Well, I wonder if that fault was bad enough to trip the breaker at the substation. Looks like it did arc to the other phase. That would suck because then a lot of people on that circuit would lose power!
@oracle2world Yeah, except that they don't really have telephone poles up there. It's mostly all underground wiring, at least where I was up in Calgary Alberta.
These guys are idiots. That solid blade disconnect is definately not made for breaking load. Thatis what you use breakers for. or at least use equipemient that have arc-suppressing abilities. God Damn
This is what is called a gang operated switch. There do not appear to be any load break devices on it. The load could be lights or wire, but apparently it was more than the switch was rated for. The "pop" that you hear are 2 phases getting together and causing a short. This would likely lock the line out from whatever source was feeding it.
the fuse is like a shotgun cartridge. it doesnt "melt" it explodes when reaching a givin temperature, blowing the switch open. it must be reloaded when thrown
I'm curious, how was this disconnect initiated? I'm not seeing the motive force. Didn't look like the opening of the switches was caused by a blown fuse, though after the switches opened, clearly at least one fuse (on the phase the second-up from the bottom of the image) blew like a shotgun blast. Looks to me like two arcs crossed, causing a phase-to-phase short, which blew the fuse.
Ah, thanks, now I see it. Oddly, the first few times I looked at this, I didn't see the moving rod. Some poles with switches don't have that, and a lineman has to manually open or close each switch with a long yellow fiberglass pole. Which sometimes doesn't work too well. I've seen a switch get jammed and strike a huge arc that didn't blow a fuse but rather melted a wire in two. This "triple lever-activated" design seems better, though here it did blow a fuse when two arcs crossed.
@lonewolfintj The main reason is probably safety and ergonomical issues: instead of the stick (and if they're very unlucky) a van with a bucket, they just operate it standing on solid ground ;)
How it works is there are 2 Feeders in this case (that supply High Voltage), when one feeder goes down, we shut it down completely and use the other feeder to bare the power load till the other is fixed.
This pole is what is called the "Tie" pole. The arcs are from the switches being old and not being able to "snuff out" the electrical arc that is from all the power load being drawn from it still.
@xXxmidgexXx they are whats called self extracting fuse links they look like 11kv the fuse wire goes in the the laminated tube when the fuse blows the whole link drops down as all three have done in this video (easy way to tell if the fuse has gone) now either there is way too much load or the system has a fault nothing to do with switches being old
LOL, never heard the lingo "Jacob's Ladder" but yes I think that could have been what happened. It was a older tie point and we were having trouble with the snuffers arcing out the connection it seemed...
To be honest it is a safe job WHEN you practice all the safety rules... though I know different companies have their own ways n what not. I am in Manitoba and their safety rules are 2nd to none. Though a guy I started with lost his hands in July, he is 21 in Nov... that was scary! (They broke 38 different safety rules)
Ummm, that I do not know. By snuffer I suppose I mean when the "door" to the cut out passes from the closed position to open, the blades pass trough the "snuffer" to defuse the arc, made of tungston something mix... lol.
Ahh, I think I'm barking up the wrong tree, then! In my case, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing....! I believe that SF6 (Sulphur Hexaflouride) is used to quench/snuff far bigger arcs generated by very high voltage or heavy load applications. If you get the link to work, there's a good description of this process along with the clip.
Manitoba, ay?? Always wanted to go to Canada - not much chance now, though.....just been made redundant from my job! :o(
Never heard the lingo Jacob's Ladder? WOW! That's one of the things that got me interested in physics. I have 15kV neon sign transformer that, with a couple of stiff wires, make a great Jacob's Ladder. BTW, thanks for the great video!
No, stun guns are not limited to 90KV. They go up to 3000KV (3MV), with very low internal resistance. That would kill you in a fraction of a second if it weren't for the fact that the duty cycle (percent on time) is so low. They use a technology similar to xenon strobes, slowly filling a capacitor then discharging it quickly. In fact, a stun gun is just a xenon strobe without the xenon, and with a higher repetition rate. The arc passes through air (or flesh) instead of through xenon gas.
