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Mercury-powered electronics get Chris Boden's workshop-comedy treatment

An ignitron tube joins a boat lift, a sanding table and a Peltier box in his four-upload week.

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

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Chris Boden found his biggest new audience in an older kind of electronics: the ignitron, a mercury-based tube used to control large electrical currents. His October 13 upload has reached roughly 877,000 views, comfortably the largest audience for his four new videos.

An ignitron is a controlled rectifier, converting alternating current into current flowing in one direction. That puts it squarely in Boden's territory: industrial equipment with a physics lesson attached, delivered through comedy rather than a solemn technical manual. Viewers picked up on the combination of mercury and high voltage, while others brought up the history of mercury rectifiers on electric railways. One even heard a potential album name in the description of water-cooled quicksilver.

The rest of the new batch stayed hands-on, covering a boat lift, a sanding table and a Peltier box. The ignitron upload also has the strongest daily momentum across the channel, with the sanding-table and Peltier-box videos next among its currently busiest uploads.

Boden added 10,000 subscribers over seven days, although daily views are running a little below their usual level. Among nearby science channels, Beyond the Observable Universe had a particularly substantial viewing week; Boden's weekly view gain was also larger than those of BBC Earth Science, Scott Manley and Animagraffs. For his own viewers, the week's conversation returned to a familiar invitation: several mentioned instinctively answering when he asks whether they want to see something cool.

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What viewers say

  • Lightning In A Bottle of Water Cooled Quicksilver is a killer album name and I call dibs
    @JaxxonBlaze69See it on YouTube
  • I love how when I hear, "you wana see something cool?", I instinctually whisper, "sure" everytime..hahahaha
    @dwsmith7072See it on YouTube
  • I would love to have seen the old mercury arc rectifiers used on the railways back in rhe day.
    @andrewstoakes8034See it on YouTube
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The facts
Subscribers
1,790,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
4,602,381
Videos published this week
4
Video published
October 13, 2026
Video views so far
876,955
Views on its first day
321,645

The numbers

Here is how Chris Boden's uploads and audience moved over the week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels
Chris Boden
4,602,381
Scott Manley
1,392,408
Destiny
291,406
subscribers
1,790,000
▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days
total views
1,182,916,995
views per day
737,662
typical day: 831,460
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
Destiny
2,010,000
Animagraffs
1,940,000
Scott Manley
1,870,000
Chris Boden
1,790,000
As of October 19, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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