Transformer On Fire

the story is on the clip...the weird thing is...i have no clue how it caught fire..since we didn't have any kind of lightning. Oh this is before the fire response people and CPL showed up. So i dont know how long it took them to fix it because i left for that dolphin watch. (my other vid)

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[MrSeanselleck]

hope you unplugged all your sensitive electrical stuff when you saw it smoking.

[onecrash]

@MrSeanselleck Nope. sure didn't. nothing happened though.

[rsp196607]

Utility-company transformer-maintenance policy: Wait for a catostrophic failure, then replace.

[wheatie99]

Wow. We make the insides of those transformers at the factory that I work at. We must have ran some bad parts!

[ljmike1204]

i think overload coused the oil to boile and the presure velve opend and air rushed in to set it on fire

[mandoman83]

@rsp196607 You're such a retarded dumb-ass. That tranny was only 10-20 years old. They are designed to last upwards of 40-50. This one failed before its time. NOT THE UTILITY COMPANIES FALT!

[Gunshinzero]

LOL @ the music.

[Immortaline]

I recylcle electrical transformers at my job and the older ones do contain PCB's. Some of the oil in older ones carry concentrations upwards of 5000 ppm which is quite toxic.

[ApolloWasReal]

That's odd. I don't see a cutout (high voltage fuse and switch) on the old transformer, but at least there's one on the replacement.

[I94901]

the oil will not call cancer and there is nothing added to it for fire prevention; older transformers have the potential to contain PCB, which is a hazard to the enviroment, so if you suspect the trans to have PCB it's a simple test you do on the spot, newer transformer oil is basically just "good ole" mineral oil

[xatblasterx]

thumbs up for watching it burn and not doing shit about it :)

[paF4uko]

@dymproductions, it's true that in cities across Europe transformers are underground or in special buildings as well as the power lines. Meanwhile there are still some oil transformers on poles in the rarely populated country side...