Great video, even though I have a MSc , science degree I still dont understand electricity. Yes, I could answer a tough exam paper on the subject, but it still amazes me that spinning magnets in a generator can provide such force !
if red touches yellow - you're a dead fellow.... if red touches black - you're ok jack...... was that for snake wiring or for venomous snakes..... dang, wish I remembered my electrical training before wiring this.....lol
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@jacktheripped No, those are called "fused disconnects". There is a "barrel fuse" inside that switch, so it serves two purposes, a fuse and a switch.
I used to be an infrared inspector and did a lot of electrical inspection on stuff like this. In fact, an IR inspection would have probably avoided such problem by detecting it before it got that bad. I've spotted countless hot spots and prevented countless scenes like this because they can fix them before it arcs out.
@BJD1995 there there we gotta wait till the power co shuts off the power b4 we put the fire out and in most cases when the power is turned off the fire goes out
Oh and its likely that a car hit the metal casing surrounding the insulated line, I bet the driver took off in a hurry. And on second look that is a secondary 240 line...I guess a 10,000 volt line would have made a much bigger show!
that's what you get for running high voltage wires underground...that shits meant to be kept up high, only the 220 serviced line should be kept underground but thanks to new regulations this volatile high voltage is being run underground everywhere
What are you talking about. That is just the secondary service off the overhead bank that is shorting out. The primary is overhead as can clearly be seen in the video.
@ MXSLICK: that's common here in the Netherlands... the highest voltage underground is (if I'm right) about 40.000 Volts: above that it goes above ground, the 'lowest' power line voltage is 110 kV, the highest 380 kV
In Ontario, Canada, most high voltage underground cable is kept in newer communities (subdivisions) where it has been pre-planned by the electrical authority and the housing planners...usually it spans shorter distances, following the roadway. Our transmission lines are 250kv and 500 kv that run cross-province from the coal/nuclear or hydro station, secondary transmission lines are usually half of what the main transmission lines are.
All power lines should be put underground, to reduce the chance of power outages during many disasters, such as ice storms, blizzards, hurricanes, and severe thunderstorms.
High voltage wires above ground is less likely to be struck by lighting than under ground wires. Due to the ground wire above the wire that sheds the strike to the ground. Plus under ground takes 4 times as long to repair.
But when ice storms hit, no line stands a chance as simply the weight of the ice itself will snap power lines like strings and even send the big iron frame towers crashing to the ground as if they were paper. And that leaves people shivering and freezing in their homes for days, weeks, and even a couple months. At least in high latitudes where snow and ice is common, all power lines should be placed under ground.
yeah, here in Germany, underground wiring works pretty well... Even while the worst (lightning-)storms in the past ten years, we always had electricity!
The line that was on fire at most was 277/480 volts. More than likely it was a 120/208 three phase. Plus there is nothing wrong with putting high voltage under ground.
At 0:17-0:22, it sounds a lot like a Harley Davidson. At 0:22-0:26 it definitely sounds like someone hane been beating on a drum. Look closely, at 2:41, and you can see that the explosion blew out the metal pipe that protect the power cords. The guy on the bucket crane is using the utility pole to cut out the electricity from the rest of the power lines.
Totally agree. Though they make the job look easy to most of us, there's a lot of training involved and still that doesn't make up for the big risk of what they do.
We wouldn't be where we are today if there weren't people like that to help keep things going.
Yea sure... someone is stupid enough to touch a live wire, while its on fire, and the wires are faulty!! That is a comment you could expect from a person who knows nothing about fire or electricity.
Well, if the sparks aren't using enough current to trip the fuses, they simply ain't going. My guess is that the pole has some slow blowing fuses and the sparks don't last long enough to trip them.
masterpilot don't have a clue whats goin on! The secondary conductors were damaged and were shorting together plain and simple. I agree with joetoorivers 110%
More than likely a vehicle backed into the pole damaging the insulation on the conductors. Some of the comments on here are out of this world. I thought I had heard them all after 35 years as a lineman. I think they have a farm where they raise them.
