Snow substation

[Pinkrearea234]

do the fans run on this transformer or no?

[LINEHACKER]

kewl

[wonka12321]

I´m surprised that this equipement is situated on open area outdoors. The snow especialy when is wet or it is melting may cause a problem. And walk around it with distance as small as here could be dangerous or at least uncomfortable. You feel the voltage on your skin, your hairs stand up!

[vprincessfan12]

ooooooh thats scary!

[train52000]

At least the snow is keeping things cooled down. lol

[rojblake82]

The electric buzzing in the substation, sounds to me like the Cyberemns voices in the sixties stories very electronic and menacing.

[jorgen180]

Well you surely don't need any of those fans rollin' there... ;)

[fatcow2323]

Those cooling fans are working to hard!

[HoneycombAgent]

What the heck's with those large blower fans?

[mpowellmpowellmpowel]

Wow! How many volts? How many Amps?

[danm3gtr]

this is what i use for powering up my computer =))

[Hunterc1525]

Creapy

[Haffschlappe]

Looks like something from Star Wars on ice planet Hoth...

[typo368]

wouldnt over heat i guess::)))

[iLikeCookiezToo]

i would never go close of these o.O

[hitachi088]

i am surprise the camera still work with that much electricity in the air ...

[DiachiLaser]

Does that guage say 40A on the HV side!?

[hvguy]

no risk of transformers overheating lol

[muscle423]

what happen if you touch the metal pole base on an isolator

[bonzo874]

i would have thought it would have melted off the transformers at least

[FelixTheHouseFreak]

Well atleast its keeping cool.

[davideixidixi]

among them 5 minutes and turn on the lights with his mouth

[tetramoo]

eerie n scary n sinister!

[tall32guy]

@tetramoo What is so scary about high voltage electric buzzing?

[FreonRose]

lol how do you get a job like that?

[dimidrol69]

@FreonRose Nice job! I like it! Yes, when the winter then little bit dangerously..

[systemAddress]

i wouldn't be standing that close in the snow when its live :O

[pyroaudio1]

Even if that was wet snow all around him the impedance and conductivity of the snow would depend on the purity of the snow because water does not conduct electricity the impurities in the water conduct electricity such as sodium or iron. He would probably be pretty safe. i have been to a substation similar to that one and the creepiest thing about is that as soon as you walk near the high voltage input lines you hair stands up and pulls towards the lines.

[tomahawkseven]

Creepy sound. Cool Vid. Daring!

[antwasere]

wtf??? what happend??? did i miss it???

[cutterschoicenotmine]

nothing to see here folks.

[carmenlee87]

I wouldent want to be there in a sudden white out

[Engineer9736]

Snow is a good conductor for high voltage stuff i think.. Besides he has some balls to walk there, he's also not very smart.

But the transformer looks very cool, could be straight from a horror movie!

[GlennnD]

you got some balls to walk between those tranny's man !

[GrossmeisterB2212]

That transformer is idling, if there would be some load on it, there wouldn't be any snow or ice on it, they produce a quite large amount of heat...

[03vicBlack]

still a bad spot to be standing haha.

[redsquirrelftw]

I would hate having the job to shovel all the sno off. :o By the sound of the steps it's wet snow too.

[VideyoJunkei]

I see cooling the transformer is not a problem :*)

[larrysupersport]

Creepy, I love it.

[sasho54]

So the second stage of the cooling is not intended to work :)

[grr194302727385]

0:00 angry/disgusted face on mid right

1:18 smily face dead ahead

[pilopiloCH]

ahahah..... how many times have you seen this vid?

[grr194302727385]

Just once. What can I say, I got a gift lol

[nwekuy]

1:23 ghostbusters ;p

[sasho54]

Oh, yes! But the first face has three eyes actually :)

[r4Bit]

OMG! All the 90 seconds I've been waiting for the giant spark discharge through this guy leaving only a pair of smoking shoes...

[rzkesp]

o.o Russians love doing crazy things.

I would NOT get in there at that time. I have seen so many videos from Russians pertaining to power distributions.

They are as follows:

1.) Throwing sticks into high voltage distro lines.

2.) Trying to induce arcing.

3.) Standing on a substation coated in ice and snow where you could create one hell of a path for current to travel. -_-

Come on guys. Safety first.

Never get that close to live equipment. :(

I am sure he is professional. But still...

[TehMG]

Water in the frozen state (aka snow and ice) is not a good conductor of electricity.

[rzkesp]

Liquid will always form on the surface. I know it isn't laminar or anything, but still... risks are risks.

[jtho53]

You gotta be nutz for going in there.

[jamespetts2]

That is an extremely stupid thing to do.

[DJGahann]

Nice video, but, what were you doing there??? ;-)

[fullrangechris]

that would be a sketchy place to be right bout now..

[animallover017]

you'd never catch me dead in there!! I am scared shitless of electricity! Even plugging something in is scarey for me! LOL Ive bee whacked before and it HURTS

[Pasqualmie]

Nice video Dimitri. Be careful .

