Ozone Generator Car

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Put an ozone generator to try to eliminate this odor inside the car. Let it go for 8 hours then aired out. Today it seemed ok for a while, but once it has been running it's smelling again. I'm wondering if I have an exhaust leak - this is especially with the top on..

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As far as going used, you can get an ozone generator for well under $100 t9 get rid of any smells. Find the car or truck of your choice and if it smells a bit, get the ozone unit and let it run usually overnight will cure the interior smell. Just something to think about.

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Buy a shonky dangerous ozone generator from the internet and run it in the car with the ventilation running on recirculate for a few hours.

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I’ve had good luck using a small ozone generator for a few short cycles, then wiping everything down with a vinegar mix and leaving the car open in the sun for a full day. Also worth checking if your top or rear window seal is letting in water. Did you ever track down where the moisture came from?

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I slapped an ozone generator for 2hrs and new cabin air filter in the car. It currently smells like pain inside it. Hopefully it's aired out by morning.

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How do you all feel about ozone generators use in cars? I recently booked an appt with a detailer to help me get rid of my new car smell. I told them I am pregnant and requested nontoxic/unfragranced cleaning solutions. They agreed and said they could steam the seats which might help, and I agreed to that. When I picked up my car, they told me their regular cleaning routine couldn’t fix the smell so they used their ozone generator in my car for 15 minutes. On the way home, this started to really freak me out. First of all, I dont know how much they aired the car out before I drove it home. I didn’t smell anything weird but I am extremely stressed that this could have hurt my baby. Second, I went down a VERY deep google rabbit hole and found all of this info about how ozone in interior environments can create ultrafine particles, reacts with and degrades all the plastic within the car etc. The EPA website said that ozone reacting with plastics and carpet can create unpredictable and potentially more toxic byproducts. I was already baseline worried about flame retardants, phthalates, which is part of why I wanted to get the car professionally cleaned. Now I am convinced that my car is covered in these byproducts and is going to permanently leach more chemicals because all of the surfaces have been degraded by the ozone. (I have OCD and struggle a lot with contamination in particular) My husband said I need to just forget about it and move on. He is only seeing 1% of how much I am spiraling about this because I am hiding my stress around it. I put a lot of effort into picking a car that would calm my feelings around how toxic cars are generally. But now those feelings of safety are gone and I feel so nervous going in the car and especially taking my child in there. There’s so much conflicting information online about ozone does so I dont know how to regulate my thoughts on this. As typical with OCD I have a feeling I am overreacting but its hard for me to tell. submitted by /u/penguin-tour to r/moderatelygranolamoms [link] [comments]

I just started a mobile detailing business in California and got an inquiry for a car that was skunked. The client used vinegar over a few days and says the skunk smell is mostly gone, but now the interior smells like vinegar. I’m concerned that shampooing the seats or carpets could reawaken any remaining skunk odor trapped in the foam or padding. Since ozone generators aren’t legal here, I’m curious how other CA detailers handle situations like this: Do I avoid wet extractaction Would you take the job or refer it out? I want to be upfront with the client and not make the odor worse. submitted by /u/Hybridrace to r/Detailing [link] [comments]

hello does anyone know where I can get ozone treatment for my car? submitted by /u/aleeva000 to r/Bakersfield [link] [comments]

I’ve run a handful of ozone generators over the years for smoke, pet funk, and that “mystery basement” smell clients swear is just “old house.” This time I tested the Airthereal MA5000 in my own rotation, mostly because it’s marketed as commercial but priced more like an upper-mid home ozone machine, not the crazy expensive restoration rigs. Odor removal effectiveness is the real reason to buy ozone, and yeah, it bites. In a closed spare bedroom that had old carpet and a lingering dog odor, it knocked the smell down hard after a couple treatments. Smoke odor in a used car was similar: noticeable improvement, not perfumey masking, more like the source got hit. Ozone output capacity feels legit for the size, and it behaves like a high capacity ozone generator, not a toy ionizer. Commercial vs home use is where I get picky. It’s labeled commercial, but plenty of homeowners will run it, and that’s fine if you respect ozone safety. Coverage area performance up to 2000 sq ft is… optimistic in real houses with doors, closets, and soft materials. In an open area it travels, but in a typical chopped-up layout, you’re either running longer or moving it room to room. Treatment speed is good for spot jobs. Short runs helped, but deep odors in porous material still take multiple cycles, plus ventilation. User controls and timer are simple and mechanical, which I prefer over flaky smart features. Timer shutoff counts as a safety feature, but there’s no sensor feedback, so you can still overdo it if you guess wrong. Build quality and durability seem solid: compact metal-style box, handle, about 3.5 lb, easy portability and storage on the truck shelf. Noise level during operation is fan noise, not terrible, still not something you’d want to sit next to. Material and room compatibility matters: ozone can oxidize rubber, some plastics, and irritate lungs, so plants, pets, kid stuff, and people need to be out. Ventilation requirements are non-negotiable, windows open, HVAC fan on, time to air out. Maintenance needs look minimal, basically keep it clean and don’t block airflow. Cost efficiency is decent versus competitors if you actually need “commercial-ish” output. Manufacturer support, no clue yet, hopefully you never need it. Curious how others are timing runs for pet odor vs smoke, and if anybody’s actually treating a full 2000 sq ft in one go without chasing pockets of smell. submitted by /u/Futur_90 to r/HomeSetup [link] [comments]

