Want to see an electrical arc as tall as a three story building? I thought so. MPEG video; explanation. bigger toys than Dr. Megavolt has
Want to see an electrical arc as tall as a three story building? I thought so. MPEG video; explanation.
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This fucking rocks, sir.
Thank you so, so much for pointing this out. Excuse me while I retrieve my jaw from the floor.
Unlike Dr. Megavolt this amusing MPEG video does not bring us tasty snacks.
Wow, that's impressive looking.
Is it real? Looks almost like it might be fake?
A friend of mine just told me about this.. I find tracking it through the net hilarious. I know the original person who encoded it and posted it on the electric vehicle discussion list as a example of DC arcing taken to a new extreme..
But this is AC. There are three switches for the three phases and you can hear the arc buzzing. If it was DC, it would have been a constant sizzle.
Yes, this is true.. I don't know why it was brought up during a discussion of DC arc extinguishing, since it must be AC to be three phases as is shown.
Or is it AC? After all, a AC arc normally extinguishes at the zero crossing point..
I'll inquire with a friend of mine who worked at the Lugo substation for a while.
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If it's a totally unexpected accident, I have to wonder why they were filming it. I guess just to see the switches in operation, but no "holy shit" from the cameraman or anything?
Yeah, I had those sort of thoughts. It was clearly thought worth watching 'live', because someone zooms out.
Having watched this video get posted in various places for at least the last 2 weeks, I started digging back to where I first saw it on Batlabs.
From there, a page was linked that indicates that this video was of a test.
Wow, the heat pulls the arc into the air. I would never have guessed that would happen but it made sense once I saw it.
I think the dude at the very end of the clip says it all. "Woo!" It is pretty amazing it didn't ground itself before something else cut it off. That's a once in a lifetime sort of thing to see, and it was "caught on tape".
Cool, thanks for linkin it!
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