Epileptic power outage in high school
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- This video was featured in the National Geographic movie American Blackout (channel.nationa...)
My freshman year we lost power in the middle of class and the lights and everything went crazy! This was all due to a brown out. It was in the morning and was cleared up again right after lunch. They had to give out premade bagged and they nearly ended school early.
It's a 'brownout', probably caused by a phase fault somewhere on the utility side! The buzzing is the undervoltaged fluorescent ballasts.
Good explanation sir
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sonconmas yeah I was gonna say ballasts as well
I was thinking that and probably if the room has a fan that could be humming too
Indeed, probably should shut-off computers for data safety.
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I am socked at how little emergency lighting is in that room
Those emergency lights don’t do shit. I am shocked.
My school had no, and I mean absolutely NO emergency lighting apart from a backup generator that ran a few lights, though more often than not, the circuit would trip,because someone didn't wire the lights into multiple circuits.
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lol i see what u did there xD "shocked"
My school only had emergency lighting in the hallway not the classroom
wish this could happen at school everyday
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Someone will die to a seizure
You hate school right?
Happened at my school fairly often... has happened at my office a couple times since I've worked here. You've got three-phase power. Drop one phase, the remaining two tend to backfeed it somewhat, same with HVAC motors, so you wind up with abnormal voltages... different electronic items behave differently, fluorescent lights tendening to flash.
Cause? Anything. Your school, street, neighborhood, or town lost one of three phases - could be anything, including a squirrel.
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This needs to happen on test days.
I got lucky with my physical science test since the power went out at out school once too
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*Power goes out*
Highschool girls: AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Did anyone else notice the low pitch dinging as the lights were flickering
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Seth Wilson Its the underpowered ballasts in the lights
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Something like this happened to my school many years ago in 5th grade. We went to the cafeteria because it has a bunch of huge windows (which let in light.) Eventually though, we had to go back to class. This building was brand new at the time and I don't even know if it was completely finished yet seeing that they didn't have a backup power supply.
My next class was science, and we were supposed to read something online but the computers wouldn't work (obviously.) The principal made a light-hearted announcement saying that we had to go back to "good old pencil and paper." We experimented with a couple different liquids while the school staff were frantically calling parents about the problem. My English teacher put up some lamps, and my science teacher used her phone's flashlight. We didn't even live in the same township as the school was located, it was just the closest school to us, so my parents didn't know about the problem from our home.
The lights were out everywhere and we had WAY too many kids to fit in the cafeteria (we actually had half of the school eat lunch in the gym on a daily basis because the cafeteria was so small) so they decided to end school early. My mum picked me up ten minutes before school dismissed because she didn't know it would've ended. I was really upset because we didn't usually do cool experiments like we did that day, but come to think of it I probably wouldn't have had too much time afterwards.
We went home, there was, like, one news story about it, some energy company said that there was an accident or something near the main energy facility thing for the town, and most of us forgot about it by the next month. Nothing like it has happened since, but every once in a while we look back on how hectic that day was.
At the beginning it looked like a disco party.
The light ballasts can’t handle the constant on and off pulse, also I totally understand that not everyone knows electricity like some of us but it was kinda frustrating how everyone in the classroom was saying “the internet is out” like yeah no shit, or “I wonder when the emergency light will go out?” It won’t until the battery backup dies lol
They might be preheat but with pulse electronic starters or rapid start
This looks like classic low voltage, we had a blackout recently and when it came back on only we only were getting 89 Volts, every magnetically ballasted florescent light in the house was going nuts. Computers on the other hand, with their nifty auto-switching power supplies are usually quite happy down to ~90-100 volts and they worked just fine.
Love those power outage lights in the background! The one with the exit sign and the 2 lights
You can hear the arcing in the background, either a transformer or a phase to phase fault.
Either those are some sort of magnetic ballasts or they are just cheap electronic ballast that hate power drops
Do you know why some of the lights appear green when you pause the video?
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Hahaha. Our reaction was "rave parrtaayy!" it was excitement with a small twinge of fear. Like freaky, but cool.
I just went crazy for a second then power off, and now the lights will flicker within every few minutes almost like if the power comes back on and off with in pulses
Props to the emergency light for staying on
the school was running on a 3 phase power network...one or two of the phases went down i used to work in a warehouse that had this happen every time a bad storm came through...or a truck ran over our power box on the corner of the street
In a certain way, powercuts in the US are far more entertaining than in the Netherlands ;) Been through 2 or 3 power cuts (usually resolved within 1 or 2 hours) when I was in middleschool, but without overhead wires, the lights would usually just go out in whole without any warning beforehand ;) .