"67tr876" wrote, "and it has no amps so it cant kill". Whatever that means. Are you talking about stun guns? Off-topic, already. Anyway, "amps" are not something a device can "have". Stun guns deliver high voltage ("volts") AND high current ("amps") AND high power ("watts"). No, the reason they don't kill is purely their low duty cycle (percent on-time). (Look up "duty cycle" to learn more about this.)
@lonewolfintj Im not going to check your numbers for voltage but due to ohms law a massive voltage has an incredibly low current, stun guns cannot kill unless you have a weak heart, Yet another point is that stun guns can perforn the large voltage over 3 seconds to make sure the target is not running anywhere
That is a very dangerous way to think. The resitance of your skin dont change just because the voltage is high. lets say your skin has a resistance of 500 ohms 120v/500=0.24 amps 120,000v/500=240amps stun guns have current limiting devices im sure
yes KUFULEE, its true, stun guns got very high voltage but do not allow many Ampere to pass on human body, that's why it's not deadly, on other hand touching a bare cable got VERY high ampere limit so you can die easier
Oh, brother, more stun-gun nonsense comments on unrelated videos. Yes, stun guns use very high voltage (up to 3MV). No, stun guns do not somehow magically "disallow" high current to pass. Yes, the "available current" from a stun gun is very high. No, the non-lethal nature of stun guns is not related to voltage or current. (Hint: look up "duty cycle". Try 1% on for size.) Sheesh, people spew so about things they know nothing about.
Hah. Nice to know what those big poles on the side of power poles with the handles are for.
gymkhanadog 3 months ago
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but they wanna be together ;( why seperate the electric soul mates :[
reveiwthis2 3 months ago
It burnt the ccd chip at 0:04
00011theman 5 months ago
I want to suck these guys cocks.
Awesome video!
TheSasha555 5 months ago
When I orgasm, I break my 25 kv load ;)
DJWavesUK 6 months ago 2
0:05 god.
BerkerIzmir35TR 6 months ago
Well, I wonder if that fault was bad enough to trip the breaker at the substation. Looks like it did arc to the other phase. That would suck because then a lot of people on that circuit would lose power!
Kartracer087 7 months ago
@Kartracer087 Nope, never tripped the feeder / breaker... and where this took place, people don't pay their bills for the most part anyways...
English2Elvish 7 months ago
I froze the vid at :04 and it was bright! Looks like it went phase-to-phase as the arcs broke.
imfree707 8 months ago
@imfree707 Absoluetly it did.
English2Elvish 8 months ago
press play and keep pressing 2 :3
sm3xything 9 months ago
@sm3xything dude you're gay
iRouRoui 8 months ago
It's hard to believe that's an ok thing to do lol
sirazzatron 10 months ago
@English2Elvish OK.
Aleksandar998 11 months ago
keep pressing 8
GuitarBlues3 1 year ago
What was the bang though?
That was ah..
TheLightningStalker 1 year ago
0:05 - Ultraviolet rays. Instant suntan.
justinmert 1 year ago
Those sparks made me horny. ;D
Stamolka1986 1 year ago
WTF This video says bang why do i see no bang?
Caboos4042 1 year ago
Sounds like canadians, eh?
oracle2world 1 year ago 18
@oracle2world ;)
English2Elvish 1 year ago
@oracle2world Yeah, except that they don't really have telephone poles up there. It's mostly all underground wiring, at least where I was up in Calgary Alberta.
Paulie151 10 months ago
bang start at 4 sec
theyousufm 1 year ago
The bang at the end was the furthest phase's arc coming in contact with the center phase, causing a brief phase-to-phase fault.