I seen the same thing once but the transformer blew up like a giant bomb, since they are filled with oil that are supposed to cool it down. If you notice, the firemen and woman don't use a full stream of water so there isn't much risk of elecrocution. Besides during a heavy down pour have you seen wires arc from the water.
and firemans using water? On electric wires? Brave. I know, that was turned off before, but still thats somethink I never think to do :) You never know... :))
its definitely the amps that kill you, amps are current, the more current the more damage.. it takes one tenth of an amp to kill a human, Compton is right in that the higher the voltage the easier the path for the current,, like a larger hose spraying water..
Yeah, it really is the Wattage that kills, both high voltage AND high current. Current = Voltage divided by resistance, so Voltage is the determining factor. But yikes...this video is a little scary. I wonder if it was the high voltage lines or the low secondary lines that were arcing.
actually it is amperage that kills. a person can die on as little as 0.5 of an amp. haraldves below is a little bit off, but he has the right idea. wattage is another variable of current and amperage. so wattage CAN kill, but it depends on the AMPERAGE that goes into it.
Yeah, but at a low voltage you won't even have 0.5 Amps of current flow. The human body can have a resistance of as much as 500,000 Ohms (with dry hands). For instance, a rechargeable 6 volt lantern battery may be capable of supplying several amps...but obviously 6 volts isn't going to kill you because there is NOT enough voltage to overcome the resistance. Amperage is not an independant value...it depends on VOLTAGE and RESISTANCE.
You can have 1 V and 500 A... It is the amps that kills you. And the human body can't have a resistance of 500,000 ohms, the human body have a resistance of 10.000 ohm with wet hands.
This discussion is getting a little old now. Amperage is a DEPENDANT variable, it depends on voltage and resistance. You can NOT have amperage without voltage. 1V won't even overcome the resistance. But 500v at 1 amp would be disasterous. Everything is rated in VOLTAGE because it is the determining factor. And I think I've said all I'm going to say about this.
Ok... If you think you know better. Go home and read and study to me an electrican just like me. THEN we can have this discussion. And it also depends on what kind of net-type you have. I don't know how it is in USA but in Norway it's depends of that.
...oh, and hand to hand resistance (with wet hands) is more like 1,000 Ohms. Look it up. Using your 1 volt as an example, that would only give a current flow of 1 milliamp.
...Think about it. We don't measure anything in amperage until there is a LOAD. The outlets in your house are measured in voltage because that is the determining factor. We say an outlet is 120 VOLTS...not "X AMPS." You don't even know how much amperage will flow until you know the voltage and a given resistance.
yes, but you don't die from the voltage or the current, they are only factors leading to the amperage that will kill you. V=IR correct? and amperage is measured out of the current. therefore we cannot determine amperage until we know the voltage and current, voltage and resistance, or resistance and current.
Amperage and current are the same thing. Amps are just units of current. But yes, in the end it's the current that kills. Considering how that current is generated introduces a whole new set of variables, including body resistance and source voltage. It should also be said that lethality is also a function of where the current is flowing in your body.
They were spraying water way too close to those high voltage lines (the highest wires on the pole) for my comfort. With voltages that high, I believe 7200 volts and perhaps 14,400 volts or more, is by far very dangerous and potentially deadly. A good video, had it been me, I'd like to have included a close up to it when safe to do so.
Right, but higher volts will make the current travel so much easier by overcoming the resistance in our electrically intolerant bodies. What is it, 8 milliamps will kill you? I don't exactly remember. There's quite a difference between a doorbell shock and a highwire one, that's why they're up high.
Goes to show the fuses up in those "cutouts" at the top of the pole they are trying to pull open aren't really for protection of whats "after" the transformers, although you can see one did blow open. You can also see wires on the secondary side of the transformer moving around from the high current going through them every time the burned ends touch... Spectacular video though!
Interesting video, thanks. I don't know how much they pay those linesmen who have to deal with horrific hellbeast things like that, but whatever amount it is, it's not enough.
awesome video! the brave man who whent up and pulled the breaker... Sounds like all in the background knows whats going on too. dont spray that water up to high now
So who was the jackass that ran into the pole to start all this lol !
farmall1938 1 month ago
Someone get a bucket of water LOL!!!
bishlives 1 month ago in playlist Arcs and explosions
what is a powerline pole doing in the middle of the alley?
snk9045 2 months ago
Great video, even though I have a MSc , science degree I still dont understand electricity. Yes, I could answer a tough exam paper on the subject, but it still amazes me that spinning magnets in a generator can provide such force !
train672 6 months ago
if red touches yellow - you're a dead fellow.... if red touches black - you're ok jack...... was that for snake wiring or for venomous snakes..... dang, wish I remembered my electrical training before wiring this.....lol
scottyfixit 11 months ago
@scottyfixit Red is positive. Black is negative. Yellow or orange is deadly, so you will need to avoid the latters. :/
JerryGiesler09 6 months ago
sounds like my old 2 stroke statring up in the cold
WavyGravyTrain1 11 months ago
So to clear up some speculative comments made already.
