First I would like to point out that this is not a transformer exploding, it is a primary riser. Which takes the primary overhead to underground. And it has either gone phase to phase or phase to ground. Second the bright flashes and loud booms that everyone talks about are not transformers exploding, but fuses being blown over a transformer or down the line some where.
my mom sis and i were driving on the way to school for the fcats and the fuckin transformer exploded 10 feet away from us and we almost flipped the car! are car got electricuted!!!!!
From what I understand, there is an oil like fluid insude the transformer that acts as an insulator, and in cold environments when that fluid gets thick , it no longer insuates the transformer and it explodes. This happened a few days ago right by my house. I was sitting in my car and I saw a bright blash, which I though was someone taking a picture, and then a loud BANG. I found out later a transformer had exploded. This was in Arizona. Which is theoretically a desert.
i remember one night, one blew up as i was driving away in the opposite direction and all i saw was a very bright flash of neon green. my 4 year old cousin was convinced that aliens have finally arrived.
A transformer blew near my house last night but it was across the highway. Very loud buzz sound i heard and looked outside and the pole was lit up, it finally went out by itself but i didnt lose power on my side. Idk why it happened.
what you saw most likely was what we call a feeder dip shorting out. The dip probably isnt fused at the pole. What happens is the fault current from the short travels all the way back to the sub station and trips a breaker. It will trip 2 or 3 times before locking out. this is a process we call reclosing. that is why you see 2 large arcs. the short was probably located where the 3 cables come together into a pipe on the pole.
yes its the usa its commerical street by casco bay lines and casco bay garage i used to run and manage it i know that area well the feeder the short and fire was in feeds the old bath iron works building in the back round the blue building
there was no transformer, it was just the fuses blowing... they act like a circuit breaker in your house... when there is too much voltage, or a short circuit or another problem... BOOM!!! i work for national grid in upstate NY
@mainelyelectric yes its the usa its commerical street by casco bay lines and casco bay garage i used to run and manage it i know that area well the feeder the short and fire was in feeds the old bath iron works building in the back round the blue building
@mainelyelectric yes its the usa its commerical street by casco bay lines and casco bay garage i used to run and manage it i know that area well the feeder the short and fire was in feeds the old bath iron works building in the back round the blue building
@ratbag359 Speaking of exploding bulbs, I had a 277 volt neon pilot light arc over internally and blow the bulb and lens right out of the housing. All that was left was the casing and lead wires. It had lit up fine prior to my shutting off the unit I was testing. I turned it back on POW! Wonder if a spike arced it over inside the unit was connected to a 480-600 volt step up xfmr which was fed by my variac. I bet turning on the transformer breaker with the unit breaker closed made a spike.
38 seconds in wholly crap! then again at 54 seconds.. I have seen a couple of transformers pop, its interesting but I wouldn't want to be underneath one when it goes..
This transformer didn't "explode"; I've seen them explode, but that's very rare. Once I saw a kid throw click-clacks on a power line. It wrapped around both the 2400V (pri) and 240V (sec) lines, pulling them together until they touched, which increased the power flowing through the transformer from about 1KW to about 1MW. The top blew off and the melted core and burning coolant blew out the top. The grass below was drenched with burning PCBs, and the lid came down and smashed a tree.
Unlikely to be PCBs I'd have thought, more likely oil, the primary reason they started using PCBs is because they were non flammable (or at least significantly less flammable than oil). (Yeah, minor nit-pick and I don't mind being proved wrong if I am, but that was my understanding of why PCBs were used instead of oil for a while).
Then of course they found out that PCBs had those nasty side effects!
Ah, good point; different substances have been used as transformer coolant liquids over the years. I should have said "coolant" to be safe. The incident I was refering to was, I think, around Feb 1976. Let me research when PCBs where used.... Yes, they were used until 1979, so the transformer I saw explode in 1976 likely did have PCBs in it. I don't know what modern transformers use.
@MaleBretonFinn yes its the usa its commerical street by casco bay lines and casco bay garage i used to run and manage it i know that area well the feeder the short and fire was in feeds the old bath iron works building in the back round the blue building
dunno...but all current transporting wires do create an electromagnetic field... i just don't know if the field is stronger when there's an transformer accident like that. Might be, since the arc is high current...
