Failed test at a power station.

[skibum5613]

press 2 to blow something up...

[Zirok1982]

Just connected my computer to an amplifier, sounds fantastic!

[scotshiers]

Looks like they had feeder line grounded to do work de-energized. The line apparently became energized before they removed station grounds ??

[tall32guy]

I see this video here and there but it always says "failed power station test" or something like that. It never says WHAT the test was called or what it was for. LOL

[LordZacknafien]

JESUS!!...I wouldent wanna be HIT with that shit because I would fucken Be COOKED!! O.O()

[Guedestiago]

adoro quando as coisas fazem cabrum!!!!

[GeneralPurposeVehicl]

PhotonicInduction: Who thought it was a good idea to plug the wire into the earth?

Worker: Me. What happened?

PhotonicInduction: You popped it!

[xyanide1986]

Best enjoyed by pressing and holding 2 on your keyboard, then release after a few seconds.

[TheRandomAsian899]

LOLOL FAIL!

[SittingMooseShaman]

@lemonrind...no-oo-oo shit!!! I luvs this stuffs!!!

[PPGCSuicide]

Boah hab ich mich erschrocken :-/

[midnightfapper]

KA-BLOOOEY

[wilmon515]

it gave the car an orgy :P

[GTvlogOFFICIAL]

that would be funny if the Energizer bunny went by

[MrStemkilla]

hold down 2 for boom remix

[originalusernamefail]

@MrStemkilla

Ha ha, win, thanks for the lulz

[sbuba90]

PRESS 2 FOR BOOM!!!! :4

[Corey497]

D0:00 IT AGAIN !!!

[macedoadonias1]

Graças a Deus não tinha nem profissional da area Elétrica fazendo manutenção na subestação na Hora que deu o estouro.

[15sdobbie]

Ha ha creased.

[smellycatpoop]

Now do the other side!

[jorgefc]

press 2 over and over

[jdallen75]

If you listen closely, you can hear the operator shit his pants!

[Riot454di]

Nice video. Short, well titled and to the point.

[pmgodfrey]

Bang, boom, ding, hiss, honk, honk, honk, honk.

[KG84C]

Who installed Vista ????

[mrtristan2012]

Below XD

[Eaglebird]

Just keep pressing 2 while the video is in focus.

[NeoLuckyDog]

Yeah......it works! It goes boom!

[mrtristan2012]

Epic :3

[Keijz74]

That must smell like welding

[clocktwibright]

Someone is trying to steal a car in the background...

[babecat2000]

Oops my bad and walks away quickly.

[TheNoisePolluter]

Test: Make electrical explosion and set car alarm off.

Success: Yes

[SmashCOBamberg]

lol sounds like a car alarm

[sp5sjt]

Ładnie dupło :D Aż okoliczne auta ze strachu się popłakały :))

[chris40539]

how could the explosion set off the car alarm?

[weeardguy]

@chris40539 It could very well be the very big electromagnetic field that occured by the short that set off the car alarm: and besides that: if the sound of a lightningstrike can set it off, this also can.

[tgi007]

@chris40539 The shock wave emitted from the explosion's center will act precisely the same as the car being struck by an object. Many (not all) car alarms are motion-sensitive, so an "impact" with the vehicle's body triggers the alarm. The motion sensor in the car cannot discern between an object's impact with the car and an explosive shock wave hitting the car. A shock wave will produce a more uniform, widespread "push" against the vehicle's skin, whereas an object impact would be concentrated.

[Smokyhead]

Fucking nice Cracker :D where can i buy it.??? need it for 31th Dezember :D

[KTfelz]

what the fuck test were they trying to do

did some one just energise an earthed situation??

[GAMERX901]

wow i farted when that happend NO JOKE

[mpowellmpowellmpowel]

Oops! Didn't press the red button..

[superxgman]

pa booooom honk honk honk that makes me happy

[chris40539]

what alarm was that?

[Smokyhead]

@chris40539 caralarm? :D

[vacazul]

Fuck yeah!!

[rojblake82]

I would not go near electricity like that which exploded, it is dangerous and if people are daft enough to go near it they will get a fatal shock and end up dead and fried to toast.

[Nighthawke70]

At least the fuses did what they were supposed to do.

[nikia320]

haha press F13!

thumb up if you looked

[petyapunisher]

Grounded the phase line under charge .... or what ?

