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Tesla coil electrical arcs at 1,750,000 frames per second look absolutely insane

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It’s no secret that we’re big fans of The Slow Mo Guys here at DIYP. But when they team up with one of our other favourite YouTubers, like Mehdi Sadaghdar – otherwise known as ElectroBOOM – you just know it’s going to get crazy. After the boys saw one of Mehdi’s videos they knew they just had to collaborate with him on something extra special involving electricity and… Well, they’re The Slow Mo Guys, so they made it happen.

Mehdi travelled all the way from Vancouver, Canada down to Texas, with a lot of dodgy-looking electronics in his carry-on luggage to film with the guys. Not surprisingly, Mehdi got a few shocks along the way – and they all looked like genuine accidents this time – but you’ll all be pleased to know that Dan did, too!

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This is what a shaped charge explosion looks like at 5 million frames per second

If there’s one thing we know about The Slow Mo Guys, it’s that they’re always chasing ever faster frame rates to capture things in even slower motion. If there’s another thing we know about Gav and Dan, it’s that they like blowing stuff up. And when they combine the two, it always results in some pretty insane footage, letting us see things in ways we never have before.

You’ll be pleased to hear that this video is no exception as the boys add to their familiar array of Phantom cameras with a Shimadzu HPV-X camera that shoots up to a whopping five million frames per second – technically, it can shoot up to ten million but they only take it up to five – to capture shaped charges exploding. This beats their Phantom cameras by an order of magnitude and then some!

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Watching tiny capacitors explode at 187,500fps looks like the most dramatic fireworks you ever saw

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When I was in electronics class in high school, our teacher made some capacitors explode and it was one of the most amazing things I’d ever seen as an excitable 14-year-old with a great interest in electronics. What really amazed me about it was just how loud some of them were given their pretty tiny size. What didn’t impress me so much was the visual aspect, given that everything was offer in an instant.

But when you film that instant at 187,500 frames per second on the Phantom TMX7510, as The Slow Mo Guys, Gav and Dan, have done in this video, it shows a hidden beauty and power that happens far too quickly for the human eye to see. It’s fascinating to watch these things explode at a teeny tiny fraction of their normal timescale, and we see things that many of us would have never even imagined.

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What the world would look like if 1 second were slowed down to 1 hour

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We’ve seen some pretty extreme slow motion from The Slow Mo Guys, and it’s all very impressive and often satisfyingly beautiful. But unless you’re quick with maths in your head, it can be very difficult to see just how that equates to in real-time. Even when they tell you “this clip was x nanoseconds”, like, how fast is that really?

Well, in this video, Gav breaks it down into more manageable speeds for our brains to understand. Thanks to the new Phantom TMX7510, Gav can shoot 90,000 frames per second at a respectable resolution. How fast is this in real terms? Well, when played back at 25 frames per second, one second of real-time gets stretched out to an entire hour.

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Smashing car windows at 800,000 frames per second on the new Phantom TMX7510 camera

Gav at The Slow Mo Guys seems to have a problem breaking car windows. It’s not that he has anything against doing it, he just doesn’t seem to always be able to pull it off. But he’s decided to give it a go again for this video, where he puts Phantom’s new TMX7510 camera to the test, shooting it at 800,000 frames per second.

This is by far the fastest camera they’ve shot with on the channel – if you don’t count that insane 10 trillion frames per second thing – and at 800,000fps (1/32,000th real-time), it’s actually fast enough to capture the speed of the crack travelling through the glass – which on the piece of glass covered by the frame, happens in approximately 0.000181 seconds.

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