Actually, these are all isolator switches opening and closing. They are not made to stop current. I'm not sure about other countries, but in NL there's always a combination of a HV circuit breaker, which stops the current in about 20 ms, and one or more isolator switches like the ones in the video. Using the circuit breaker to open and close the circuit prevents big arcs like this.
0:29 I'm glad that I can watch this with my phone and don't have to be there in person. Even though it's fascinating I would probably panic if this was this close to me. I'm studying this for 6 years now and the amount of respect I have for those extreme cases is immeasurable
@@DrAdityaa well basically they are simple switches, on and off. However, instead of turning a light bulb on, these switches are used to connect and disconnect power plants (like hydroelectric power plants) from the whole grid (where the electricity is transferred from power plants, sometimes over far distances to your home). These switches are used to switch on and off without a load=>meaning there is no electricity generated or consumed that is being put in or pulled out of the grid. If they for some reason are opened during the flow of electricity in or out of the grid, you get this massive arcs that sound incredibly mean (50/60 (or to be correct 100/120) Hz humm). If no load is flowing through these switches when they're opened, they'll still arc but much much weaker. Having said that you are by no means in any danger if your standing that "close". However I really value my life and I honestly do not want to get close to them even if it's save to do so (again I know what I'm talking about and therefore dealing with it accordingly) Hope this helps, if you didn't understand something please tell me ;) Edit: 0:31 switching with electric load 1:13 switching without a load
I've always been fascinated with transformer hum, lightning, electric motor start ups, arcs, etc. Something about electricity just seems eerie and cool.
Fuuuuck yeah man electricity is just this weird energy moving around and it can straight up cook you and it does all this flashy wierd shit but we use it to have AC and cook hotpockets but it can easily fucking kill you
I'm a big enthusiast for electricity and currently have a playlist of over 800 of these. The phenomenon going on here is the energized section of the busbar leading to the disconnector/ isolator. When the two contacts/electrodes come in close proximity, the static then jumps to the other bus with so much force, causing the arc. I tried to explain it simply.
@@GiovannaNogueira12 To isolate the energized current flowing into a bus side. This is so a side of the substation can be de-energized for maintenance and work on power lines safely.
Cool! I wondered about that. Does someone need to hit a switch to start the process, or do the "arms" start moving on their own when this situation arises? You can tell electricity is definitely not my forte.😊
I honestly have recurring nightmares about somehow getting too close to these high voltage transmission lines when they're down, by the ground, in a substation, or fallen, getting killed by the immense power they carry. Respect to all the people that get to work with these, and stay alive while doing so.
The probability of this happening is slim to none, but if you ever end up with a power line having fallen on your car while you're in it, don't get out of the car. Stay inside and call emergency services, then wait and do not under any circumstances touch the ground, provided it is safe for you to follow these instructions :)
I've been near downed power lines across a 4 lane road that sparked. This is goddamn frightening! Those giant wiggly blue waves of pure energy with a terrifying crackling noise that has to be heard in person to get the real effect. Electricity is something to be respected. Like the ocean it wins every time.
What's scarier than the arcing is the fact it's a disconnect switch arcing. Like, imagine it's an emergency and for some reason it just doesn't stop arcing.
Those are air-disconnectors, not switches that open in fault-situations and certainly not designed to open while loaded. Switches that disconnect when a fault occurs are either powered by compressed gas (where the gas usually also serves as an arc-quenching medium) or coiled springs, that make sure the contacts are separated within in instant. Besides a gas of some sort, oil is another common arc-quenching medium.
@@weeardguy Yeah I'm really not sure why they are opening these disconnects while under load. In my experience you would always open an upstream circuit breaker before opening up a downstream disconnect like these. I wonder if these were being performed for tests or something.
@@weberneting Well not all of them in this video are under load. Most of them show 'static' from line capacitance or a parallel running powerline. Besides showing off (I wouldn't be too surprised if some linemen like to open these under load on purpose, even though that is dangerous) it's also a thing with procedures and maybe even thinking an upstream circuit breaker has been opened, which you quickly find out isn't as soon as you open 'your' airbreaker.
