Engineering experimentation and failure are positive learning experiences, part of the process, and sometimes just plain fun. What they are never, is stupidity.

@happyjohn1656

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed! (Congratulations on the number two top comment too!... I think...) 10:47 PM 6/19/2019

@futureisyours3016

4 жыл бұрын

Ive failed at so many things, thanks for saying that. Life is worth the experiment.

@kitecattestecke2303

3 жыл бұрын

Depending under how much pressure you work on a task a failure can eat you away much more than you would think. Nowadays development departments are no kndergarden, the persons who are the loudest/aggressive/pursuing/stupidest are promoted, thus many experts who think in silence for themselves work at home in their basement or just keep calm... Depending on the middle to low management corpus, engineers suffer more ore less for less money than the con artists of management. The moment the "art" designer and economy enginer is valued higher than the "application/design/electronics engineer" who do solve the problems, you should just change workplace :-\

@muhammadraflifebriansyah8366

Жыл бұрын

Agree, and it would be great if Scott could overcome it and make the sequel videos, thus he reviewed what is actually the problem with the project in the previous video. Then he can explain the ideal of circuit behavior and its output and also practically correct the mistaken project.

@fritzwilhelm8258

Ай бұрын

He was being self-deprecating.

I love your peace of art xD

@greatscottlab

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you ;-)

@luisdanielmp

6 жыл бұрын

No sabía que Proyectos LED seguía a GreatScott. Que pequeño es el mundo.

@AliYassinToma

6 жыл бұрын

Proyectos LED sounds alittle bit dirty

@gusstavv

6 жыл бұрын

*peace... GreatScott pronounces it like that :P

@sr.anderson2103

5 жыл бұрын

Una leyenda frente a otra XD

Very cool project! I appreciate that you went through the trouble of trying to build the circuit and showed your failures. That is always encouraging to see because failure is a huge part of engineering! I have so many projects that fail that don't make it into my videos. Thanks for another great video!

"Watch my stupidity?" Do not say that man, you did a great job! Thanks for sharing!

@harryme472

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed 100%.

I love how you underline everything and draw the circuits with a pen! Thanks for the collection of awesome videos!

more diy or buy

What you do in the video explains the very heart of electrical engineering "Theory combined with failures + success" The reward being the success after failures. Gratifying.

If your requirements include "cheap," DIY will almost never win. The advantage DIY gives you is that you can build something higher quality, for a reasonable price. Your "expensive" circuit could be a great starting point to add features and make something great!

@metatechnologist

4 жыл бұрын

I beg to differ. It does take engineering skill but there is probably a cheap DIY way of driving that transducer at 1.7 Mhz

@ww9330

2 жыл бұрын

@@metatechnologist but wouldn't it be great to scale this up for a greenhouse or sauna, a massive high quality water vapor belcher

FULL BRIDGE REC... OH WAIT

@robert_0505

6 жыл бұрын

SCWfan06 do you watch ElectroBOOM

@scwfan08

6 жыл бұрын

RobertTunaru Is that a question?

@thecrudelab3204

6 жыл бұрын

boom, here comes the boom,... oh wait not that movie

@pervysage3177

5 жыл бұрын

Hahahahah

@itzbenz941

5 жыл бұрын

Mother of all

For your 555 time + mosfet circuit, you could have added a DC blocking capacitor in series or discharge resistor for the crystal, it's a similar problem with crystal radios that use a piezoelectric for the ear piece that received a half wave rectified signal

I was trying to understand how them foggers work for a half hour now, you explain it so simple and good in a minute, thanks!

I love that you still produce and upload your failures! It makes me feel better about my own. I fail so hard on such simple circuit concepts sometimes, I wonder if I'm just not smart enough to be trying this stuff! You're WAY ahead of me tho so seeing you accept defeat leads me to believe it's just part of the nature of engineering in general. Just like in my programming work, sometimes its 10% design and build, 90% debugging and rebuilding. Now if I can just learn to be as cool headed as you about it! I find myself verbally and physically assaulting inanimate objects on a daily basis.

@whothefucktookmyalias

Жыл бұрын

Don‘t know if you‘re seeing this but I really feel you. I always feel like “can’t be that hard right?” only to realize that it realistically is not that easy.

