The intense light from the arc simply overwhelms the sensor in the camera. No local magnetic fields are involved. The arc eventually stretches high enough to hit the phase above (not ground), which causes a massive arc short and kicks a breaker somewhere down the line. -- retired power engineer
@@SlickArmor Probably wasn't an very powerful arc. When it happens on circuits that carry lots of power its an earth shaking buzzing sound that echoes and can be heard kilometers away, if you are close its deafening and everything vibrates.
The 'explosion' near the end was the arc climbing up and contacting the phase above the arcing switch. You can see the arc touch that phase just before the larger phase-to-phase fault occurs (the explosion) and upstream breakers clear the fault. The knives of the arcing switch look to be burned away!
@automaticSOM It did not discharge to ground. The arc, carried up by hot air, connected with a different phase and created a cross-phase discharge, opening the circuit breaker. It looks like it came up from the bottom in one frame, but that's because the arc started mid-frame and the low-end cell phone sensor has a significant amount of smearing along the columns (as evidenced by the vertical streak across all the frames that contain the arc)
@JustinWiengarn the camera photo chip [charge-coupled device, CCD] is overloaded from the UV output of the spark and sort of burned up a bit. Had the spark been longer than a couple seconds the camera's imagery chip would be fried permanently and all recorded light would be in false color (i.E Green)
@ainsleywainsley The arc was so bright that it saturates the CCD sensor in the camera. Depending on the sensor and the software this shows up as bright green, white or some times black.
If i seen correctly it was a switch failure with allowed an arc to form across tye switch contacts (only as much power as people down the line use) then after the wind caught the arc, it drew close enough to another phase (phase to phase are is full potential...aka BAD) thus allowing to create a very hot and high current arc, most likely blowing a pigtail that fed the switch maybe? But eithe way that was epic
I gotta admit i was not expecting that awesome explosion, i though it was just going to keep burning until it burned out, i was thinking "boring video" and then BOOM! "awesome video!"
That is really bad for your eyes. Arcs give off horrible UV. That's why welders wear masks. I know, a short exposure isn't as big a risk as a lifelong profession, but considering the magnitude of that flash at the end, I wouldn't take my chances.
I think they must have had bad time at night and next day, if they looked directly at it in the end. I was playing with little arcs on 230V at home, I did it for like half a minute, and after a few hour my eyes was about to explode!
@Armandorf46 The pink is caused by the sensitivity of the camera to infrared. High end cameras have hot filters that filter out all IR. Cheap cameras like those in cell phones do no have as good as a filter. My guess is to make the cameras more sensitive in low light situations.
Woah, you're correct! I never noticed that in all the years I had this on my playlist. I thought it was just the sound of cars on a freeway overpass but that doesn't make sense. 0:19 sound like screeching voices from below not a massive EM emission.
@wdowa94 "High temperature = High resistance". Yes, but not with certain conductors (certain types of semi conductors lose resistance when the temperature increases). I think that all that needs to be said in this case is that the electrical fire discharged itself through the air and down to earth. Much like you would see in lightning.
That didn't go to ground, that was a phase to phase flash-over. It hard to say what the fault current is but it looks like at least 5KA may be even more. See the black brown smoke, vaporized copper, it broke one of the jumper cables, you see it swinging. Note the cables bouncing around after the blast has cleared on the left, that's the strong magnetic field created between the conductors. An upstream circuit breaker cleared the fault, an arc with that much fault current will not clear itself.
light is the spectrum (band) that u can see, IR is the thermal spetrum, and EM is considered the band under the IR. em uses just the magnetic and electric field to 'move' the light moves as photons, wich are verry small particles (alot smaller then electrons :P). they might be all rezonating at high frequency, they might have mani things in common, but they are 2 diferent things. after a frequency ani object cant emit rezonating em weaves, but it emits rezonating photons.
@fowlpoultry I get nervous around 480 and you guys deal with big fractions of a megavolt. Actually what is the highest transmission voltage in the US? Thanks for your skill and courage in keeping the power on.