[FloX795]

BOOM -> * TuuT* * TuuT * *Tuut * * Tuut *

[KG84C]

Ok, who installed Vista ?????

[DjSzemteXx]

@KG84C :DDDD

[seatboi]

KA_*B*L*A*M*!!! LOL...I think it's interesting how the wires jump...On my 1st car when I was a kid, the main pos. cable had internally corroded off the battery terminal, but there was still a thinner one connected & when you'd try to start the car, as the engine SLOWLY cranked, the wire would jump up & down & start to fry & smoke. I was only 16 @ the time & didn't know that much yet, so it took me a while to find the broken cable! I wonder, though, what makes the wires jump? The amperage? or????

[fluxcompression37]

@seatboi It's the magnetic field created by the large amount of current flowing through the wire

[thepigeonsmustdie]

@seatboi and then the wire attacts to the steel of the car, making it jump. It can also be attracted/repelled by any other wire carrying current.

[RichardLaurenceJohn]

they have left earth leads connected and then turned on the power, they fucked up

[thepigeonsmustdie]

@RichardLaurenceJohn That would've scared the shit out of them :) And they were filming it and everything :)

[MrKraftwerk1]

BOOM!!!! CRASH!!!!! (window breaking) beep beep beep cluclu!

[aloisbembel]

This reminds me of another failed test at a power station on April 26th 1986

[EMaster9]

That reminds me of this one time my cousin got hold of some dynamite..

[FACP07]

at 0:03 on the left :

Isn't it great knowing that our fire supression systems are operational and could put out a full-blown fire? 

[ricturtle]

So who let the smoke out??

[CelineMaster]

First: this are only 69 or 72,5 kV top voltage on the subestation coz the dimenssion of isolators (2 unit of 45 kv each)

second, the people intentionaly put a bus bar in order to shortcircuit the phases

third: the people konw that the cables will be submit at high current coz are tigh each and other to a pole of aisolator.

It´s looks more like a ground connector test.

[WhiskasIII]

KA-BOOOOOM! cheers mate! *gulp gulp*

[FACP07]

@WhiskasIII Tf2 refrence FTW!

[MrPennoa]

I dont get it, what happened?

[lemonrind]

That's not a failure, it is a success. It succeeded in entertaining me.

[Gacproduction]

I abused that play button.

[0nLyCh4oS]

@Gacproduction i abused the 2 button =P

[ignatiusdemonseed]

Looks like they energized a circuit while the grounds were still attached. Not a good thing to do.

[elpapi334]

@ignatiusdemonseed that's what it seemed to me

[xazoulini1]

well that means the power explotion is much more powerfull than ordinary explosives?

[DjCincinnatus]

looks like the one line to the left was over loaded compared to the other two and it vaporized the wire at the crimp down the bottom of the screen and vaporized the top half of the wire.

[bassboy923]

i love the car alarm...

[metermatch]

Good training video on why you get everyone, including the mechanics, in the clear when testing equipment.

[hiewy]

Alstom transformer from brisbane most likely

[kekedog]

what happened???

[renegades9699]

Now that would just RUIN your sunday afternoon!

[HoneycombAgent]

What Happen? Somebody Set Up Us The #FAIL

[augdog1230]

I have a new found respect for Electrical explosions

[Greendog2525]

fail. well, not a video fail. a substation fail. :D

[TheNatestate]

how did that happen.

[DigiTan000]

"It's all wrong! The explosion was supposed to be bigger!!"

[Loafman57]

haha it even scared the car xD

[SDChick]

For some reason I got Lumburg's voice from Office Space stuck in my head:

"Heeeeeeeeey what's happening? Listen, we're going to have to re-do that test, mmmmmmmmkay? Did you get the TPS reports?"

[Howlthrug]

Snap, crackle, pop.

[Cappeltje]

the reason that the car alarm is working was induce by the field of the jumping high currend wires. the car stands 30 furder. This is a big strong magnetic field power that was working to the alarm of the car.

[No1Mitch]

@Cappeltje Due you will probably find that was the sound waves from the explosion that set the car alrm off.The air displacement in an event like this would probably knock you off your feet.

[koitorob]

@Cappeltje Nah, i reckon it was the sound of the bang. My old RS200 exhaust would sometimes set the alarms off of parked cars when i drove past. It wasn't that loud, but low in frequency. Sounded SWEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!

[Computist40]

ha! nice!