I love how you can tell which grid frequencies each country is running by the sound its arcs make! :-D 1:35 clearly still had some significant load on it when opened!
I used to do this exact task when before I retired from a coal fired generation station in Central Illinois. Some of our disconnects were motor operated while others were manual. Sometimes, we had to open the " ring" with backfeed. We were required to wear high cal ppe while being in the switching yard. The output voltage leaving my station was 372 kv. The arc was pretty spectacular at nighttime.
Not a capacitive discharge; that's a flowing current discharge. How can one tell? It wasn't over in a fraction of a second. ("Capacitive" would indicate a charge stored electrostatically).
@@barrett2724 Frenchman Hippolyte Pixii (odd name) built the first alternator on Faraday's principles. Then there was a barrage of hungarian, french and american pioneers. Tesla played a part but is given too much credit.
@@barrett2724 Hypolyte Pixii (weird name) built the first alternator on Faraday's principles. Then came a slew of French, Hungarian, British and American pioneers. Tesla did his part, but was caught up in the fame of the 'Current wars' and too much is attributed to him.
Where I worked, we generated at 13.8 kv. We used vacuum breakers, so there was no arcflash to see. Most of the substations were indoors. PPE was required for all switching,however, the high cal. PPE was needed for the low voltage switchgear on the 480 V bus. Power Plant and Papermill combined.
And so shall there be a great storm here where I'm at, filled with much lightning and much thunder. Because I really miss a good lightning storm. Just haven't had one in such a long time. The remarkable electric blues on the grid switch at night are just exquisite 👌
To make arcs that long, Im thinking 1 or 2 Megavolts. (Starting at 1m30s) The part of physics I dont get about this is how the electrodes/ contacts dont melt. When I know a furnace powered by 600v heating elements can supply enough heat to melt steel, then a million volts certainly can
What amazes me is that you don't need much power at all to turn those switches. Instinctively, I imagine incredible forces in those arcs pulling the switches close, but that's just not how it works.
Fourth grader knowledge: The lighting moved faster than lightning and exelerated the speed of the atoms around it, creating fire, in itself. When fused plasma is upon.
@@user-lu6ug6hf5f a misspelling of ‘accelerate’. Also, since fourth grade is the equivalent of being 9/10, this person shouldn’t be on youtube for another 3/4 years
@@bennickss oh my gosh. Finally I got it. Thank you for explaining. Since I'm not a native English speaker, it was difficult for me to understand why they said "exelerate".
Or you just could have said *Speed of light is more than speed of sound 🙄 and also probably the electrons which come from the high tension wire ionised the air ironed it coz of which the electrons come in form of Blue lightening around the tips of high tension wire* By the formula *H=I2RT* The current (ampheral) is more than voltage that's why they were easily ioning the air ...so *it Dosent accelerated any speed of atoms* Dude one word Instead of 4th grade...come to 8th grade first
No fire was created *Law of conservation of energy ---> Electrical energy changed to Plasma energy* Also the arcs was high *coz electrons on one point were ionising the air and were gathering protons from another point (if 2 block circuit channel is there)*
I'm wondering whether this is the normal mode of operation for these grids. Where I live, isolator switches like these are always connected in series with a circuit breaker switch, which can open or close the circuit in about 20 ms, and isolator switches are only opened and closed with no current flowing.
I think this is how this is supposed to work. Because what's happening here would erode the contact pretty fast. Seems like maybe there was a lack of neutral here. Otherwise they wouldn't normally open energized switches like this-because obviously it would arc
The reason of the electric arch is that the disconnectors switches open to slow, even though the Interruptor (Breaker) is open, the other part is still energized. For example y if you're going to give maintenance to the TR, the disconnectors switches that would do this phenomena, are the ones that are at the HIGH TENSION BUS side, not the ones that are on the TR side. That said, this shouldn't be yo happen. Sorry for the English, I'm Still practicing.