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the ir acts more like light then electromagnetic energy, also its a verry high frequency, just a bit under the light spectrum, that's why it is considered more like light, because it acts like it. u can reflect ir much easyer then em, also em can pass through mani meterials, wich ir doesnt (ir almoast cant pass even glass) but it's considered that the ir is the border between light and em, it acts like both :)
@joyfulvulture Yeah did you see the impact the MASSIVE EM Emission had on the VIDEO. the wavy video black and green was NOT him flinching. If you did not flinch you were dead already.
yes it is...Steel Lattice towers are still one of my Favorites though....most i've seen are being replaced with Steel Tube Pylons....its easier to Climb a Latice Tower.
Looks more like a wire failure than a "switch failure" to me. Looks like a short coupling wire broke in one spot, an arc formed, then the arc eventually vaporized the whole section of wire in a massive explosion.
@rampike74 You can protect your eyes from TH-cam videos by exchanging your monitor type. They now offer newer, more modern computer monitors that do not pass through the UV radiation from TH-cam videos. I'm aware that they cost more, but I feel that protecting your eyesight is worth it, don't you?
@chrysanthos66 Yes it's the same as looking at a arc welder arc without a mask. Sun glasses offer very little protection to this too. Of course we are safe viewing it on the computer.
Light IS electromagnetic energy. Electromagnetic energy IS light. They are two different words for the same thing. Only a small part of the EM spectrum is VISIBLE light, but it's all light.
The intense light from the arc simply overwhelms the sensor in the camera. No local magnetic fields are involved. The arc eventually stretches high enough to hit the phase above (not ground), which causes a massive arc short and kicks a breaker somewhere down the line.
-- retired power engineer
Looks like the arc grew tall enough to short with the above phase, nice boom!
Saw this happen years ago, the noise is something you never forget.
I saw something similar about 10 years ago. I remember the flash but the noise I vaguely recall.
@@SlickArmor Probably wasn't an very powerful arc. When it happens on circuits that carry lots of power its an earth shaking buzzing sound that echoes and can be heard kilometers away, if you are close its deafening and everything vibrates.
The 'explosion' near the end was the arc climbing up and contacting the phase above the arcing switch. You can see the arc touch that phase just before the larger phase-to-phase fault occurs (the explosion) and upstream breakers clear the fault. The knives of the arcing switch look to be burned away!
Esse foi um dos primeiros vídeos que vi no TH-cam em 2010. Simplesmente uma relíquia!
Loved the guy's poetic outcry!
@automaticSOM It did not discharge to ground. The arc, carried up by hot air, connected with a different phase and created a cross-phase discharge, opening the circuit breaker. It looks like it came up from the bottom in one frame, but that's because the arc started mid-frame and the low-end cell phone sensor has a significant amount of smearing along the columns (as evidenced by the vertical streak across all the frames that contain the arc)
Amazing, especially I like the part of the video when the hmm electric pole has been exploded, amazing.. nothing less.
This is just an Electric Mine that someone forgot was up there. Thank God the game has a time limit on those.
Wow! Great show! "applause"
@JustinWiengarn the camera photo chip [charge-coupled device, CCD] is overloaded from the UV output of the spark and sort of burned up a bit. Had the spark been longer than a couple seconds the camera's imagery chip would be fried permanently and all recorded light would be in false color (i.E Green)
I love how the explosion completely overloads the CCD on the camera
Its interesting how the electric fire eventually touched the top and caused an arc which then caused the explosion. Fire is a conductor!
@ainsleywainsley The arc was so bright that it saturates the CCD sensor in the camera. Depending on the sensor and the software this shows up as bright green, white or some times black.
This looks very nice, love it!
I've seen 230KV do this. It's spectacular to watch.
500KV would be even way MORE spectacular
Louis Tully: This is it! This is the sign!
Janine Melnitz: Yeah, it's a sign, all right - "Going out of business".
more like "dude i got it on my calculator"
lol nice theory, but that was the camera's ccd struggling to cope with the intense ultraviolet light from the arc.
I like how the EMP from the phase to phase killed your camera for a second.
