...back when I was a devil-may-care teen. There was this 440v service down in my 'hood- Under the same conditions- 'cept w/~12" of snow and 1/2 that of salty-slush on the street under the ice-storms' fx... My friends(equally insane) & I decided to begin lobbing(30-40'away) salt-slushy, basketball sized orbs of semi-frozen electrolyte upon this live, pissed-off, whipping wire-snake of a downed line from that very same 440v service! "Hiss-ss-ss, Zz-zz-zz...pop...BOOM!" "Pz-zz-aa-ZT!" Short-KaBoom!
There are no transformers here!! This is simply an arcing fault, whereas an expulsion fuse opened near the end, stopping the fault with the loud 'bang'.
Too many people blame transformers; these rarely if ever "explode".
quite likely a explosive arc suppressor, a type of fuse with explosive in it that dose what it sounds like when it blows. the small explosion snuffs out the arc from the fuse blowing.
The explosion at the end sounding just like a fuse blowing. If it's an expulsion-type fuse, probably something like a Cutler-Hammer RDB, that's kind of what they sound like.
This happened across from my house during the ice storm of '06 when I was living in Missouri. I was in the middle of watching "The Jeffersons" when...KABOOM!
3 winters ago, there was a bad icestorm that engulfed most of North-East Kansas. As you know, cows have to be milked no matter what the weather is... my school was cancelled and I was milking around 0530 AM, the light in the barn flickered and I saw huge flashes outside. The transformer 20 feet away from the barn was arcing and just as I ran to the doorway, it blew up, pissed me off, made the cow knock over the milk, and caused a power surge that totalled the power grid to my farm buildings.
that's crazy!!! i was in bentonville, arkansas in april 2008 and i was at a park where i saw one of these transformers explode.. same sounds and pop explosion, althought not as dramatic as this one. all the power at the park went out (it was a huge park w/ a bunch of baseball fields)... pretty scary stuff when you're unsure what the heck just happened!
Definitely not a transformer explosion. I transformer is completely filled with flammable oils. There would have been a huge fireball and then burning oil sprayed everywhere if it had exploded.
what if all the lights in new york were shut down because of some jack ass? it might be fun and pitch dark at night. who knows someone might be having sex right next to you
@desinfector usually cut out fuses dont go right away it would have to be drawing that current for a lil bit, the shotgun sound you heard at the end was the cuout fuse blowing, thats when the arcing stopped.
We has a severe t-storm in my area and lightning hit a transformer yesterday and it did the same thing, only it was farther away from my home and it did not last as long.
in the ice storm of 08 where i was there were TONS of transformers exploding at once off the highway i thought it was lightning... oh no it wasn't boom..BOOM..boom...BOOM...boom...BOOM BOOOM it was like mortar shells coming down in a war!
Judging from the steam and smoke it looks like a tree limb had come in contact with the one of the high voltage feeds, ( one of the phases) and started arcing. As the limb burns, it carbonizes, which is even more conductive causing the arc to track along, and in this case the arc grows bigger or closer to one of the other phases. Then as the arc bridges the gap, boom! a phase to phase flash-over occurs which trips an upstream breaker, cutting the power.
this happened to me last night across the street from my house. there was a live fucking wire on the road and it casued some bushed to ignite. the winds almost blew the fire to my house! crazy shit. fuckin nj...
i have had one of these do the same thing in front of my house it is loud!! did ya get your power back on yet mine was off for 24 hours!! i'm in jeff co. mo. we have got a little snow so far this year but really have dodged the bullit on bad weather!!
Mislabeled: this transformer did not "explode"; it just arced for a while, then stopped. The pop you see/hear is just the arcing wire burning out, not the transformer itself exploding. Note how everything gets dark? If the transformer had exploded, everything would have been drenched with burning coolant and core parts, and the scene would have lit up bright as day. I've seen transformers actually explode; it's like Armageddon.
Noted. That was more than just a "pop", however. Insofar as thunder or the detonation of conventional explosives can be considered an explosion due to the rapid expansion of gases and the production of a shock wave, I think this is properly labeled as an "explosion". Admittedly, perhaps the transformer itself did not explode. I didn't walk up to check.
"Mortalrage": There is no "perhaps". This transformer did not "explode". It just arced. The pop was the arc quenching, probably because a fuse melted or a wire broke. If the transformer had actually exploded, you wouldn't need to (or be able to, without committing suicide) "walk up to check", because the area surrounding it would be covered with burning core parts and flaming transformer oil. But we can clearly see in this video that no such thing happened. It did not explode.