Two things. Firstly, has someone been watching Small Soldiers a little too much? I don't think shorting a transformer does much more than damaging it. For an electromagnetic pulse, you need something like a huge capacitor bank discharging into an electromagnet. There's no sudden power surges here, so the most this does is create a huge electromagnetic field.
Secondly, and this is just pedantic, there's no such thing as an EMP wave. The pulse is, by definition, a pulse not a wave.
First, i actually have heard it from a person, not from the movie. Second, thank you for clarifying my question, although you could have just said its not true.
@Brianshvrs kinda. All electricty gives off an electromagnetic field, more so when they are wound in coils. Transformers are simply coils of wire transferring electricity, so they have powerful electromagnetic fields. If one exploded, then it might give off an EMP within a certain area. Good question.
@KittyRokher am i right in thinking the emp produced by a transformer like that would be relativity low energy im not familiar with the u.s energy grids voltage is it 230 volts to a house same as the uk ?
In the US, each house gets between 110-120 Volts (usually 120). If an exploding transformer gave off an EMP, it would be a very small one. Maybe everything within, say, ten feet would stop working. Then again, when one explodes, everything within ten feet is scorched!
Residential = 2-phase, 180deg apart, plus neutral. Most home outlets are phase-to-neutral (120VAC), but some outlets (washing machines, air conditioners) may be phase-to-phase (240VAC). Industrial/commercial is all 208volt 3-phase, 120deg apart (120V phase-to-neutral). Outlets are either 120V-1-phase (phase-to-neutral) or 208V-2-phase (phase-to-phase), or 208V-3-phase (using all 3 phases at once to drive 3-phase motors, etc).
Excessive power can cause a transformer to explode, but that doesn't cause an EMP because the explosion itself is thermal/mechanical, not electrical, in nature. A transformer explosion is a BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion). The pressure increases until the container ruptures (or pressure relief device, if present, activates). The transformer in this video doesn't explode, it just arcs. The arc causes a small EMP, yes. An explosion wouldn't, though.
I didn't want to get too technical, but yes, it would take an arc to make a small EMP. However, to most people that don't know much about electricity, arc=ExpLoSioN!!!! OMG!!! So, yeah, I was just trying not to arc their minds.
@KittyRokher : Arcs do not much resemble explosions. Those with weak education and sparse vocabulary misuse words, yes. Calling their attention to their errors is a good thing, not a bad thing, and does not "arc" their minds in any way. And there is not OMG. OMG (aka "Yahweh", aka "Allah") is just a fictitious character, like Hank Reardon, Aragorn, or Roger Rabbit. Gods, devils, angels, and demons do not exist, any more than gnomes or elves exist.
@0teh0killah : No. Else we could say that you are clearly a warthog. Why? Because you have teeth, just like a warthog does; therefore you are a warthog. Epic fail on that logic. No, not everything that swims in the ocean is a hammerhead shark, not every piece of piano music is a Chopin mazurka, and not everything that makes flashes and/or bangs is an "explosion".
There IS a God. you want proof? look at the trees and grass and the beauty of nature around you...do you think some random explosion created all of this?
it could be an overload condition caused a high current and over heat in the distribution transformer
but crap it is freezing out there there must be something ales cause this maybe a failure in the transformer protection system or a bad design for the secondary distribution system.
Most people have no idea what kind of energy flows through those normally 'quiet' wires which casually run through our neighborhoods! Note how at 0:35, during that fault, the vibration is so great, it knocks the streetlight on the same pole open!
There are no transformers on that pole. The "explosions" are a result of the flames (plasma) making a conductive path between two of the three power phases. Probably tripped the breaker at the nearest substation after the last "explosion".
Yes, it is. It's a polemount transformer for bringing line voltage down to house voltage.