If i seen correctly it was a switch failure with allowed an arc to form across tye switch contacts (only as much power as people down the line use) then after the wind caught the arc, it drew close enough to another phase (phase to phase are is full potential...aka BAD) thus allowing to create a very hot and high current arc, most likely blowing a pigtail that fed the switch maybe? But eithe way that was epic
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I gotta admit i was not expecting that awesome explosion, i though it was just going to keep burning until it burned out, i was thinking "boring video" and then BOOM! "awesome video!"
That was great, so badass!
That switch didn't fail, it just went Super Saiyan.
Cauliflower!!!!!!!! Apples!!! I like where this trip to the grocery store is going!!
0:27 thats the most beautiful green ive ever seen
in still-framing, you can actually see the current being drawn to complete the circuit, from the ground, up!
You are partly correct. Thermal radiation is manifested as infrared radiation/energy. Which is electromagnetic radiation.
yo dude ! the dark side of the FORCE is down with that pole right there !
it just fuggin' force lightened itself !
Return of the Terminator, He'll be back.
The arc grew in length until it contacted the other phase. Then a phase-to-phase (not phase-to-ground) short (the explosion) ensued.
That seriously looked like a scene from half life.
Really awesome video. Lucky guy!
Now THAT'S what I call some fireworks!
Looks like the contact blades got burned off from all that arcing. Awesome!!
Scary but eerily beautiful.
it's called a saturation trail, an artifact typical to CCD sensors
That is really bad for your eyes. Arcs give off horrible UV. That's why welders wear masks. I know, a short exposure isn't as big a risk as a lifelong profession, but considering the magnitude of that flash at the end, I wouldn't take my chances.
I think they must have had bad time at night and next day, if they looked directly at it in the end. I was playing with little arcs on 230V at home, I did it for like half a minute, and after a few hour my eyes was about to explode!
The explosion cuts time and space in half, creating a never before discovered color
you are right, the only senceable man i have seen in a while
I remember when it appened to Spigno, where I lived, God what a fright! I saw him from the balcony of the house.
i cant believe people in nyc believe that this wasnt the cause of the meltdown before christmas 2018... they think its a direct energy weapon....
"I just got that on video bro"
No shit genius! I think holding your phone up to it gave that away.
"hey i got it on my phone, what's it look like on my phone? "fucking awesome man
That was AWESOME !
And that sir, is going in my favorites.
automatically adjusts the flash and produces this effect by the speed ... but seeing it in slow motion produces a striking effect
@Armandorf46
The pink is caused by the sensitivity of the camera to infrared. High end cameras have hot filters that filter out all IR. Cheap cameras like those in cell phones do no have as good as a filter. My guess is to make the cameras more sensitive in low light situations.
Sky:imma snipe that flaming electric outta hell of that pole Me:what the
0:19 sounds like something straight from hell.
Woah, you're correct! I never noticed that in all the years I had this on my playlist. I thought it was just the sound of cars on a freeway overpass but that doesn't make sense. 0:19 sound like screeching voices from below not a massive EM emission.
@wdowa94 "High temperature = High resistance". Yes, but not with certain conductors (certain types of semi conductors lose resistance when the temperature increases). I think that all that needs to be said in this case is that the electrical fire discharged itself through the air and down to earth. Much like you would see in lightning.
0:27- Electrifying explosion! I hope nobody in the vicinity of that electrifying explosion was harmed by the electricity flowing from the explosion!
That didn't go to ground, that was a phase to phase flash-over. It hard to say what the fault current is but it looks like at least 5KA may be even more. See the black brown smoke, vaporized copper, it broke one of the jumper cables, you see it swinging. Note the cables bouncing around after the blast has cleared on the left, that's the strong magnetic field created between the conductors. An upstream circuit breaker cleared the fault, an arc with that much fault current will not clear itself.
Great flashover. But it also solved the problem!
light is the spectrum (band) that u can see, IR is the thermal spetrum, and EM is considered the band under the IR. em uses just the magnetic and electric field to 'move' the light moves as photons, wich are verry small particles (alot smaller then electrons :P). they might be all rezonating at high frequency, they might have mani things in common, but they are 2 diferent things. after a frequency ani object cant emit rezonating em weaves, but it emits rezonating photons.
i think they were more happy they got it on video for youtube then the explosion itself
That looked like a big Lightning Bolt
its a camera thing...its like turning on the lights in a dark room just magnified by 1000
It wasn't EMP. The flash was so bright it just caused the shutter to close to prevent the light from destroying the lens.
