{"id":775,"date":"2017-04-10T08:48:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T15:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/?p=775"},"modified":"2017-04-14T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T19:03:11","slug":"new-video-make-20000-volt-jacobs-ladder-sort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/new-video-make-20000-volt-jacobs-ladder-sort\/","title":{"rendered":"New Video: How to Make a 20,000 Volt Jacob’s Ladder (Sort of)"},"content":{"rendered":"

After years of study and practice, Blasted Science has finally perfected the Jacob’s Ladder. Technically it breaks after five seconds, but hey, maybe yours won’t.<\/p>\n

This is hands-down the easiest way to make a Jacob’s Ladder, period. All you need is an old TV and a death wish.<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/h3>\nThe actual tutorial in the video is quite subtle, so here’s a written explanation of exactly what we did:<\/p>\n<h3>Instructions:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Take apart a CRT TV. Be careful! They can implode if you crack the glass.<\/li>\n<li>Rip the circuit board out. This will probably require cutting a few wires.<\/li>\n<li>Plug it into the wall, and turn it on. You should hear a high-pitched noise. This is the part where you be EXTREMELY careful.<\/li>\n<li>Two of the biggest (usually red) wires will arc up to a few centimeters. These are the wires you want. Don’t get your bare skin near them. Keep your left hand behind your back at all times.<\/li>\n<li>Hook the two arcing wires up to a pair of metal rods that are in a long V-shape. Voila! That’s all there is to it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nYou might have to initiate the spark by putting something metal between the two wires at the bottom.<\/p>\nDO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. A SINGLE MISTAKE WILL KILL YOU. The electricity is powerful enough to instantly kill you. Would not recommend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is hands-down the easiest way to make a Jacob’s Ladder, period. All you need is an old TV and a death wish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[43,26,32,48,55,64],"tags":[57,4,37,36,34,59,39,45,70,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}