"mortalrage", so that you can see what a "Transformer Explosion" really looks like, it looks like THIS: watch?v=fzbQjd_Oo4Q Note that here, too, you get the "pop" of the arc quenching, but in this case, the arc quenched because the transformer exploded, blowing its top and ejecting it's core and coolant. But a mere arc (or even the "bang" of an arc quench) is not an "explosion". An "explosion" is something that bursts apart violently. The transformer in your video clearly did not.
@lonewolfintj Thanks for the education and reference. I'll change the title. Clearly, I need to learn more about the construction of electrical delivery equipment. They didn't exactly teach that stuff in grade school. To be fair, there were bits of things flying here and there, so I think it still meets your definition of an explosion, but I didn't realize how much oil was in a transformer. Thanks also for holding your ground. Believe it or not, accuracy is important to me.
@mortalrage yeah it was nothing more than the wire vapourizing due to it either becoming weak, or the arc jusmped phase to phase, which blew out one of the leads
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oh shut up smart ass!!! Nobody gives a fuck if it blew up or just "ARCED". We looked at it cause it was cool not for the proper technical description. Go jerk off to a dictionary!!!!!
CinemaSanders: While it may be true that *you* don't care about reality, I assure you that mentally healthy people *do* care about reality. That is why we discern between accuracy and inaccuracy, and between true statements and untrue statements. You should learn to do likewise. Rather than spew insults at your betters, you should seek to emulate them.
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If anyone wants to see my personal message to "lonewolffintj" TOTALLY OWNING HIM let me know. It was too long to comment here but he got his shit rocked in my message. WHY? Cause everyone hates a SMART ASS!
@lonewolfintj I'm not sure a dick-swinging contest about who's better is quite the right approach, but thanks for caring enough about reality to take the time to provide a bit of experienced education.
Some people think it's cool just to look at and see sparks fly. Wow. But some people want to know as much as possible about the event. The later are typically intelligent engineering and scientific minded types.
@CinemaSanders Yeah, it was cool, but I actually really did want to know what happened. Glad you enjoyed the video regardless of your reasons for watching it. :-)
@lonewolfintj I only can confirm. I´m working in an international transformer factory. And we build transformers with 400KV and above 1800 MVA. When this unit´s "explode", you think that the planet is not moving any more.
For example: Out units have about 300.000 Litres of oil in it (without cooling-equipment). And when this unit explodes - it will burn for days.
Last year we had a fire in our factory - and the best you can do: RUN - run for your life!!!
@lonewolfintj I assume, then, that a transformer *explosion* was what I saw during a massive ice/wind storm in my area last year? I was looking across a valley, seeing the bright flashes from transformers or downed lines arcing, and suddenly this wide cone of icy-white light blasts up into the air from behind the distant hillside, flickers for a second, then goes out. I didn't hear a boom, but this lit up the sky in a wide fan shape.
@JonasClark : No, a "cone of icy white light" (likely accompanied by buzzing and crackling sounds) is not an explosion, it's just an arc. A transformer explosion looks a massive yellow fireball of burning oil, accompanied by a deep "WHUMP" sound which shakes your bones, sets off car alarms, and breaks nearby windows. Look up the acronym "BLEVE" for more info on this. You're unlikely to see a transformer explosion in your life; they're quite rare. Pray you're never near one.
@lonewolfintj Thanks. Thing is, I've seen arcs before at a distance. They're a big white flash like a strobe. This was a wide (by wide, I mean the base must have been a block wide) fan of brilliant, searchlight-bright white light that lit up the sky from behind the hillside like day for about two seconds. Looked like a CGI effect. The biggest arcs I've seen in film have been more like electric flames, twisting around. This was instant-on, instant-off floodlight, lighting up the whole sky.
@lonewolfintj To be really honest, I don't think the wire burned out... This more sound (and looks) like a phase-to-phase short circuit arc, initiated by the first arc.
@lonewolfintj yeah that happened last night half the block was without power for 8 hours 2 transformers exploded, pole on fire and hot flaming oil dripping out to the ground it was pretty interesting i must admit. Me and a neighbor put out the fire on the garage and 5 trash cans that were below the transformers.
