Department of energy substation transformer explosion in Cheyenne Wyoming

[PD0MV2012]

wow very great

[BassBoom14]

Go touch it

[Fedr440]

Из за этого банальный коронный разряд перешел в дуговой.

[Fedr440]

это работает масляный рзъединитель. Хорошо слышен звук работы его привода ( там асинхронник на 55кВт.) гудит с частотой сети, но иногда срывается на две фазы. Видимо, реактивная нагрузка преобладает над активной, а индуктивная компенсация вышла из строя. На ней обычно транзисторы МП-39 - МП-42 ставят, хоть у нас. хоть у них. Промышленный стандарт де-факто (исторически так сложилось - Эдиссон очень уважал эти советские транзисторы за большое содержание меди в их корпусах).

[sixmoosehead]

I was an employee for many years as Electrical Technician at a large electrical utility. This video seems strikingly odd as every electrical substation had various protection relays(overcurrent, overvoltage, differential etc) that would sense the electrical fault and trip a high voltage breaker, thus ending the fault. It would trip in seconds, not minutes.

[FlippyFloppy115]

still not enough power to charge chuck Norris ipod

[HeavnOfDeatm]

the squrrle got fried, and people started unpluging things

[hardstyle905]

Did you film this with the new Potato 101?

[PokemonProffesor1000]

STOP GOING TOWARDS IT WIERDO!!!!!!

[lupabuatchannel]

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[cenedywong]

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[melisantika]

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[pemburuiklan]

I Really Like The Video From Your Apparantly a squirrel caused this to happen according to the goverment folks, they took a real interest in this video when they found out it was filmed.

[anakmudajaman]

Your Video Is Very Useful Sharing Apparantly a squirrel caused this to happen according to the goverment folks, they took a real interest in this video when they found out it was filmed

[MrAlexandremarus]

filmed with a calculator

[rampagerick]

At 4:12 it looks like the arc ate away at the steel support structure.

Just think of how fast your electric meter would spin with that much power. Assuming only 100 amps at 69 kV, that's 1.9 kWh per second, or $11.50 per minute. For all I know that could be 1000 amps or 230 kV...

[loveunderlaw]

They should force Pedos to go in there, & check the transformer:)

[qtinvu]

@loveunderlaw hell ya

[stayinstock]

Were you kicking the camera down the road while filming?

[comaradella]

burning pcb´s = Agent Orange one of top twelve poisons

[zzbzaz]

Amazing camera work, if it wern't for "ZOOM" we might have actually seen what was taking place. Good work.

[TheMacandpcguy]

imagine the ozone coming off of that

[1975RStefan]

Oh Mann!!! Gibt es bei Euch Ami's überhaupt irgendetwas das funktioniert? Eine Lichtbogen- Detektierung wäre ja schon mal nicht schlecht... statt immer weiter Energie rein zu donnern, sollte man ja dann doch mal die Anlage abschalten. Dann gibts auch nicht soviel Gerümpel.

[atomicfire001]

It's bright because a lot of the output is UV or near UV, it's very bad for your eyes and skin

[OooWSelhan]

Yeah that Squirrel seems to be over cooked, ill have a rat instead, thanks

[northerbrewer]

This is arcing for a very long time.

Why has the system opperator not noticed the fault and started isolating this switchyard untill a crew can be dispatched?

I suspect part of what we see is a failure of the fault detection equipment.

[smartboybaloch]

why they arent closing the main supply immediately??

[jayglitch]

If your camera isn't mounted to a tripod, DON'T USE THE ZOOM!!

[MrHerbert1270]

I seen one of those big transformers blow before we were 3 miles away and it lit up the sky for miles and blew out the sides of it and top shooting super heated coolent everywhere the fire Sept said, anyone around it would have been killed instantly!

[FeistyAmazon2009]

Did you even call the fire department or electric company to put it out??? Wonder what it smelled like, probably pretty toxic stuff!

[FlyBoyBigBlue]

Hahah, I love how you guys are bitching at the camera guy like he works for NBC.

[hongo712]

¿Cómo se soluciona un problema así?

[Comments2010]

@hongo712 No se. Llame a la compañía eléctrica, o al 9-1-1.

[tall32guy]

It's almost mesmerizing to watch arcs, watching the points they come from and go into, their changing colors, etc. It's kind of cool when you think it's electrons (part of atoms no less), moving at close to the speed of light.

[CosminLMK]

The GreenLantern is there and he`s BURNING!!!!!!!!!!!

[alexf1freak]

RIP squirrel

[Comments2010]

@policamtv bobine tesla?