I'm guessing that the line voltage is something like 22kv, maybe 14kv. Usually it's in a range around that, and then they bring in 2 phase, 3 wire power to the house.
a transformer exploded down the sreet from my school i was outside in the morning just before i was about to open the door i heard two what sounded like a shotgun was a transformer it was so damn loud and the powwer of the whole school blacked out for 10 seconds
if you watch the fire and see how it is getting bigger, these transformer has oil inside them to keep the coil cool so it will not overheat and causing an outage, when these transformer ages, the seals on the bottom of the casing can deteriorate and will cause the oil to leak out, and when it gets low on oil... it can overheat, it will have a transformer failure, causing sparks and fire, and will cause power outages, we had one that leaked all its oil and starting to smoke and sparks with fire
Maybe it is the way the transformers are made, or, perhaps they become overloaded, such as 40-year old transformer subjected to more and more drain increasing in over the years. I am glad that more equipment is now required to be as efficient as possible, even if it costs more, and that many people and companies are finding ways to do the same job with less electricity. It is a small start for a large problem.
Look at the street light next on the pole. After the discharge at 39 seconds into the video, the cover on the streetlight (the one usually opened to change the bulb) flies open. That is a HUGE amount of energy being released.
Its not the light bulb. no sparks come from the light fixture. I believe that it is the shear force from the blast-wave of the exploding pole transformer that knocks open the street light.
Sorry, it the camera's automatic aperture that causing the change in screen brightness and color. When there's an explosion (bright flash) the aperture closes down to compensate for the increase in brightness and opens up when the flash subside. Nothing to do with emp (electro magnetic pulses).
gotcha. also after a few viewings, i realized is *was* the whole frame changing color, not just the sky. you can see it in the snow, and the white car as well.
still a fabulous explosion, though!! btw, this is tiffany, jeff's friend.
Good catch. Normaly I dont see when a 3p dip goes bad.
keithp74 1 month ago
it looks like me when I'm having an orgasm!
sweetgyy 1 month ago
R.I.P. He stood no chance.
100PercentGreen 1 month ago
a car appeared when it blew up :O
kalowen1 2 months ago
First I would like to point out that this is not a transformer exploding, it is a primary riser. Which takes the primary overhead to underground. And it has either gone phase to phase or phase to ground. Second the bright flashes and loud booms that everyone talks about are not transformers exploding, but fuses being blown over a transformer or down the line some where.
josiahmsanders 4 months ago 6
@josiahmsanders That's very interesting, I always wondered why something like that would explode, I'm glad that it doesn't.
BrothersFreedive 2 months ago
kablooi!!!!!!!!!!!wow!!
anamaniacs333 4 months ago
The guy parking was funny...However, there was no transformer on that pole. Just overhead-to-underground junctions, one phase having faulted.
NathanH5 4 months ago
snow plus fire equals snowball target practice
Condoviper 5 months ago
There goes the engine
youngdones 6 months ago
epic fail at 2:10
logisys14 6 months ago
This was certainly an entertaining video.
mrktacoma 6 months ago
The window is much more evil than the transformer... but anyway ;)
mimdotcc 6 months ago 4
0:38 KA-BEWM
robloxroxx 7 months ago
It looked like a small Nuclear Bomb at 0:36.
SecretService80 8 months ago
you should turn off all the breaker switches when something like that happens
mathscirocks 8 months ago
This looks like soviet russia
flanksteak2 10 months ago
That's not a transformer exploding. It is simply a high voltage arc with fire.
Booger6995 11 months ago
america with their fucked up electricity network :)
renoise897 11 months ago
my mom sis and i were driving on the way to school for the fcats and the fuckin transformer exploded 10 feet away from us and we almost flipped the car! are car got electricuted!!!!!
DollinfoBaka20 11 months ago
From what I understand, there is an oil like fluid insude the transformer that acts as an insulator, and in cold environments when that fluid gets thick , it no longer insuates the transformer and it explodes. This happened a few days ago right by my house. I was sitting in my car and I saw a bright blash, which I though was someone taking a picture, and then a loud BANG. I found out later a transformer had exploded. This was in Arizona. Which is theoretically a desert.
Whisperjet727 11 months ago
1:04 WHAT THE---
racer927 11 months ago
where is this at?
rudeboyS14 1 year ago
This just happened next to my house
zac856314 1 year ago
BEATIFUL!!!!!!!
josesillo0789 1 year ago
i remember one night, one blew up as i was driving away in the opposite direction and all i saw was a very bright flash of neon green. my 4 year old cousin was convinced that aliens have finally arrived.