These are mostly disconnecters, the circuit breakers would normally be used to kill the power, then protected and isolated by the disconnects. These are mostly disconnects being opened under load, which generally shouldn't happen, it's technically a fault. Looks cool though with the arcing
I was thinking "why don't they shut off the power for this?" Then it occurred to me, this is how they shut the power off. Jeez
same I was like "just flip the switch! oh wait.. this is the switch"
😁😁
May be it is directly connected to the generating unit.....and u can't simply turnoff the mighty generator
Bro you asking is it a qustion ?
Actually, these are all isolator switches opening and closing. They are not made to stop current. I'm not sure about other countries, but in NL there's always a combination of a HV circuit breaker, which stops the current in about 20 ms, and one or more isolator switches like the ones in the video. Using the circuit breaker to open and close the circuit prevents big arcs like this.
1:35
Operator: Ok, turning it off...
Electric current: *nope*
😆😆 🔥
This is some disney villain base bulsh*t 😲
Its... Its not shutting down...!
seems very inefficient XD
0:31-This is satisfying for some reason.
It's like the power of attraction that humans have.
@@tuxitalk4-tuxipolitixpage772 no men have
@@gammersunity4117 Stfu.
Scary.
@@RRJOfficial really scary, it's power, strength we see and you see ghosts
Those electric arcs of energy are hotter than the surface of the Sun.
0:29 I'm glad that I can watch this with my phone and don't have to be there in person. Even though it's fascinating I would probably panic if this was this close to me. I'm studying this for 6 years now and the amount of respect I have for those extreme cases is immeasurable
So how much closer did they have to be before they were completely boned?
Hey there. Can you explain me in short what is going on there as i am a medical student and dont know that much physics!! 😉😂
@@DrAdityaa me too
@@DrAdityaa well basically they are simple switches, on and off.
However, instead of turning a light bulb on, these switches are used to connect and disconnect power plants (like hydroelectric power plants) from the whole grid (where the electricity is transferred from power plants, sometimes over far distances to your home).
These switches are used to switch on and off without a load=>meaning there is no electricity generated or consumed that is being put in or pulled out of the grid.
If they for some reason are opened during the flow of electricity in or out of the grid, you get this massive arcs that sound incredibly mean (50/60 (or to be correct 100/120) Hz humm).
If no load is flowing through these switches when they're opened, they'll still arc but much much weaker.
Having said that you are by no means in any danger if your standing that "close".
However I really value my life and I honestly do not want to get close to them even if it's save to do so (again I know what I'm talking about and therefore dealing with it accordingly)
Hope this helps, if you didn't understand something please tell me ;)
Edit:
0:31 switching with electric load
1:13 switching without a load
@@mistirion4929 thank you
I've always been fascinated with transformer hum, lightning, electric motor start ups, arcs, etc. Something about electricity just seems eerie and cool.
Fuuuuck yeah man electricity is just this weird energy moving around and it can straight up cook you and it does all this flashy wierd shit but we use it to have AC and cook hotpockets but it can easily fucking kill you
It is one of the most dangerous things you come across disrespect for one second it will kill you
Electricity is cool And all until you have to study and learn complicated stuff and application of it F*** my life XD
Literally, it’s tech from another dimension
That's why palpatine cool
0:07 sounds so awesome
Someone ought to make a music genre with these
Right?! Sounds like the most dominating voice of nature. Purely unforgiving.
Those magical electrical pixies sound angry!
2:00 that one just really spoke to me for some reason. Sounded soo cool.
1:56 was a nice one
I was waiting for Arnold to arrive in his timemachine ball.
Underrated
0:20 me and my bois after sparking wires in the toilet and later realizing the whole school building's electricity went off.
I'm a big enthusiast for electricity and currently have a playlist of over 800 of these.
The phenomenon going on here is the energized section of the busbar leading to the disconnector/ isolator. When the two contacts/electrodes come in close proximity, the static then jumps to the other bus with so much force, causing the arc. I tried to explain it simply.
but why they do this?
@@GiovannaNogueira12 To isolate the energized current flowing into a bus side. This is so a side of the substation can be de-energized for maintenance and work on power lines safely.
@@infernobledsoe4267 so its a switch?
@@scythemachine1894 Yes.