I think the last one though was quite spectacular as a fault somewhere in the grid meant that power was rerouted via a cable that overloaded because of that. That cable was buried quite deep but exploded and bursted into flames right in front of someones house, pushing up the pavement and sending a wheely bin flying. As my school was close to the place where it happened, I can remember we felt the blast while in the cafeteria: first we felt a kind of boom underneath our feet, just looked at each other like 'haha, what was that?' and then about a second later, power was gone ;)
A major, really major powercut hit March 27, 2015 (yes, the fact I remember the date says how special and rare it was), with something like 1,2 million households affected and basically bringing a large part of the Netherlands to a standstill as large parts of the train-network lost power as well. I was 27 at the time and a girl in dance class was in the same middle school I attended at that time. When she said she was sent home because there was no power, I just looked at her like: 'TF? Classes just went on like normal and janitors would light the stairwells with torches, why on earth would you be sent home for something silly as a powercut?'
With a 'duh....' look on her face she said: 'Well... no power... no working digiboard and no internet to log on to our school accounts as well?'
Darn did I feel old...
omg we get that in my high school every time a thunderstorm rolls into town and the transformers blow here in the uk!!!! nice one :)
the school most likely has a generator that was not able to power up all the lights that they had on,i work in a grocery store and when the power go out, the generator will kick on, and in some areas of the store you will see the chase light effect like you saw in your school,
this was an excellent video, thank you for posting it for us to watch,
probably not. nut maybe
Time to ditch class!
lost one leg of the 220, transformer failed. this happened at my work the other day. pretty trippy lol.
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Awesome!
I was in 1st grade it was not storming all that happend was the power went out during our paper
Imagine it goes out then the Freddy toreador March just starts playing. Me: welp I’m dead
Probably a phase to phase fault somewhere down the line. The buzzing sound is the fluorescent lights' ballasts trying to start the lamps.
My school had a power cut once.
Who gives a rats ass?
LAST YEAR WHEN I WAS AT SCHOOL IN THE BLACKOUT MY SISTER AND HER FRIEND WERE WITH ME THEN THE OTHER KIDS WERE SINGING BLOODY MARY.
I absolutely love school blackouts!
SAME
This video comes out in a movie the movie is called American blackout
You're correct! They asked to use my video and I allowed it. Was very cool for highschool me to see my video on a nationally broadcasted program.
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It's crazy to hear the sound of the fluorescent lights trying to start repetitively. Apparently the computer monitors dosen't requires a lot of voltage because they started on.
For one, I'm not entirely sure but suspecting it's the PA system making that sound. Secondly, the desktop towers, monitors, and emergency lights aren't affected because they're all protected under an Uninterruptable Power Supply (battery backup). Also, I know you're talking about desktop-pc+monitor, however to say they don't use much voltage is incorrect. Specific computers or power supplies that run through our power grid don't use less voltage, as they all run through 120V or 240V power lines, however less power hungry electronics sip less current, which in turn results in a lower wattage (V * A).
+tehchosenyoutubr those are the rapid start fluorescent ballasts buzzing while trying to start.
tehchosenyoutubr it is the ballast because in my basement I have four fluorescent one incandescent and two cfl and the one cfl smoked and the other tried to turn on and failed to do so and the fluorescent ballasts were buzzing and made it look like a party i also have a Public Announcement (PA) system that was plugged directly into the wall and turned on and i turned on the lights and no buzzing at all i fact I turned the lights back on (probably shouldn't have done that) and got out my laptop and my phone started recording on my phone and blasted music as loud as I could get it to play sadly I lost the footage when my phone died so I never could upload it
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but it doesn't have been, it just turned off, but I heard something outside my class, but it was Mr. Talkers class last year, miss Johnson's class also fire drill
This happened at one of my trips to the mall (in he mall) at Puerto Rico
I feel bad for those prone to seizures.. 😅
And just to clarify, this had bern goimg on for a few minutes prior, and was longer and faster blinking in others. I think the transformer failed? Or maybe it was a temperature failure. I dont remember exactly.
nope. it was faulty wiring if i remember right
Oh, I thought a power line was burning XD
Looks like a phase dropped (the school has a 3 phase power feed). Always amusing when that happens, florescent lights in particular go apeshit when it happens.
i would have played Darude - Sandstorm
Benny hill theme would be good too.
That same power outage happened to my school on Friday December 13, 2013
Coincidence? I think not.
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I think before the power "went out", you guys were experiencing a brown out (low power), the florescent lightning will do that if it doesn't get enough voltage.
Probably the fluorescent lights's ballasts trying to start the lamps
This is what happens when you get a voltage sag. Your school runs on three phase power. Drop one of those legs either through conductor damage or through a transformer issue, and anything that runs three phase either goes out or runs at a very low level (sometimes backwards in the car of large motors). A voltage sag also greatly affects florescent tube lights. Due to the ballast in them they need consistent full voltage or they strobe like that, because there's not enough voltage to keep the gas ions in an excited state. If the voltage varies enough it can wreck computers, servers, and network equipment that requires a clean power source. The visual effects are cool, but it's hell on electronics.