@lonewolfintj i have actually made a transformer to explode... my grantpa found a huge industrial cappacitor its big like the tv... can handle 13 max KV and 30 000 uF. i charged that on 10 kV. i wonder how many ams went throught the transformer xD it was all deformed :P i put a lemon there and the lemon blew up too, and i put a melon it made me allover with melon xD, but if someone touches that same thing happens xD dead before hit the ground :P... anyway its an old cappacitor from yugoslavia xD
ok this looked like the substation in Sikeston Missouri right as the ice storm came.. BUT if so.. you didnt get the first 5 mins of the glowing and roaring and was seen and heard for miles.. I was on my sunporch and seen it from 2 mile behind my house, we ran around to watch the sky, it was sorta scarey for sure
I have seen something like that... On january 1998, we had 3 ice storms.. 3 months no power at some places... I saw the transformer down my street do that.. It was freaking scary
Everybody is running to go check it out... Stick your tongue on it, see if it's still live!! If I seen a transformer going off like that, I wouldn't be getting close to it at all, as you can tell, they can explode.
In Colorado in 95 we had a ice storm in sept. it ended dumping 18" of snow. And bringing down branches from trees over the power lines. And let the booming begins from the transformers, it went all night in Inglewood Colorado. Just south of downtown Denver.
i was swimming this summer in my pool and i heard a very loud sound. i thought it was a rifle or shot gun or EVEN A CANNON, it was that LOUD! turns out it was a transformer about a block away!
Unfortunately, the video didn't catch the blue arcs jumping down the line. There's only a hint of them as shown by the blue vertical line in the video.
That's good that everything went pitch black before everything went dark, because I heard that if everything goes dark first it means that everything will go pitch black next... I will contain myself despite my great desire to, well, LOL LOL, BUA HA HA, *sprays laughter*
I herd peeewwfff sound after the explosion. That sound from the war movies I've seen is the sound of stuff flying relatively near to you while traveling VERY fast (think near miss by a bullet). I take it to be shrapnell launched at balistic velocity (hundreds of miles per hour) from the force of the exploding transformer. And like war shrapnel it can kill just as quick. Just because it was electrical doesn't mean its not as deadly as a chemical explosive.
As far as safety, you might as well have been filming a terrorist's nail/shrapnel pipebomb going off. Next time be more carefull, as the effects could be JUST as deadly as such a bomb.
@BenHutchinson1 I don't understand how people have no concept of danger in these situations. It's like all the people in the Netherlands who were killed trying to film a burning fireworks factory. Really, can't figure out why that might be a bad idea?
Love it!
NariNaraga22 5 days ago
i love how evreyone was watchig as if it wer fireworks and not one called the fire dept.
mgp0001 2 weeks ago
@ 0:29 SKABOOM!!!!!
TheMrpanda54 3 weeks ago
"Annnnd here we have a nice electrical fire..." Sarcasm noted, good sir.
zigzigzig 1 month ago
Wicked.
CBKillas 2 months ago
Ive seen one of there once.. you can kinda fell the eletricity from a block away
TheTomTomRUN 3 months ago
And then no power for weeks.I was out for 11 days.I know people who were out alot longer.
l92375 3 months ago
asome
MrBbgrump 3 months ago
Fuse: ERROR: 8000 VOLTS IS TOO HIGH!! WARNING: If system mal$^*$^^&& *BOOM*
atomjelly 3 months ago
...back when I was a devil-may-care teen. There was this 440v service down in my 'hood- Under the same conditions- 'cept w/~12" of snow and 1/2 that of salty-slush on the street under the ice-storms' fx... My friends(equally insane) & I decided to begin lobbing(30-40'away) salt-slushy, basketball sized orbs of semi-frozen electrolyte upon this live, pissed-off, whipping wire-snake of a downed line from that very same 440v service! "Hiss-ss-ss, Zz-zz-zz...pop...BOOM!" "Pz-zz-aa-ZT!" Short-KaBoom!
SittingMooseShaman 3 months ago
*insert chuck norris fact here*
Mikeeyy100 4 months ago
There are no transformers here!! This is simply an arcing fault, whereas an expulsion fuse opened near the end, stopping the fault with the loud 'bang'.
Too many people blame transformers; these rarely if ever "explode".
NathanH5 4 months ago
Anyone bring some marshmallows.
USRecovery2kX 4 months ago
Chuck Norris just sneezed.
