High Voltage Live Downed Wire Arcing

[ljmike1204]

we have 230V at 50 hz in the netherlands we dont have cool problems

[RappedTooTight]

Chuck Norris would simply twist the wires together then cap it with a wire nut.

[KrazyKali69]

@RappedTooTight twist it together with his teeth as well..

[volatileacid]

Pure concentrated energy baby....

[Bevo2455]

It's just terminators from the future coming back to kill us all. No big deal.

[vertoisful]

is it lowed

[mrmechasmetal]

No se en que parte del mundo sucede esto, pero aquí en colombia cuando una linea de alta atención se aterriza el circuito deja de funcionar.

[pmgodfrey]

I was spot welding some battery packs and dropped my electrode. My bad!

[PhantomDark21]

how it is possible high voltage can conducted through a dry woods?

[fnaguitarplayer9]

@PhantomDark21 it is there could be just a slight bit of moisture towards the middle of the wood, trust me, with high voltage anything is possible, thats why if you look in my videos i used to use a wooden hot stick on my 6000 volt microwave transformer jacobs ladder, i now use pvc pipe, alot safer...

[PhantomDark21]

how it is possible that High voltage electricity can conducted dry woods?

[bamaslamma1003]

@PhantomDark21 At 7200+ volts, "dry" wood has more than enough moisture to be conductive.

[vonkiser]

Great Patriotic War......WW 2 for the Russians......

[MSNIMSM]

Its a kindof odd sound. Its the sound that when you hear it you imediatly know what it is, it is very distinctive.

[lysippus]

theyre re-doing the power poles around my home and i asked a lineman what the voltage was. he said something like 7200 (or 7400) at the top. i live in an older city on the east coast of the US.

[tall32guy]

@lysippus Yeah that's standard, from what I understand, for distribution lines (the lines on the wooden poles around neighborhoods).

[HIGHVAASTECH]

We in Russia use the following number of high voltages power lines: 10, 35, 110, 150, 220, 330, 500, 750, 1150 kV AC 50Hz and 400, 800, 1500 kV DC. Underground 825V DC, trolleybus, trams 600V DC, trains 3,3kV DC and 27,5kV AC 50Hz. For what non-standard pressure at you also 60 hertz? I don't understand... 220(230)/380(400)/660(700)V 50Hz above voltage is less current strength!!! Bigger diameter of wires for 110(127)..In the USSR have passed on 220/380 after the Great Patriotic War!

[Kellyrt]

the cold war?

[PlausableApple4]

@HIGHVAASTECH Holy crap my mind is spinning.

[DJSpikesan]

@HIGHVAASTECH Holy shit dude.

[rfranquinho]

i've seen something like that once in my steet, it was rather scary cause unlike in this video the live wire was jumping around from one side to another

[pmgodfrey]

My god did that smell good!

[08Kutt]

Awesome!!! 5* :D

[Twisted951951]

...the sound is kinda calming

[Gamernotnerd]

Scares the living shit out of me.

[linemanbiermann]

@Gamernotnerd gives me a boner

[RyuDarragh]

We use single phase center tapped transformers with 240VAC and then use the center tap as the neutral (white(US) or blue(UK)). That way, half the breakers are on one side and the other half on the other end for 120VAC at the normal appliance outlet. For clothes dryers, electric ranges and ovens, hot water heaters and HVAC, the entire 240VAC is used. Next highest for most places (businesses, garages, light manufacturers) is 208VAC, 440VAC and 680VAC 3 phase.

[RyuDarragh]

Rarely, on large businesses, the 22.4 pole transformer to 480/240/120V to premises. These are interneighborhood.

From there, larger parts of the grid are 47, 69 and 113KV. These are always earth mounted substations. These are grid to grid.

From there, 230, 384, 400 and 500KV lines are used and these are grid to grid and utility to utility (cross country) lines.

And yes, stay as far away as twice the pole spacing to be safe. UV light can permanently blind you and HV barbercue you :P

[EdvardLewis]

interesting to read.. In Norway we have 420kV as the highest system.. 12,24,33,47,66,110,132,300,420­kV we our high voltagesystems.. Depening were you are in the country and if you are in the regional og the central-net.

And the most common distrubution-net in norway are 230 Volts IT-net. New buildings get the 400V TN-C/S net though. in Europe it is only we and Albania I think who uses the 230 IT net..

[RyuDarragh]

Line voltages on poles are 4.48, 13.8, 22.4, 34.7 and 39KV depending on what part of the system and what the local utility deems needed.

The lowest on the pole in the US is 4.47 to pole transformer to 120/240. Highest is 13.8 to pole transformer. Intraneighborhood.

Next up from that is 22.4, 34 and 39KV to pole mounted transformer then down to 13.8 to 4.47KV. Sometimes, depending on current, you get a shed sized earth mounted substation.

[th3sp0rk]

If you see something like this in real life, do not look at it with your naked eye. It emits high uv rays which can temporarily and sometimes permanently damage your eyes.

[aib84e]

Charges of the ground + & - your charge in the wire is wanting to get to the opposite charge and it will always find the shortest path to ground.

[LaynerzT]

i hate that sound its so scaryu!

[bossoholic]

The sound of death (60 HZ)

[DracoXul]

The power company essentially uses the earth as one of the wires in the power system. The earth is a pretty good conductor and it is huge, so it makes a good return path for electrons. Thats why it sparks, the "wires" are touching.

[S0NICShadow]

what does arching actuly mean any way?

