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| ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on October 30, 2006, 11:46:26 am ---Chad's right, if depressing. Get tangled up in that and it'll burn you to a cinder after it stops your --- End quote --- post? |
| Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 30, 2006, 11:54:25 am --- --- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on October 30, 2006, 11:46:26 am ---Chad's right, if depressing. Get tangled up in that and it'll burn you to a cinder after it stops your --- End quote --- post? --- End quote --- Good answer. I hate when the rest of my post gets lost in the ether. I was gonna say heart. You become a 200A biological fuse. |
| ChadTower:
I was thinking maybe you tripped your fuse before finishing the post. |
| Dervacumen:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 26, 2006, 02:48:50 pm --- They are step down transformers. The voltage on those overhead lines is high enough to flash fry a person. Those transformers step the voltage down right before it comes into your house. --- End quote --- And they're full of dielectric oil. At least the ones I've seen are. |
| Random24:
A bit off topic, but here is a neat video of what happens when a power station's 500 KVA switch is thrown. http://mfile.akamai.com/5022/wmv/coast.download.akamai.com/5022/video/LugoSWR.asx |
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