These two engineers have been making videos where they demonstrate AM transmitter arcing and RF burns using hotdogs. Now the Slow-Mo Guys (a channel that does what it says on the tin) have reached out to film it with their super slow-mo cameras. There's some pretty cool close-up footage of the plasma arcing across the surface of the hotdog.
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Cooking a hotdog with an AM tower again, but this time in slow-mo
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These two engineers have been making videos where they demonstrate AM transmitter arcing and RF burns using hotdogs. Now the Slow-Mo Guys (a channel that does what it says on the tin) have reached out to film it with their super slow-mo cameras. There's some pretty cool close-up footage of the plasma arcing across the surface of the hotdog.
High-speed, close-up footage at that.
Pretty fun to watch - and now know the reasoning behind RF burns.
Ow!
And some of us have "souvenirs" of getting too close... even after 60 years. I have a perfectly circular little burn scar below my thumb and which I remember most from the smell!There is a reason I chose rfburns for a screen name!
I got a fun reminder of RF from a 5w HT. Accidentally hit the transmit button while I had my thumb on the bit that screws into an antenna. Felt like a bee sting at that small of wattage.
Considering most commercial operations run many multiples above that, it’s a bit like urinating on an electric fence…you only have to do it once to remember it for a lifetime!
Considering most commercial operations run many multiples above that, it’s a bit like urinating on an electric fence…you only have to do it once to remember it for a lifetime!
And no rings and metal watch bands. No watch at all is best!