[DracoXul]

An electrical arc is a continuous spark between two wires or conductors often in the shape of a semi-circle.

[jonservo]

i detect an electrician, or at least someone versed in the ins and outs of electricity

[th3sp0rk]

arcing is when two electrical sources (usually wires) are near each other and want to complete the circuit. If the voltage overcomes the electrical resistance of air, then it arcs and completes the circuit. OR at least I think so.

[Jizskie]

Bang on, on high voltage system looking at such arc's can be dangerous to the eye sight because of the extreme UV's as its a similar Arc to that of a welder.

[chickenwing562]

and to add to all that was said the normal Voltage at the higest top of utilty poles is 14.8KV (14,800 volts)

[jonservo]

basic grounding. all powerlines will do this whether they are from power lines or your homes electrical wiring if they touch the ground directly without any insulator. but the flashing and sparking is the surge in current not voltage.

[IdunCareLesSn00b]

Its the distance from it that determines eye damage.Welding your looking directly at the spot where its taking place up close.This is no more damaging that watching lighting.

[th3sp0rk]

no, it is damaging if you look at it directly. That arc is similar to a welder's arc.

[thewelderdude]

thats why having glasses that block out UV and IR radiation is very nice to have. otherwise, get a welding helmet with a #9 lens, relax, enjoy, and dont get fried.

[KB1KOI]

basically put, an oversized MIG wielder without the protective gas

BTW whose well yelling at you to stop fliming?

[treemaster7]

Never look directly at any high voltage line arcing, the arc produces immense UV Rays which can damage your eyes. Just like looking at someone welding. Ultraviolet Radiation burns the eyes.

[VideoJunkei]

looking through a camera viewfinder should be safe, though, like looking at a TV screen, no difference!

[rsp196607]

It seems industry could develop, and electric-service providers could deploy, arc-fault circuit interrupters that would prevent this sort of thing from lasting more than a few seconds.

[powerlineman1980]

They do have it. You can not expect the circuit to kick every single time when there is a fault. If it was that sensitive your power would be going out everytime the wind blew and then you would be whining about not having power.

[Atomic101Heli]

Yeah no kiding we have thoses on our line.

[timshatsui]

I thought the power would have shut off after all this time, this is strange!

[tall32guy]

You realize looking at those arcs directly for much long is NOT good for your eyes. LOL There's a lot of ultraviolet that emits from them.

[mageguy3]

wat if some drunk guy goes to piss on the wire lol

[batterbee2000]

omg lmao.

[type900]

What drunk guy? ;)

[jcmegabyte]

I bet I could have run my whole house for a year on all that wasted power!

[JVM410]

Great video, thanks for sharing!

[willmoblue]

maybe the engineers should have put a smaller fuse on this tap

[BarneySaysHi]

Hey, who left the arc-welder on again?

[dinojedi]

Interesting stuff

[mckerralj1]

yes allways put the fire out with a rubber hose pipe . ha ha

[elefantdan]

somone should have shown their big balls and take a leak on this shit..!

[bossoholic]

Then they will have no more

[tall32guy]

I hope that everyone who makes these videos of high voltage arcs realize that the UV from those arcs is super bad for your eyes. :-)

[KrazyKali69]

Not if your viewing form the viewfinder. :)

[bendejonge]

Better keep the other eye closed then :-).

[illuminator444]

@tall32guy not only is the UV really bad for your eyes, it can actually weld contact lenses to your eyeballs. +1

[freddiehouthuyzen]

@tall32guy yeah it's like welding:)

[Son37Lumiere]

@tall32guy

If it's bright enough to hurt your eyes when you look at it, you shouldn't be looking.

[TsunamiBombPunk]

@tall32guy I was just wondering that. My line of thought while watching this was "If watching a arc of a welder is bad, this must be horrible for your eyes." lol

[79Yamato]

@TsunamiBombPunk It certainly is. I also wonder if the cams CCD would get damaged if it filmed this for a longer time.

[bluehachiroku]

Wow,that is some serious arcing going on. I would of loved to have measured the electrical and magnetic fields in the vicinity... That'd be plasma and all sorts of stuff.. It looks like it was a tarmac surface.. did anyone check it out when it was repaired? I would expect to see some sort of glazing etc....

Good stuff.

[mikeandtiff]

bucket of water...not a good Idea

[skrewewe]

Someone should get a bucket of water and put that out before a tree catches on fire.

[KrazyKali69]

lol good one, imagine that, a bucket of water would have electrocuted you.

[EdvardLewis]

actually, clean water is not conductive, but I would not recomend it after all.

[mistryel]

Water is a conductor clean or not. Many more things can conduct electricty than you would think if they are in a position to ground an electrical transmission wire.I just saw a demo from a utility company expert. IN the demo I saw, a piece of plain rope, and a section of tree all conducted well enough to jump a spark to the ground. Stay away from downed wires in a storm.

[TheRealLogwad]

Pure H2O does not conduct well. The moment anything is added it's conductivity jumps.

But even putting pure H2O on the nearby fires would be a bad idea.

[bossoholic]

At those voltages- even dry wood is conductive (enough to kill)

[B1r6m4n]

@KrazyKali69 Not if it was distilled water! (They actually clean the insulators with it!)

[Corvid]

@skrewewe I severely hope that's some terrible sarcasm...

[TheRicheg]

@skrewewe

seriously... lmfao

[mikeandtiff]

awesome stuff! wish shit would happen like that near me. thanks for shareing