Cool! I wondered about that. Does someone need to hit a switch to start the process, or do the "arms" start moving on their own when this situation arises? You can tell electricity is definitely not my forte.😊
1:25 the clicks dropped a sick beat and didn't expect us no notice
dork
I honestly have recurring nightmares about somehow getting too close to these high voltage transmission lines when they're down, by the ground, in a substation, or fallen, getting killed by the immense power they carry.
Respect to all the people that get to work with these, and stay alive while doing so.
The probability of this happening is slim to none, but if you ever end up with a power line having fallen on your car while you're in it, don't get out of the car. Stay inside and call emergency services, then wait and do not under any circumstances touch the ground, provided it is safe for you to follow these instructions :)
@@tiagodecastro2929 What if the battery in your cell phone is dead, and you can't call 911 from your car?
@@Damone7653 Thank you! Have a wonderful weekend and remember to charge your cell phone.
@@Damone7653 Wow! Even my parrot can be trained to repeat my words. Great job!
@foureyedchick sit and wait the hydro guys are already seeing the grid down
I've been near downed power lines across a 4 lane road that sparked.
This is goddamn frightening! Those giant wiggly blue waves of pure energy with a terrifying crackling noise that has to be heard in person to get the real effect. Electricity is something to be respected. Like the ocean it wins every time.
Eren and Historia handshake be like: 0:41
Dude.....
What's scarier than the arcing is the fact it's a disconnect switch arcing. Like, imagine it's an emergency and for some reason it just doesn't stop arcing.
Some of those stations are really badly built. They move way too slow and have a way too short spread
Those are air-disconnectors, not switches that open in fault-situations and certainly not designed to open while loaded. Switches that disconnect when a fault occurs are either powered by compressed gas (where the gas usually also serves as an arc-quenching medium) or coiled springs, that make sure the contacts are separated within in instant. Besides a gas of some sort, oil is another common arc-quenching medium.
@@Alpine_flo92002 v . '. Vb
@@weeardguy Yeah I'm really not sure why they are opening these disconnects while under load. In my experience you would always open an upstream circuit breaker before opening up a downstream disconnect like these. I wonder if these were being performed for tests or something.
@@weberneting Well not all of them in this video are under load. Most of them show 'static' from line capacitance or a parallel running powerline. Besides showing off (I wouldn't be too surprised if some linemen like to open these under load on purpose, even though that is dangerous) it's also a thing with procedures and maybe even thinking an upstream circuit breaker has been opened, which you quickly find out isn't as soon as you open 'your' airbreaker.
Those electric sounds are so satisfying.
POWAAAAAAHHHH!!!
MODERATELY LIMITED POWAAAAAAHHHH!!!
I love how you can tell which grid frequencies each country is running by the sound its arcs make! :-D
1:35 clearly still had some significant load on it when opened!
Also because of the cloudy weather, there must be high humidity.
with the size of those arcs I'm surprised it isn't hopping phase to phase, too.
would have been cool to see that at night
The weather is a big part of that.
I would like to see how you can tell the AC frequency from arc sound 🤣🤣
I used to do this exact task when before I retired from a coal fired generation station in Central Illinois. Some of our disconnects were motor operated while others were manual. Sometimes, we had to open the " ring" with backfeed. We were required to wear high cal ppe while being in the switching yard. The output voltage leaving my station was 372 kv. The arc was pretty spectacular at nighttime.
The sound of capacitive discharges is awesome.
Not a capacitive discharge; that's a flowing current discharge. How can one tell? It wasn't over in a fraction of a second. ("Capacitive" would indicate a charge stored electrostatically).
The part where it went *"BZZZZZZZZAAAT!"*
I really felt that.
Power station,
What a amazing place....!!!😂👌👌
This is why time travelling Terminators keep coming through to Earth.
"It's alive....ALIVE!!!!"
ITS ALIVE * power kills everyone*
1:36
After watching this clip carefully, I can now say that electricity is just fire but blue and in a squiggly line.
Fire is a plasma. You can actually create an Electrical Arc that strongly resembles a Candle Flame though it's much more hot.
@@stoopidhaters They're not so different, both are hot, both look similar, both glow and both are energy
@@Ion115 quite different actually
My brain :-That is the dangerous
Also my brain:-What will happen if I touche
That will be the last thing that you will touch.