As some have mentioned that is most likely a 120/208V Three Phase Bank.
It is being fed on the HIGH side by something most likely between 4160V and 7400V
The conductors coming from the transformers down the pole in the conduit are the LOW side, 120V phase to ground or 208V phase to phase.
The lineman finally opens the "doors" or fused disconnects which cut off power to the transformer bank.
liquidst07 11 months ago
@liquidst07 I would agree it's 120/208 because if it were 277/480 the pops would be BLAMS and BOOMS instead.
Nivicoman 6 months ago
water.
LINKdrkguy 1 year ago
@LINKdrkguy You aply water and you become part of the popping action
tooooli25lol 7 months ago
@tooooli25lol i always wanted to be a pop star
LINKdrkguy 7 months ago
copper seems to act the same a sgunpowder in firecrackers
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Poor stressed out transformers!
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Great video. But ashame that happended. Oh well. Not the stores fault. It's the electric company's pole.
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great video, that is amazing^^
Williampentium133 1 year ago
its got kibd of a beat to it
superBrando555 1 year ago
popcorn? Lol jk ^^
Ryukushinn 1 year ago
those arn't "fuses" they're knife switches
jacktheripped 1 year ago
@jacktheripped No, those are called "fused disconnects". There is a "barrel fuse" inside that switch, so it serves two purposes, a fuse and a switch.
I used to be an infrared inspector and did a lot of electrical inspection on stuff like this. In fact, an IR inspection would have probably avoided such problem by detecting it before it got that bad. I've spotted countless hot spots and prevented countless scenes like this because they can fix them before it arcs out.
TheMrBlinx 1 year ago
geez, what exactly was popping? was it the wires inside the conduit or something?
coolboarder44 1 year ago
Thank you, no pointless video effects or distracting, blaring music.
IstasPumaNevada 1 year ago 2
My first idea is,to drive the car away from the fire.What is,when the electrical-tower fall of the Car? (sorry,my english is horrible)
Macgyver174 1 year ago 3
i take it there was a power cut to the building when it was on fire...
windowsXPrules 1 year ago
FireWorks/Crackers
XInuYashaXCA 1 year ago
MMMM, popcorn.
Broadcastbuddy2 1 year ago
why nobody call FD?
BJD1995 1 year ago
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dominoexp100 1 year ago
@BJD1995 there there we gotta wait till the power co shuts off the power b4 we put the fire out and in most cases when the power is turned off the fire goes out
nyfdRIP 1 year ago
@nyfdRIP Thanks
BJD1995 1 year ago
@BJD1995 and we gotta stay back when there working ive seen them arc 10-15 feet away
nyfdRIP 1 year ago
@BJD1995 cant call fire depo cause its electricity
CIAAGENT100 1 year ago
it sounds like FARTS LOL
JohnnyMidnight1 2 years ago 2
they used to call me popcorn....
jshurd 1 year ago
nice show it seems the pipes carieing the power lines underground to the shops or what ever is blown away
ljmike1204 2 years ago
get the hose!
dabuddha669 2 years ago
no turnout ger, helmets or gloves. OSHA would love to see this
fireguye4 2 years ago
nice ppe on the fd personell
bed928 2 years ago
Oh and its likely that a car hit the metal casing surrounding the insulated line, I bet the driver took off in a hurry. And on second look that is a secondary 240 line...I guess a 10,000 volt line would have made a much bigger show!
MXSLICK 2 years ago
that is about 10,000 volts sir
stiffman320 2 years ago
Oh, a further update, look at the pole and listen at 2:20-2:25. You can hear a bang, but not just a bang. It's like the pole is saying "Let it go!"