SweeterThanPinkCandy 1 year ago
Chuck Norris just turned on his heater...
SpartanKitteh0659 1 year ago
I see some people are adding to the problem.... dumbasses.
vexviper 1 year ago
After the explosion at 0:38, it broke the street light on it!
sonconmas 1 year ago
A transformer blew near my house last night but it was across the highway. Very loud buzz sound i heard and looked outside and the pole was lit up, it finally went out by itself but i didnt lose power on my side. Idk why it happened.
edwardcute13 1 year ago
what you saw most likely was what we call a feeder dip shorting out. The dip probably isnt fused at the pole. What happens is the fault current from the short travels all the way back to the sub station and trips a breaker. It will trip 2 or 3 times before locking out. this is a process we call reclosing. that is why you see 2 large arcs. the short was probably located where the 3 cables come together into a pipe on the pole.
bwy0874 1 year ago
no transformer just fused cutouts blowing, i have been 6 feet away throwing them in when they blow...
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yes its the usa its commerical street by casco bay lines and casco bay garage i used to run and manage it i know that area well the feeder the short and fire was in feeds the old bath iron works building in the back round the blue building
itscool1968 1 year ago
there was no transformer, it was just the fuses blowing... they act like a circuit breaker in your house... when there is too much voltage, or a short circuit or another problem... BOOM!!! i work for national grid in upstate NY
bassboy923 1 year ago
I love explosions. Especially one where no one gets hurt.
mattnorton5 1 year ago
check out the hypersonics when it explodes, blindin light then pitch black :L
RAMBOramageHERE 1 year ago
hay i live a few miles away from here i don't remember this and that is not a transformer, that is a pole where the 3 phase power goes underground
mainelyelectric 1 year ago
hay i live a few miles away from here i don't remember this
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@mainelyelectric yes its the usa its commerical street by casco bay lines and casco bay garage i used to run and manage it i know that area well the feeder the short and fire was in feeds the old bath iron works building in the back round the blue building
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@mainelyelectric yes its the usa its commerical street by casco bay lines and casco bay garage i used to run and manage it i know that area well the feeder the short and fire was in feeds the old bath iron works building in the back round the blue building
itscool1968 1 year ago
haha yea the guy at the end was so happy till he saw what was fuckin happening
SmallvilleLL15 1 year ago
Soooooo pumpmypedal..wtf is a fire crew going to do with high voltage ??? Jesus please for the good of all mankind, engage brain prior to mouth !
MsDogsea 1 year ago
wow..."MMMMZUMP...BOOF!"
troshs 1 year ago
lol it arced to the street light phase and exploded the bulb forcing the lens open.
you guys are lucky it didn't arch to the phase supplying your house that would have been good bye to anything switched in/plugged in to the wall.
ratbag359 1 year ago
@ratbag359 Speaking of exploding bulbs, I had a 277 volt neon pilot light arc over internally and blow the bulb and lens right out of the housing. All that was left was the casing and lead wires. It had lit up fine prior to my shutting off the unit I was testing. I turned it back on POW! Wonder if a spike arced it over inside the unit was connected to a 480-600 volt step up xfmr which was fed by my variac. I bet turning on the transformer breaker with the unit breaker closed made a spike.
Nivicoman 10 months ago
Fucking hell i wouldn't be going anywhere near that thing.
jarvis911 1 year ago
38 seconds in wholly crap! then again at 54 seconds.. I have seen a couple of transformers pop, its interesting but I wouldn't want to be underneath one when it goes..