Wow the mist maker in the pumpkin looks sp00ky

@elyesgrati

6 жыл бұрын

2sp00ky4me

@___echo___

6 жыл бұрын

SPOOPY

@aperson4075

6 жыл бұрын

*SP00PY

@vectro1535

6 жыл бұрын

makes me wanna D00T

@eden1925

6 жыл бұрын

Dooty

Nice! I've been meaning to try this myself. About the 139kHz; piezo transducers have multiple resonance modes. The 1.7MHz is fairly simple to figure out. This should work out the same way as the resonance frequency of a open cylinder. Basically, take the speed of sound in PZT ceramic, and use the disc thickness as your cylinder length. The 139kHz you saw could be the radial resonance mode. This comes from the piezoelectric material getting wider when it compresses, and is mostly controlled by the diameter of the disc.

A failure video. Loved it. That's what happens 90% of the time for us newbies but no one posts them and makes everyone else trying things get frustrated. This helps thanks a lot.

I always wanted to know how an infuser worked. Other videos kept telling me about how they infuse the air with scent. Finally this video explains the principle behind it. Thank you.

The 140 kHz resonance is a radial resonance, while the 1.7Mhz is a thickness resonance. Only the thickness resonance will interact well with the water... As far as generating the drive signal, the simplest method would have been a Class-E amplifier. Just build up current in a small inductor and dump it into the piezoelectric device (a capacitor) at a 1.7 MHz rate...

@3nealweber3

2 жыл бұрын

I bought a mister kit and hooked up a oscilloscope to it to find the frequency of the driver, it reads a solid 114khz when it’s misting water

@alansassler7693

2 жыл бұрын

@@3nealweber3 If you can detach the transducer, you can hook it up to a NanoVNA or any other network analyzer that can measure the S11 parameter and look for the mechanical resonance frequency of the transducer (the frequency with minimum reactance). This is the frequency your mister should be running at. You will still get output at different frequencies, but running at the resonance frequency will provide more mist at the same output power. This measure isn't exactly right because the output is probably driven through a transformer and the transformer's leakage inductance should be considered, but it's close.

Just love an honest living being. Thanks for most interesting vids l enjoy every video.

Something I always tell my students : "If you are not failing, you are not learning." Fun to watch you go through all the processes you did. Thanks!

Thanks GS, for going through lengths teaching us, it's greatly appreciated

What a cool series! I'd love to see even more of these! =D

Very interesting, I didnt know you could create water vapor this way.

@adryano17a

6 жыл бұрын

me, not too.

@gusstavv

6 жыл бұрын

This is how vaporizers work without boiling water

@yashsvidixit7169

6 ай бұрын

You cannot achieve higher vapour pressure using this vibrator method than what we would get normally at that temperature. It only acts like a catalyst that speeds up the journey to equilibrium point but doesn't shift the equilibrium point.

I don't see this as a failure. The goal was to see if it was cheaper to make this unit yourself or buy it. The test produced a clear answer: buy. That's a success. Well done! :)

Great video! This channel deserves recognition over 99.9% of the channels on youtube.

First, the water is not turning into vapor form. Instead, the mist you saw is water in droplet form. About driving the piezo, I would recommend transformer coupling, where a pulse transformer can be used. The reason for such a coupling method is that the distance of travel of the piezo piece is related to the peak-to-peak voltage. Basically, you will only need an oscillator, a mosfet driver (which can be as simple as an buffer opamp), and a pulse transformer.

@greatscottlab

6 жыл бұрын

The pulse transformer sounds like it could work. I might give it a try.

@doublebulbing

6 жыл бұрын

yes yes keep trying Thanks

@yiyou6529

6 жыл бұрын

GreatScott! This will be too simple to you. Lol. Btw, i drive my transducers through this transformer approach, which works like a charm. The tranducers has its own resonance frequency, where you dont have to worry about capacitors or what so ever.

@johnisaaccalderon5066

6 жыл бұрын

+GreatScott The signal source can be an LC resonator.

@learningisglorious

5 жыл бұрын

Hi. I need your help. Can you send me your schematic about this circuit. I tried but it not work. My email: learningisglorious@gmail.com. Thank you very much!