I was looking to get this ozone generator to help with dog odors but not sure how safe it is around parrots. Does anyone have any experience with this? submitted by /u/Goddesss_Bree to r/parrots [link] [comments]

I'm having a hard time finding anything on this subject. Can you use an ozone generator in a convertible or is there risk of damage to the soft top? I stowed the car away in less than ideal conditions not realising that some seals weren't seated correctly and now I'm seeing traces of moss inside the cabin. submitted by /u/adkio to r/AudiTT_Mk1_Mk2_Mk3 [link] [comments]

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I bought a really funky smelling Corolla. I own an ozone machine and I want to run it for around 30 minutes, AC blowing on low, and remove the cabin air filter so it can freely travel. This would be after I get it cleaned up really well. After airing out, install brand new cabin filter. Has anyone else used ozone for their car? submitted by /u/Own-Tie-640 to r/COROLLA [link] [comments]

Bought a car about a year ago and have been holding off smoking in it to kind of break it in. Now that I had it for a while I’ve decided to start smoking in it and found that ozone generators are the cure for lingering (bud) smell. I decided I’ll run the generator once maybe twice a week to keep My car from getting stained with smells and in my head it sounds like a good plan. But have heard things about prolonged use of the ozone generator can cause damage to plastics and other interior components. My question is if it’s okay I do a 20 minutes cycle 2 times a week will hurt my car. I also try and change out the cabin filter once a month. Thanks submitted by /u/Inside-Sir4424 to r/AutoDetailing [link] [comments]

Does anybody know if this Utawo ozone generator is any good? I’m moving and I plan to blast it into the moving truck (parked and then ventilated obviously) so that I don’t bring any roaches with me. Any advice? submitted by /u/thejitnessgram to r/GermanRoaches [link] [comments]

I know there have been several posts about ozone generators in here, but I'm not finding the info I'm looking for. Here's my story. We have carpet beetles and I bought and used an ozone generator in my single family home in an attempt to get rid of them. I thought it would be a safer option than pesticides. I ran the generator in small to medium sized rooms for about 3 hours at a time. I sealed of the vents and put tape all around the doors to make sure no air was getting in or out. Afterwards I opened up windows and ran fans for several hours. At first there was a sweet smell lingering but now there is no odor at all. Nothing in the process was damaged, like some other people mentioned. Clothes, plastics, electronics, everything is fine. No one in the home experienced any negative effects, though I did get a headache probably from the short term exposure when I went to open windows, even though I held my breath. My concern is about VOCs and other chemicals that may be left over as a result of this. Here are my questions: Is there an air quality test i can buy to test for these chemicals? Is there something I can use to test for ozone to see how much is left over if any? I thought ozone had a short half life and that the air would be safe after a couple of hours, after all, these machines are used by hotels and car cleaning and sales all the time. What are the long term consequences of being exposed to the left over chemicals even if we don't have any short term effects? Is the way i used it safe? What can I do to make it more safe? submitted by /u/Boat-Electrical to r/chemistry [link] [comments]

My dad unfortunately passed away in the passenger seat of his car in a parking lot and was found 4 days later by the police and they busted out the window. He had been living in it for months and I unfortunately have to clean it out and sell it because im incredibly strapped for cash and I need the money. How do I go about getting the smell and grime out in a safe and thorough manner. (ps I don't want to use an ozone generator because they degrade plastic and rubber) submitted by /u/SackAnnihilator to r/AutoDetailing [link] [comments]

I accidentally left an ozone generator on in my car for 1.5 hours. Once I realized my mistake, I opened all doors and windows and let the car air out but the damage was already done. It’s been 24 hours, and the car still smells like chlorine, plastic, and leather. It’s bad. I assume this will dissipate over time? What can I do to help get the smell out? Will it ever go away? What is best to use to clean with. HELP!!! submitted by /u/rob37tn to r/Detailing [link] [comments]

I bought a used car a few months ago, and it was smoked in by the previous owner. I mistakenly took the advice of some YouTube videos and ran an Ozone generator inside of it for an hour to try and get rid of the smell, and quickly learned what a mistake that was. While the Ozone breaks down relatively fast (~30 minutes or so), it reacted with the plastics, foam, caulking, etc in the car to where they are off-gassing a terrible smell (what I have learned to be VOCs). It burns the back of my throat and gives me a tension headache after being around the car, even for a short period of time, so the car is undriveable for me. Here's what I've tried so far : -Completely gutted the interior of the car - The carpet, seats, headliner, and dashboard are out. The HVAC system is still inside because taking that apart will probably require work that's well outside of my skill level. The smell is much less intense (especially after removing the carpet), but definitely still there and enough to make it undriveable even with the windows down. -I have two electric space heaters, and two powerful floor-drying fans inside to try and "bake-out" the VOC's. I do this with the back windows down a few inches, so fresh air can get in while the car retains heat. It gets up to ~145-160°F inside depending on the outside temperature. I've been doing this for about two weeks and it still has the acrid chemical smell inside from the VOCs. It's honestly amazing how it continues to smell this bad after the amount of airflow it has gotten. I see a lot of other reddit and forum posts of people who have the same issues after running an Ozone generator in their house/car, but little to no reports of actual solutions, other than time and airflow. Does anyone know of other things I can try, or have a success story after the damage of using an Ozone generator? I'm at my wits end with this stupid car, and have no idea what else to do. I'll probably have to buy another car soon if this doesn't get any better. Thanks in advance for any advice. submitted by /u/i_have_no_manners to r/chemistry [link] [comments]

