bad power

[kaboom]

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It blew its top already- did it set its oil on fire?

If the cutout's still closed, or if no cutout (CSP ), the stinger will burn the pole and arc to the CATV, phone and neutral of the LV triplex or open wire secondary.

Go make some movies, you'll have a blast- STAY AWAY from the pole, step potential...

You'll also have primary fault current returning through your GES/GEC if that stinger hits your drop... Your faucets may 'bite.'

[skystormfarms]

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cant had my camcorder charging when this hapend its tost

[kaboom]

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The whole camcorder was plugged in?? Ouch...

UPS for your modem and router?

Add: I guess not- he's offline now. Wait- he's back...

[skystormfarms]

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ya but my UPS just becam a fuse

[Mad_Professor]

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I just read the whole thread and it was not making sense til I got to the second page.

This was very entertaining, I want to see that transformer blow.

Take pictures, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!

[joshnz]

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YES pictures

At least here in NZ or systems don't fail like that. only the country ones.

[dood]

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Entertaining thread... I think I would've had everything unplugged quite a while before. Now you have more stuff to replace...

I'm guessing this is about what it looked like-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeH1WDBRLjg

[skystormfarms]

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ya that is what it looked like but


The whole camcorder was plugged in
so no pictures
and some trees went up in fire

[kaboom]

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One of the primaries off the insulator burning the crossarm. Tracking as well.
Then, the earth shattering kaboom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1LNIy-1mi0

[kaboom]

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Open wire secondaries being blown around and shorting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uq03cvYdVA

[kaboom]

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Fault w/ recloser. Vid mislabeled- no tx explodes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXLpL1Ai0bY

[kaboom]

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The oil is bubbling/boiling!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO0i94XgQMA

[kaboom]

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Fire!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWAwj-6GOxQ

[skystormfarms]

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my powers back on but i am using a nuther t-former down the street

[Agent24]

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Entertaining thread... I think I would've had everything unplugged quite a while before. Now you have more stuff to replace...

Hell yeah... A year or so ago the fuse on the power pole was faulty, overheating, arcing, or something... lights started flickering the power went off and then back on.. soon as that happened I disconnected EVERYTHING straight away and called the power company.

According to the guy who replaced it, apparently they just get old and start failing like that...

I'm guessing this is about what it looked like-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeH1WDBRLjg

Whoohoo! That looks fun...

Like joshnz said, we don't seem to get that kind of thing here much.. then again America is much larger so I suppose you have more transformers to blow up

Only thing exciting that happened recently was where I think some high voltage lines shorted from being blown around in a storm...

Between my street and another is an old orchard and a creek, and the lines go all the way across with no poles in between... that night there was a huge flash of light (thought it was lightning at first) and the power just went off. No thunder so I'm pretty sure it was just the power lines.

Looking outside our whole street was off and so were all the streets on the other side of the orchard. Power company had everything back up and running half an hour later.

[joshnz]

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well our switch gear and underground cables fail. switch gear = fire and and twice two switch stations caught fire. first one was from a fault in a 11kv line that they switched back on without doing a test. the second was a 33kv from the two transformers that feed our district they are now putting in a new 33kv supply to the cbd to take the load off the 11kv system after 3 of the four cables that feed the city failed within a week.

[skystormfarms]

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no cut outs on the t-former so a big earth shattering kaboom and fire and my faucets bit me to
zzap

[RJARRRPCGP]

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Between my street and another is an old orchard and a creek, and the lines go all the way across with no poles in between... that night there was a huge flash of light (thought it was lightning at first) and the power just went off. No thunder so I'm pretty sure it was just the power lines.

Had an incident like that when there was just some wintry precipitation...

The power flickered and I saw green flashes when there was wintry precipitation in downtown Springfield.

[goontron]

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Had an incident like that when there was just some wintry precipitation...

The power flickered and I saw green flashes when there was wintry precipitation in downtown Springfield.

wholly thread revival batman! i vote this thread locked because the OP is banned (and this thread is from 2k11 and his grammar/spelling gives me a headache)

anyway since this thread is revived: its not unusual to see 135v both phases here where i live. the cause is the phases being out of balance between the two transformers on the poles. the one down the street is feeding the same phases as the transformer behind my building basically.

[kaboom]

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its not unusual to see 135v both phases here where i live.

If you got 135V on both legs, at the same time, either primary voltage too high or wrong tap selected. Probably the former, since taps don't change by themselves- if the tx were to be shorting changing the ratio, it would be more "interesting," as skystorms' adventure has shown.


OTOH, if you've got 135-0-105, watch out! The single-phase (center tapped tx) service has a bad neutral- anywhere from the tx to the building.

Haven't I repeated myself enough???