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What the Hell is going on here?


Shufdog

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It's a transformer blowing up!

 

Well, not really Alice. I mean yes, a transformer does blow up, but that's not what the video is about. It was a moving electrical anomaly that had formed a "Jacob's Ladder" between lines. 

 

Describing it as a "transformer blowing up" is similar to watching a video of an F5 Tornado in a corn field and describing it as "Some corn getting blow over". 

 

Here's another example of a jacobs ladder.

 

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Well, not really Alice. I mean yes, a transformer does blow up, but that's not what the video is about. It was a moving electrical anomaly that had formed a "Jacob's Ladder" between lines.

Describing it as a "transformer blowing up" is similar to watching a video of an F5 Tornado in a corn field and describing it as "Some corn getting blow over".

Here's another example of a jacobs ladder.

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A transformer blew up and the as it blew it let the 7k power come down into the lower lines making an arc traveling down the wire. It's pretty straightforward, just cause I didn't go into great detail describing what happended in addition to and as a result of the pole pig going up, means I just said an f5 tornado passed by and failed to mention the resulting corn that got blown over, if I were to use your example.

I was just giving a brief description. Sorry I didn't say something more like:

An anomaly affecting voltage conduction on a utility transformer pole pig resulted in an arc that instantly began heating beyond fail rate as the redundantly wrapped coils fused together and thus heated the interior cooling ferrofluid, most likely a mineral oil derivative, which then caused a secondary ignition of said fluid as temperature climbed beyond flash point resulting in a direct path from 7,200v High voltage lines to lower voltage lines resulting in an arc traveling away from source while the fail safe 60 millisecond shutoff signal was attempting to close circuit......

There you go cupcake, is that detailed enough for you? I might have had to look up some of that info if my 8th grade science project weren't on electrical resistance, capacitance and induction ( what is used in transformer since there is no physical connection between power and output wires). Funny part is, I used a Jacobs ladder to help demonstrate resistance. The reason it's called that because it has a V shape that pulls the arc upwards, thus the "ladder" part, what the above video show is a simple electrical arc, also sometimes called a spark gap, but I have Never hear it referred to as a "Jacobs ladder". It was fun reading your attempt to sound intelligent.

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A transformer blew up and the as it blew it let the 7k power come down into the lower lines making an arc traveling down the wire. It's pretty straightforward, just cause I didn't go into great detail describing what happended in addition to and as a result of the pole pig going up, means I just said an f5 tornado passed by and failed to mention the resulting corn that got blown over, if I were to use your example.

I was just giving a brief description. Sorry I didn't say something more like:

An anomaly affecting voltage conduction on a utility transformer pole pig resulted in an arc that instantly began heating beyond fail rate as the redundantly wrapped coils fused together and thus heated the interior cooling ferrofluid, most likely a mineral oil derivative, which then caused a secondary ignition of said fluid as temperature climbed beyond flash point resulting in a direct path from 7,200v High voltage lines to lower voltage lines resulting in an arc traveling away from source while the fail safe 60 millisecond shutoff signal was attempting to close circuit......

There you go cupcake, is that detailed enough for you? I might have had to look up some of that info if my 8th grade science project weren't on electrical resistance, capacitance and induction ( what is used in transformer since there is no physical connection between power and output wires). Funny part is, I used a Jacobs ladder to help demonstrate resistance. The reason it's called that because it has a V shape that pulls the arc upwards, thus the "ladder" part, what the above video show is a simple electrical arc, also sometimes called a spark gap, but I have Never hear it referred to as a "Jacobs ladder". It was fun reading your attempt to sound intelligent.

 

You're just too easy Alice, and oh so fuging predictable. 

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