Title. I left a ozone generator on for about 20 hours and now I can’t get rid of that smell. I’ve tried driving with windows down. I’ve tried freebreeze. Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks submitted by /u/13_Years_Then_Banned to r/AutoDetailing [link] [comments]

So, buddy of mine runs an airbnb. He recently had guests from hell, who smoked cigarettes, weed, and (as best as we can figure) heroin in his house. He tried airing it out for a week, no dice. It was still overpowering. So he went with the nuclear option and ordered an 11,000mg/hr ozone generator on Amazon. I warned him to be very careful with these things. I was almost certain that anything pumping out that much ozone wouldn't be legal to sell to a civilian. Guess I was wrong. He ran it 8 hours, 2 days in a row. The cigarette smell is gone, but now we're left with a much worse problem: The air is literally unsafe to breathe. I was stopping by his house to unplug his ozone generator at night, and just being in there for 15 seconds, while holding my breath, I basically destroyed my lungs. I've been coughing up green shit, it's terrible. It stuck to my clothes, and there was no way to avoid breathing it. Anyway, we've had the windows open for a week, and while it's no longer as toxic as it used to be, you'll still get a headache if you spend longer than 90 seconds in there. These things should not be legal. The manufacturers are all basically psychopaths who lie and say that ozone is either not bad, or actively good. These devices have not been approved by any agency for use in inhabited indoor spaces. Do not buy them. Anyway, my questions are: Is the smell/pollutant lingering in the air still ozone, or is it the products of stuff (plastic, fibers, etc.) that reacted with ozone? I've read that tropospheric ozone has a fairly short half-life, so I'm not sure why it hasn't decomposed yet. Is it just a "long tail" effect because ozone's detection threshold is like 10ppb? Or did it actually oxidize/volatilize the plastic fibers in his mattresses? How the fuck do we get rid of it? I have a biochem degree. I've done organic synthesis. I can dig through the literature. I can google. I have found nothing on removing lingering ozone from a residential space. Just a bunch of sad stories on message boards about people who had to move into hotels. Luckily, nobody has to live here full time, but the property does generate income, and this is costing serious fucking money (in addition to the cost of blasting the heater with the windows open). Our plan going forward is: keep the house as warm as possible (supposedly this decreases the halflife of ozone), and keep moving air through it. I've also read that humidity can affect ozone half life, but I can't find a source saying whether it increases it or decreases it. I once had a meteorology professor who did a demo where he took a UV light, and some citrus peels, he let the UV blast into a terrarium to generate some ozone, and squeezed the citrus peel oil into it. It pretty rapidly resulted in a cloud of photochemical smog. Could we take advantage of this? I'm thinking maybe some sort of cirtrus oil cleaner might react with stray ozone, and then turn into that same sort of smoky particulate looking shit, and then we can suck that up with a bunch of HEPA filters. Maybe even heating a cooking oil up to its smoke point and letting that greasy aersol get ozonated into smog. Does anyone have any reason why this would be inadvisable? (If your argument is based on "indoor air pollution", then it probably doesn't apply. The air quality here is already at maximum shittiness. It literally makes you ill to breathe for any real length of time.) If anyone has proposals, or relevant literature, or anything useful, please get at me here. If you aren't able to offer any help, take this as a warning. You are immeasurably better off just breathing shitty heroin smoke. Jesus fucking Christ. EDIT: Thank you guys so much for all of the help, explanations, and ideas. Definitely feel free to keep them coming, so that when someone 5 years from now fucks up like we did, and starts panic-googling, this thread will pop up and they won't feel like the first person in history who ever had this problem. For the sake of any googlers from the future, I'm gonna summarize it all here: The problem: We left the ozone generator on for way too fucking long. 15 minutes to an hour should have been plenty. 2 hours max. The consensus: We are no longer battling unreacted ozone, but the VOCs it left behind after reacting with plastics and other organics. Estimates for ozone half-life vary pretty wildly (from 7 minutes to 20 days). 8 days of aggressive ventilation, and a few days of heating, should have been plenty of time to destroy the raw ozone. Plus, the smell is no longer the overwhelming, single note of ozone. It's a deeper smell of "new car" + pool water. The plan now is: Thorough cleaning of all surfaces, floors/counters/walls/ceilings/ceiling fans (I could use recommendations for cleaning tools to dig into HVAC vents, if anyone has any ideas about that) Mattresses in the sun/fresh air. Leave them for one afternoon, then flip them over and leave them for another after. Maintain fresh airflow. Strategically placed space heaters & central heat to volatilize the VOCs. Cross breeze (one fan at front door to suck in fresh air, one fan at back door to extract dirty air). Fragrance-free Febreze on any porous surfaces. HEPA filters out the wazoo, especially in any areas with stagnant air. (Once the fans are set up and running, I'm just gonna blow some vape smoke to see whether it moves or settles.) After that, we'll seal it back up for a day and then check to see how it smells after it's been sitting for awhile. This one is only necessary because it's an airbnb, and he needs to make sure it won't knock anyone on their ass when they first check in if it's been vacant for awhile. If it's still awful, we'll go from there, but I have high hopes. Thanks again! submitted by /u/JeromesDream to r/chemistry [link] [comments]