SongOfFaithTv 4 months ago
at the end of Boom sound sounded awesome! :D
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the russians in germany had war with the americans!
belltechs 5 months ago
@belltechs What does that have to do with the video?
mortalrage 4 months ago
booooom!! lights out!
trainman071 5 months ago
thumbs up if you thought it would be a decepticon going BOOM!
darklordfry 5 months ago
It's the same what happened here in north Portugal, but it fastest than the video.
vitorix24 5 months ago
quite likely a explosive arc suppressor, a type of fuse with explosive in it that dose what it sounds like when it blows. the small explosion snuffs out the arc from the fuse blowing.
eadthem 5 months ago
Nice camera!
HeroDog909 5 months ago
@HeroDog909 If only it had been capable of HD...
mortalrage 4 months ago 3
Dude, I would be afraid to be near that thing...just sayin.
TransientSylph 5 months ago
@TransientSylph So would I if you are dumb enought to go near these things, you risk a lethal electric shock and end up dead and burnt to toast.
rojblake82 4 months ago
it would be taller then the trees
farnorthgiant 5 months ago
The explosion at the end sounding just like a fuse blowing. If it's an expulsion-type fuse, probably something like a Cutler-Hammer RDB, that's kind of what they sound like.
dale116dot7 6 months ago 2
@dale116dot7 So much to learn about... So little time. :-/
mortalrage 4 months ago
There goes the power... Marshmallows anyone?
GandaraVideos 7 months ago
best 4th of july
superpugable 7 months ago
WHOA!
theroadrunner556 7 months ago
it didnt explode, this is called an electric arc.
heavenlucy 7 months ago
i had an ice storm in 2008 in leominster. Transformers were exploding everywhere!
mackenzie7370 8 months ago
well there's your problem, the transformer's on fire
cumulo25 8 months ago
All I heard was POP!
TheZekethunder 8 months ago
"That's not a transformer explosion, it's just a _blank_ _blanking_"
"Obviously if that was a transformer explosion, it would blank because of blank and then blank"
"Blankity blank blank I'm smart blank"
Rotard12a 8 months ago
@Rotard12a Thanks for your insightful contribution to the discussion.
mortalrage 4 months ago
@mortalrage
You're welcome. It's never too late to point out that a silly argument is silly.
Rotard12a 3 months ago
noooooo! bumblebeeeeee!
aeropostalbaby1 8 months ago
So beatifull. And dangerous.
almagus1 8 months ago
that sounded like trees fell wen boom
snakemain7799 9 months ago
no more snow or ice on the trees now
leexgx 10 months ago
The explosion at the end is a fuse popping. It was not a transformer exploding. They generally rupture and burn rapidly.
Booger6995 11 months ago
Damn I didn't know they actually sounded like that. So the xbox game limbo is accurately depicted when power lines blow in the gam
RockingMinors 11 months ago
when it explode it sounds awesome right after, like a mortar shell coming down
sexxytimmy 11 months ago
WOW HEAR ALL THAT POWER! lol sorry
rockbandfreak31 1 year ago
it went out with a bang lol
redneck101157 1 year ago
This happened across from my house during the ice storm of '06 when I was living in Missouri. I was in the middle of watching "The Jeffersons" when...KABOOM!
quirpco 1 year ago
3 winters ago, there was a bad icestorm that engulfed most of North-East Kansas. As you know, cows have to be milked no matter what the weather is... my school was cancelled and I was milking around 0530 AM, the light in the barn flickered and I saw huge flashes outside. The transformer 20 feet away from the barn was arcing and just as I ran to the doorway, it blew up, pissed me off, made the cow knock over the milk, and caused a power surge that totalled the power grid to my farm buildings.
Kolfritz 1 year ago
@Kolfritz Suck, dude.
mortalrage 4 months ago
Hehehehe GO BOMB! hehehe. =)
legendarywerewolf206 1 year ago
"and here we have a nice electrical fire" LOL
yolichka1 1 year ago
Love how it just blew all the ice off the tree that more than likely fell on it, sounds like a waterfall of ice-bits.
Landaux 1 year ago
гудело мощно. а пиздануло в конце совсем никак у меня пердеж ито громче
RAFVitakill 1 year ago
there are FIREWORKS so you need to sit down and eat popcorn and watch
jro9001 1 year ago
bad ass!!!!!
The88drunkredneak 1 year ago
I prefer this over fireworks.