[policamtv]

@Comments2010 este altceva asemanator mai sigur si stabil, in plus se poate folosi la protectie de radiatii, la protectie de atacuri energetice si la alte lucruri. Detalii pe policam(punct)ro

[kodiak410a]

Does the camera guy have Parkinsons? Where was the explosion?

[kodiak410a]

Does the camera guy have Parkinsons?

[19FD89]

reminds me of freemans mind. He said in Ep1 that a squirrel blew a transformer. watch?v=7J80KD4BG7M

[SirezX]

My frikin eyes hurt now...not from the bright cool looking electrical light but from the crack addict who hasn't had his fix holding the camera ಠ_ಠ

[Dicky2219]

It would have been easier if the cameraman learned to steady his camera, I'm gong cross-eyed !!! lol

[howza20]

Monkey cam.

[Piklethedoodad]

It "just about blinds ya" because it's kicking off massive amounts of visible, and UV light. It's basically just a massive welding arc, don't look at it or your eyes will get burned.

Second-degree burns on the surface of your eyes are no fun.

[steviebboy69]

@Piklethedoodad i wondered about these large electrical arcs, and people looking at them.

like if it was the same as looking at arc welding at home.

[RetroCaptain]

Good day

The insulator was leaking after, by the look of it.

It's unfortunate the maintenance crew took so long!

The repair cost would have been frikken high after the transformer overloaded to point of fire!

I work in a warehouse that backs out onto a City substation. I have heard & saw fireworks& bangs the same as that situation. The repair crews here are fast to respond when something "blows" & power drops..

[goodwolf359]

lol it looks like hes laughing at it

[apivaras]

stuped ass if you cant film dont do it at all

[camfreak9]

What did you shoot this with a spoon on a hobby horse?

[digler99]

if all the rednecks in WY had switched over to the curly-Q green lightbulbs like the rest of the world this would have never happened!

[chopperli]

protection all fail!?

[R5H4D0W]

@chopperli looks like a breakers stuck closed. enough amps went through the squirrel to ionize the surrounding air... and current conducts through air after the squirrels burnt off. Green flames is what occurs when copper gets hot enough and turns into a metal fire.

[chopperli]

@R5H4D0W yes, you a right. but my point was it should not happen for a long time. At least, it had 2 back-up protection for occurs over-current and earth fault to cut off ? and one thing, how long is the metal continually on fire after cut off ? and Are you heard the sound while metal fire?

[R5H4D0W]

@chopperli Usually after cutoff nothing happens, you may smell some ozone but that would be it. There appears to be another wire laying on top of the one that's burning at 2:57. I'm an electrician in the handyman sense, so I can only speculate that the insulation somewhere burnt through and is grounding itself, bypassing the switcher.

[chopperli]

@R5H4D0W oh yeah. Maybe the workers sleeping in the control room? it should be monitored (ps i dont know is it had monitor system or not ) if short circuit or earth fault happen.

[bored1980]

240p? What is that again?

[integralfrom0to1]

next time just throw the camera on the ground and kick it around, we'd probably all feel less seasick

[sabre2k2]

Learn how to steady a Camera. And while your at it, get the title right. It only sizzled and crackled in your video. There was NO explosion.  Waste of my time. And FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY LAY OFF THE ZOOM!

[joker98259]

This guy sure likes his zoom, he should practice first. Awesome Ark though

[waterfordjim]

I would hate to have my P E N I S touch that arc. :-D

[RehannaC]

that is really scary!!!

[JetMechMA]

Wow, could an arc like that be as dangerous to your eyes as a welding arc?

[jojotjuh]

@JetMechMA Probably yes, this may be ionizing radiation (since there is a lot of plasma going on I assume it is this, however I am not very knowledgeable) which emits ultraviolet (and even higher like x-ray)

[osmanjaani]

Arcing either means an Earth fault or an over-current fault.... In any case the system MUST trip.

[osmanjaani]

hahahahaha........ Was the DC battery bank in outage???? Complete Protection failure

[dshmechanic]

After hearing that fella say (repeatedly) about how watching this could blind you, I hit pause and headed out to the garage to get my welding helmet....so I can watch the remainder of the video without harming my eyes.

[lx45803]

@dshmechanic That is a very wise choice. Lights this bright can lead to corneal damage if stared at directly for more than a few dozen seconds.

[OUWATZAHLE08]

THIS SO DANGEROUS !!!

[Rickey85]

@OUWATZAHLE08 Captain fucking Obvious over here....

[xXrollinstacksXx]

Damn is there an earthquake also!!

[TheSoundsmyth]

I Wonder WHEN will Fred Flintstone turn off the electricity?Or are they trying to permanently fix people 's home appliances with high voltage and then show them the video..?