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Part 1 Part 2 ​ “Oh no, no, NO!” I said anxiously. I immediately realized that the odor was very similar to what we noticed when we entered the bunker for the first time. Only much, much stronger. My Geiger counter started clicking too. “What’s going on? Asked Alex. “That guy, Moroz, he told me about this. He told me to run.” I said. Just as he finished, the door shook in an enormous slam, sending dust flying in the air and slightly bending ouwards. There was nowhere to run. We had a heavy steel door on one side, and god-knows what on the other. I had no idea how we could survive. Luckily, Alex had. “Do you still have the rope?” he asked. Without hesitation, we tied it around one of the pumps. It wasn’t easy at first, working with the rope with my hands shaking violently. But then another loud slam echoed through the room. One of the bolts that held the door was launched across the room. I felt a wave of cold run down my spine, and suddenly, I had just this one purpose. To tie the knot. Everything else just shut down in my head. I was done and we dropped it down the broken vent that Alex got dragged into before. We stepped inside and started sliding down the rope. I then heard another slam and then what I think was the door, hitting the ground. It was through. I slid faster, but the rope was starting to burn my hand. I lost the grip and fell down a few meters, landing on top of another vent. It broke, and I fell through inside another corridor. Alex then landed on top of me. ​ ​ It took us a few moments to get back to our feet. I looked around and saw an orange door titled “Decontamination”. We were on level 3. There was no handle, only a button on the wall next to it. I pressed it and the door opened after a few seconds. We entered a small room with a control panel. Using it, I closed the door behind us. Several jets then blasted us with air, a green light popped up and then, another door in front of us opened, inviting us deeper into the facility. I noticed that the control panel was stained with a smudge of fresh blood. Was Moroz still alive and went through here? We couldn’t go back. Our only option was to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. It was supposed to be a cleanroom but the place was wrecked even more than the upper levels. After some walking and searching, we found a room that looked like a makeshift infirmary. A few dozens of beds separated with plastic curtains, some medical equipment. Some beds still had information clipboards attached. ​ ​ Patient 2 QUARANTINE Survey team C Patient in coma ​ Observation only Do not interfere ​ Deceased, 07:28 - unknown ​ ​ Patient 6 QUARANTINE Survey team C Patient in coma ​ Observation only Do not interfere Deceased, 07:52 – unknown ​ ​ Patient 19 QUARANTINE On-site operative assistant, first contact with Survey team C Massive blunt force trauma – chest (suspected internal damage)Cranial concussionSuspected damage to cervical spineDislocated L shoulderFracture – L humerusMultiple lacerations – chest ​ Deceased, 04:04 – internal hemorrhage ​ ​ Patient 7 QUARANTINE Survey team C Patient is psychotic and unresponsive Mild to moderate frostbite Observation only Do not interfere ​ TERMINATION ORDER Signed: A. Moroz ​ ​ There were some body bags on the other side of the room. Empty. We searched the area and eventually ended up in the lower levels of the facility. There was this rotten smell all around. We entered a room, and, well… there was this substance everywhere. On the walls, floor, ceiling, everywhere. It was like flesh, with tendrils or veins running across it, like from a Dead Space game. Then we found bodies attached to it. Dozens. Shriveled up like dead insects in a spider web. “I think we should go back.” Alex said, anxiously. We turned around and went back but then I heard some debris shift in the distance in the corridor we came from. Soon enough, one of these things crawled into the light emitted by my flashlight. It stood there for a while, staring at us with its blank eyes. And then it leaped forward. Then it fell to the ground, dead, and an empty shotgun shell did too soon after. I heard more of them making their way towards us in the distance, so we ran deeper into the facility. I shot a few more on the way, but then ran out of ammo. ​ ​ We eventually found a long, dark tunnel flooded with water. The things were almost on us. I could see them crawl along the walls behinds us. We entered the tunnel. The water slowed us down considerably, and I awaited the worst, but then I noticed that we weren’t followed. They wouldn’t go inside the tunnel. We walked for I don’t know, an hour? Two? The water was ice cold, luckily it was only about knee-deep so it wasn’t too terrible. I already said that Alex didn’t look well since I found him, but as we walked through, he seemed to be getting worse. He complained that his head hurt and he felt dizzy. His skin got pale and he looked very weak. After some time, I had to support him and later, he completely collapsed and fell unconscious. We couldn’t go back, so my only option was to find a way to drag him through the water. It went like this for some time but then I heard something far away in the direction we came from. A splash. I turned and shined my light into the black tunnel. Nothing. I went to continue walking, but then I heard it again. “Hello?” I called, hoping to hear an answer. Maybe Moroz was here? Or did the creatures follow us after all? Nothing. I quickened my pace, but it wasn’t easy dragging another person and moving through knee-deep water. The sounds continued. They weren’t getting closer or farther, they were just there. Then I reached the end. The tunnel was closed off with another massive steel door and no visible way to open it. It was a dead end. I stopped moving and listened. Those sounds, it wasn’t just a splash. It was more like … as if someone or something was wading through the water. I