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From: Hynohtz
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  • Wow great arcing! This was a common phase-to-phase arc. The tree made a connection between two different lines carrying different voltage. This drew an arc between the two lines. It kept coming back since the arc didnt have enough current to activate the recloser. The arc finally extinguished when it reached the ground wire and the power was able to shut down.

  • The Doc is time traveling again. 

  • Obviously he was lickin her out as it happened, thats why the guy wasnt saying much..

  • this is so arousing...

  • Pardon me ma'am, but you sound as if you had an orgasm.

  • omgg.....its a porn or what?

  • Wow a spectacular 'jacob's ladder' there what voltage are these lines do you know?

    I dont quite get how a wooden branch could have caused that though.

  • @soundseeker63 There was a connection between the powerlines

  • uy a nice house , se a "small" detail throuw the fingers ... ok the lines are to close to the house , thats the reason she had a current fobie .. bzzzzzzzzzzz !!! ;)

  • You wouldn't belive anything could happen...

    POW!

  • Damn, it sounded like she was gettin off, hell yea.....

  • Wow! What was the voltage on the lines?

  • it went out as soon as it hit the ground wire.

  • Nice arc!!! Looks like a horizontal Jacob's ladder.

  • well it looks like the phases (normally you have 1-3 of those wires that are hooked up to the transformers and are usually at the top of the power pole) were too close to each other....most of the time when that happens it doesnt take much for a breaker or switch to burn out

  • Wow, thats what I call an arc. I just wonder why it didn't short out the powerline, there had to be something limiting the current (you normally cannot draw an arc of the powerline as it will instantly short it out)

  • you can draw an arc on a powerline,there is nothing limiting the current in a short circuit,if the arc occurs between two phases and shorts to ground it usually stops...

  • well, it seems that it shorted to earth at first, and didn't draw enough current to break the recloser. Near the end of the video, a phase-to-phase arc probably occurs, finally cutting the power.

    In a well-designed system, you can't draw an arc between phases, the power should be cut as soon as fault current is sensed. If this doesn't happen, the wires can melt, transformers overheat,...

  • I am sure this happens all the time (and probably has since power lines were invented), with branches faling onto them and causing short-outs; it's just that it usually doesn't get recorded. :) Pretty cool though!

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