You would be fried from inside and out
You will d1е with greeting this 🤯
Very beautiful and Very dangerous
All thanks and appreciation to Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating electricity Ac
Yes.
Pois é.
Nicolas Tesla did not invent/discover alternating current
@@barrett2724 Frenchman Hippolyte Pixii (odd name) built the first alternator on Faraday's principles. Then there was a barrage of hungarian, french and american pioneers. Tesla played a part but is given too much credit.
@@barrett2724 Hypolyte Pixii (weird name) built the first alternator on Faraday's principles. Then came a slew of French, Hungarian, British and American pioneers. Tesla did his part, but was caught up in the fame of the 'Current wars' and too much is attributed to him.
Where I worked, we generated at 13.8 kv. We used vacuum breakers, so there was no arcflash to see. Most of the substations were indoors. PPE was required for all switching,however, the high cal. PPE was needed for the low voltage switchgear on the 480 V bus.
Power Plant and Papermill combined.
Beautiful, I look at this for 5 hours now
That was so cool, I had no idea it worked like that !🤯
I love how you can hear the difference between the North American 60hz power and the 50hz power.
N tu n pode bbk
50hz.. bzzzz bzzakk bzzaak....👿60 hz bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb queeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee lol 🦆
@@chin_mcfistly3517 you misspelled bbq
1:15 WOAHH BEAUTIFULL
Wow beautfull scenery but scary the elektricc ligths at thanks for sharing your Video 🙋♀️
my man at the substation: look fireworks!
Mini titan transformation😂
And so shall there be a great storm here where I'm at, filled with much lightning and much thunder. Because I really miss a good lightning storm. Just haven't had one in such a long time. The remarkable electric blues on the grid switch at night are just exquisite 👌
Very good
This is freakin cool! No wonder Dr. Wily and Dr. Light created Elec. Man so someone could handle this level of voltage and amperage!
Video title: Awesome Disconnector Switching with ❙ Electric Arc (part 2)
Me:
*E l e c t r i c s m o k e*
Wt do u mean by electric smoke is this ur brain understand the concept there . This heavy current also carried by the air , while disconnecting
You know it's loud when at 1:57 the arc stops and the attenuation of the microphone lets go and you can hear the reverb 😮
Why is this so satisfying to watch!
Another arc-cellent video. ♡ T.E.N.
that pun is bad and you should feel bad
Nice Experiment Kilovolt Electricity Was Been Increased To 255 Killovolt
Y
Proud of an electrical engineer 😇
Bina touch hue spark ho rha hai
1:37 Electric flame thrower. Coooool!
0:04 This first one is actually kind of aesthetic. The bright blue light with the cool evening sky in the background. Very mellow.
Wow this is the first time i saw real electric
Exciting😮
Очень интересно смотреть ваши ролики
When I touched the cat to pet him
I really love how it looks like holographic blue fire. Seems ghostly and magical. Especially 0:30. And 1:40-2:00.
To make arcs that long, Im thinking 1 or 2 Megavolts. (Starting at 1m30s) The part of physics I dont get about this is how the electrodes/ contacts dont melt. When I know a furnace powered by 600v heating elements can supply enough heat to melt steel, then a million volts certainly can
looks like it creates a hole to another dimension
Electricity is truly awesome!
Обожаю ваше видео такие классные
1:40 seconds is amazing.
Ooooo towers of 2.200v. :0
ME: I Know if i touch it i will die
MY BRAIN: Touch it -_-
😂😂😂
Kk bro u can touch , but after the process happened the disconnection..
👍Awsome disconeter moving & make high spark flame
I like compilations of this kind. Subscribed. Liked. Shared👍🏻
Appreciated that bro😉
Вот это да💥😱
1:59 coolest sound ever
Awesome, really awesome!!
Good job
Олег?
@@GMayriss какой Олег?
Incredible 🤗
what a beautiful sounds at 0:07
it sounded like the ps1 intro
Awesome!!!
I've always wondered what the static electricity was in the area if it feels like if it actually does make your hair stand on end like it does on TV
That isn't static.