panicked and started banging on the door, calling for help. I had nowhere to go. The sounds were now getting closer. I saw waves in the water. It was now very close. I slowly turned again, and looked into the tunnel. I saw nothing and heard nothing. Just silence and darkness. And then the familiar scent hit my nose. Ozone. ​ ​ Then I heard metal shift behind me, and the door opened. “Dimitri?” A familiar voice called. Moroz. “What – who is…? Oh no, you brought it here!” He pulled me and Alex through the door and then shut it again as fast as he could. “That’s your friend? How…? What happened to him?” He asked as he looked at still-unconscious Alex. “I don’t know. Are you okay?” I asked back. He had a large gash across his face and his right eye. “Well no thanks to you.” He responded. He noticed the makeshift bandage on Alex’s arm and unwrapped it. What he had on his arm wasn’t just a regular wound. It was a bite mark. “That.” Moroz said and pointed at it. “Stand back.” He stood up and drawn his pistol. “NO, wait! At least tell me what’s going on!” “He’s going to be dead in a few minutes. This will make it easier. For him too, but mostly for us.” “What? Please! Is there really nothing else we can do?” I pleaded. He looked at me, looked at Alex and then stood there, thinking for a moment. I was immediately relieved when he holstered his gun again. “Okay. This might help him.” He said, and dug up a case with a syringe from his backpack. It looked used recently and was only about half full with a clear liquid. He injected Alex with the rest of it. “It won’t matter anyway.” He said. “What do you mean?” “Follow me. Take him too if you want, I’m not carrying him.” ​ ​ “I guess you’ve probably already figured out that this all had something to do with the disaster 30 years ago.” He explained as we moved through the facility. “The first machine we used for the teleportation experiments, it wasn’t powerful or reliable enough. We figured out that this whole thing wasn’t as simple as it seemed. We weren’t just teleporting one thing to a different place, we were transferring them between multiple parallel realities. But it was limited, we could only ‘exchange’ two objects with equal mass between two identical places in 2 different realities. So, they built a new machine here, and used a nuclear reactor to power it, hoping that we could possible move anything to any place between 2 given realities. “ “We started exploring whole new universes, saw worlds where the Germans won World War 2, worlds where we all destroyed each other, even worlds where life never evolved on Earth. But then, someone had this idea. If there are these parallel universes, what is between them? There was only one way to know. And that’s when it went wrong, as I said. We should have been happy with what we had. But we always want more, right?" “We tried to access this ‘conduit reality’ as they called it. But when they activated the machine, it stayed open. Something happened, and a ‘portal’ was created, independent from our machine. It was sustaining itself.” “So, we sent a survey team in there. They came back after a few minutes, reporting all sorts of strange things. About how a strange feeling filled that place, how space and time themselves felt odd, even how some of them claimed to have seen themselves at different places at once. They wouldn’t go back, even if threatened with all sorts of penalties.” “We sent a second survey team later. This one didn’t come back at all. So we send a third team to find them. They came back, but something wasn’t right with them when they returned. Their minds were like … erased.” I pictured the blank stares of the creatures we fought on the way. “Shortly after they returned, a massive burst of energy flowed out from the portal straight up, into the reactor. But that wasn’t all.” “And you know all this because you took a sick day, right? I asked. “I was at a different place in the facility when it happened. I’ll never forget when they came to me, saying, that something came through, into our world. “What was it?” I asked. “I don’t know. Nobody knows. It wasn’t unlike anything we’ve ever seen. And it killed almost everyone here. Not just killed, it did stuff to people. You’ve seen.” “We’re here.” We entered a control room, filled with computers and various controls and displays. Moroz closed another blast door and sealed us inside the control. “We need to close the portal. We have tried it before, but these things wouldn’t let us.” “So where are they now?” “As soon as I heard that you went inside the facility and came back, I knew something was off. This place used to be full of them. At least one is still here – the smell of ozone. But a few years ago, anyone who went in wouldn’t get alive past Level -1. But we’ve got this far, and I don’t know why. That’s what scares me. Something isn’t right.” ​ ​ “I know that I am asking for a lot, but we need to go inside the portal and use this.” He emptied his backpack and took out a crude-looking contraption with all sorts of wires, coils and other bits hanging from it. “We need to place one end in the other reality and then return with the second end into ours. If it works, it might cause the portal to collapse.” “And how do you know that the same thing that happened to the third team won’t happen to us too?” I asked. “That’s the thing, I don’t. But I’ll tell you this – you know how they built that concrete shield over the ‘reactor’? They weren’t trying to seal the reactor. They were trying to seal this place, to prevent whatever came into our world from getting out. And a few years ago, the thing we feared most happened – the shield started cracking. They were trying to get out. So, they built a new containment building recently, as you know. But for how long will this go on? Sooner or later, something will fail and they will get out. This might be our only chance to end this for good.” How the hell did I get into this? I thought. I was just