DetroitLove4U 1 year ago
that's crazy!!! i was in bentonville, arkansas in april 2008 and i was at a park where i saw one of these transformers explode.. same sounds and pop explosion, althought not as dramatic as this one. all the power at the park went out (it was a huge park w/ a bunch of baseball fields)... pretty scary stuff when you're unsure what the heck just happened!
daftpunk784 1 year ago
nice hhh
mapukmapuk 1 year ago
looks like that fire blow itself out
justingerking 1 year ago
Quick Put Some God Damn Water On It lol
thomasallain 1 year ago
Definitely not a transformer explosion. I transformer is completely filled with flammable oils. There would have been a huge fireball and then burning oil sprayed everywhere if it had exploded.
jweeda1976 1 year ago
@jweeda1976 Truth.
mortalrage 4 months ago
that was a intense explosion
bigdady2700 1 year ago
This was a transformer right? In my viewpoint it looks like its powrlines but the transformer might be hidden in trees.
matteng1997 1 year ago
Into complete darkness. Awesome.
FrosChannel 1 year ago
0:34 wow
naner188 1 year ago
what if all the lights in new york were shut down because of some jack ass? it might be fun and pitch dark at night. who knows someone might be having sex right next to you
XxshadeaxX 1 year ago
no fuses installed?
desinfector 1 year ago
@desinfector usually cut out fuses dont go right away it would have to be drawing that current for a lil bit, the shotgun sound you heard at the end was the cuout fuse blowing, thats when the arcing stopped.
c0rrupts3ct0r555 1 year ago
FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
chapanese96 1 year ago
dammit megatron!!!!
Brianzxzxzx 1 year ago
WHY THE FUCK R PEOPLE CLAPPING?!
tellemscrappy 1 year ago
@ 0:28 - BOOOOOOOM!!!!!
kd5yovnet 1 year ago
Whether or not we can say anything actually exploded doesn't matter. What matters is that sound was totally badass.
agentdarkboote 1 year ago
@agentdarkboote Badass indeed.
mortalrage 4 months ago
goodnight lights out
fusi0n556 1 year ago
I love the way transformers explode.
SirTannen 1 year ago
We has a severe t-storm in my area and lightning hit a transformer yesterday and it did the same thing, only it was farther away from my home and it did not last as long.
matteng1997 1 year ago
thats firework man
quangluu96 1 year ago
@gypshaseyeballs22 The power is GONE cuz of the station ON FIRE. the street lights don't have any power.
Airplane299 1 year ago
WOW shit is dark with no street lights
gypshasballs22 1 year ago
in the ice storm of 08 where i was there were TONS of transformers exploding at once off the highway i thought it was lightning... oh no it wasn't boom..BOOM..boom...BOOM...boom...BOOM BOOOM it was like mortar shells coming down in a war!
nukesvids 1 year ago
got ur on Christmas tree for a few sec them Boom!
sonicxlc123 1 year ago
pause at 0:29, it looks like daytime!
seansy59 1 year ago
I believe everything was dark to begin with, but I guess this is one way to light up the neighborhood...
MaleBretonFinn 1 year ago
tick tick tick tick tick tick tick BOOOOOOOOM!!!
DefLeppardBrad 1 year ago
that sounds like my room, when i have all my severs on. O.O
Computist40 1 year ago
And the transformer goes boom!!!!!
castlekid08 1 year ago
Judging from the steam and smoke it looks like a tree limb had come in contact with the one of the high voltage feeds, ( one of the phases) and started arcing. As the limb burns, it carbonizes, which is even more conductive causing the arc to track along, and in this case the arc grows bigger or closer to one of the other phases. Then as the arc bridges the gap, boom! a phase to phase flash-over occurs which trips an upstream breaker, cutting the power.
bjtaudio 1 year ago
The explosion was caused by the transformer shorting out and BLOWING the PRIMARY FUSE!!
9020powrmax 1 year ago
That "pop" was the high voltage fuse tripping.
acapone84 1 year ago
This was an arcflash not an explosion by any means. Good footage of the occurance nonetheless.
BeaVeRRoCKeT 1 year ago
IT'S OVER 9000kw!!!
HyperFoxIII 1 year ago
The power of Zeus at is finest
xxfox37xx 1 year ago
this happened to me last night across the street from my house. there was a live fucking wire on the road and it casued some bushed to ignite. the winds almost blew the fire to my house! crazy shit. fuckin nj...
TranceLuvr69 1 year ago
DUDE I REMEMBER THIS
midwaychino 1 year ago
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
brittney1dragon 1 year ago
No OCB on line or this would not have happened.
johnmason2354 1 year ago
OOOOHHH, PRETTY!!!
alphawolf446 2 years ago 2
Is this Harrison this was in because that's where my dads parents live
byebyedarren 2 years ago
@byebyedarren It was near the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
mortalrage 4 months ago
XD
Boom
WOW!