[robot797]

dude why isnt the power cut in a substation bevore this

this should not be posible if al the securety stuff is in place (i work at a big electrical company)

[Movieguysorg]

@robot797 As weird as it may sound it is actually fairly common. Faults like this are often just seen as load and not a full blown fault which would cause the feeders at the other end to trip.

I also work for a large electrical company.

[robot797]

@Movieguysorg wow that is evil

but it looks nice

[DiegoTengo]

this is what they do for fun in Wyoming

[Talhalarasha]

noob, RTFM! There is a "anti shaking" button on your cam! k tanks

[DfromSD]

Worst camera work I've ever seen! Got motion sickness watching it!

[ApertureAce]

I can smell the ozone from here!

[zenenmoro]

its just chuck norris loading his playsttion 3.

[sparta300epic]

mom go toutch it

[rojblake82]

I would hate to be near this exploding, transformer if I was I would end up dead and burnt to toast.

[valcerfabri]

camera-man have parkinson?

[mazdaspeedmx512lbs]

I dare somebody to pee on it lol.

[UnrealChainz420x2]

Hey if you look at it it just about blinds you dont it?

lol

[Masamuneblade7]

you need to turn off the interpolated zoom.

[Doshu0007]

Yeah, wayyyy to much playing with zoom

[cbfd307]

You suck at holding camera. Dont ever try again.

[djlau1]

@cbfd307 to talk some where els like that

[DisguisedAirsofter]

@cbfd307 He sucks at holding the toaster he filmed this with.

[tall32guy]

@cbfd307 Don't everyone know that holding a camera really still, especially when you're excited dealing with what you're trying to film, is a tough thing to get right?? I'd like to see everyone that's bitching about it do any better....

[DavidSarge]

@cbfd307 "It was so bright you couldn't look at it"

[xXFreaky3DXx]

did you stand on one of the powerlines, or why are you shaking your camera?

you're just zooming in an out like it is an technoparty .. your camera has a shit

quality when zooming in .. stop that and everything is fine. aah yea and dont shake

the camera please .. even if you're scared of that .. dont shake ..

[berndpfe]

hmm sooner or later that swich is burnt up and dispersed. Such is producing intense heat where the energy jumps over.

[Skoda130]

Why did nobody cut the power off?

[BloKK187]

next time dont drink 4 pots coffee

[b262222]

Damn, [cameraman], learn how to hold a fuggin' camera!

[Fratos9]

I don't see Optimus Prime!

[Snoep76239]

Guy in vid: "Hell if ya looked at it it'd just about blind ya.."

Um, yes it could very well blind you, that's a lot of hard UV, just like looking at an arc welder unprotected.. DUH!

[Snoep76239]

Chuck Norris' Waterpik..

[paul34260]

there is a fire at the end and the guys stays here tchating

[llamalover02]

Chuck Norris squirrel....O_o

[loganrocks7]

Me: "Why the fuck can't I get on Xbox Live?!?!?!?!"

*Throws controller and looks outside*

Me: "Fuck."

[MrMinigod69]

lying title, there ain't an explosion, and the cameraman is an idiot.

[Authorified]

thats why there was a squirrel on my tv screen for half an hour

[FrozenHaxor2]

Squirrel evaporated.

[ralbiruni]

No circuit breacker in wyoming ?

[SanjiKunTheLoveCook]

this would've been one hell of a video if you didn't have parkinson and you couldn't hold your damn camera still

[AnalogRocks]

Don't wizz on the electric fence.

[AustinDaStarWarsGeek]

So, could I power my suit with this, Jarvis?

[matt82pulses]

Cook marshmallow on it brave boy-scout

[MRCUMMINSISX]

is not a transformer failure.....is a worker welding using extreme power on his arc welder

[ALBERTO7559]

Zoom is the worst thing they added to consumer cameras!

[KnittingPasta]

@ALBERTO7559

no it's not! the lack of tripods is the worst thing

[god604]

seriously cameraman? you have Parkinson or something?

[dontillman]

@god604 For all of you giving grief to the cameraman, to zoom into something that far away WITHOUT a monopod or a tripod is impossible to do without any movement. Period..

[97skinnyboyswag]

it didnt explode, it just burst into flames really fast XD

[1patrat]

HEY SHAKEY!!!!! LEAN AGAINST THE TRUCK!

[davisotj1]

where's the explosion? I WATCHED THIS TO SEE AN EXPLOSION!!!!

[TheFirstLiquidVideos]

transformer explosion + acid = best trip of your life maybe i need to catch one of these while im tripping xD

[pocyclips]

If this was a porn all the in and out plus wiggling around would be AWESOME.... BUT IT'S NOT.