Crpetersena 1 year ago
cool vid man! where was this shot? Looks chilly, but then again I live in southern Arizona, so we shut the town down at 60 degrees...
irishimport77 1 year ago
@irishimport77 its on commerical street in portland maine.
the garge you see when he pans to the right i used to run and manage .
the old bath iron works building is in the back the blue one
itscool1968 1 year ago
at 0:36 what is on the sky, are clouds?
jaguarcito84 1 year ago
@jaguarcito84 smoke
coolbluelights 1 year ago
cool look at 0:52
Anth888ya 1 year ago
You see the guy get out of the black sedan, look up, and his shrug tells you he is like "Ohhh WTF?' then gets back in. lol
MSNIMSM 1 year ago
@MSNIMSM lol, yeah he was totally oblivious for a sec, then luckily woke up... hehe, I laughed when I saw his reaction
irishimport77 1 year ago
what the hell was 1:03?
edforedd 2 years ago
i think opening the window ...
BaumDerProllige 2 years ago
I think the window he was opening was really creaky.
Rikushix 1 year ago
Awesome spark at 0:37
RPCJerkobi 2 years ago
This transformer didn't "explode"; I've seen them explode, but that's very rare. Once I saw a kid throw click-clacks on a power line. It wrapped around both the 2400V (pri) and 240V (sec) lines, pulling them together until they touched, which increased the power flowing through the transformer from about 1KW to about 1MW. The top blew off and the melted core and burning coolant blew out the top. The grass below was drenched with burning PCBs, and the lid came down and smashed a tree.
lonewolfintj 2 years ago
Unlikely to be PCBs I'd have thought, more likely oil, the primary reason they started using PCBs is because they were non flammable (or at least significantly less flammable than oil). (Yeah, minor nit-pick and I don't mind being proved wrong if I am, but that was my understanding of why PCBs were used instead of oil for a while).
Then of course they found out that PCBs had those nasty side effects!
TheChipmunk2008 2 years ago
Ah, good point; different substances have been used as transformer coolant liquids over the years. I should have said "coolant" to be safe. The incident I was refering to was, I think, around Feb 1976. Let me research when PCBs where used.... Yes, they were used until 1979, so the transformer I saw explode in 1976 likely did have PCBs in it. I don't know what modern transformers use.
lonewolfintj 2 years ago
at. 0:53 it looked liked a portal
MegaCrazydude101 2 years ago
oooooooooooooh thats fucked up
DioHolyDiver83 2 years ago
GAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! MY EYES!
ohbobsaget22 2 years ago
i cannot believe the assholes, who drive there, see a firetruck coming and block it
Were the fuck did they learn to drive
pumpmypedal 2 years ago 34
Who's blocking? The white trucks are clearly the PowerCompany. The firemen must wait for a green ligth from the power guys before they can act anyway
dagisiemens 2 years ago
USA?
MaleBretonFinn 1 year ago
@MaleBretonFinn yes its the usa its commerical street by casco bay lines and casco bay garage i used to run and manage it i know that area well the feeder the short and fire was in feeds the old bath iron works building in the back round the blue building
itscool1968 1 year ago
@pumpmypedal
Ei ja, die haben halt ihren Führerschein bei Neckermann auf der Rolltreppe gemacht. So was gibt's.
joshypower 1 year ago
@pumpmypedal, Their driver's license are made in china
SpiritsoftheWolf 5 months ago
I heard when these things blow they give off EMP waves, is that true?
Brianshvrs 2 years ago
dunno...but all current transporting wires do create an electromagnetic field... i just don't know if the field is stronger when there's an transformer accident like that. Might be, since the arc is high current...
SFseis 2 years ago
yah they did it at my school today
flapjackskate 2 years ago
@Brianshvrs
Two things. Firstly, has someone been watching Small Soldiers a little too much? I don't think shorting a transformer does much more than damaging it. For an electromagnetic pulse, you need something like a huge capacitor bank discharging into an electromagnet. There's no sudden power surges here, so the most this does is create a huge electromagnetic field.
Secondly, and this is just pedantic, there's no such thing as an EMP wave. The pulse is, by definition, a pulse not a wave.
Turin524 2 years ago
First, i actually have heard it from a person, not from the movie. Second, thank you for clarifying my question, although you could have just said its not true.
Brianshvrs 2 years ago
@Brianshvrs kinda. All electricty gives off an electromagnetic field, more so when they are wound in coils. Transformers are simply coils of wire transferring electricity, so they have powerful electromagnetic fields. If one exploded, then it might give off an EMP within a certain area. Good question.