50Hz in G note
60Hz in B note
Try it on keyboard or electric guitar with flanger effect..
We need to adjust all the power frequencies in the world to 37Hz, then a transformer can be used as the bass note for Bach's Toccata & Fugue 😁
@@Engineer9736 hahaha.. Good idea dude..
Yooo.. We have classic musicians here.. 😁
This video a lone can be a horror film. Scary stuff right here.
That first one sounded so satisfying
What amazes me is that you don't need much power at all to turn those switches. Instinctively, I imagine incredible forces in those arcs pulling the switches close, but that's just not how it works.
The Power of Electrons
Those arcs are gnarly!!!
Some of them sound so badass
satisfying
Теперь понятно, почему иногда напряжение в домах и поселках прыгает - "фаза С отключай" 🙂
Ukraine will win! 🇺🇦
There are psychopaths..
and then there are people who watch this for joy
Thanks of lot for this type video need more & more about electrical like this
Fourth grader knowledge: The lighting moved faster than lightning and exelerated the speed of the atoms around it, creating fire, in itself. When fused plasma is upon.
What does "exelerate" mean?
@@user-lu6ug6hf5f a misspelling of ‘accelerate’. Also, since fourth grade is the equivalent of being 9/10, this person shouldn’t be on youtube for another 3/4 years
@@bennickss oh my gosh. Finally I got it. Thank you for explaining. Since I'm not a native English speaker, it was difficult for me to understand why they said "exelerate".
Or you just could have said
*Speed of light is more than speed of sound 🙄 and also probably the electrons which come from the high tension wire ionised the air ironed it coz of which the electrons come in form of Blue lightening around the tips of high tension wire*
By the formula
*H=I2RT*
The current (ampheral) is more than voltage that's why they were easily ioning the air ...so *it Dosent accelerated any speed of atoms*
Dude one word
Instead of 4th grade...come to 8th grade first
No fire was created
*Law of conservation of energy ---> Electrical energy changed to Plasma energy*
Also the arcs was high *coz electrons on one point were ionising the air and were gathering protons from another point (if 2 block circuit channel is there)*
I just watched the clip but got goosebumps.
Thats some straight up tony stark shit man. Awesome Video!
That second one put up a fight.... Certainly did not want to go out without a bang.
*_Вот это сила!!!_* 🙄🙄🙄😎😎😎😎😎😎
I'm wondering whether this is the normal mode of operation for these grids. Where I live, isolator switches like these are always connected in series with a circuit breaker switch, which can open or close the circuit in about 20 ms, and isolator switches are only opened and closed with no current flowing.
that is true
I think this is how this is supposed to work. Because what's happening here would erode the contact pretty fast. Seems like maybe there was a lack of neutral here. Otherwise they wouldn't normally open energized switches like this-because obviously it would arc
I suppose it's either testing the isolator switch, or the really don't have a separate disconnector.
The reason of the electric arch is that the disconnectors switches open to slow, even though the Interruptor (Breaker) is open, the other part is still energized. For example y if you're going to give maintenance to the TR, the disconnectors switches that would do this phenomena, are the ones that are at the HIGH TENSION BUS side, not the ones that are on the TR side. That said, this shouldn't be yo happen. Sorry for the English, I'm Still practicing.
There is always some capacitance, causing currents in the low ampere range.
Switch, you are a wizard!
-How many amperes /volts do you like?
- YES
Every spark just reminds me only one thing......" Spell Binder"
👌👌👌👌👌👌
These big pieces of the "grid" are fantastic...
Wow amazing video 📷📸📷
Muy impresionante,
Un saludo
These are mostly disconnecters, the circuit breakers would normally be used to kill the power, then protected and isolated by the disconnects. These are mostly disconnects being opened under load, which generally shouldn't happen, it's technically a fault. Looks cool though with the arcing
I guess the citizens are using the electricity.
I do like watching these
Videos like this make me think about the electricity that arcs around a Super Saiyan 2 aura.
Wow I know now how are Lith work lol that's cool
Electricity do be like: bro why we wanted to be together doe
Brave people doing that job
evreyone gangsta till they realise the sound is not from the phone