JerryGiesler09 2 years ago
wow
bnsftim 2 years ago
that's what you get for running high voltage wires underground...that shits meant to be kept up high, only the 220 serviced line should be kept underground but thanks to new regulations this volatile high voltage is being run underground everywhere
MXSLICK 2 years ago
What are you talking about. That is just the secondary service off the overhead bank that is shorting out. The primary is overhead as can clearly be seen in the video.
drnack 2 years ago 2
@ MXSLICK: that's common here in the Netherlands... the highest voltage underground is (if I'm right) about 40.000 Volts: above that it goes above ground, the 'lowest' power line voltage is 110 kV, the highest 380 kV
weeardguy 2 years ago
In Ontario, Canada, most high voltage underground cable is kept in newer communities (subdivisions) where it has been pre-planned by the electrical authority and the housing planners...usually it spans shorter distances, following the roadway. Our transmission lines are 250kv and 500 kv that run cross-province from the coal/nuclear or hydro station, secondary transmission lines are usually half of what the main transmission lines are.
MXSLICK 2 years ago
All power lines should be put underground, to reduce the chance of power outages during many disasters, such as ice storms, blizzards, hurricanes, and severe thunderstorms.
triton115 2 years ago
High voltage wires above ground is less likely to be struck by lighting than under ground wires. Due to the ground wire above the wire that sheds the strike to the ground. Plus under ground takes 4 times as long to repair.
kac65 2 years ago
But when ice storms hit, no line stands a chance as simply the weight of the ice itself will snap power lines like strings and even send the big iron frame towers crashing to the ground as if they were paper. And that leaves people shivering and freezing in their homes for days, weeks, and even a couple months. At least in high latitudes where snow and ice is common, all power lines should be placed under ground.
triton115 2 years ago
yeah, here in Germany, underground wiring works pretty well... Even while the worst (lightning-)storms in the past ten years, we always had electricity!
Helpmefly 1 year ago
@Helpmefly Yeah, i don't know why they have to build the lines in the free air in other countries...
Chrissib1989 1 year ago
The line that was on fire at most was 277/480 volts. More than likely it was a 120/208 three phase. Plus there is nothing wrong with putting high voltage under ground.
kac65 2 years ago
@kac65 I imagine that it was 120/208 because 480/277 produces some wicked arc blasts and these were fairly mild snap crackle pop sputter, not KABLAM!
Nivicoman 1 year ago
why the fuck did the fire department use water on an electrical fire? dont answer that, the electricman turned off the power but still
kidboyman11 2 years ago
At 0:17-0:22, it sounds a lot like a Harley Davidson. At 0:22-0:26 it definitely sounds like someone hane been beating on a drum. Look closely, at 2:41, and you can see that the explosion blew out the metal pipe that protect the power cords. The guy on the bucket crane is using the utility pole to cut out the electricity from the rest of the power lines.
JerryGiesler09 2 years ago
I thought it sounded like a van-halen song....just j/king...I work in a close industry...blows me away..electrical power is left up to the experts.
jerichomyles 2 years ago
sounds like iraq
xrangerx 2 years ago 4
We don't use firecrackers for wires, we have copper in ours !!!!!
Bridport6705 2 years ago 17
i gues the bangs and pops are the electricity arcing. like when a large capacitor discharges.
sargeantneo 2 years ago 2
sounds like my water bong
creecore93 2 years ago
Yeah, the effect is gunna be the same too, fried braincells.
ozzirt 2 years ago
Sounds just Like Popcorn in the Microwave.
form109 2 years ago 3
Haha. OMG. This exact same thing happened to the power line above my house. Yup, that's definitely the noise it makes.
kzalldaz 2 years ago
This is one time I'm glad not be a high voltage Lineman. Much respect to that lineman.
kac65 2 years ago
- @ kac65 -
Totally agree. Though they make the job look easy to most of us, there's a lot of training involved and still that doesn't make up for the big risk of what they do.
We wouldn't be where we are today if there weren't people like that to help keep things going.
pmgodfrey 2 years ago
the wires in the conduet shorted in the secondary wiring side
bigbarge1 2 years ago
sweet, it sounds like a harley- davidson before he moves the truck
bassboy923 2 years ago
00:2 is a fuse bang.
Anthony96922 3 years ago
O.0 why the fuck...
did nobody thought about shutting this down...
