Bad Switch

[codypfeiffer50]

must have been a Chance haha



[talrite]

Hell, put the circuit on one shot, mack it out and replace that bitch, don't just look at it....:D

[mmattyboy23]

Ha Lineman START OUT at 18-20 dollars an hour... This aint no McDonalds Job, Its a fuckin man job and it pays like it too

[I94901]

grunts on the ground make more than $8 dollars an hour, I'm a topped out (salary wise) 1st class lineman for a major utility, with over time last year I made over 6 digits gross. LINEMAN GET IT DONE!

[chuck2271]

u get zapped and live you might want to change your pants.

[NetAdmin08]

In my area linemen can make upwards around 6 figures. Dangerous jobs pay good money!

[wildbill6976]

$8/hour was the norm about 30 years ago.... most places are around $16 starting out these days

[mckrotar91]

wtf canadian lines men make $150000 a year :/

[Are44441]

the plasma fire is blue

[willbill73]

8.00 bucks an hour your kidding I flag for these guys try 30.00 bucks and hour an apprentice gets 20.00 an hour call outs and storm damage they make three times as much dangerous yes but they are very careful im in central ind.

[willbill73]

8.00 bucks an hour your kidding I flag for these guys try 30.00 bucks and hour an apprentice gets 20.00 an hour call outs and storm damage they make three times as much dangerous yes but they are very careful

[the67go]

hmmm

[WIDESIDE72]

Linemen get paid more than $8/ hr. Closer to $25/ hr here in central Tx, but still not nearly enough, IMO.

[FIGHTTHECABLE]

Weeeelcome to America! Haha

You and your 115 V freaking sockets....

115V really suck. Better would be to have 230V like Europe. More power and thinner cables can be made with more voltage.

[HoneycombAgent]

@FIGHTTHECABLE

Really? What metal do you make your cables with?

And don't you realize that more voltage puts everything at risk (electric shocks, electrical fire, etc.)? Although there is double-phase power it's only reserved for high-power appliances (electric dryers, water heaters, electric ovens, air conditioners, etc...)

[FIGHTTHECABLE]

@HoneycombAgent

Pure Copper to the answer.

The risk of a electric shock is not any diffrent, it still hits you.

Did you know most accidents caused by electric shocks are the after effects, such as falling from a ladder or banging your head somewhere from the unexpected shock? Only in bad cased when you can't let go, cause your muscles cramp together holding the electric isolation failed object, you can die.

However in most european countries the new installations now have RCDs

[FIGHTTHECABLE]

@HoneycombAgent

double phases? As in 1x200 V (US), 1x400 V (EU) ?

Where i live, we mostly have 3x400 V for such. Mostly water heaters only have 1x400V

Of course there is RCDs for those curcuits aswell.

Sorry for maybe not using the best words. I did my apprenticeship in Switzerland with german definitions.

[caveman175]

@FIGHTTHECABLE I always thought 2 phase is European where 2 conductors are 150 degrees out of phase whereas we have 3 phase @ 120 degrees in North America

[FIGHTTHECABLE]

@caveman175

Nope, we have 3x400V AC at 120° (3x120°=360°) apart from each other. 2x150° would only make 300° which is not the full circle of 360°, which wouldn't be very efficient at all. I have never heard of 150° and to me it seems very unlogical to build such a generator. :)

L1, L2, L3 in all households and industries in Switzerland and Germany (only totally sure about these countries)

Italy has as far i have seen sometimes or always only 230V (so 1 Phase) in households.

[TheSyncopator]

@FIGHTTHECABLE Well its actually 120v or up to 125v if you have a transformer right by your house. Most houses are wired for 240 with atleast a 100 amp service. We could easily wire a receptacle to 240 by placing the breaker across different legs. However, appliances in the US arent UL listed for 230v so if you had a 240 receptacle, it would burn up any thing you plug in to it.

[FIGHTTHECABLE]

@TheSyncopator well so it's 120 then... but the rest i kinda know or isn't that relevant.

[113132]

@TheSyncopator Wrong, most 208/230/240 appliances have a permissible minimum voltage of 197 and a max of 263.

[TheSyncopator]

@113132 Who has 208 in their house? I'm not talking about the washer/dryer. I dont think anyone has a 240v toaster or fridge in their house. Are you talking peak voltage? I'm talking RMS.

[113132]

@TheSyncopator Also, I've made many compressor and fan switchouts for 230V equipment into residential fridges and freezers. Not many are made commercially, but it's becoming a rising trend, especially as we start exploring R410A for more than just air conditioning.

