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  • Wow very butyful 555

  • Nothing mysterious is happening here.. You will note the box on the right of the photo when the camera pans out. Behind the truck.. Its got 3 cones on top where the wires connect.. That unit is a reactor coil.. These are commonly used to make power factor corrections on large regional power grids.... Most likely in the 500 KV range.. Depending on the time of the day and load on the power grid these reactor coils and associated capacitors are switched in and out for power factor correction

  • @varminblast

    Thanks for the info.

  • @varminblast

    yes they are called shunt reactor,and the current being open circuited here is only small. the shunt reactors,as mentioned,correct the cosine lag/lead of amps/volts

  • This looks like an isolator maybe opening small inductive current, this device is not designed to disconnect a live circuit or interrupt fault currents. A cuircuit breaker would be installed in the system which has an arc extinguising system like air blast or SF6 or oil breaker 

  • Thanks for the info.

  • time travel ?!?!

  • No ... that requires a "flux-core capacitor"

  • WOOO indeed.

  • Looks like the interrupter failed on one phase of the switch. I only see a single arc.

  • This was just a test (I guess with just one phase).

  • Jacobs Ladder

  • I never thought about that way before, but I like it.

    Dr. Dave

  • holy shit lol i just thought of that!

  • wow, that must of had a massive load.. what causes it to arc like that?

  • The switch was being tested. When you open a high-voltage circuit like that, the current easily arcs across the air gap (ionizing the air).

  • @DrDaveBilliards

    i was tought that there is a compresser or something that keeps away the ionized air and replace it by a 20 pascal pressured air

  • The arc warms the ionized air, and it will naturally rise due to the heat; but I've heard there is sometimes a release of compressed air for an assist to expand the arc and help it break.

  • That is way too cool........... from a distance

  • wow, terminator is rising from the future

  • holy fuck, imagine if a bird flew next to it lol

  • touch that and tastit

  • hasudiahsiduahsuidash that so cool

  • yeaa

  • awsome

  • cool

  • BEAUTIFUL

  • wow

  • that's hot

  • Wow, thats.. Wow!

  • Shocking !!...lol

  • Thats awesome.

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