NathanH5 1 year ago
These guys are idiots. That solid blade disconnect is definately not made for breaking load. Thatis what you use breakers for. or at least use equipemient that have arc-suppressing abilities. God Damn
tmlalltheway 1 year ago
@tmlalltheway
Heh, you are wrong. It looks like a vertical GI to me.
stanislaw1986 1 year ago
Very cool, my dad has shown me a 40Kv breaker, the 'lightning' is amazing
nebonit 1 year ago
This is what is called a gang operated switch. There do not appear to be any load break devices on it. The load could be lights or wire, but apparently it was more than the switch was rated for. The "pop" that you hear are 2 phases getting together and causing a short. This would likely lock the line out from whatever source was feeding it.
MrChordMan 1 year ago 2
stop at 0:04
117HALOREACH 2 years ago 9
@117HALOREACH
NICE catch!
English2Elvish 1 year ago 3
the fuse is like a shotgun cartridge. it doesnt "melt" it explodes when reaching a givin temperature, blowing the switch open. it must be reloaded when thrown
crowbarhammer 2 years ago
I'm curious, how was this disconnect initiated? I'm not seeing the motive force. Didn't look like the opening of the switches was caused by a blown fuse, though after the switches opened, clearly at least one fuse (on the phase the second-up from the bottom of the image) blew like a shotgun blast. Looks to me like two arcs crossed, causing a phase-to-phase short, which blew the fuse.
lonewolfintj 2 years ago
@lonewolfintj Look closely to the pole center: you will see a lever/handle of some sort move, taking out the switches.
weeardguy 2 years ago
Ah, thanks, now I see it. Oddly, the first few times I looked at this, I didn't see the moving rod. Some poles with switches don't have that, and a lineman has to manually open or close each switch with a long yellow fiberglass pole. Which sometimes doesn't work too well. I've seen a switch get jammed and strike a huge arc that didn't blow a fuse but rather melted a wire in two. This "triple lever-activated" design seems better, though here it did blow a fuse when two arcs crossed.
lonewolfintj 2 years ago
@lonewolfintj The main reason is probably safety and ergonomical issues: instead of the stick (and if they're very unlucky) a van with a bucket, they just operate it standing on solid ground ;)
weeardguy 2 years ago
The disconnect lever is on the pole. watch the lever move downward and cam the switches open.
russdonruss 2 years ago
There has been NO video editing
English2Elvish 2 years ago 2
Oh yeah, VERY fake....
English2Elvish 2 years ago
hey whers the bang me want bang lol but nice vid
devildriver66621 2 years ago
Im dont know much about electricity, but why do the electrictians have to do this?
Like open up some kind of switch on a power line?
xXxmidgexXx 2 years ago
No Electricians, but Lineman :P
How it works is there are 2 Feeders in this case (that supply High Voltage), when one feeder goes down, we shut it down completely and use the other feeder to bare the power load till the other is fixed.
This pole is what is called the "Tie" pole. The arcs are from the switches being old and not being able to "snuff out" the electrical arc that is from all the power load being drawn from it still.
English2Elvish 2 years ago
@xXxmidgexXx they are whats called self extracting fuse links they look like 11kv the fuse wire goes in the the laminated tube when the fuse blows the whole link drops down as all three have done in this video (easy way to tell if the fuse has gone) now either there is way too much load or the system has a fault nothing to do with switches being old
mankybub 2 years ago
arcs blowing in to each other in the wind is not a good thing. BOOM :p
tomcse 2 years ago
Good one! I'm no electrician, but would the bang be caused by the 'jacobs ladder' jumping between two phases?
Peedlebum 3 years ago
LOL, never heard the lingo "Jacob's Ladder" but yes I think that could have been what happened. It was a older tie point and we were having trouble with the snuffers arcing out the connection it seemed...
But yeah, I think in this case she jumped!
English2Elvish 3 years ago
Weyhey! I got one right! Don't fancy becoming an electrician/lineman, though...watching what you guys do for a living scares the pants off me....:o)
For an amazing 'jacobs ladder', try
youtubecom/watch?v=J2QGdVc6MyI
Peedlebum 3 years ago
LOL, what do you do then?