[ttttonyyyy]

@TheSyncopator In the uk all our toasters and fridges are 240V RMS... just don't try and hook the toast out with a metal knife!

[vk3hau]

@TheSyncopator Think again, In Australia we all have 240 volts RMS at any GPO, Its the standard power voltage at 50hz , Europe and most other countries ( about 175 ) in the world use 240 volts, its US and 38 other countries that use 110 volts , get the facts before you comment, still don't believe me then have a look at the 110v and 240v world map at h t t p : // users . telenet . be / worldstandards / electricity . htm

[113132]

@113132 Air conditioners, welders. etc.

[TheAwary]

soundss like DrZoidberg on a first 6 srconds :)

[Tac0L0c0]

@MPruitt30 $20 an hour working as a contractor down in South Texas. 

[Si3z3]

lol is that dr. zoidberg i here in the background

[lehungsouthbay]

8 bucks an hour, take it or let illegal mexican brother will takeit........tough time man......

[Tac0L0c0]

@lehungsouthbay That's no joke. Times are tough but for 8 bucks an hour Id rather be shoveling dirt as a ground man.

[jwboll]

I thought I heard one of the Three Stooges at the beginning.

[Tac0L0c0]

@jwboll lol Yeah one of the lineworkers up there a big Three Stooges fan.

[jvmetallica23]

@jwboll nope it was Zoidberg

[TheTheo58]

That is some serious electrical arcing, given the amount of current and faulty

switch contact on the pole. The guys with this utility co. make what? $8.00 an

hour.. That's Ridiculous! This is a very dangerous job coming in close contact with

wires carrying 110 kilo volts or more. The MAX (light rail system) in Portland has

disconnect switches along the route (top of the poles) for the 750 V DC

overhead wire. Switch is marked...Do Not Operate Under Load...

[Tac0L0c0]

@TheTheo58 7200 volts carrying about 250 amps> The job called to change out the solid blade disconnect switches. After Hurricane Dolly struck South Padre Island, Could not ask for a dead line clearance since that circuit feed a section of the island. The other feeder was being re-constructed.

[jabaskijoe]

@TheTheo58 The line men get paid pretty good, though they have to put up with crap hours if anything goes sour.

[gailgrove]

@TheTheo58 Actually they make more like $31 an hour.

[trevor0587]

@TheTheo58 I Make $56 a hours with the IBEW as a lineman

[mackjsm]

Wow I hope these guys get paid well!

[XyleJKH]

@mackjsm in north america we do its a bit different in other countries though... which is unfortunate

[oracle2world]

A bad switch is not a good sign.

[hvguy]

lol, i love the 3 stooges comment at 0:04

[royceyokono]

@johnmason2354 opening that disconnect would not be the right thing to do. Since the disconnect is under load and it does not have load break capability, opening it would break the load and flash over the disconnect. You would first need to make a tie then proceed to open the disconnect.

[royceyokono]

They could have made an outside tie (tying two circuits), to stop the arcing. Then both sides of the disconnect would be common instead of trying to maintain the load through the faulty connection of the defective disconnect.

[rex69265]

NORMALNO

[robertgift]

Brace the camcoder on something to make it steady.

Too bad they could not simply blow the arc out.

[Immaculite]

there was NO FUCKIN WAY i was going up there. if that was my job i would QUIT right on that spot.

[joee75]

@Immaculite ..nothing like playing with live electricity..it can be tame..but the bitch can bite hard too!

[funnyfreak4]

Why dont you use a water soaked axe and cut the shit? =D

[TheManofthefuture101]

that hurricane was horrible colmbes,TX was really flooded and my family had to get through a big flood and it almost became a catagory 3

also an old man died for getting smashed by a palm tree

[Tac0L0c0]

@TheManofthefuture101 Yes I remember it all. Mostly every back road was flooded out. We worked all through the harlingen area. Then moved to the Islands to assist the other companies that were busing butt out there.

[TheManofthefuture101]

i like this even though i survived this i still like it

[lehungsouthbay]

this job should pay more than 8 bucks an hour......

[turktalkdude]

@lehungsouthbay it does lol



[mihan73]

@lehungsouthbay In Soviet Russia it's 8 bucks per day

[spongebob7285]

@lehungsouthbay

i second that

[tannalv]

@lehungsouthbay It doesn't look like that hard a job. Anyone could do it...

[gailgrove]

@lehungsouthbay It does, the pay is about $31 and hour ...