KittyRokher 2 years ago
@KittyRokher Thank-you!
Brianshvrs 2 years ago
@KittyRokher am i right in thinking the emp produced by a transformer like that would be relativity low energy im not familiar with the u.s energy grids voltage is it 230 volts to a house same as the uk ?
05EMBERSONA5 2 years ago
In the US, each house gets between 110-120 Volts (usually 120). If an exploding transformer gave off an EMP, it would be a very small one. Maybe everything within, say, ten feet would stop working. Then again, when one explodes, everything within ten feet is scorched!
KittyRokher 2 years ago
@KittyRokher thnks
05EMBERSONA5 2 years ago
your welcome
KittyRokher 2 years ago
Residential = 2-phase, 180deg apart, plus neutral. Most home outlets are phase-to-neutral (120VAC), but some outlets (washing machines, air conditioners) may be phase-to-phase (240VAC). Industrial/commercial is all 208volt 3-phase, 120deg apart (120V phase-to-neutral). Outlets are either 120V-1-phase (phase-to-neutral) or 208V-2-phase (phase-to-phase), or 208V-3-phase (using all 3 phases at once to drive 3-phase motors, etc).
lonewolfintj 2 years ago 2
where i used to work it was 277v/480v phase to phase coming into the building with 480/240/120 step down transformers in every corner it seemed.
fuhQ6969 2 years ago 2
Excessive power can cause a transformer to explode, but that doesn't cause an EMP because the explosion itself is thermal/mechanical, not electrical, in nature. A transformer explosion is a BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion). The pressure increases until the container ruptures (or pressure relief device, if present, activates). The transformer in this video doesn't explode, it just arcs. The arc causes a small EMP, yes. An explosion wouldn't, though.
lonewolfintj 2 years ago
I didn't want to get too technical, but yes, it would take an arc to make a small EMP. However, to most people that don't know much about electricity, arc=ExpLoSioN!!!! OMG!!! So, yeah, I was just trying not to arc their minds.
KittyRokher 2 years ago
@KittyRokher : Arcs do not much resemble explosions. Those with weak education and sparse vocabulary misuse words, yes. Calling their attention to their errors is a good thing, not a bad thing, and does not "arc" their minds in any way. And there is not OMG. OMG (aka "Yahweh", aka "Allah") is just a fictitious character, like Hank Reardon, Aragorn, or Roger Rabbit. Gods, devils, angels, and demons do not exist, any more than gnomes or elves exist.
lonewolfintj 1 year ago
Yeah, I'm an atheist. But, to many, when they see an arc, they'll just call it an electrical explosion or something lol.
KittyRokher 1 year ago
It can be considered an explosion, as it rapidly heats up air, creating a shock wave (as in thunder).
0teh0killah 1 year ago
@0teh0killah : No. Else we could say that you are clearly a warthog. Why? Because you have teeth, just like a warthog does; therefore you are a warthog. Epic fail on that logic. No, not everything that swims in the ocean is a hammerhead shark, not every piece of piano music is a Chopin mazurka, and not everything that makes flashes and/or bangs is an "explosion".
lonewolfintj 1 year ago
@lonewolfintj shut the fuck up already dickmouth! damnit man.
jbirm420 1 year ago
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@lonewolfintj I disagree with you completely.
There IS a God. you want proof? look at the trees and grass and the beauty of nature around you...do you think some random explosion created all of this?
BigBoiJC 1 year ago
@BigBoiJC
You best be trolling man xD
klenner 1 year ago
Wow! this is crazy!
Vid12 2 years ago
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Vid12 2 years ago
it could be an overload condition caused a high current and over heat in the distribution transformer
but crap it is freezing out there there must be something ales cause this maybe a failure in the transformer protection system or a bad design for the secondary distribution system.
heshamharold 2 years ago
after the first explosion theres something to the left dangling.
Fucking knew that it was a squirrel
TrainsforGTA 2 years ago
That's the cover of the street light, not a squirrel.
Son37Lumiere 2 years ago
whhaaaaaat freakin sounds :D
MrTomMasterVideos 2 years ago
where happened this? and what voltage was?