a random guy at the wrong place in the wrong time, but Moroz was talking as if the fate of our world depended on me. But maybe he was right. Whatever set of coincidences has brought us here– brought me here, maybe me and Moroz were the only people who could do what needed to be done. “Alright, let’s do it.” I said. ​ ​ We put on a pair of what looked like modified space suits, left everything other than the device in the control room and entered the machine. We were in a dome-shaped chamber full with complicated machinery. In the center, there was a sphere of white light. Above it, a black, hollow shaft going straight up with cracks and debris around the opening. We tethered ourselves to a steel rail and Moroz walked forward, into the sphere and vanished. After some hesitation, I did the same. ​ I found myself in a place that I can’t describe. There was no up or down, and I could ‘walk’ in any direction. It looked empty, yet I could see countless infinitely large shapes with billions of tiny shiny dots on the surface. “Here.” A voice called. I looked for Moroz but I couldn’t find him. “Where are you?” I called. “Come,” he said and grabbed me by the arm, seemingly out of nowhere. I noticed hundreds or thousands of other white spheres in the distance around us. “Are those…?” “Yes. Portals from other parallel realities.” “Are we going to close them all?” “No, just ours. The others are not our problem. They will have to find their own way to handle it.” We walked towards one distinct shape, as with everything here I struggle to describe it. It was like a fractal, the same shape repeating over and over and over again. “I think this is it.” Moroz said, and started doing something with the device. It beeped several times and then started making a high-pitched hum. “Oh no, no, this isn’t good,” he continued. “What’s going on?” “Listen, I need you to take the other end and return. Once you’re back, pull this switch and keep this button pressed until it activates. I have to stay here.” I picked up my end of the machine and watched as a wire started unreeling between the two. “What about the key to the door out?” I asked. “There is no key.” “WHAT? But you said… that wasn’t the plan! “This was always the plan. I couldn’t risk…” he didn’t finish. I saw something in the corner of my eye. Movement. “Shit! Don’t look at it! Go NOW! RUN!” Moroz said. And I listened. ​ ​ I ran back, followed the line back into our portal, with my eyes almost closed. I went through, placed the device on the ground, flipped the switch and the device started producing a similar high-pitched noise. I pushed the button. For a second or two, nothing happened, and then, suddenly the device (or the portal?) let out an ear-piercing whine, an intense flash and a wave of heat. And then, it was gone. Severed wires and tether line laid there on the ground, where the portal used to be. In the meantime, Alex woke up. He looked much better, and I told him what happened while he was out. We didn’t know what to do now. We thought about going back, and trying to cut the chain on the door outside again, but after what happened last time, we doubted that it could work. We probably wouldn’t even get there alive at all. But then, Alex had this idea: “What if we can use the machine to teleport out of here?” ​ ​ It took us several hours to figure out how the controls worked. It was heavily damaged and the reactor was obviously out of question but the generators above supplied enough power for a simple ‘translocation’ as they described it. All we needed to do, is input a target vector. And then, the familiar clicking and smell of ozone came. A powerful slam shook the whole room and left a large dent in the steel door that connected the control room with the rest of the facility. “Fuck, not again!” I yelled. “I think I got it! They have some vectors written down here. We just need to add some height and we’ll get above ground,” Alex explained. “Make it fast!” I said as the door shook in another slam. He did something and the controls lit up with alarms sounding. We ran to the core chamber and closed it behind us, just as we heard the control room door give way. We stood in the center and waited. Sparks and smoke filled the room as the machine did its thing. Please work. I heard another slam and the door to the chamber broke off the wall and fell to the ground. ​ I looked over and then, the time froze. I didn’t feel fear, I felt at peace. I felt as if I was just a step away from understanding everything. I wanted to stay here, forever. ​ A flash suddenly blinded me, and then I bumped mu head into something. I opened my eyes and breathed in fresh air. We were laying upside down in a crater-like hole in the ground in a forest. We were out. We found our car after a few minutes. We saw several military helicopters fly in the opposite direction as we driven home. Alex checked in a hospital with a made-up story of an animal attack. He was okay in the end. We didn’t talk about it again. It was over and I though that our world was safe from whatever stayed at the other side of the portal. But when I finally returned home that day, I noticed that something wasn’t right. The old cherry tree that we used to play at when we were kinds – it wasn’t there. There was an apple tree instead. ​ ​ “…We’ve managed to transport an apple today. However, I couldn’t help but notice that the pattern of red and green skin on top was slightly different…” “…we were transferring them between multiple parallel realities…” “…Portals from other parallel realities. Are we going to close them all? No, just ours. The others are not our problem. They will have to find their own way to handle it…” ​ I think I’m not in the reality that I lived in before. I think that when we teleported out, we ended up in a different one. I can’t stop thinking about that the portal in this one might still be open. ​ ​ I think we aren't safe. submitted by /u/DELTA129 to r/nosleep [link] [comments]