That was funny
GTAAlexrs 2 years ago
i have had one of these do the same thing in front of my house it is loud!! did ya get your power back on yet mine was off for 24 hours!! i'm in jeff co. mo. we have got a little snow so far this year but really have dodged the bullit on bad weather!!
killcraz 2 years ago
is the Boom very loud ? when transformer explode
omairgeforce 2 years ago
Mislabeled: this transformer did not "explode"; it just arced for a while, then stopped. The pop you see/hear is just the arcing wire burning out, not the transformer itself exploding. Note how everything gets dark? If the transformer had exploded, everything would have been drenched with burning coolant and core parts, and the scene would have lit up bright as day. I've seen transformers actually explode; it's like Armageddon.
lonewolfintj 2 years ago 43
@lonewolfintj so i assume youre some sort of god, seeing that youve survived "like armageddon"?
lpbgl 2 years ago
Noted. That was more than just a "pop", however. Insofar as thunder or the detonation of conventional explosives can be considered an explosion due to the rapid expansion of gases and the production of a shock wave, I think this is properly labeled as an "explosion". Admittedly, perhaps the transformer itself did not explode. I didn't walk up to check.
mortalrage 2 years ago 20
"Mortalrage": There is no "perhaps". This transformer did not "explode". It just arced. The pop was the arc quenching, probably because a fuse melted or a wire broke. If the transformer had actually exploded, you wouldn't need to (or be able to, without committing suicide) "walk up to check", because the area surrounding it would be covered with burning core parts and flaming transformer oil. But we can clearly see in this video that no such thing happened. It did not explode.
lonewolfintj 2 years ago
"mortalrage", so that you can see what a "Transformer Explosion" really looks like, it looks like THIS: watch?v=fzbQjd_Oo4Q Note that here, too, you get the "pop" of the arc quenching, but in this case, the arc quenched because the transformer exploded, blowing its top and ejecting it's core and coolant. But a mere arc (or even the "bang" of an arc quench) is not an "explosion". An "explosion" is something that bursts apart violently. The transformer in your video clearly did not.
lonewolfintj 2 years ago
@lonewolfintj Thanks for the education and reference. I'll change the title. Clearly, I need to learn more about the construction of electrical delivery equipment. They didn't exactly teach that stuff in grade school. To be fair, there were bits of things flying here and there, so I think it still meets your definition of an explosion, but I didn't realize how much oil was in a transformer. Thanks also for holding your ground. Believe it or not, accuracy is important to me.
To Wikipedia!!
mortalrage 4 months ago
@mortalrage I'm thinking the "boom" you heard was a fuse blowing.
denelson83 1 year ago
@mortalrage yeah it was nothing more than the wire vapourizing due to it either becoming weak, or the arc jusmped phase to phase, which blew out one of the leads
codemsan 1 year ago
@mortalrage
It sounds more like and appears that it was probably a insulated fuse barrel blowing or a resistor.
stanislaw1986 1 year ago
@stanislaw1986 That would make sense from what I've learned about transformers. Thanks for the insight.
mortalrage 4 months ago
@mortalrage i agree with u dude i think it exploded and the end bit wernt defently a pop lol
sabatondriftclub 5 months ago
@sabatondriftclub Well, something exploded, but after learning more, it definitely wasn't the transformer either.
mortalrage 4 months ago
@mortalrage ah ok lol maybe cud of been the lines that were bang lol cos of the load on them
sabatondriftclub 4 months ago
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oh shut up smart ass!!! Nobody gives a fuck if it blew up or just "ARCED". We looked at it cause it was cool not for the proper technical description. Go jerk off to a dictionary!!!!!
CinemaSanders 2 years ago
CinemaSanders: While it may be true that *you* don't care about reality, I assure you that mentally healthy people *do* care about reality. That is why we discern between accuracy and inaccuracy, and between true statements and untrue statements. You should learn to do likewise. Rather than spew insults at your betters, you should seek to emulate them.
lonewolfintj 2 years ago
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If anyone wants to see my personal message to "lonewolffintj" TOTALLY OWNING HIM let me know. It was too long to comment here but he got his shit rocked in my message. WHY? Cause everyone hates a SMART ASS!