RogerEA919 2 years ago
Lol the sound of window
Vaksel 2 years ago 2
Holy shit, that window scared me :D
laryk500 2 years ago 33
der is gut durch
Nanobot02 2 years ago
Bad American Power Net !
burgstallkogel 2 years ago 2
What voltage? 10, 35kV?
ftynmik 2 years ago
pause exactly on 0:39 its night time :D
aqwAld 2 years ago
how do those things blow up anyway?
walawala299 2 years ago
Many reasons, most commonly due to poor maintenance or vandelism.
snedie69er 2 years ago
they have some kind of oil or something in them that can explode when heated i think.
someguy19x 2 years ago
ya the oil is used for cooling
aarpaz 2 years ago
@someguy19x they have oil i them to cool them down ma frend works for the nationol grid thats what he told me...
MrBrad123456789 1 year ago
the Explosion at 0:38 Blew the Refractor Door on the streetlight wide open!
form109 2 years ago 2
yeah it did
MJB612 2 years ago
God that window needs WD-40!
AED1staid 2 years ago 73
You can clean glass with WD40? I didn't know, have to try it.
anilingus 2 years ago
I was talking about the window squeaking so bad.
AED1staid 2 years ago
Most people have no idea what kind of energy flows through those normally 'quiet' wires which casually run through our neighborhoods! Note how at 0:35, during that fault, the vibration is so great, it knocks the streetlight on the same pole open!
dday0606 2 years ago
There are no transformers on that pole. The "explosions" are a result of the flames (plasma) making a conductive path between two of the three power phases. Probably tripped the breaker at the nearest substation after the last "explosion".
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american transformers are so shitty
wdowa94 2 years ago
You're Polish... that explains it
jmantra623 2 years ago
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Hey smarts, thats not a transofrmer.
Anubis4815162342 2 years ago
Yes, it is. It's a polemount transformer for bringing line voltage down to house voltage.
I'm guessing that the line voltage is something like 22kv, maybe 14kv. Usually it's in a range around that, and then they bring in 2 phase, 3 wire power to the house.
Bobbias 2 years ago
One went out at our school during picture day and was out for 2 hours
tehklutzking 2 years ago
a transformer exploded down the sreet from my school i was outside in the morning just before i was about to open the door i heard two what sounded like a shotgun was a transformer it was so damn loud and the powwer of the whole school blacked out for 10 seconds
hotcheetos55 2 years ago
lol the lights went out
BNSFSD40 2 years ago
Move your POS Jetta dude.
Selah1423 2 years ago
dont fuck with electricity
stranac1 2 years ago 3
lmao the fire department "get your dam car outa here"
nekrofere 2 years ago
holy fuc. thats 3rd one.. HUGE and the 4th.. god thats crazy!!!!
nekrofere 2 years ago
I shit my pants on the second explodionz.
xXxmidgexXx 2 years ago
And by the 3rd Explosion i be grabbing a wire...lmao
YKPAIHA82 2 years ago
Dude by the 2nd explosion, i wouldn't be standing inside the house.
Peter4101 2 years ago
nothing wrogn with standing inside. as long as he not using a land connected line.
nekrofere 2 years ago
ROFLL
That's a tesla coil from red alert
123TauruZ321 2 years ago
How do these things happen with eltric poles?!
joewillgo 2 years ago
like everything, equipment will become faulty, thats why they have power linemen
Etrician55 2 years ago
Bet the guy in the red truck spilled his coffee or something
Kcy101 2 years ago 3
Oh forgot i thought transformers has fuses.
Anthony96922 2 years ago
great capture 5*
TheXtremeEnthusiast 2 years ago
1.21 gigawatts!!!!
demonslayer112223 2 years ago
Must be 25 kV arc.
Anthony96922 3 years ago
it screwed up ur camra
imtoxic55 3 years ago
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Anthony96922 3 years ago
There was a fuse that blew out by the transformer at :40 seconds
Anthony96922 3 years ago
Actually that looks like a street light that's attached to the pole. The hinged cover that you open to access the lamp blew open.
ViagraMan2Us 2 years ago
Deterioration of the infrastructure, man
hovanti 3 years ago 2
Good job on the vid.. perfect timings..
