Beautiful Electricity (Video)

[mr.Curmudgeon]

http://www.komar.org/xmas/faq/electrical_overload.mpg

And you thought working on monitor was dangerous? Ok, it is, but.....daaaaamn, look at that arc.


mrC

[AtomSmasher]

damn.....thats cool looking 

[Stingray]

Holy crap! Is that video real?

-S

[Minwah]

Wicked

[Jabba]

Looks like that was staged or something...Scary as old hell. Imagine the smell of ozone and that tingly feeling going through your skin?

[Harry Potter]

Wonder if there's a BYO on this somewhere. Hehehe.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

Holy crap! Is that video real?

-S

Yeah, it's real. From the website hosting the video: It supposedly shows "what happens when the Arc Quenching Bottles Fail on a 500 Kilo-Volt Circuit Disconnect Switch."

Whatever that means. 

[Stingray]

Holy crap! Is that video real?

-S

Yeah, it's real. From the website hosting the video: It supposedly shows "what happens when the Arc Quenching Bottles Fail on a 500 Kilo-Volt Circuit Disconnect Switch."

Whatever that means. 

It means you get one helluva big spark, I suppose.

If it's real, it's frackin' impressive to say the very least.

-S

[Harry Potter]

Holy crap! Is that video real?

-S

Yeah, it's real. From the website hosting the video: It supposedly shows "what happens when the Arc Quenching Bottles Fail on a 500 Kilo-Volt Circuit Disconnect Switch."

Whatever that means. 

It means leave anyone but yourself to deal with electricity.

My brother used to work for a company in Melbourne which owns 80% of all high-voltage power lines going into Victoria. One of his first jobs there was to write a program which locates shorts/breaks in the power lines. One time he told me that a very frequent occurence with these power lines is when some drunk moron gets himself a very long chain and attempts to wrap it around the lines. This usually resulted in a long 'ZZZZZT!', followed by a smoking pile of ashes where said dumb***k formely stood.

He also told me this occured at least once a fortnight.

So you see Drew, people in Australia are just as stupid as people in America. 

[Stingray]

he told me that a very frequent occurence with these power lines is when some drunk moron gets himself a very long chain and attempts to wrap it around the lines. This usually resulted in a long 'ZZZZZT!', followed by a smoking pile of ashes where said dumb***k formely stood.

I would expect that would also make for a pretty impressive video.

-S

[Havok]

I want to put a smaller version of that on the top of my cab!

[Stingray]

BYO power failure.

-S

[Ed_McCarron]

[This usually resulted in a long 'ZZZZZT!', followed by a smoking pile of ashes where said dumb***k formely stood.

We call this a 500A biological fuse.