DIY/Buy: air conditioner (evaporator coil/condenser/refrigerant, not thermo-electric)

@p1nesap

6 жыл бұрын

I can imagine, but would be *cool* to see Scott make one, esp. low-BTU solar powered.

@thesavagedog28t61

6 жыл бұрын

Its pretty eazy

@islamifinanceurdu1435

5 жыл бұрын

I would like thermoelectric

@zdw306

5 жыл бұрын

How about solar heated absorption type compressor, then a high btu capacity 'cold battery' to store the temperature negative energy 'cold' then a water pump to pump this fluid through a radiator and a fan to cool the air in a room.

@user-gu1hl2kx2k

4 жыл бұрын

DIY nuclear power plant

Failures are a fact of electronics development. They happen and we continue our pursuit of knowledge. Thanks for posting the video.

Excellent video, and being humble about one's failures is a great virtue. Congratulations!!

You just have to add a series capacitor to the output of the 555 timer and it will make the unipolar AC signal bipolar by supressing the DC component.

1.7 Mhz has to be managed with appropriate components. I suggest to use ham radio oecillator and suotable semiconductor. Maube you can salvage them from LW radios. Anyway I appreciate ypu post also failures. Thi is sign of fairless. Grazie

@Jefferson-ly5qe

6 жыл бұрын

1.7 MHz is pretty forgiving frequency to work with. Most transistors produce plenty of gain well into the VHF range

@Speeder84XL

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was thinking the same - those half bridge/full bridge drivers are made for driving high frequency transformers in switching power supplies and similar stuff where much lower frequencies are used. Using 1,7 MHz for those circuits would not be very efficient - and large power MOSFETs and IGBTs made for high power are too slow to work properly at that frequency. They would probably never be fully on or off and mostly work in linear mode with huge losses and wouldn't handle much power at all. The built in "dead time" of 150-400 nS in those drivers are also needed for those, to ensure one set of transistors get enough time to turn fully off when the other turns on. For 1,7 MHz those MOSFETs are probably not the best choise ether - there are other transistors more suitable for RF (I havn't very much experience my self working with frequencies that high - most I have played with is audio circuits and power circuits, that range from DC up to about 100 kHz)

@camilomason4560

6 жыл бұрын

Pier Aisa do you speak english

@versag3776

5 жыл бұрын

Wow, All this is beyond me right now. I would probably just buy one as well. But as a hobbiest, I appreciate how you can share your failures and it seems like it must have been fun attempting to problem solve this issue with the knowledge you have! Two questions, "did anyone ever successfully do this in an affordable way?" And, "is there any way to make sure the components don't corrode?" There was some rust on your oscillator/atomizer which perhaps could have affected it's performance but what do I know.

you are great man.you always teach us something even if your project didn't work.respect you.

I think everything would be a BUY. I watched your vid for 3 mins, started scrolling through and seeing tons of circuits and bits and knew it's definitely easily to buy.

If you opened the one you bought and had a look at the circuitry it uses, do you think it would be possible to wire in more than one piezo disk and produce more vapour? Great video as always!

@volvo09

6 жыл бұрын

For what it's worth, they do sell multi disc models, but they aren't as cheap. 3 disc are easy to find, and I think I've seen a 5 or 7. I bought a 3 in the past and it works great for those mist fountains where I feel the single discs are lacking.

@carolynmmitchell2240

6 жыл бұрын

Sony look at the guts of a sonicare toothbrush, way different principle.. they use a layer steel transformer style in the shape of a tuning fork with coils wrapped around it.. very interesting.

@frogstair

6 жыл бұрын

It is sealed with potting compound

@novadelp5969

6 жыл бұрын

If you wire in one more piezo-electric disc with the one that's already with that item, it will decrease the frequency.

@dvorak2676

4 жыл бұрын

@@novadelp5969 why?

I like the idea of the "thin layer of fuck" ! Nice one, Scott !

i have a lot of respect for this man

Holy cow I just love watching your videos I feel like I learn something new from them everyday. 😁

I was waiting for Pierce oscillator circuit design. with 1 Mhz Op amp out.

Hey! I made my pumpkin out of two speakers and an LED light strip this year! I was just messing around so it was just a fun hour long project.