In keeping with TIFU tradition this happened many years ago. We were a pair of young and passionate engineers. If you only care how this ended, skip down to the part where we departed engineering and entered the hallowed, and now carbon-scorch marked, ground of the TIFU. TIL: Tesla himself submitted a TIFU after melting the first AC generator in the country at Niagara Falls. He forgot the off switch. The Plan HAARP is a government project and we wanted to see if we could do something similar with spare parts and a pickup truck -- instead of a bloated military expenditure run by professionals. We were going to try for a bit of mad science instead of the nice and polished kind a billion dollars buys. Point of note: There are no mad scientists, just mad engineers. They don't have control groups and tend to care more about making awesome as fuck things happen than petty contrivances like FCC radiated power standards. The goal was to use some Tesla-inspired engineering and a junkyard of old electronics parts to make our own HAARP. Tesla's experiments are simple and every electronics enthusiast knows them by heart. They need: capacitors, coils, and a really big off switch. The Capacitors Capacitors usually come in micro or pico-farad sizes. We needed a really big cap -- so about, uhh, a few million times bigger. America! Go big, or go home. We built some big honkers out of metal drums and coated the inside with paint. We checked continuity and had to redo it a few times before we actually got that right. In went the guts that make a capacitor, and we're done with that. We had to come back to this once the coils were done. At the end of the series we filled up some two liters with our secret capacitor sauce and would run some AC pulses through it into a multiwatt resistor block out of some industrial equipment. Math ensued, and we hit our tolerances. The Coils We had to wind the coils ourselves too. We needed what was basically a voltage ladder, which would be a series of transformers at like 50:1 each time. It's not a problem for the first few in the series, but when you start getting reeeeeeally high voltages, even the tiniest crack in your wiring and everything's on fire. We had to use really thick wires because those come with really thick insulation that won't have any cracks in it. It got... big... and... heavy. And this is how we went from pickup truck to flatbed. Go big or go home! The Off Switch The most important part of any mad science... is making sure you can shut it off. Many an evil overlord have died shortly after screaming "But -- I am invincible!" Off. Switch. Ours was made of some pneumatics pulled from a dead caterpillar. It pushes forward, the connectors meet, and we have juice. When we're done, we hand-pump it the other way to release it. It's also safe because we're not near it and it's all plastics, rubber, and non-conductive oils. Out of a fear of having the pump fail from our nearby barely controlled chaos, we opted for the hand pump. Slow -- but it can't break. The Juice We were going to power this off the mains. No, not house mains. Overhead mains. The big ones. Don't ask how we hooked it up. Think junkyard. Bored engineers. Imagine! Tesla's experiments needed a lot of juice. So does HAARP. And there was no legitimate way to get that much power except right from the source just like he did. How it Should have worked We'd get some spectacular arcing in our mystery sauce substitute for the primary tap output. It would make the air ionize. That's what HAARP tries to do, except a mile in the air. Normally, Tesla coils are put in open air to let the arcing have a little fun and put on a light show. We needed that in a confined space so it was less the light show and more what the light show did that we needed: Ionization. We put it inside a tall pipe and sprayed the inside with non-conductive paint many times. We should also get some pretty good heating effect, so air would draw in from the bottom, pushing the ionized air out through the top. I think it put out something like 800 million volts by the math. For comparison, most people are sane enough to stop at around 500k to 3 million. If it were left in the open air... the arcing distance would be over 20 meters long. There was no video of this because, obviously, hooking into the HV mains is frowned upon. Most people do it for less savory reasons than the wholesome pursuit of science. Also, we didn't think anything more sophisticated than a vaccum tube would survive anywhere near our monstrosity. The intense RF radiation causes lightbulbs to glow -- even just from the transmission tower, which is just due to the current flow and not a deliberate engineering choice. Cell phones near it would probably never work again. But that was going to be all we'd have to worry about. The circuit was balanced. We had a off switch that could not fail. It wouldn't draw any more juice than the factory that had run here before. Nobody would notice. Transportation We thought it might be best to not be around when five hundred people called in asking why the lights flickered and then everything wireless went ape shit. A normal car has normal electronics, which might not work after if this was loaded in back on the flat bed. Remember what I said about big drums and big coils? That's... big heavy. So -- diesel engine. God bless something that can survive a nuke. We also needed to sure our vehicle was primitive enough to survive any mishaps and carry away the evidence with us. This was less a finely tuned chunk of RF engineering and more like a hundred ton coal-powered locomotive. But it'd put on a pretty light show. We would throw a couple thick plastic tarps and sheets all over the back of the truck, which should protect it. Electricity takes the shortest path to ground -- with all the metal covered and the vehicle propped up on rubber tires, it wouldn't be a problem. Airplanes get hit by lightning all the time and nothing happens. Our ride was sure to live. The Location We carefully selected a location where we could set up, and be near a transmission tower and a road. That took time, but we eventually found a parking lot behind a closed factory. A few cars were around, parked, but it was quiet and that was perfect. Here's when TIFU enters the game We waited until it was late enough nobody was going to see a