Menat666 3 years ago
Yea sure... someone is stupid enough to touch a live wire, while its on fire, and the wires are faulty!! That is a comment you could expect from a person who knows nothing about fire or electricity.
CCFRPUMPER111 2 years ago
@Menat666 Uh they did towards the end of the video, try watching the entire video before making stupid comments.
gailgrove 7 months ago
@gailgrove THAT WAS TOO LATE!
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Menat666 7 months ago
Of all the types of fires possible, electrical fires scare me by far the most. I'm amazed at how calm the people are in putting it out.
Zeratul3478 3 years ago
wow.
brownp15 3 years ago
THIS IS SO COOL!
EARL131141 3 years ago 2
LOL FARTS
whelensucks 3 years ago
Fuck...
burem6 3 years ago
i love it how the guy with the electrical co. doesnt move or flinch or anything when it pops.. hes like meh.. another day on the job
lowrider5140 3 years ago 17
yeah ..he's a good distance from it, and has no doubt seen it before...this video should be called "when 3 phase goes bad"
brownp15 3 years ago
@lowrider5140 prob saw you video filming and it's not his job to watch, his problem is to deal with the situation ;)
jacktheripped 1 year ago
bahha... who needs fireworks.. im comin here 4th of july
lowrider5140 3 years ago
Is there a woman saying "good job", sitting at a safe distance?
bjoggvar 3 years ago
Who wants burnt popcorn? (lol)!!!!!
watchingme215 3 years ago
OMG. In germany we have transformator houses.
our transformators aren't hanging around on a pole so that cars could hit the cabels and damage it.
the fire didn't start because of a transformator fault.
i think there was an idiot who hit the cables with a car.
DONsyco985 3 years ago
hallo, ich bin ein elektriker und lebt in Kanada. Sie sind weniger overhead-transformator-analagen, Yetz lieber die U-methode.
etherialcruiser 3 years ago
This is wicked cool.
clintonneal1 3 years ago
why he don't use the water immediately? :D
PianoVlog 3 years ago
because he's working with tens of thousands of volts
RideTTD2003 3 years ago
is JOKE :-s
PianoVlog 3 years ago
cool
kittools 3 years ago
The first explosions sound like nasty farts in a hollow room.
MilesPrower88 3 years ago 3
thats because they were
rgsgww 3 years ago
Aw, now whose been gluing firecrackers to the electrical poles again?
ethen24 3 years ago 3
crazy yanks putting your transformers on wooden poles an the likes lmao
hipnipslamblegs 3 years ago
its the fourth of july all over again!
weipeiwu2000 3 years ago 2
it's funny how they were laughing at the guy moving the truck back.
tourettesguy301 3 years ago 2
Why is the fuse not tripping?
wbpd548 3 years ago
Well, if the sparks aren't using enough current to trip the fuses, they simply ain't going. My guess is that the pole has some slow blowing fuses and the sparks don't last long enough to trip them.
BarneySaysHi 3 years ago
dont hire master pilot
candjwils 3 years ago
may sound like fire crackers, but that truck backed off for a reason...
bassbone1785 3 years ago
great video!
DonnyG77 3 years ago
Damn good video. Have not seen a firework display like that in quite a while.
ganeshkali 3 years ago
masterpilot don't have a clue whats goin on! The secondary conductors were damaged and were shorting together plain and simple. I agree with joetoorivers 110%
REWYRED 3 years ago
holy shit thats fucken sweet
technoterminator 3 years ago
wow thats cool!
tourettesguy301 3 years ago
Don't call MasterPilot, he don't know diddley about this scene.
joetoorivers 4 years ago
Yeah, totally agree, electrics aint as simple as two wires, one positive, one neg.
bassbone1785 3 years ago
fireworks 101!!!
thebestofall007 4 years ago
I think the ground wire was the one giving the path to the current that came down from the high voltage wires to the ground wires.
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Masterpilot1988 4 years ago
isnt just only 12v? lol
limpbizkitkorn 4 years ago
Actually, it's more likely to be 8 to 16KV.
(KV = 1000 V)
acronus 4 years ago
Burn itself clear? in 10 minutes WTF!
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kanunisultan54 4 years ago
that must be really really dangerous when stuff like this happens thats messed up!!
bstep13 4 years ago
this is why i love being a lineman...