@greatscottlab

6 жыл бұрын

Sounds interesting :-)

Aloha from Naalehu in Hawaii! I loved watching and did learn...thank you! It's my quest for diffusing essential oils that led me to you. Again, thanx, Linda

You are the best teacher I ever had great Scott. Thanks a lot.

Thanks for the theory part. I was just wondering how my air humidifier worked without boiling the water.

Great Work, But was a bit sad at the end of the video. Would've loved to see you recreate the internal circuit using your own components (circuit from the bought Mist maker)

@greatscottlab

6 жыл бұрын

That was my plan but I could not access the circuit from the mist maker. See the end of the video.

I spent my childhood and early adult life wondering how these damn things work, never got around to looking it up. Thanks for the video :)

Failure is no stupidity. Plus you call yourself great Scott for a reason :) Thanks for saving us the hard tests

'The first circuit I came up with was a true sign of my genius.'

could you make a video about the individually adressable led strips? :)

WHOAAAAAA!!!! 🤯we love how smart u are!!!! Thank you for showing us how the vibration creates steam.

This video is awesome just for the theory. We have a cool mist humidifier at home and I always kinda wondered how it worked to create mist so quickly.

And also videos about circuit design and calculation

Could you try making your own 3D printer with an Arduino and RAMPS

@scienceteam9254

6 жыл бұрын

This. Or maybe a raspi zero or greater as the controller.

@builtrodewreckedit

6 жыл бұрын

That would be creative its only been done like half a billion times all ready?

@vaioskaliakoudas6388

6 жыл бұрын

Or even a Table CNC Router

@rich1051414

6 жыл бұрын

Not a problem. Most of the cost of a 3d printer has to do with the steppers themselves. The more granularity, the higher the precision. The higher the precision, the slower the speed. The faster the speed, the more processing power required and the more momentum tries to sabotage you. It's a battle where physics is constantly trying to kick your ass.

@usr6106

6 жыл бұрын

if you can make the mechanic parts its not a big deal to build diy 3d printer.

I appreciate your hard work, so that we got many results of your experiments.

I appreciate the video on a failed attempt on a build. most people are to proud to show it. This is awesome. I look forward to more videos...

Do not confuse failure with stupidity. Failure is still a learning experience! Stupidity is not!

At 5:05 it didn't work because you charged the piezo capacitance. After charging once, it'll never discharge again because you don't have a discharge path. That's why you use "AC".

@soosaisteven3984

6 жыл бұрын

Fernando Zigunov very accurate.

@alexandersamoylov3838

6 жыл бұрын

You need add inductance at 5.05

@JusticeforLiberty

5 жыл бұрын

Plus protoplasm

Man a lot of experiments. I was about to try to make one. Now i know what to do. Thanks a lot

Literally had the same problem, trying to figure out if there was a better way to do it, this was both interesting and helped me out a lot. thanks1

Again a nice Video, Scott! Also a great Idea!

@chrisfrosty4540

6 жыл бұрын

LBLJLALRLNLE LHLALNLSLELN du musch des in englisch schreiben...

@bjarnehansen1101

6 жыл бұрын

Er ließt ja nicht nur das, was in Englisch geschrieben ist

@maxischerr

6 жыл бұрын

LBLJLALRLNLE LHLALNLSLELN Aber vielleicht wollen auch nicht Deutsch sprechende Wissen was du schreibst.

@bjarnehansen1101

6 жыл бұрын

Ja, in dem Fall schreibe ich auch immer Englisch aber im falle eine Kritik? (Bzw. Feedback)

@derkleinepfadfinder2555

6 жыл бұрын

Ich glaube eh das er Deutsch versteht

teach the pumpkin how to smoke?

Honesty is appreciated.

