Electricity demands so much Respect. Very scary stuff
@mikeymcmikeface5599
5 жыл бұрын
I love electricity!
@mielke15
5 жыл бұрын
@@mikeymcmikeface5599 I used to be terrified of electricity, mostly because I didn't have an ounce of knowledge about it. My company (I work as a building and machine maintenance tech) put me through an electrical troubleshooting course that initially focused on teaching exactly what electricity is and how it functions. It sparked something in me (pun intended), and I've wanted nothing more than to continue learning about it. I've never found anything so fascinating in my life.
@abcdef-kx2qt
4 жыл бұрын
CANT GET THEM TYPE OF JOBS EVER !!!!
@mielke15
4 жыл бұрын
@@abcdef-kx2qt you're right. It's a rare job. They send me to school so my boss can tell me "f&ck code, just run it. They need it now." referring to me refusing to add an outlet to a 20amp circuit with the only wire we had on hand (20awg).
@ripudamansharma5990
4 жыл бұрын
Commands*
@ravijay4561
7 жыл бұрын
with power comes responsibility
@prateekmishra215
4 жыл бұрын
Electricity bill too😃😃
@theboyfrompuertorico6498
4 жыл бұрын
With electricity comes responsibility
@sherwing9054
4 жыл бұрын
with power comes the bill
@markusfpv1349
4 жыл бұрын
With electricity comes responcibilicity
@D4h
4 жыл бұрын
With bill too
@MrMooseSlayer
8 жыл бұрын
it's SOOO much more fun to be hand-cranking that switch open directly underneath it. in the night time, when it's dark, it's spectacular! Then add some humidity like rain or fog... :)
@wendyrice801
6 жыл бұрын
Did this every day for years ,safer then working on a house
@defytyrantsofmississippi2198
5 жыл бұрын
MrMooseSlayer I
@vacuumboy6.0
5 жыл бұрын
I too like to live dangerously.
@frizstyler
5 жыл бұрын
i think that high voltages are in triangle configuration and not grounded
@humphreeyy
4 жыл бұрын
I think it is grounded though
@grizzlybraden5687
4 жыл бұрын
I always enjoyed doing a switching order or large transformer work, generator maintenance, natural gas turbine installations. I also liked running 4" and larger conduit, switch gear installs and trough installs. It is an adrenalin rush hearing and seeing the arc with the smell of burnt ozone in the air. I had to retire due to my health after almost 30years in the trade.
@Zekonos1
4 жыл бұрын
0:44 "we will have potential coming off here, so..." CRACKOOOOOOOOOM
@jetstream454
4 жыл бұрын
Coming off?
@davecrupel2817
3 жыл бұрын
@@jetstream454 the voltage. The electricity essentially itching to continue its path anywhere it can find it, but is being blocked by the air If one of them stepped close enough, they would provide that path connection just on proximity alone. Those hundreds of Kilovolts of electricity would arc to them, and they'd all be dead. Probably instantly. I mean this with deathly certainty and absolute seriousness. If you hear someone near you say "be careful. We have high electrical potential" *Watch Out!!!!*
@SoCalFreelance
10 жыл бұрын
High voltage scares the F out of me :S
@conorjamesmahoney5941
5 жыл бұрын
Volts don't kill. It's the current.
@conorjamesmahoney5941
5 жыл бұрын
@@AlpineTheHusky no. The current kills you.
@AlpineTheHusky
5 жыл бұрын
@@conorjamesmahoney5941 Yes but the voltage and the frequency can also kill
@SentientWaffle
5 жыл бұрын
@@conorjamesmahoney5941 You know nothing about electricity if you say that...Stop
@louisauffret
5 жыл бұрын
There are multiple ways electricity can harm you, the damage it can cause by muscular/cardiac fibrillation is, indeed, proportional to the current and exposition time, that being said, it's the voltage that determines from how far the arc will jump to you, the current is the voltage divided by the impedance so the current is higher the higher the voltage is (transformers are a weird exception), in the human body, the impedance relies on the resistance and capacitance, your body being a bit of a capacitor, it lets alternating current through easier than direct current so alternating current is more dangerous, the capacitance (and thus the impedance) is lower the higher the frequency is, so the current is higher the higher the frequency is, but at some point if you increase the frequency enough the skin effect will occur and the current will stop messing with your muscles, organs and nerves, so you cannot die to cardiac fibrillation with high frequency AC, however, electricity can harm you by heating up/burning your body, the heat generated is proportional to the power multiplied by the exposition time, and power is proportional to both current and voltage. So, no, it's definitely not only the current that kills you
@noelcastle3986
3 жыл бұрын
Worked as a high voltage operator for nearly 35 years still love the sound of a very high voltage isolator cracking open .
@aparnajoshi4689
3 жыл бұрын
Is it an isolator or circuit breaker? We can see the arc ...... it should be a CB right??
