DaveFJ
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| posted on 27/3/08 at 09:16 AM |
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electricity from candles
Have a look at this vid....
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AtUlIGK_kl0&feature=related
didn't know it was the 1st already! 
Dave
"In Support of Help the Heroes" - Always
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 27/3/08 at 09:35 AM |
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 can't see it
 the first of April  must get my thinking cap on 
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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iank
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| posted on 27/3/08 at 10:19 AM |
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Note the way his free hand disappears off under the table as the second candle is lit and when the candles are blown out.
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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DarrenW
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| posted on 27/3/08 at 12:03 PM |
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Im amazed how easily the nails are magnetised. Is it just me or does the bulb light up almost before the wick has lit properly?
Maybe they are onion candles.
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violentblue
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| posted on 27/3/08 at 02:21 PM |
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I'm going to have to call bullshit on this one
a few pics of my other projects
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JoelP
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| posted on 27/3/08 at 08:07 PM |
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its good sleight of hand how he fiddles the wires at the beginning, unless during a cut he connected the nails through the bottom of the candle to a
battery.
The simplest way to prove that this is nonsense, is, how would one candle decide it was the negative and the other the positive? There is nothing to
differentiate between them.
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 27/3/08 at 08:42 PM |
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You will note that the leads go out of shot.
Two to the candles and another two from the bulb to the switched power source.
Good psuedo science blag though.
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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PaulBuz
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| posted on 27/3/08 at 09:01 PM |
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you'd have thought he would try & make it believable, by gradually making the light brighter ,perhaps with a capacitor.
As it is, you can see its just a switch being thrown!
ATB
Paul
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Liam
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| posted on 27/3/08 at 10:24 PM |
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Yeah - amateaur! Should have used a foot switch or something so it wasn't obvious his hands were flicking a switch. I thought the cables off
the side of the table thing was obvious until he brought them onto the table at the end - nice flourish to prove the viewer's 'i know how
he does it' wrong. I guess by that 'scene' he must have had longer nails all the way through the candle and connected out of sight
at the rear of the candles or something - the viewer just recalls from the first 'scene' that the nails dont go all the way through the
candle and there's no connection through the table.
Liam
[Edited on 27/3/08 by Liam]
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 27/3/08 at 10:48 PM |
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http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=4356.msg85201;topicseen
http://www.practicalphysics.org/go/Experiment_289.html
not that I'm suggesting it's anything but a fake, just reminded me of an experiment
[Edited on 27/3/08 by Mr Whippy]
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