[agora2570]

didn't you try to pull the plug out? or to throw water at it? huaaahahahaha

[TheFirstLiquidVideos]

@agora2570 actually i did try some salt water it works better than tap xD

[wehatemacs]

is the camera man Michael J Fox?

[logisys14]

epic FAIL

[JoeKnowsHits]

a real life sujper sayian

[tunezjunkie87]

mmmmmmmmmmmmm... plasma....

[metermatch]

The video would be better if the stupid cameraman would STOP ZOOMINIG THE DAMN CAMERA IN AND OUT!!!

[noelsingletary]

Getting sick watching this moving in and out, up and down too much. Can't watch anymore...GAG!!!

[gridejp]

The title say "EXPLOSION" but it no happen

[ccraig412]

Toxic smoke? "Don't breathe this." xD

[aForkandaSpoon]

They were just attempting to fix that hole in the ozone layer

[wow1022]

learn the difference between a arc and an explosion

[dinetsandrew]

nice, but danger for eye

[xXXGoodnessXXx]

Uhh i can hear the crap ur saying

[Johnny64ism]

LOL @ Codey

[RockMetalsFTW]

How did i get here??

[Comments2010]

@RockMetalsFTW THE END.

[rlijabrost]

when i see electric power plants sparking and looking like there going to expload the first thing i do is drive up to it defiantly not away pshh who wants to drive away from such deadly mix of things that could go wrong...(Sarcasm)

[LouManChu66]

created a virtual Jacobs latter

[Booger6995]

Cameraman appears to have had one too many Red Bulls this day.

[macedoadonias1]

Este é o procedimento correto a fazer, porque dentro do transformador tem oleo, e enquanto não acabar este oleo, ele não se apagará.

[Comments2010]

@macedoadonias1 EXATAMENTE

[steidl001]

Damn, [cameraman], learn how to hold a fuggin' camera!

Also, that's not an explosion, that's plasma (ionized particles of matter). The plasma, and resulting overheating of equipment, led to flames (aka: fire). An explosion is, by definition, "A violent expansion in which energy is transmitted outward as a shock wave." Therefore, I'll say it again: this is not an explosion.

Nice-looking result of a switch malfunction though!

[ilovescakebish]

@steidl001 stupid fucking nerd no need to troll this vid. basicly the same god damn thing!

[steidl001]

@ilovescakebish No, it's not the same thing. Go to school, tard, and stop insulting those of us that have more intelligence than you.

[ilovescakebish]

@steidl001 of fuck you it has flames and it goes boom. thats the same fucking tyhing as a explosion.

[steidl001]

@ilovescakebish Now I see you're blind and deaf. When does it go "Boom?" Stop being a fucktard.

[turnoutjim]

isn't this how a lot of super heroes are created? Or even their nemesis?

[uNcl55]

best cameraman i ever seen..

[MrSlim21483]

camera man is awful

[jorgedgx]

That's not a transformer!!! it is a circuit breaker!!

[anothatech]

Fireworks!

[KaciFoxProductions]

I didn't see an explosion... do people not know the definition of explosion anymore?

[sleeptyper]

That's what they get when the grid hardware is from stone age :)

[ShingleCreek]

Did the cameraman explode?

[Frostiken]

I wish I could find the retards who film this garbage in real life and smash everything they own for being so fucking inept.

[pieznice29]

@Frostiken

u mad?

[bailibug96]

Dad:kids tonight we're having bbc scuirrel

[powermaks]

ok... NOW i know we were without power for a few days.... ummmm.... the damn short!

[MrAkmal78]

well transformer bumble bee has wrong walk lol? need to found the outspark? lol?

[jimmythekiddd]

camera man nickname should be shaky

[Dookiedolf]

"When you look at it, it just about blinds ya dont it..hey it makes you blinds you uh"

Well yes mate, you will be blind tomorrow, you just spent 5minutes staring at an arc weld 10times more powerful than your average metal welder :-<

[zackthegoth]

have too much coffee? just asking.

btw where was the boom, everythings better with the boom.

[Brat2777]

Баран, камеру не мог нормально держать??? Нихера не видно!

[Comments2010]

@Brat2777 это не его вина. у него нет штатива. Вы не можете изменить масштаб изображения, а не трястись в то же время без штатива.

[mrmatt2525able]

looks like my back yard

[YeOldClipper]

It's always fun to watch the hydrogen in the air rust out of the water vapor. Isn't it?

[SergeySasin]

Почему не сработала защита от КЗ???

[Comments2010]

@SergeySasin это не путешествие, потому что нефть не сгорит полностью.

[feedingfrenzy123]

Ruddy hell that squirrel's caused alot of damage!



[joek0617]

6kw lightbulb!