To be honest it is a safe job WHEN you practice all the safety rules... though I know different companies have their own ways n what not. I am in Manitoba and their safety rules are 2nd to none. Though a guy I started with lost his hands in July, he is 21 in Nov... that was scary! (They broke 38 different safety rules)
I tried the link, no worky... :(
English2Elvish 3 years ago
Meant to ask - is the 'snuffer' that SF6 stuff or is that a different process?
Peedlebum 3 years ago
Ummm, that I do not know. By snuffer I suppose I mean when the "door" to the cut out passes from the closed position to open, the blades pass trough the "snuffer" to defuse the arc, made of tungston something mix... lol.
English2Elvish 3 years ago
Ahh, I think I'm barking up the wrong tree, then! In my case, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing....! I believe that SF6 (Sulphur Hexaflouride) is used to quench/snuff far bigger arcs generated by very high voltage or heavy load applications. If you get the link to work, there's a good description of this process along with the clip.
Manitoba, ay?? Always wanted to go to Canada - not much chance now, though.....just been made redundant from my job! :o(
Peedlebum 3 years ago
Never heard the lingo Jacob's Ladder? WOW! That's one of the things that got me interested in physics. I have 15kV neon sign transformer that, with a couple of stiff wires, make a great Jacob's Ladder. BTW, thanks for the great video!
jixolros 3 years ago
hi there i just want to know its it true that my stun gun could be 300KV
KUFULEE 2 years ago
Zap your balls and find out.
fukinblowme 2 years ago
@ KUFULEE: No... your stungun won't be able to reach that. 60 to 90 kV is a lot more plausible.
weeardguy 2 years ago
No, stun guns are not limited to 90KV. They go up to 3000KV (3MV), with very low internal resistance. That would kill you in a fraction of a second if it weren't for the fact that the duty cycle (percent on time) is so low. They use a technology similar to xenon strobes, slowly filling a capacitor then discharging it quickly. In fact, a stun gun is just a xenon strobe without the xenon, and with a higher repetition rate. The arc passes through air (or flesh) instead of through xenon gas.
lonewolfintj 2 years ago
and it has no amps so it cant kill
67tr876 2 years ago
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"67tr876" wrote, "and it has no amps so it cant kill". Whatever that means. Are you talking about stun guns? Off-topic, already. Anyway, "amps" are not something a device can "have". Stun guns deliver high voltage ("volts") AND high current ("amps") AND high power ("watts"). No, the reason they don't kill is purely their low duty cycle (percent on-time). (Look up "duty cycle" to learn more about this.)
lonewolfintj 2 years ago
@lonewolfintj Im not going to check your numbers for voltage but due to ohms law a massive voltage has an incredibly low current, stun guns cannot kill unless you have a weak heart, Yet another point is that stun guns can perforn the large voltage over 3 seconds to make sure the target is not running anywhere
nebonit 1 year ago
@nebonit
That is a very dangerous way to think. The resitance of your skin dont change just because the voltage is high. lets say your skin has a resistance of 500 ohms 120v/500=0.24 amps 120,000v/500=240amps stun guns have current limiting devices im sure
bheithus 1 year ago
yes KUFULEE, its true, stun guns got very high voltage but do not allow many Ampere to pass on human body, that's why it's not deadly, on other hand touching a bare cable got VERY high ampere limit so you can die easier
EAaltv 2 years ago
Oh, brother, more stun-gun nonsense comments on unrelated videos. Yes, stun guns use very high voltage (up to 3MV). No, stun guns do not somehow magically "disallow" high current to pass. Yes, the "available current" from a stun gun is very high. No, the non-lethal nature of stun guns is not related to voltage or current. (Hint: look up "duty cycle". Try 1% on for size.) Sheesh, people spew so about things they know nothing about.
lonewolfintj 2 years ago
at least they broke the circuit this time.
form109 3 years ago