1InHouston 3 years ago
Haha I know, it scared me half to death.
JohnByeBye 3 years ago 2
Haha that red truck was freaking out.
EmoDog666 3 years ago
:54 nuclear baby!!!!
VideyoJunkei 3 years ago
if you watch the fire and see how it is getting bigger, these transformer has oil inside them to keep the coil cool so it will not overheat and causing an outage, when these transformer ages, the seals on the bottom of the casing can deteriorate and will cause the oil to leak out, and when it gets low on oil... it can overheat, it will have a transformer failure, causing sparks and fire, and will cause power outages, we had one that leaked all its oil and starting to smoke and sparks with fire
SpiritsoftheWolf 3 years ago 3
Maybe it is the way the transformers are made, or, perhaps they become overloaded, such as 40-year old transformer subjected to more and more drain increasing in over the years. I am glad that more equipment is now required to be as efficient as possible, even if it costs more, and that many people and companies are finding ways to do the same job with less electricity. It is a small start for a large problem.
antienjigglement 3 years ago
lol u could see the light in the window go out every time it sparks
TheToastPeople 3 years ago
a fire started from fireworks where i live and 1 of those exploded it was awsome
tjw150 3 years ago
EXCELLENT Video.
5 Stars
iamnat666 3 years ago
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I think Sailor Jupiter must have shot the powerlines with her attack "Supreme Thunder".
BenHutchinson1 3 years ago
No transformer on this pole . . . this is a lateral dip (overhead distribution to underground distribution). Still very cool!
futurerollagrad 3 years ago 6
Well said... that's what I see.
Kool bro.
oienmac 3 years ago
I could pee on that little fire to put it out
riotpack 3 years ago
No you can't. Pee conducts electricity. and you get fried:(
Anthony96922 2 years ago
lol you know that dude in the truck at 0:54 just about shit himself!
hawkdude93 3 years ago
Look at the street light next on the pole. After the discharge at 39 seconds into the video, the cover on the streetlight (the one usually opened to change the bulb) flies open. That is a HUGE amount of energy being released.
BenHutchinson1 3 years ago
Hey you're right! That lightbulb must have exploded in that blast! Normally those covers are screwed in place I believe.
BarneySaysHi 3 years ago
Its not the light bulb. no sparks come from the light fixture. I believe that it is the shear force from the blast-wave of the exploding pole transformer that knocks open the street light.
BenHutchinson1 3 years ago
I'm glad that happened up high and not on the ground! Someone could have gotten himself badly injured if a blast like that happened on ground level.
BarneySaysHi 3 years ago
Sorry, it the camera's automatic aperture that causing the change in screen brightness and color. When there's an explosion (bright flash) the aperture closes down to compensate for the increase in brightness and opens up when the flash subside. Nothing to do with emp (electro magnetic pulses).
rsd70s 3 years ago
did anyone see the lights go out and come back on when it sparked first time?
laurdy 3 years ago
That squawkin window hurt my ears more than the transformer! haha! May I suggest oiling it? :)
tall32guy 3 years ago 3
jeeez that window sounded like a demon being cast out. scary....oh lol that guy that parked there
lApEkv2l 3 years ago 2
Where is this?
randommagnum 3 years ago
What I wanna know is....Is the computer room still running?.....?
humanfly69 3 years ago 3
If you look closely, the streetlight gets fried also (door flies open).
BassmanII 3 years ago
there are chemtrails in the sky
semnopithecus2 3 years ago
oh yeah, and the wicked squeak from the window opening scared the piss out of me more than the damn explosion! W-D that thing!
decolady2 4 years ago 2
why does the sky keep changing color??
decolady2 4 years ago
because everytime the transformer arks it sends out a emp and messes up the camras color system
stonerlad25 4 years ago
gotcha. also after a few viewings, i realized is *was* the whole frame changing color, not just the sky. you can see it in the snow, and the white car as well.
still a fabulous explosion, though!! btw, this is tiffany, jeff's friend.
decolady2 4 years ago
electrical fire: confirmed for delivery, fire department paid locally!!
fallingshoes 4 years ago
Cool!
reggie220 4 years ago