CinemaSanders 2 years ago
@CinemaSanders Which is why we're surrounded by dumbasses. Please don't procreate.
mortalrage 4 months ago
@lonewolfintj I'm not sure a dick-swinging contest about who's better is quite the right approach, but thanks for caring enough about reality to take the time to provide a bit of experienced education.
mortalrage 4 months ago
Some people think it's cool just to look at and see sparks fly. Wow. But some people want to know as much as possible about the event. The later are typically intelligent engineering and scientific minded types.
quantumbits 1 year ago 2
@quantumbits The later and the latter both, in some cases. ;-)
mortalrage 4 months ago
@CinemaSanders Yeah, it was cool, but I actually really did want to know what happened. Glad you enjoyed the video regardless of your reasons for watching it. :-)
mortalrage 4 months ago
@lonewolfintj I only can confirm. I´m working in an international transformer factory. And we build transformers with 400KV and above 1800 MVA. When this unit´s "explode", you think that the planet is not moving any more.
For example: Out units have about 300.000 Litres of oil in it (without cooling-equipment). And when this unit explodes - it will burn for days.
Last year we had a fire in our factory - and the best you can do: RUN - run for your life!!!
dARkRaVErbadhonnef 1 year ago 2
@lonewolfintj I assume, then, that a transformer *explosion* was what I saw during a massive ice/wind storm in my area last year? I was looking across a valley, seeing the bright flashes from transformers or downed lines arcing, and suddenly this wide cone of icy-white light blasts up into the air from behind the distant hillside, flickers for a second, then goes out. I didn't hear a boom, but this lit up the sky in a wide fan shape.
JonasClark 1 year ago
@JonasClark : No, a "cone of icy white light" (likely accompanied by buzzing and crackling sounds) is not an explosion, it's just an arc. A transformer explosion looks a massive yellow fireball of burning oil, accompanied by a deep "WHUMP" sound which shakes your bones, sets off car alarms, and breaks nearby windows. Look up the acronym "BLEVE" for more info on this. You're unlikely to see a transformer explosion in your life; they're quite rare. Pray you're never near one.
lonewolfintj 1 year ago
@lonewolfintj Thanks. Thing is, I've seen arcs before at a distance. They're a big white flash like a strobe. This was a wide (by wide, I mean the base must have been a block wide) fan of brilliant, searchlight-bright white light that lit up the sky from behind the hillside like day for about two seconds. Looked like a CGI effect. The biggest arcs I've seen in film have been more like electric flames, twisting around. This was instant-on, instant-off floodlight, lighting up the whole sky.
JonasClark 1 year ago
@lonewolfintj lmao ur a dumb ass did u not hear the boom right befor it stoped
49thdevil 1 year ago
@lonewolfintj To be really honest, I don't think the wire burned out... This more sound (and looks) like a phase-to-phase short circuit arc, initiated by the first arc.
weeardguy 1 year ago
@lonewolfintj yeah that happened last night half the block was without power for 8 hours 2 transformers exploded, pole on fire and hot flaming oil dripping out to the ground it was pretty interesting i must admit. Me and a neighbor put out the fire on the garage and 5 trash cans that were below the transformers.
ChicagoMusic 6 months ago
@ChicagoMusic I hope those transformers were manufactured after 1979... PCB's are no joke.
mortalrage 4 months ago
@lonewolfintj i have actually made a transformer to explode... my grantpa found a huge industrial cappacitor its big like the tv... can handle 13 max KV and 30 000 uF. i charged that on 10 kV. i wonder how many ams went throught the transformer xD it was all deformed :P i put a lemon there and the lemon blew up too, and i put a melon it made me allover with melon xD, but if someone touches that same thing happens xD dead before hit the ground :P... anyway its an old cappacitor from yugoslavia xD
hristijank2 5 months ago
@hristijank2 It's probably full of toxic PCB's, too. Careful with that.
mortalrage 4 months ago
@mortalrage xD the sparks are always making o-zone :P
hristijank2 3 months ago
@lonewolfintj um it did explode!
williamwilbur 5 months ago
ok this looked like the substation in Sikeston Missouri right as the ice storm came.. BUT if so.. you didnt get the first 5 mins of the glowing and roaring and was seen and heard for miles.. I was on my sunporch and seen it from 2 mile behind my house, we ran around to watch the sky, it was sorta scarey for sure
katiebug283 2 years ago
Don't know how long the line was short circuiting before I got there, but as the description says, this happened in Arkansas, not Missouri.
mortalrage 2 years ago
Nights Of Darkness.......