Once my school had such a bad power outage that we got sent home because we had it for over 2 hours
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it happened here when our school ran out of fuel.
*BZZ* *BZZ* Those lights would have made me go crazy. But very fasinating.
Call the power company !
That is so weird never seen a blackout like that before
This actually happened to me while Trying to skip school!
Heres a story when I lived in TN for a good (homesick) year! (I moved back yay) One of my friends said there was a power outage in about 2nd or 3rd grade (i wasnt there) and he went to check the bathroom for people, andhe heard a BANG. So he ran back. I think it was Freddy Fazbear
Internet is ALWAYS a guaranteed outage when all electricity goes out!
Every highschooler stops shop lifting school supplies
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I remember when my school did the same back in my days.
I was at PE at the gym of my school
Exit Signs Are Reflective Emergency Power Lights Like The Emergncy power lights in a school hall that come green in a power outage
It almost seems like the frequency of the power dropped to like 10Hz. You can hear the phases reversing.
dance party- oh..that powers out...DANCE PARTY STILL
(in 2018)
This is what happened at my school back when I was in 5th grade
They should of shutoff the lights to prevent damage to the Ballasts brown outs will seriously screw up some electronics like motors and such ballast’s on the fluorescent lighting will get damaged if it’s under volt-aged like that. Although for me the buzzing of ballasts is relaxing so I actually wouldn’t mind providing they work lol.
This is CLEARLY a Las Vegas school. Clearly.
Guess again, Northeast Indiana.
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+Logan Worsham That was CLEARLY a joke. Clearly.
Bro that’s a sign of a demogorgan get out of there😂
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*electricity browns out*
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This happened once at my school. My friends phone rang and the lights went out. We thought it was like spongebob
When i Was in Middle School The Power Went Out for 10 Seconds and Came Back On 4 times!
This was caused by a short on the utility line to the transformer most likely. The lights won't start properly because the phases and neutral are combining
Schools should have a full power generator or full battery system maybe with solar panels known as an emergency power system or EPS to keep everything operational including HVAC so students can continue with their learning despite the power outage as long as other conditions still cooperate.
That seems feasible given the often extravagant budget of our school systems
once at my school the power kept going on for 30 seconds then off for 30 seconds...
many times...
the whole neighborhood...
0:15 I think I see slender in the shadows of the halls
I didn't see that at my school, a Johnson City, Tennessee school was closed from summer break
Me- Omg...PAARTTYY!! -Dances-
Guy that as sight problems- AHH! -Passes out.
Me- Awhe
How are the computers staying on? Are they on isolated generator backed up outlets or an UPS?
Edit: wow im stupid they are laptops
this is why I prefer single phase
freddy had enough of this schools bs
I remember once, we were singing in the morning on monday (I hate it, but we have to do it..) Then suddenly the projector switches off, now that's when I got a min of break because I shouted 'TECHNICHAL DIFFICAULTIES' and just when the teacher is telling me off.. boom, power outage, it was the substation being stupid. But it was like that for hours. If theres one thing different about me, it's that I'm the only 10 yr old who isn't amazed by powercuts.
The lights most habe been annoying
wow. looked like flashing Christmas lights.
who wants a seizure?
*me*
Everybody gangsta till the Demogorgon shows up.
That kind of happened when I was in speech from 7:40 to 8 :10 had to stay there 10 min longer and an emergency/saftey light popped out of no were today but lights didn't flicker.
Just enough power to keep all memory intact on the computers and power to keep the christmas lights on, but not enough to keep the flourescents bulbs on, transformers do that all the time.
Disco party, had fun?
That is so bad for the ballasts you can hear them try to start but fail that's what the buzzing is.
sounded like a transformer going up or an arc across the line
Yep
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only one part of the tube will light up beacuse the ballast has failed and its going to keep on trying till it startso
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looks like either a crazy end of school party using LOR's or an alien takeover. but in reality its just a brownout. i remember last year we were in firs period when the lights went out, for 3 hours, in the heat of arizona. but luckily it wasn't summer and was still in the morning, but it was wierd to have no lights for 3 hours. atleast no one froze in ms. davis class! (her room is always freezing cold)
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did it come back on?
once we had a mild tornado warning !- you can actually see outside the school the funnel cloud the whole school had to exit every room the lights kept flickering mild winds 70mph lightning bolts every tn seconds it was so bad the lightning you couldnt even look outside the window so we had to DUCK!!! cuase it felt like it was right on top of us !!!
That one kid messing with the light:
The boys in my class would get up and dance
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Looks like a brownout.
Blackout -_-
Through out the video when your generator starts lagging
ur school turned into omnia nightclub so fast
Hey that happens to us today at school because of the wind!!!
Sounds like power lines were arcing outside.
*UNDERVOLTED FLUORESCENT BALLASTS*
At my school it was nice out but in the middle of learning for 25 seconds the Power went out everyone was like WTF?!?!?!??!
When that happens, just shut the main off for safety.
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