[ljmike1204]

he som one is stealing a car pay atention guys

[55watawata]

The car alarm couldn't have come at a better time

[Shadowpillar]

@55watawata

yeah it was triggered by the blast.

[stalker5801]

this made may day :D

[wilberswilbers]

Textbook success. Let's break for lunch.

[AliasUndercover]

OK, so, that's what we DO NOT want to happen. Good. I'm glad we have that straight.

[tetramoo]

holy fooook!

[physicmad]

"A successful test is one that makes the subject fail"

[asgher786]

i didnt know that car alarms can detect explosions

[AKAtheA]

@asgher786 Almost every time a bomb goes of in a city, the firs thing you hear are car alarms...

[ricturtle]

Looks like the smoke came out of it......

[XboxorMat]

Any pop from an arch as far as I know is a sonic boom created by the expansion of air from being super heated in an instant. I'm no scientist but I do know that plasma is hot and that air expands when heated.

[McKey90]

I don't thing that this was al Car alarm

[GarrettBMXes]

That was loud enough to set off a car alarm!

Awesome!

[cb321o]

Whats happens??? I don't no!!! :D

[petey815]

Like what GearzVoNKod3 said, since it was really freakin loud and booming, don't you think that the shockwave rippling through the car could have set the alarm off?

[cpsuperbrain]

Remember never take a dump on a substation or you could be mugged by fat people and pooed on

[tdrocker99]

odd how this is safe

[sergiudrummer]

cool

[GearzVoNKod3]

Lol the fact that you can hear the BOOM echoing back from some unknown distance indicates that this was many times louder than it sounds in this video (which is still extremely loud...). I've heard the sodium lamps on street poles short out, and the buzzing is loud enough that from 6 blocks away, it sounded like it was right in my face!

[enginecontrol32]

@GearzVoNKod3 lmao wow, a transformer blew behind a house 3 houses down across the street from mine, and when it blew my ears rang and felt like a huge bang from behind my desk , it's a big office desk. xD

[GearzVoNKod3]

I don't think it was the EMP that set off the car alarm... I think it was the loud BOOM that set it off.. you ever been to a fireworks show lonewolfintj?

[enigma800]

@GearzVoNKod3 Exactly! LOUD LOUD LOUD

[XwawawaX344]

Yeah, if it was the EMP the camera would be out too..

[xXxXpatboiXxXx]

@XwawawaX344 the EMP from that wouldnt be powerful enough to destroy the cam

[cooldit1]

hahaha, car alarm!

[FrancoDucati]

porca puttana che botto!

[m22af91]

holy snaps! hope that station wasn't connected to the grid.

[kodiak410a]

Im an electrician too, We're everywhere! AAGGGGHHHHH!

[HAWKstriker2470]

har car went off

[spachergeo]

Our company has done tests like this where the ground conductor just vaporizes. So much fault current and *POOF*. Nothing left but smoke.

[lonewolfintj]

I love how the EMP from this bozo blunder set off a car alarm a block down the street! 100MW of power gushing through forgotten ground straps does tend to do that. Methinks whoever left those ground straps in place got yelled at by his boss.

[BostonUrbEx]

You have no idea what an EMP is, do you? Because an EMP wouldn't be setting of a car alarm. lmao

[lonewolfintj]

@BostonUrbEx : Yes, I know what an electromagnetic pulse is. You clearly do not. Yes, EMPs can and do set off car alarms. A strong enough EMP (such as from an air-burst nuclear weapon) would actually fry car alarms (and all other electronic devices with 100 miles or so). Weak EMPs (such as from ham radios, arc quenches, garage door openers, etc) set off car alarms all the time. They are electronic devices, and respond to electromagnetic fields and pulses.

[F2L4Life]

Epic fail

[MrHAMMO987]

one word , pwned.

[Loco4Locomotives]

That's a set of safety grounds installed and the circuit energized with them still in place.

[mastergx1]

ahh, so thats what caused it - im a domestic spark - i don't get paid to understand the grid!!!

[hungh0]

indeed

[RamonSmit]

Whoops.. i thought it was 224 volts

[c4boom100]

ce-a pocnit :)

[ConanEdogawaX]

Was this filmed in Rialto California, this looks like one that's close to my home. You can see a range of mountains in the corner of the screen and they look exactly like the ones over here.

[RogerEA919]

but what happened exactly and why did it explode?