DioHolyDiver83 2 years ago
we had the same ice storm, aww how godly it was in kentucky.
hitman3133 2 years ago
I have seen something like that... On january 1998, we had 3 ice storms.. 3 months no power at some places... I saw the transformer down my street do that.. It was freaking scary
bzcrueldog 2 years ago
thoght it was something to deal wit transformers movie, considering it was in related video while watching transformer thing
KietaIbuki 2 years ago
@KietaIbuki Oops.
mortalrage 4 months ago
Everybody is running to go check it out... Stick your tongue on it, see if it's still live!! If I seen a transformer going off like that, I wouldn't be getting close to it at all, as you can tell, they can explode.
WeedPatch71 2 years ago
wordddddddddd
giantsdude21 2 years ago
I hope we dont get another ice storm this winter. the one in January was too much.
ThePixelChaos 2 years ago
In Colorado in 95 we had a ice storm in sept. it ended dumping 18" of snow. And bringing down branches from trees over the power lines. And let the booming begins from the transformers, it went all night in Inglewood Colorado. Just south of downtown Denver.
REDNECKLAWNCREW 2 years ago
i wish somenone posted what happend in englis village during the ice storm that was hell
Rockorollo 2 years ago
i was swimming this summer in my pool and i heard a very loud sound. i thought it was a rifle or shot gun or EVEN A CANNON, it was that LOUD! turns out it was a transformer about a block away!
MrTrumpet96 2 years ago
Wish we had that ice storm shit her in Cali. I would love to watch those transformers explode.
lakewood85 2 years ago
What, California doesn't have enough disasters?!
mortalrage 2 years ago 7
my dad farted 53 times in the past 2 hours. thats all the disasters i can handle.
NoSpacesHere 2 years ago 15
lakewood85 We already have Arnold as gov. what bigger disaster are you looking for?
madmattressiv 1 year ago
@lakewood85 no you really don't want a ice storm
TheTrihorn1 10 months ago
what a boom
iminsane84 2 years ago
omg cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
metallica4411 2 years ago
I like 50-60Hz sounds, and this scratches ark... Mmm... Very nice video;]
jbravo20002 2 years ago
~~~~I LOVE THAT NOISE ~~~~
ross88203 2 years ago 3
60hz baby!!
zep4life 2 years ago
I DO TOO! BZZZZZZ BZZZZZZZZZZ!
Vid12 2 years ago
Unfortunately, the video didn't catch the blue arcs jumping down the line. There's only a hint of them as shown by the blue vertical line in the video.
mortalrage 2 years ago
Fun for the whole niegbourhood. Everyone loves it.
carmenlee87 2 years ago 3
Not Timmy, he no longer has a face....
jmangle 2 years ago
no more power on that street lol
Derykey 2 years ago
WOW
heroknaderi 2 years ago
Those transformer explosions are increadable. Sounds like a damn bomb going off
PGMEagle 2 years ago 4
It's called reclosing. Or the recloser going into operation.
tall32guy 2 years ago
Took a while before the H.V. fuse popped, (with style!!!).....
dividebyN 2 years ago
man dude you guys in fayettville get all the fun stuff.
cool vid.
ubenstupen 2 years ago
WHEW at least no one got hurt but the area went pitch black and every thing went dark
willict311 2 years ago
It was not a good idea to be out there without a flashlight, that's for sure.
mortalrage 2 years ago
That's good that everything went pitch black before everything went dark, because I heard that if everything goes dark first it means that everything will go pitch black next... I will contain myself despite my great desire to, well, LOL LOL, BUA HA HA, *sprays laughter*
siouxieblair 2 years ago
awesome
bassboy923 2 years ago
That was like a grenade going off, you could hear all the pieces scattering after the explosion. Insane!!
chargrilledcharlie 2 years ago
I herd peeewwfff sound after the explosion. That sound from the war movies I've seen is the sound of stuff flying relatively near to you while traveling VERY fast (think near miss by a bullet). I take it to be shrapnell launched at balistic velocity (hundreds of miles per hour) from the force of the exploding transformer. And like war shrapnel it can kill just as quick. Just because it was electrical doesn't mean its not as deadly as a chemical explosive.
BenHutchinson1 2 years ago
As far as safety, you might as well have been filming a terrorist's nail/shrapnel pipebomb going off. Next time be more carefull, as the effects could be JUST as deadly as such a bomb.
BenHutchinson1 2 years ago
@BenHutchinson1 I don't understand how people have no concept of danger in these situations. It's like all the people in the Netherlands who were killed trying to film a burning fireworks factory. Really, can't figure out why that might be a bad idea?
aluisious 2 years ago