It appears that, although I'm sat in sunny Reading.. BBC thinks I'm not in the UK so the video links don't work for me :/
Electricity sub-station explosion
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It appears that, although I'm sat in sunny Reading.. BBC thinks I'm not in the UK so the video links don't work for me :/
It's a Girls Grammar School. I used to work there
Power came back on at parents' house about 9:15pm. Hope it's back on at the flat cos I have loads of stuff in the freezer.
Poor sod who got killed
No dought if he says yes the reply will be along the lines of calling him a pedo?
No actually, my sister goes there and just wanted to see if he may have taught her
Nah, odd-jobbed for the science department and then did relief caretaker for a couple of years. Think I worked on and off over a 9 year period! Finished when I finished uni.
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That might have something to do with the fact that isolators are designed to be operated under NO LOAD conditions. Switchs are designed for operation under load conditions or overload conditions but not short-circuit conditions!
You should hear the air blast circuit breakers fire at stalybridge 400kv sub, 3,000psi! Makes the windows rattle
Even under no load there will still be a tiny bit of arching, although 60-70cm's is a bit extreme. 400kv will only fizz and crackle for about 50cm's or so, as there is still charge between the open CB and the isolator.
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As a fellow Distribution Network Operator employee my heart goes out to this person's family. Hopefully we will all learn the lessons of the mistakes that have been made in Chelmsford.
Example of sub-station explosion:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-711022817903815072
And here's the arc effect people are talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIkNY5xjy5k
Crazy Russians o_O:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V3OZMW_45M&NR=1
I'd hate to deal with electricity (especially those voltages). That stuff scares the jeebus outta me.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-711022817903815072
And here's the arc effect people are talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIkNY5xjy5k
Crazy Russians o_O:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V3OZMW_45M&NR=1
I'd hate to deal with electricity (especially those voltages). That stuff scares the jeebus outta me.
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Thats a transformer suffering a severe failure! 14seconds in, the oil escapes under pressure and ignites.
Not quite the arc you see on normal everyday switching, lol. That happened under an unusual fault condition, normal isolator arcing is a brief arc with some fizzing and crackling.
If that russian one is real...wtf! how stupid.
Ahh my mistake.
I dunno, another one by the same user here
Can see how it could be faked. Not sure how the managed to do that if it's real though.
I dunno, another one by the same user here
Can see how it could be faked. Not sure how the managed to do that if it's real though.
Ahh my mistake.
I dunno, another one by the same user here
Can see how it could be faked. Not sure how the managed to do that if it's real though.
where as that just looked totally fake to me!
Ahh my mistake.
I dunno, another one by the same user here
Can see how it could be faked. Not sure how the managed to do that if it's real though.
According to someone who replied to the video:
