Hah, black powder. What a freaking idiot. I'd recognize the awesome and intimidating sound of a raw arc anywhere. You just can't fake that sound. Of course Tesla Idiot has an excuse....... he's an idiot. But the backhoe driver who wanted to raise the bucket should know better, that's just suicidal insanity.
@EvilWarlock666 Yeah ok...the pretty red color coming out of the hole is the arc flash blowing a hole in the 3/4" solid steel bucket in about 3 seconds. I'm pretty sure a firework can't do that! But I'm just a stupid 20 year Journeyman electrician so what do I know...
@cdeleone5 Again, this is simply some blackpowder you throw in there!!! YOU NEVER WOULD STAY SO COOL IF THIS REALLY HAD HAPPENED. Every normal person would run away and never would hold the camera so still!!! Such short circuit never would produce such white smoke. It's blackpowder you removed out of some fire crackers.
@Teslalabor I posted this video for the guys I work with who didn't see it first hand and I could really care less what YOU think...Why you think I care is beyond me. The video is what it is and I'm sorry you think it's something else but I could care less. The tremendous amount of heat produced from that arc flash blew a hole in that 3/4" solid steel bucket in about 3 seconds....so compare that to a cutting torch and you can get an idea of how much heat there was.
@s37d Not at all...in many cases they are underground and now a days mostly in PVC pipe and encased in concrete duct banks but you will still find some that are just direct burial cable as was in this instance.
@s37d Everything is mapped as it's installed but before there is any digging you have to call a company that comes out and marks the underground utilities on the ground with marking paint. It's a guide and usually + or - 3 feet of either side of markings is normal. We were outside those marks and shouldn't have hit anything but it all depends on the person reading the hand held detectors doing the marking. They ended up paying for the repair...
i take it after the power guys came out you had too dig a big joint hole for them and probs they would run new cable up the pole i used to dig for electric here in wales people would go through cables cant tell where they are all the time even i caught 1 or 2 only small ones never been through 11,000 volt cable or higher
@volec55 no digging needed....they came that night and all they did/do is splice in new pieces of cable to rejoin to the old ones. Everything else stays as is...and when re returned the next morning we covered everything back up.
Seems like the pole-mounted switch (with a drop-out fuse) didn't drop out and open, and the up-stream circuit breaker had to open. Some one has to compensate big-time. Fortunate that nobody was injured there.
@Pecherin72 They were about one minute apart and the switches never opened...It was pretty impressive to say the least! The cable finally burned itself apart...Lots of finger pointing after this one for sure!
@Diggerkid A utility locate company had already marked the area...we were still 5 feet away from where we were expecting the buried cable to be...There is NO pipe, this is exposed direct buried cable, approx 13200 volts between any two phases. When the power grid system senses any disturbance, the power company sends pulses through the line approx one minute apart to try and clear the lines, there were 3 pulses after the initial cable penetration...this video shows the 3rd and largest of them.
Hah, black powder. What a freaking idiot. I'd recognize the awesome and intimidating sound of a raw arc anywhere. You just can't fake that sound. Of course Tesla Idiot has an excuse....... he's an idiot. But the backhoe driver who wanted to raise the bucket should know better, that's just suicidal insanity.
mlcoo17 5 months ago 11
@EvilWarlock666 Yeah ok...the pretty red color coming out of the hole is the arc flash blowing a hole in the 3/4" solid steel bucket in about 3 seconds. I'm pretty sure a firework can't do that! But I'm just a stupid 20 year Journeyman electrician so what do I know...
cdeleone5 11 months ago 24
@Teslalabor I'll leave this comment here so everyone can see what a rude and ignorant person you are...have a great day!
cdeleone5 11 months ago 11
@cdeleone5 Again, this is simply some blackpowder you throw in there!!! YOU NEVER WOULD STAY SO COOL IF THIS REALLY HAD HAPPENED. Every normal person would run away and never would hold the camera so still!!! Such short circuit never would produce such white smoke. It's blackpowder you removed out of some fire crackers.
Teslalabor 11 months ago
nice firework, did you buy it in the supermarket?
Teslalabor 11 months ago
@Teslalabor I posted this video for the guys I work with who didn't see it first hand and I could really care less what YOU think...Why you think I care is beyond me. The video is what it is and I'm sorry you think it's something else but I could care less. The tremendous amount of heat produced from that arc flash blew a hole in that 3/4" solid steel bucket in about 3 seconds....so compare that to a cutting torch and you can get an idea of how much heat there was.
cdeleone5 11 months ago 42
LOL FAKE!!!! Thats smoke from some black powder!!! FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE
Teslalabor 1 year ago
@Teslalabor You obviously don't know much about High voltage. Do some research before you make yourself look like an idiot.
cdeleone5 11 months ago 11
i thought electric cables were all above ground on telephone poles
s37d 1 year ago
@s37d Not at all...in many cases they are underground and now a days mostly in PVC pipe and encased in concrete duct banks but you will still find some that are just direct burial cable as was in this instance.
cdeleone5 1 year ago
@cdeleone5 is there some kind of official mapping of all underground cables for each city/town?
s37d 1 year ago 3
@s37d Everything is mapped as it's installed but before there is any digging you have to call a company that comes out and marks the underground utilities on the ground with marking paint. It's a guide and usually + or - 3 feet of either side of markings is normal. We were outside those marks and shouldn't have hit anything but it all depends on the person reading the hand held detectors doing the marking. They ended up paying for the repair...
cdeleone5 11 months ago 5
i take it after the power guys came out you had too dig a big joint hole for them and probs they would run new cable up the pole i used to dig for electric here in wales people would go through cables cant tell where they are all the time even i caught 1 or 2 only small ones never been through 11,000 volt cable or higher
volec55 1 year ago
@volec55 no digging needed....they came that night and all they did/do is splice in new pieces of cable to rejoin to the old ones. Everything else stays as is...and when re returned the next morning we covered everything back up.
cdeleone5 1 year ago
Wow thats not going to be cheap the operator is very lucky he didnt get fried
MrRagingbull83 1 year ago
Seems like the pole-mounted switch (with a drop-out fuse) didn't drop out and open, and the up-stream circuit breaker had to open. Some one has to compensate big-time. Fortunate that nobody was injured there.
Pecherin72 1 year ago
This happens all the time......Breaker should have tripped after that, maybe attempt to reclose in 30 sec, then 3 minutes then lock out.
Pecherin72 1 year ago
OK saw the earlier comment, this was the third reclosing attempt. Lots of paper work then.
Pecherin72 1 year ago
@Pecherin72 They were about one minute apart and the switches never opened...It was pretty impressive to say the least! The cable finally burned itself apart...Lots of finger pointing after this one for sure!
cdeleone5 1 year ago
Utility markouts are wrong more often thatn not.
wailnshred 1 year ago
What happened, operator error? Any one stop and dig down at the pole by hand to get an idea were the pipe was headed if unmarked? That sucks......
Diggerkid 1 year ago
@Diggerkid A utility locate company had already marked the area...we were still 5 feet away from where we were expecting the buried cable to be...There is NO pipe, this is exposed direct buried cable, approx 13200 volts between any two phases. When the power grid system senses any disturbance, the power company sends pulses through the line approx one minute apart to try and clear the lines, there were 3 pulses after the initial cable penetration...this video shows the 3rd and largest of them.
cdeleone5 1 year ago 3
major oops
hammerdwn20 1 year ago