couple dumb kids pull up in a wheezing diesel with a tarp over something big in the back. A few minutes of setup and we do our (redacted) on the tower, and we're ready to throw the dead man switch. The hydraulic pistons edge slowly forward as we frobbed the foot lever. After a minute or so, a loud and deep buzz filled the air. The st. elmo's fire was spectacular. Just as we expected, the heating effect caused the air to ionize and in seconds we had a nice glow coming out of it. And by glow, I mean roar. Like back of a fighter jet roar. It actually reminded me of some experiments you see in high power physics or nuclear reactors. It was a sight to behold ripping out of the back of a flatbed. It started to heat up. A few sparks flew out of the coils, but given the juice pouring through it that was hardly a surprise. We weren't going to run it long. Well everything went to hell pretty much as soon as we confirmed our little frankenstein did something cool. The two liters? We did the circuit perfectly. We overengineered everything else. Except those fucking bottles. We were tired and it'd been a month of fuckery building it. We fudged. Just run it a few minutes, see what happens, and then pack it in, right? The bottles didn't last that long. And when they went a minute in, it was to a loud boom and spray. Inside the circuit, there's a resonant frequency allows the best discharge of energy. Deviate much from that, and your whole circuit can become unstable. Rather than a smooth cycling flow, you'll start to get harmonics and stuff. Ordinarily, this just means you don't get a pretty lightshow anymore and your little Jr. Tesla Coil Science Kit just makes an underwhelming buzzing noise and lets out the magic smoke. The feedback eventually just karks it. We... did not have a Tesla Coil Science Kit Jr. -- "For Safe, Clean Fun!". No. We had the Tesla Coil Science Kit Sr., and it's motto was "Let's Fuck Some Shit Up." With that much energy floating around, that meant wild excursions in voltage and current. Gratz... we're now ground zero of exactly what happened to Tesla right before he melted the Niagara falls generators. The only difference is... this thing has an RF element. The smooth flow of ionized air started chiefing bad. It started shitting out lightning balls like an angry steam locomotive. Near a transmission tower. Which it was connected to. We... are not clever engineers anymore. We'd put it at least five times the distance of our expected arc distance between our apparatus and the tower -- so there was no way for it to ground out on it. That would have been very bad. Ionized air is... ionized. Ionized means it eats the paint off of shit. Literally. While we were trying to figure out if our new Chiefer Coil Deluxe(tm) was either an experimental success or a horrifying failure before shutting it off, Chiefer Coil decided to end the debate with huge fucking sparks in the everywheres. The drum wasn't insulated anymore. And our circuit wasn't stable anymore. This... was now causing lightning on a cloudless night that would have been visible for miles, along with orange and bluish shit floating around up there. It would have looked like an angry UFO saucer on a war path to the people on the freeway miles away. We didn't know if there was enough left of the equipment to dampen any oscillations enough to keep the current from jumping to one of those ionized pockets that it was shitting out. Main line current will crispy critter you instantly With transformer isolation compromised the secondaries (output) could feed back into the primary (input). We were faced now with a daunting choice: Rush the hydraulics to release the connection, run and leave a very pissed off power company and half a million people behind, or begin praying at about 7 megaprayers per second. We made about 21 megaprayers while throwing paper-rock-scissors to see who'd rush the hydraulic disconnect. It was a harrowing run to the primer to retract the hydraulics. I stomped on that like a Erdogan body guard on that thing, pulling the oil into the reservoir and kark it before it karked me. All around, lightning was grounding out to everything metal and the air was humming after our equipment dropped the bass. Well, again, our circuit execution was flawless. Our materials design was... less so. We retracted the hydraulics but a spark gap had formed. The mains didn't want to let go. Now we had an ape-shit tesla coil feeding back on itself next to something that was now sending a continuous arc ten feet straight up. It danced about in curling ribbons while pyrotechnics of blue and gold shot all around it. If one of those hit, the ionization path would send potentially a billion volts up to the tower and backfeed into the main grid. It'd be exactly like a lightning strike, only far, far worse. The noise of all of this had everything around us vibrating with a deafening and modulating hum. We thought we just needed to retract it a little more than the arc gap would be if the HV grounded out. Which is true: We didn't know it at the time but this is how power companies turn them off. We were fucking terrified for about ten seconds that it might not actually turn off. It did, just like it does for the power company, and the acrid smell of ozone was the only trace we left behind as we took our asthmatic (and borrowed) diesel, only the engine working and all the lights dead, and the smoking ruins of the equipment back out into the country before taking grinders to our equipment. Engineers: 0. Mother Nature: 1. TL;DR We built a really big tesla coil and nearly melted a power plant. EDIT: Some note technical details are incorrect or missing. This is not accidental. Moderators allowed this post on that condition. EDIT: PLEASE stop asking how to do this! It was a fuck up in the fine establishment of mad science, not a ringing endorsement to be suicidal. The plans were inscribed in the Electronomicon and left in an electronics graveyard. Only the high priests in the field of EE know of its location. EDIT: There was something else here I had to remove because some loser pulled an /r/shittymorph . Please disregard... and now I finally know what people are talking about on that one. Someone write a bot to point these trolls out so we can all hate on them together. :( submitted by /u/MNGrrl to r/tifu [link] [comments]