@fowlpoultry I get nervous around 480 and you guys deal with big fractions of a megavolt. Actually what is the highest transmission voltage in the US?
Thanks for your skill and courage in keeping the power on.
what the heck was that and those guys were nuts for being so close
WOW what a big EMp that created. you can tell by the way his phone gos negative after it blows.
That was intense! Real intense!
0:25 skip to the green explosion of death
far out, sounds mind killer
No need to get mad. i dont need to do research, the system voltage is 19.9/34.5kv, and i understand what going phase to phase is.
@SupermaxCNC
It could be for that, i own a lumix fz35 and it makes the same violet noise when i point to the son or something really brilliant.
powerful enough to cause the camera to mess the colors up when it blew. Nice
the sound is like a rocket and is kinda spooky
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ya me gusto este desmadre !!!!!
Schmokel Kokel Ruh Ruh Ruh we sing in Germany when we see nice thing burning and flashing :)
"DANGER, DANGER! HIGH VOLTAGE! WHEN WE TOUCH....WHEN WE KISS!"
the ir acts more like light then electromagnetic energy, also its a verry high frequency, just a bit under the light spectrum, that's why it is considered more like light, because it acts like it. u can reflect ir much easyer then em, also em can pass through mani meterials, wich ir doesnt (ir almoast cant pass even glass) but it's considered that the ir is the border between light and em, it acts like both :)
@CriminalMacabre This comment made my day! Gotta love Half Life - they seriously need to make HL3!!
Current is measured in amps, voltage is measured in volts. he is correct in saying kv, but its probably 34.5 kv. That is a common voltage.
After inadvertently opening a worm hole, creatures from the twisting nether enter our world to start the destruction that will culminate on 12/21/12.
@joyfulvulture Yeah did you see the impact the MASSIVE EM Emission had on the VIDEO. the wavy video black and green was NOT him flinching. If you did not flinch you were dead already.
thats how a red alert tesla coil impact must look and sound like in real life!
yes it is...Steel Lattice towers are still one of my Favorites though....most i've seen are being replaced with Steel Tube Pylons....its easier to Climb a Latice Tower.
THAT ARC CAN BLIND U
Someone needs to turn this video into a 'firin mah lazor' video.
this cured my depression
Looks more like a wire failure than a "switch failure" to me. Looks like a short coupling wire broke in one spot, an arc formed, then the arc eventually vaporized the whole section of wire in a massive explosion.
@rampike74 You can protect your eyes from TH-cam videos by exchanging your monitor type. They now offer newer, more modern computer monitors that do not pass through the UV radiation from TH-cam videos. I'm aware that they cost more, but I feel that protecting your eyesight is worth it, don't you?
This could explain strange UFO events recently!
At 0:28, the 34kv electric arc goes boom.
Iaiks ! that was a blast !
holy shit! that was a massive explosion :D
@MrSkinnyBill
1) It's cool.
2) It gets even cooler
3) they couldn't do anything else than stand there and watch the lightshow
lightning bolt! lightning bolt! lightning bolt! lightning bolt! lightning bolt!
@chrysanthos66 Yes it's the same as looking at a arc welder arc without a mask. Sun glasses offer very little protection to this too. Of course we are safe viewing it on the computer.
AWESOMEE !!! free lighter; no worry enough voltage
chuck norris tried to power his air conditioner again....
fuck.......i was expecting a naked arnold shwartzenegger to suddenly appear.
Light IS electromagnetic energy. Electromagnetic energy IS light. They are two different words for the same thing. Only a small part of the EM spectrum is VISIBLE light, but it's all light.
you guys are brave, I would have been running
I love it how people state at the end of videos, that it's going to TH-cam... Cool phenomenon though
Its an electrical ARC, and its only 34,000 volts, and probably like 400 amps. there is no way it would have jumped that far.
That light was so bright it hurt the camera's CCD!
A terminator was teleported here