Your presentation is awesome. I use it to inspire the kids into science & technology !

you can get them on aliexpress for less than 3€

@UpcycleElectronics

6 жыл бұрын

Honey FPV ...and you will receive them in January....if your lucky

@madeinbelgium8552

6 жыл бұрын

Upcycle Electronics i usually get my items in like a week to two weeks from aliexpress (in belgium)

@UpcycleElectronics

6 жыл бұрын

Honey FPV I just ordered a bunch from AliEx myself. I bought from 10 different sellers. A few of the sellers were fast, but most took a week or more just to ship the item. They print a tracking number but they don't actually process the order and take it to the logistics carrier right away. I wish more people would write reviews that state: 1.) Order Placed: (DATE/in Chinese Time) 2.) First Tracking Number Ping: (DATE) 3.) Delivered: (DATE/number of business days) 4.) Condition/product quality/etc. Even the listings with better feedback lack this kind of info. In my opinion, the delay between the order paid and first tracking number ping by the logistics carrier is the most important feedback possible. That info tells a buyer everything about the quality of the seller. I try to order from sellers that have better feedback, but it's still a shot in the dark. I placed my last order 10/9. I've received 3 things already but there are 3 more that are still in China right now according to tracking. The fastest I have received stuff so far is 9 days, and I'm in Los Angeles California USA. This is one of the largest trade hubs with China as California is the gateway to the mainland US. If the seller is responsible I should get stuff very fast.... That's been my experience so far, but this is my first real experience with AliEx as I am looking for eBay alternatives for the small stuff.

@ldpnewgeneration4568

6 жыл бұрын

Link product plz

@vigilante_stark

5 жыл бұрын

@@UpcycleElectronics could you please post the link

great video, what about a DIY or BUY for arduino

I saw few video about mist or humidifier but your detailed explanation opening parts and explained everything exelant and making alternative cheapest technology awesome very best tutorial video sir thank you 👍

I second that " Wow " everything I want to know about mister and drive circuits . remember no experiment ever fails , very informative TY

u r just "GeniuS" mahn...........!!!I really enjoy your content!!!!!!!!! 😍

@greatscottlab

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@volvo09

6 жыл бұрын

Don't know what I enjoy more, the content, or the awesome accent of his voice, haha!

Just what I wanted...

@sanghashankar6013

6 жыл бұрын

I am 555 timer . Nice to meet you

@sanghashankar6013

6 жыл бұрын

Hi :)

@demonsparkx

6 жыл бұрын

fuck you. fuck you for being so rare!

Fantastic video. THANK YOU for sharing. I love that you shared your failure. This is so valuable

I would say that this was a cool start to a new chapter, DIY or Buy. I enjoyed the new content!

2:53 Scott: by utilizing Full... me: BRIDGE RECTIFIEER !! Scott: H-Bridge me: aaaw

8:17 "i hope you enjoyed my stupidity" ... I-

@harryme472

3 жыл бұрын

I wished I was as smart as he is , ( at least with electronics ! )

Well for sure, I learned why I drive a bus, and am not an electronics expert. This was an excellent video, as I wanted to know how an ionising diffuser works. Thanks for the vid...

"Complete Failure" ... sounds like a lot of my projects :) I enjoy your videos, thanks!

hey Scott nice video... thumbs up . you really did it well... i never knew how mist maker works.. your designs were not stupidity it was fun ..enjoyed it. i was wondering will it work with normal piezo buzzer (speaker) ? like using 555 timer to generate frequency and then using op-amp like LM324 with +ve and - ve power supply? just a rough idea....

@haydensetlik4219

6 жыл бұрын

yeah, i was thinking the same. just use an op-amp to create a DC offset and you'll have an AC signal, yeah?

I put my finger on one of those ultrasonic piezos when they were working once. It hurt like hell...

@korus7670

5 жыл бұрын

Why does that happen? It feels like it's being crushed

@weinersnitzelz

5 жыл бұрын

Answers to why?

@matthewkevinkumar2969

5 жыл бұрын

Yeaaaah bruh ! Me tooo .....

@drmosfet

4 жыл бұрын

Co-worker ask me to try and fix his humidifier decades ago, on the side of the device's it said ultrasonic, thought that was just BS packaging to impress consumer's, that is till I put my finger on the element, Ouch, not BS packaging after all.

@sup4904

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah it hurts like all hell

Learned a lot from this episode. Thanks for making it!

More DIY or buy, it's a brilliant concept!!

That is the same schematic for the wireless thingie

@greatscottlab

6 жыл бұрын

Correct

@shahmeerlangah3868

6 жыл бұрын

GreatScott! Kahan se milega

How about a capacitor in series with the positive square wave circuit?

@greatscottlab

6 жыл бұрын

Does not work. Tried it.