[TheToastPeople]

@lehungsouthbay He could work at mcdonalds for that but not sure it would be safer

[MoreLikeCappuccino]

@lehungsouthbay payscale.com/research/US/Job=A­ssembly_Line_Worker/Hourly_Rat­e says they make a min of 8:35 to a max of $15 which makes a median of 11 bucks

[Narufan1129]

@lehungsouthbay This job does pay more than 8 bucks an hour...My dad is a lineman and especially on storm callouts like this they make bank.

[BurnYourSelfProds]

Nothing says ow like 20kv coursing through your body. Lol

[BurnYourSelfProds]

Don't you just love electrical epic fails? So many on utube. But yes, as an apprentice in electronic engineering, that situation is pretty dangerous

[johnmason2354]

All they had to do was pull that solid blade disconnect with a hotstick and open the switch. That would have stopped the arcing and allowed them to replace the switch hot.

[irlnmn]

@johnmason2354 your not real smart are you if you open this switch under load the arc wont go out and more than likely go phase to phase. then they could answer a bunch of questions about how stupid they were and do it cold.

[johnmason2354]

@irlnmn

Apparently you are the one that is not too smart. Ot depends on the distance between the phase conductors in conjunction with the amp and voltage of the interupted current.'

Try again, moron.,

[Pecherin72]

Looks like a disconnector switch to me, with no arc breaking capability( no arc chute or other devices visible), opening it with a hoop stick probably won't do any good. Usually they'll have to trip an upstream circuit breaker to kill the arc.

[serresjio]

if this switch is really broken then this insulating shit wont help

[rafaelfdiniz]

@stopcraponutube - Sorry if I'm not understanding you, I'm Brazilian and my english are rusty a little... but in my point on a view, this light you see on the video is not fire. It is a electrical phenomenon as I said. Like when you see a incandescent lamp the light is emitted by electrons passing through a tungsten filament. In any situation that you have a electrons flow, also has a effect of thermal dissipation called Joule effect that is the warming of the conducting material.

[supraaman]

ok now explain that in english :p took me some time to understand what you mean but I finally got it.. thank you :) I'm in my first year as an apprentice electrician

[stopcraponutube]

If those joints were sealed in a vacuum would they still burn?

[6418978876]

No, you need oxygen to burn.

[stopcraponutube]

Well, that was sort of my point. If they were in a vacuum then surely there would be no fire...

[rafaelfdiniz]

who said that thing is fire? This is the electricity. And even if this were sealed in vacuum, probably you wouldn't more see this electric phenomenon, but it will still be happening inside the vacuum ampule.

[stopcraponutube]

@rafaelfdiniz - Thats possible. There are signs of fire on this vid but if the electrical phenomenon isn't fire then is it sort of plasma? Just interested...

[croakerchoker504]

@stopcraponutube its not burning its an electrical arc

[nsawilla]

they dont really burn, its just a very powerful arc that looks like fire.. if you turned of the power it would end..

[sw8741]

pussies!! get that hot stick up there and open the switch!! lol.....ok.....ok.....safety first!

[mrdrstalker]

The rubber blankets and rubber line hoses are for incidental contact from the power lines,they can protect the lineman or other pieces of hardware or wire from making contact with a ground or an oposit phase too.

[mrdrstalker]

The orange stuff you see are rubber linehoses,the other cover up you see is rubber blankets.That arc could very wll have chared,burned and pitted up the rubber goods,no to mention get carbon build up on them which is conductive too.Those underslug switches look like 600 amp disconnects.

[form109]

what purpose does Rubber Blankets Serve?

[transientvoltage]

Insulating mats to prevent the arc from to the other phases and wires

[yortnoraa]

nice vid we had a bad insulator on a xfer and it blew up my bud had to get 13 stitches but we got it replaced after we grounded.

[BenHutchinson1]

What's that sound? It sounds like a power saw, NOT an arc. And what is that orange plastic hanging over the lines? I'd think it would melt from the arc.

[alvinc5]

The 'power saw' like sounds are the cherry pickers (aka basket cranes, man lifts...) and it looks like an arc to me - what else is it? Note that an 'electrical arc' and an 'arc flash/blast' shouldn't be confused - an arc flash referring to an electrical explosion that is more severe, which can involve temperatures as high as 20,000 degrees Celsius. As for the 'orange plastic', that's not just arts and crafts material, and the arc is not severe enough to cause major damage.

[ShawnMc749]

The orange stuff is thick rubber safety sheets placed there so it doesn't arc to another phase.

[hydrojunkie]

the pto on the truck. power take off.

[Dockshund]

oooooo- Do I detect a hint of molten copper?

[gt4awd]

What's the current at on a standard 14kv line?

[mpowellmpowellmpowel]

200 to 300 amps - I think? I know that an average fuse breaker carries 100 to 200 amps at 27,000 volt.