AMG731 4 years ago
Why? Because you love fireworks?
everyonehasaidsok 4 years ago
fireworks are cool but no.
its because u get calls like this one 24/7 in all types of weather possible, and every day is a little bit different
AMG731 4 years ago
Why is it that people who know absolutely nothing about electrical power, post silly comments?
elkangorito 4 years ago
a short in the ground may have started the arcing.
hdyudu 4 years ago
More than likely a vehicle backed into the pole damaging the insulation on the conductors. Some of the comments on here are out of this world. I thought I had heard them all after 35 years as a lineman. I think they have a farm where they raise them.
joetoorivers 4 years ago 2
i agrea.
hdyudu 4 years ago
That power company guy didn't even flinch!
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he must of see cases like the befor that why
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nescalinnn 4 years ago
cut the power
railfreak99 4 years ago
its the transformer see when the guy used that pole to open those things, those cut power to transformer
rgsgww 4 years ago
It sounds like popcorn!
I was waiting for the pole to just simply topple over!
Bowler4Ever 4 years ago
sometimes wen i fart it sounds like that :)
NorcoRider104 4 years ago
the audio is just phenominal. That courtyard enhances the sound, it's just awesome.
Mattersmatter 4 years ago
Was this a training scenario? I heard commentary in the BG...
northernstudio 4 years ago
yo, are you hiding behind garbage cans, man?
davey11222000 4 years ago
Kind of sounds like a shooting range.
enigma800 4 years ago
lol firewire! :) to mutch movie downloads i guess.
37474748 4 years ago 2
goood job .. hahaha hehehe idiots ... but the felvétel nem rossz
lemaquinista 4 years ago
sounds like pop corn
killaclown187 4 years ago
haha I agree, probably they were!
calvinyuenblinke 4 years ago
fireworks lol
LegendKiller035 4 years ago
wat a waste of electricity eh?
xxjunkyxx 4 years ago
I seen the same thing once but the transformer blew up like a giant bomb, since they are filled with oil that are supposed to cool it down. If you notice, the firemen and woman don't use a full stream of water so there isn't much risk of elecrocution. Besides during a heavy down pour have you seen wires arc from the water.
jsnasselin 4 years ago
and firemans using water? On electric wires? Brave. I know, that was turned off before, but still thats somethink I never think to do :) You never know... :))
HanzPrague 4 years ago
Wau, never see nothink like that before.
HanzPrague 4 years ago
sounds like firecrakers.
doostoos1 4 years ago
HAPPY 4TH OF July
pikky16 4 years ago
a person dies off 0.003 amps..
haraldves 4 years ago
Looks like he's touching it with I giant dildo O.o
98837 4 years ago
Fireworks!!! o.o
KyutoJohasu 4 years ago
what a cool video though, i dont think id be standing that close
CodyO19 4 years ago
its definitely the amps that kill you, amps are current, the more current the more damage.. it takes one tenth of an amp to kill a human, Compton is right in that the higher the voltage the easier the path for the current,, like a larger hose spraying water..
CodyO19 4 years ago
Yeah, it really is the Wattage that kills, both high voltage AND high current. Current = Voltage divided by resistance, so Voltage is the determining factor. But yikes...this video is a little scary. I wonder if it was the high voltage lines or the low secondary lines that were arcing.
ct92404 4 years ago
actually it is amperage that kills. a person can die on as little as 0.5 of an amp. haraldves below is a little bit off, but he has the right idea. wattage is another variable of current and amperage. so wattage CAN kill, but it depends on the AMPERAGE that goes into it.
JJGeneral1 4 years ago
Yeah, but at a low voltage you won't even have 0.5 Amps of current flow. The human body can have a resistance of as much as 500,000 Ohms (with dry hands). For instance, a rechargeable 6 volt lantern battery may be capable of supplying several amps...but obviously 6 volts isn't going to kill you because there is NOT enough voltage to overcome the resistance. Amperage is not an independant value...it depends on VOLTAGE and RESISTANCE.
ct92404 4 years ago
You can have 1 V and 500 A... It is the amps that kills you. And the human body can't have a resistance of 500,000 ohms, the human body have a resistance of 10.000 ohm with wet hands.
