WOT: Fun with Electricity - Videos of explosion and arcing..

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RobbieR
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Post by RobbieR »

Video of Oil-Filled High Voltage Transformer failure:
http://www.powerlineman.com/downloads/T ... ilure.mpeg

Video of High Voltage Breaker causing arcing:
http://www.powerlineman.com/downloads/B ... 20load.MPG
stuartinmn
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Post by stuartinmn »

Those are great clips, they've been passed around the electrical engineer community for a while. Nothing like lots of sparks and ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ noises. :)

A couple years ago a squirrel got himself shorted out on the transformer on the power pole behind my house... zzZZZZZZBANG!! and the whole neighborhood went dark. Wasn't much left of the squirrel except for some burned fur.
5er Quest
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Post by 5er Quest »

You should have been in my crawl space when I cut a live wire on Saturday! Oh, that tell-tale blue light!
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