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Uploaded by on Jul 21, 2006

This was a live power plant. Someone opened the switchyard breaker.

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  • This was at Palo Verde Nuclear. They opened the breaker to take the unit offline for a planned outage.

  • ooo, right, thanks for that. That would still seem a bit dodgy even though you know its not going to hurt!

  • It's just like a car spark plug. The voltage is hi and you get a nasty shock. But the voltage falls right off and the power is tiny. So you're not hurt, tho it'll sure wake you up!

  • The circuit's not carrying power. It's just up to line voltage. The sodium hexaflouride filled breaker (in between) is open. These long rods (disconnects) strike an arc carrying only a tiny current. They make a spectacular arc because the voltage is so hi. If they were opened when the c/b was closed and the line carrying load, everything around would've been vaporized, including the guy doing the opening.

  • presumably they shouldn't have done that while it was on?

  • wow that is a lot of juice in order to do that. yall work for the power company? or the breaker just happened to open?

  • Loox like a potential arc, caused when the disconects around an open breaker are themselves opened or closed.

  • sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!

  • Haha cool.

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