[dimented24x7]

Its a failed short circuit test. The conductor didn't withstand the short, high current load. Ideally, the equipment should survive long enough for the breaker to cut power during a short.

[00Billy]

Car alarm was perfect.

[smeghead666]

@00Billy EMP at work ya reckon? coulda just been the noise...

[Bullzeye95]

Arc flash is loud enough to blow out your eardrums. That kind of high voltage/high amperage transmission current doesn't electrocute you so much as flashboil your fluids and blow you to pieces.

[IgorGiganskiANtiatom]

@Bullzeye95 In greek language they call it Crushing Voltage! Its like Zeus punching you!

[Bullzeye95]

@IgorGiganskiANtiatom hahahaha. No joke, man. Most people have no idea what an arc flash is capable of. Any substance--steel, aluminum, flesh, whatever--standing in the way is vaporized in about a millisecond. It's insanely powerful stuff.

Anybody looking for more info, search YouTube for "arc flash".

[IgorGiganskiANtiatom]

@Bullzeye95 I know what an arc-flash is its a mini-thunder! Ultra destructive! If some miliamperes with 2000 volts from a tiny lighter can give you serious goosebumps and pain imagine what an arc-flash or a thunder can do! By the way im an electrician...

[Bullzeye95]

@IgorGiganskiANtiatom Awesome!

[klaptrap]

@Bullzeye95 I don't think thats much better........

[Nivicoman]

@Bullzeye95 damn right. Just 480 goes BOOM. Seems 240 and under doesn't arc flash as much as it just sparks and sputters. Get up around 380-400-415 though the fun begins.

[seatboi]

@Bullzeye95 YEAH...EVERYONE!! MAKE SURE YOU TURN UR SPEAKERS DOWN BEFORE PLAYING THIS! I ABOUT POOPED MY PANTS!!! ;)

[MrHarry46]

those are just the new chinese fireworks

[MushaGenesis]

Damn and blast, I knew that 500 kv was too much to run my laptop.

[otakujhp]

haha the car alarm.

[MrBshit225]

now THATS what i call a nice and clean explosion!

not just a lame kabooooooooooooooom

everyone can do that...

but this

chackchabomm!!!

coooool!!

[GlennnD]

blast..... i knew it.... the 10amps fuse was to big !! lol :D

[craigcrawford1988]

Yeah, like they're going to be using 10 amp fuses at a power station...

[GlennnD]

do you know the word "sarcastic " ? ;)

[Jet3800]

lol, it set off a car alarm

[Voltaire4ever]

lunch time!

[meteormanmike]

ohhhh dang...

[Wontuseit]

woops

[krassersmudda]

katschonggggg

[coasterfreak3000]

That was nice xD FAIL

[Masamuneblade7]

Some fatass tried degrading an earlier comment of mine, (Haterz g2h ftw) its just funny how car alarms are so sensitive that you can slam your car door next to another car and it can set it off. Same for fireworks that are 2 miles away...

[lolzinOo]

"whoops, i thought that cable was supposed to be connected there"

[fukinblowme]

Lol, someone in Greenland watched this.

[Zugvogel1]

Ups....

[manning2g09]

it let the smoke out

[wispa69]

LOLOLOL. u must be in the field of electronics

[enigma800]

Is this 12kv or 66kv?

[rlltide33]

Looks like they were testing a set of grounds. One end was made up to primary voltage and the other to ground. No telling what the fault current was. Looks like the grounds did their job by de-energizing the circuit.

[sw8741]

thats what it looks like to me. what else would have loose wires hanging from the insulators? a moron perhaps!

[coglegTHEpirateOFNUL]

@rlltide33 according to the lab assistant "There is about 80kA flowing through those cables; the magnetic forces cause them to bend and in this case fail, causing an arc and a loud bang."

[metermatch]

@coglegTHEpirateOFNUL The high current in the wires will cause them to straighten out, not bend. The magnetic field surrounding AC conductors is what causes this. Hard to explain in a few words here.

[randomsrvapps]

@metermatch I find the more current goes through a cable the copper as it warms up from the resistance of the cable it softens

[metermatch]

@randomsrvapps That is correct.  Continued overcurrent will cause it to melt.

[Grillzor]

HONK HONK HONK HONK. lol

[cheeseboat15]

Anyone have anymore info on this event?

[whisper1357]

so that's where i left that screwdriver...