@Hagledesperado

6 жыл бұрын

BJTs are much faster than MOSFETs as far as I understand, and cheaper. Maybe a Darlington bridge or totem pole of some sort would work?

@JernD

6 жыл бұрын

Did you play with the value of this capacitor? I think the value may influence the impedance vs. frequency response.

@Fatness_UK

6 жыл бұрын

GreatScott! I could never get the hang of mosfets but as far as using a capacitor to create the a.c. would you not have to replace the piezo in the circuit with a resistor then where the resistor joins the f.e.t connect a decoupling capacitor from there to the piezo and then from the piezo to ground. I guess you could replace the f.e.t with a transistor

@moakadarkmaster

6 жыл бұрын

Searched this comment!

Amazing, Interesting, Fascinating , Educational, Helpful . . . . . this is really a great approach to teaching !

First time on your channel. Loved the theory as well as the self-sarcasm.

50w bluetooth audio amplifier: DIY or Buy?

@elodgubcsi

6 жыл бұрын

Utkarsh Amitabh Srivastava yes I am

@eatshitgoogle

6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely DIY, unless you don’t mind the usual HPF bulls***.

@elodgubcsi

6 жыл бұрын

The Lame Gaming Channel good luck to make a 50w amplifier that has got bluetooth 4.0 and cost less than 10 dollars and not bigger than your phone

6:26 dude, I know you're hardcore, but haven't you heard of breadboards? Those white things with holes in them. They're pretty handy. Also, can't you just make a radio oscillator with a couple of plain BJT? Why all the mosfet driver shenanigans?

@areg7182

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, he does use breadboards. In almost every single one of his videos. It is just not a good idea to use one in high-frequency circuits because the parasitic capacitances. The mosfet drivers were there to turn on the mosfets on and off really fast, because you need to charge and discharge the gate quickly.

@jaredknapp6832

5 жыл бұрын

I solder stuff in mid air all the time. if its convenient, that is.

yes I havea "diy or buy" video idea. A ballistic chronograph. I do archery... and I have been planning one for some time. Is one of the reasons I got interest for electronics. I can say I understand much more your videos by now. thanks for the good work.

it's a wonderful job.

0:15 how the heck didn't you burn your hands :D

@enesilvian4640

6 жыл бұрын

kael'thas sunstrider The terminator can't be burned by a candle

@tfr

4 жыл бұрын

Hi

He's left handed... 🙃🙃

you are the excellent guy I ever see in my life

I realize you were using the words Genius and stupidity as comical terms, which I enjoyed as intended! Keep it up! Your dry humor and willingness to try so many times, for our benefit, is appreciated so much and considered gracious AND Genius ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

ULTRASONIC WASHING MACHINE, just to stay in this topic, very popular , expensive to buy, but maybe cheap to DIY, from china a ultrasonic transducer is not very exprensive. Thumbs up for Scott to read!

@devrim-oguz

6 жыл бұрын

I think the project size is too big.

wifi ledstrip lights DIY or BUY??????????????

@tharunkumar9271

6 жыл бұрын

yes i want it

@lokiaverro4196

6 жыл бұрын

DIY

Man Ur just amazing,u got a lot of patience.

you are the best, never seen in my life ,thank you sir for upload the video,good luck sir

It does not work on semen :( should i change the frequency?

@dozog

6 жыл бұрын

Make sure the connection between the balls and the piezo is tight enough.

@shigeyuki9

5 жыл бұрын

😂

3d printer DIY or buy :D

Awesome, loved the explanations, diagrams, the methods. Kudos for you pal! Thanks

lol I like that segment idea "diy or buy" I just discovered this world of diy electronics stuff and have been asking myself that question a lot. This is a cool video even if you have no plan of making this thing.

solar panel

@greatscottlab

6 жыл бұрын

I like that idea.

@milkhbox

6 жыл бұрын

I'll be shocked if you can even get 6-10% efficiency with a diy panel. Prove me wrong.

BUY doesn't WIN... it's just, your DIY is an EPIC FAIL😂😂😂😂

I’ve learned a lot in this video although it wasn’t a successful DIY , thanks a lot Scott , you’re really great (:

Thanks, you saved me some money. And I'm looking forward to more DIY or buy videos.