[J0Boa]

nice station

[dimidrol69]

Yes. It's a working equipment. Still have power!

[mainelyelectric]

some day i want to build a sub station underground 100ft down on my land for my solar and wind power

[FreonRose]

@dimidrol69 how do you get a job like that?

[brandenp96]

did they still have power???

[bestcleaningwasher]

Oh my. I never would be here!

[dimidrol69]

Yes.. Current go through resistance quite easily. But we have grounding and current will go through it (at it less resistance). And still - snow very bad leads a current as well as ice.

[NamelessTurtle]

Creeps me the the hell out when you crawl up close to it. So much power.

[dimidrol69]

You speak the truth, but to stand in the middle of a HV equipment - it's my work. Don't worry.. The emergency site will be disconnected quickly.

[boxa888]

wouldnt it travel to the metal before it travels to your body?? theoretcally it would right, but then again i know high voltages go through resistance quite easily so i guess you could be a target. cool video by the way!

[fireball01e]

I think its a stupid idea to stand in the middle of a HV substation, with a video camera (or any electrical item). If there was a sudden earthing fail and if the protection switching system does not work (could happen, it is a mechanical part and the substation is frozen over, so it could fail), if it did you are the closest thing to ground and the pylon dont care how it decides to dispurse that energy ie your head and your soon to be BBQ feet!

[soundseeker63]

At least there is no daneger of it overheating! Although it did sound a bit rough, what was making that rattling/grinding noise?

[shaknoos]

Wow!!!!!!!!!!! interesting substation but I think it work in this circumstances not for along time, it will be explode so be careful when you photo this substation...

[animebsd]

sounds like 50 hert powrer

[dimidrol69]

Yea.. I every day tongue this iron neighbours.

[crywolfe210]

Lick it!!!! Would your tongue stick?

[Rocroi1643]

You're surrounded by very nice neighbours.

[dimidrol69]

Scary.. I'm not crazy. But I know admissible distances to wires. It's safe.

[PLCJockey]

Maybe, but if you get a fault to ground, you better hope your protection trips the line in a tenth of a second and there are no recloses, because if your 2 feet are not on level ground, It's pan-fried camera-man for you.

[c64kid]

Isn't it scary getting that close to something that can kill you so easily?

[computersmasher]

spooky

[dimidrol69]

Thanks! It's a dilator. It is necessary for temperature indemnification of volume (capacity) of oil (when the environment temperature varies).

[voltairesfire]

Cool video. Whats that big tank for above the ladder? You can see it at 50 seconds into the video.

[dimidrol69]

Interesting! What is the M.A.D?

[RODALCO2007]

Good clip. I work in substations too but we have no snow in Auckland, New Zealand.

It is reasonably safe anyway to take the shots as long as you maintain your M.A.D's.

The sub. will have a good earth grid as well to keep all steel equipment at equipotential.

[AceHard750mm]

Отпад! А не опасно было снимать?

[dimidrol69]

Нет. Каждую смену ходишь по этим тропам. Допустимое расстояние до линий выдерживается.

[dimidrol69]

Will not help. For this purpose it's necessary to deduce transformers in repair. In the winter it's difficult for making.

[Sahalaita]

You really took my comment seriously? Some people just don´t have any sense of humour...

[dimidrol69]

The sense of humour is present. Only it all people a miscellaneous.

[Sahalaita]

Looks like a great place to make a snowman. :D How about putting a guy over there with a brush to get the snow off? ;)

[killer1479]

naturally aspirated cooling at its best :P

great vid bud, thnx for sharing

[GibsonFella]

Whoever filmed this has balls, dude.

[Masamuneblade7]

Lol. Yeah if i got tossed into a place like that in the wintertime with a camera, i wouldnt bother trying to save the shot very well... I prolly would take the shot, chuck the camera over the fence, and dash outta there as quick as possible. I aint a retard, Ive messed with 17 kilovolts of electricity before and i know what it can do, i certainly wouldnt hang around wet equipment storing over 160 kilovolts of electricity in each wire. o.O

[dimidrol69]

In northern part of Russia.

[joeylawn36111]

Where is this?

[dimidrol69]

I'm cautious. Simply such happens every winter. Mmm.. I don't know what is the brown stain!

[Valonaren]

you should be more careful! but it's awesome.

[dwarfer777]

i'd shit my pants standing there

[PimpmyPumpe]

I don`t see any brown stain!

[metabog]

Wow looks like something out of a bleak post-apocalyptic sci-fi story.

[ph11p3540]

You are both right in a way. If the transformers have a lot of dust and grime on them the melt will conduct. If everything is clean snow is very much like distilled water and conducts poorly. Tap water may or may not conduct depending on its mineral content.

[dimidrol69]

Snow a bad conductor of electricity.

[sm0k3ymcl3ud]

no offense but i would not be hanging around there in the snow, water conducts electricity, frozen or not...