalkingMachine

    7 жыл бұрын

    The discharge produces some intense ultraviolet radiation, which excites the plastic and makes it glow, in the same fashion as in glow in the dark stuff, that you put near a light, and it glows for a while afterwards. The plastic must have some phosphorescent substance in it.

  • @eriklarsson5292
    @eriklarsson52929 жыл бұрын

    To much POWER

  • @cr76802
    @cr768024 жыл бұрын

    Damn my ears are bleeding and scared the crap out my dog.. pretty cool though. 👍 the glow is due to the amount of Uv radiation being produced in close proximity. Damn good way to get a tan 🤣😁

  • @aceemulation4446
    @aceemulation44464 жыл бұрын

    It could be electrical radiation from the electrical pulse that is trapped in the material causing it to Glow.

  • @zUltraXO
    @zUltraXO6 жыл бұрын

    Damn! Mute the audio!

  • @reeee4336
    @reeee43365 жыл бұрын

    Plasma: *am i a joke to you?*

  • @Steve-uu7yx
    @Steve-uu7yx4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you all, I turned down the volume just in time

  • @hughsgarbagetrucks
    @hughsgarbagetrucks3 жыл бұрын

    my ear are gone

  • @glaxko2
    @glaxko24 жыл бұрын

    A moment of silence for all the headphone users.

  • @FennecTECH
    @FennecTECH6 жыл бұрын

    UV light from the arc is exciting the plastic. Just like those cat piss detecting lamps.

  • @FennecTECH

    @FennecTECH

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nice retna smelter tho

  • @wynncat9604
    @wynncat96046 жыл бұрын

    Try uva and uvc see if that helps

  • @flaplaya
    @flaplaya4 жыл бұрын

    You beat me to it.. Only video on here I've seen so far shorting the cap on a MOT. Amazing high frequency supply right there in combo with the arc gap. I've gotten 5 inch streamers from connecting that to 6 turns on a flyback... Didn't feel well each time I did the experiment. Ozone? X-Rays???

  • @Toni-vq4cg
    @Toni-vq4cg3 жыл бұрын

    uff.

  • @Ark-op9xs
    @Ark-op9xs7 жыл бұрын

    could've given a headphone warning

  • @dot_boi
    @dot_boi8 жыл бұрын

    rip headphone users

  • @xXEnergeyXx
    @xXEnergeyXx7 жыл бұрын

    holy shitballs that was loud

  • @ratouille5173

    @ratouille5173

    7 жыл бұрын

    xShaderz WHAT? I'M SORRY, BUT I CAN'T HEAR YOU!

  • @dunken1807
    @dunken18072 жыл бұрын

    Cherenkov radiation ? ^^

  • @jameson6145
    @jameson61455 жыл бұрын

    holy fucking shit

  • @dragoola69x
    @dragoola69x4 жыл бұрын

    I'm not saying that I'm right and you're wrong but you sure there's not a spark going on inside with plastic is closest to the metal in the spark is dying down

  • @patrickraposas5889
    @patrickraposas58895 жыл бұрын

    Lol I almost had a heart attack wth

  • @kokomanation
    @kokomanation5 жыл бұрын

    I don’t really know but I guess it is really heated up and stores a lot of heat for a small amount of time so it lightens up for a while I guess heat and light are connected

  • @lulzcorp
    @lulzcorp6 жыл бұрын

    0:26

  • @iamvincenz7599
    @iamvincenz75995 жыл бұрын

    MY EARS

  • @TheTwister3000
    @TheTwister30003 жыл бұрын

    fackkk glad i didnt watch this at midnight

  • @angelsfolly6263
    @angelsfolly62635 жыл бұрын

    Earrape

  • @republicansareoffendedeasi821
    @republicansareoffendedeasi8215 жыл бұрын

    Cancer.

  • @marcofreire
    @marcofreire6 жыл бұрын

    R.I.P. speakers

  • @LeAgariolol
    @LeAgariolol5 жыл бұрын

    unpossible

  • @breezetixhv
    @breezetixhv9 жыл бұрын

    how the fuck does it glowing?

  • @afbennett3038
    @afbennett30386 жыл бұрын

    I just shat myself!

  • @gamerfox6276
    @gamerfox62766 жыл бұрын

    This destroyed my ears...

  • @BaseplateSRB
    @BaseplateSRB6 жыл бұрын

    Got erraped

  • @ABID5
    @ABID56 жыл бұрын

    RIP HEADPHONE USERS

  • @NutScrewGamer
    @NutScrewGamer5 жыл бұрын

    CS: Valve: "Get out of there! It's gonna blow! PUBG: "Enemy spotted" Plastic: "fluoresceing" Hotel: *TRIVAGO :)*

  • @LevinoControle
    @LevinoControle5 жыл бұрын

    0:27 that moment was the biggest scare of my life XDD

  • @billyline3558
    @billyline35587 жыл бұрын

    it is most likely the result of the capacitor discharging.

  • @niklashalonen9296
    @niklashalonen92968 жыл бұрын

    i could guess the move of electricity through that plastic emits photons

  • @gabeulrickson2496
    @gabeulrickson24966 жыл бұрын

    It's the very quick creation of heat. A little thing called science

  • @dogdie147
    @dogdie1475 жыл бұрын

    Rare footages of cave man finding out fire BC ~ 190

  • @andresrockerful
    @andresrockerful10 жыл бұрын

    damn too noise

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