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electricity,danger,spark 500KV switch fails in Nevada, 20 meter spark ensues

500KV switch fails in Nevada, 20 meter spark ensues

posted by ietest 3 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 4145 views

tags: electricity, danger, spark

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Innacurate title. The switch didn't fail, it was done on purpose.

written by phil

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Is this real or doctored?

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real, but the first poster is right. They did it on purpose.

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Seeing that in REAL would be cool.

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There's a very full explanation of this video at the following link. Basically it was a test, the isolator was supposed to be opened off load and they were testing it, one of the circuit breakers had failed and that is the result.

http://205.243.100.155/frames/longarc.htm

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Similar disconnect and a power transformer exploding here:

http://videosift.com/story.php?id=3036
http://videosift.com/story.php?id=3035

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*promote

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*nominate

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Joemawlma: Nomation ended long ago!!

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this was the first video I ever voted for, so it makes a good first *promote too.

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*geek *nature *engineering

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*brief

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