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Dalselv1 4 years ago
This discussion is getting a little old now. Amperage is a DEPENDANT variable, it depends on voltage and resistance. You can NOT have amperage without voltage. 1V won't even overcome the resistance. But 500v at 1 amp would be disasterous. Everything is rated in VOLTAGE because it is the determining factor. And I think I've said all I'm going to say about this.
ct92404 4 years ago
Ok... If you think you know better. Go home and read and study to me an electrican just like me. THEN we can have this discussion. And it also depends on what kind of net-type you have. I don't know how it is in USA but in Norway it's depends of that.
Dalselv1 4 years ago
...oh, and hand to hand resistance (with wet hands) is more like 1,000 Ohms. Look it up. Using your 1 volt as an example, that would only give a current flow of 1 milliamp.
ct92404 4 years ago
...Think about it. We don't measure anything in amperage until there is a LOAD. The outlets in your house are measured in voltage because that is the determining factor. We say an outlet is 120 VOLTS...not "X AMPS." You don't even know how much amperage will flow until you know the voltage and a given resistance.
ct92404 4 years ago
yes, but you don't die from the voltage or the current, they are only factors leading to the amperage that will kill you. V=IR correct? and amperage is measured out of the current. therefore we cannot determine amperage until we know the voltage and current, voltage and resistance, or resistance and current.
JJGeneral1 4 years ago
Amperage and current are the same thing. Amps are just units of current. But yes, in the end it's the current that kills. Considering how that current is generated introduces a whole new set of variables, including body resistance and source voltage. It should also be said that lethality is also a function of where the current is flowing in your body.
byetis 4 years ago
The amperage is the deadly part, only a small amount 0.003 can kill - instantly
JagLover346 4 years ago
The guy in the truck almost didnt even notice lol. He was like, "Well, another damn box exploded." -Steve
bassman094 4 years ago
exactly what i was thinking, steve. lol!
dwarfer777 4 years ago
At 6:18, what appears in the sky on the right side and instantly flies off to the right? Bird, UFO, blip in film?
JonasClark 4 years ago
Bird maybe? Or a flie close to the lense of the camera (excuse my bad english).
bendejonge 4 years ago
supprized the transformers didnt pop. dangerous stuff
bradmann85 4 years ago
Ok, who's the bozo who backed into the pole? LOL
greyegle 4 years ago
They were spraying water way too close to those high voltage lines (the highest wires on the pole) for my comfort. With voltages that high, I believe 7200 volts and perhaps 14,400 volts or more, is by far very dangerous and potentially deadly. A good video, had it been me, I'd like to have included a close up to it when safe to do so.
compton3c 5 years ago
i dont think its the volts that kill you, i think its the amps
theblujuggalo 4 years ago
Right, but higher volts will make the current travel so much easier by overcoming the resistance in our electrically intolerant bodies. What is it, 8 milliamps will kill you? I don't exactly remember. There's quite a difference between a doorbell shock and a highwire one, that's why they're up high.
compton3c 4 years ago
Goes to show the fuses up in those "cutouts" at the top of the pole they are trying to pull open aren't really for protection of whats "after" the transformers, although you can see one did blow open. You can also see wires on the secondary side of the transformer moving around from the high current going through them every time the burned ends touch... Spectacular video though!
REWYRED 5 years ago
You can even see a piece of shrapnel being propelled away at 2:41... guess it isolation or something.
bendejonge 4 years ago
FUCKIN COOL
WormInfestedSoldier 5 years ago
it looks like it arcing from the primary to the secondarys..dagerous
gndzroirnwkr 5 years ago
Electricity is the work of the devil..I should know, been an electrician for eighteen years now.
captcrack 5 years ago
haha that's funny.
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compton3c 4 years ago
Interesting video, thanks. I don't know how much they pay those linesmen who have to deal with horrific hellbeast things like that, but whatever amount it is, it's not enough.
schmuckfeatures 5 years ago
tell me bout it, i earn £9000 a year as an apprentice, gee i need a payrise!!!
littledarksideno1 5 years ago
awesome video! the brave man who whent up and pulled the breaker... Sounds like all in the background knows whats going on too. dont spray that water up to high now
mikeandtiff 5 years ago
It sounds like farting!
Pippi444 5 years ago
Haha, yeah, like really bad gas