@Zloy_nub
4 жыл бұрын
Up Next: Jacob's Ladder: 500kV Switch Opening see you there
@rsinclair689
3 жыл бұрын
Wow, imagine a couple "billion" watts of power flowing through the switchgear breakers and busbars at 500kv. Amazing from the engineering standpoint and these stoic fellows that work around such tremendous energy!
@andyxox4168
2 жыл бұрын
Nope, those ‘stoic’ fellows are fools for standing hear a breaker that could explode and hurl large chunks of porcelain at them at high speed. Only a fool watches a breaker operate like that, (probably actually safer to be standing under it!)
@trenthighvoltage
Жыл бұрын
a couple billion watts at 500kV would be around 10 thousand amps. can't imagine the arcs for sure
@peteharwick1357
6 жыл бұрын
This video was filmed at a substation in Ontario Canada owned by Hydro one. They were opening a puffer type circuit breaker on a 500,000 volt transmission line. I can tell where is the video was filmed because of the logos on the helmets one of the workers was wearing.
@gregorymalchuk272
5 жыл бұрын
I can tell from the accent.
@tylergeorge276
2 жыл бұрын
Yep, its Cherrywood TS in Pickering. I've worked at this station
@virgilio6349
4 жыл бұрын
Welcome to another episode of "Binge watching youtube recomended" on today's episode: High voltage switches
@poly_hexamethyl
2 жыл бұрын
Wow, those bus bars seem mighty low for comfort. It would give me the willies walking around in there with half a million volts six feet above my head....
@NicolaeComan
3 жыл бұрын
Why do these arcs appear if the current is already interrupted by the disjunctors?
@bekkyandbarbie
4 жыл бұрын
That pang scared me out of my skin in my headphones 😂😂
@r.c.collins6513
7 жыл бұрын
I took and passed the ICC Commercial Electrical Inspector test back in 2010, with no construction/electrical experience. But there's no way i would want to work around this stuff every day. I respect/fear it enough to know my limits. Hat's off to those who do.
@philochristos
Жыл бұрын
How much voltage was Zeus generating when he accidentally killed Semele?
@2002MX5
6 жыл бұрын
My Dad used to teach hot sticks school for Met Ed when they started working on power lines while hot. These freaking lineman are heros.
@Frisky0563
6 жыл бұрын
Hi what type of motorized equipment opens the breaker? How is it controlled and isolated from the high voltage? Thank you Don
@weeardguy
4 жыл бұрын
It's usually operated via long rods made out of insulating material connected to a motor somewhere below in the base of the switches. Pneumatic or hydraulic operation would not surprise me either.
@jetstream454
4 жыл бұрын
@@weeardguy Hence "air breaker" I suppose
@weeardguy
4 жыл бұрын
@@jetstream454 Uh no, air breaker is called that way because the insulating material in open situation is the air ;) . Air-breakers are usually breakers that are not intended to be operated under load. Air-blast breakers or oil-breakers are used to do that (as they either feature a blast of highly pressurized air or are immersed in oil to quench arcs that form during switching). Those breakers also open and switch by coiled up springs, so the time an arc can form is as short as possible. You can see the distint difference in this video, as the air breakers open slowly. Air breakers are used to physically and safely isolate a line or busbar.
@jetstream454
4 жыл бұрын
@@weeardguy Yes, sorry, you're right. I found that out later on 😂 Thanks for the reply and correction
@weeardguy
4 жыл бұрын
@@jetstream454 Don't worry ;) You're welcome.
@ManofCulture
6 жыл бұрын
It's large compared to our local 60KV switchyard but still the 50-60Hz hum of the transformer is scary as hell, and sounds like it gonna blow any moment...
@Coffreek
5 жыл бұрын
I recently had a millwright helping me with some transformer ground testing (he stayed outside the fence). The hum spooked him, too. I told him it was fine, and even if it went away, that was the utility's problem, not ours. The only time he should be worried is if the hum got much higher, or much lower. In either case, I told him to run in the same direction as I was, and try to keep up.
@johngellard1187
2 жыл бұрын
I take it that the area is locked down if there is heavy rain?
@johnnykliegle5361
3 жыл бұрын
Would it be able 2 receive energy in some of these worn spots
@blitzroehre1807
4 жыл бұрын
ookaay, now lets try it again, this time under full load :-)
@Scientist_Albert_Einstein
4 жыл бұрын
Nice and all, but still cannot power the delorian which needs 1.21 GW
@IntegralMan
4 жыл бұрын
I assume that the airblast breaker will isolate the switches (isolators) and the sparking is just residual charge? If the switches are running on full load, we would probably see a hotter arc? Is this the right assumption?
@andyxox4168
2 жыл бұрын
No, if the breaker failed and the disconnector were opened you would see a shower of sparks and molten aluminium raining down. In this video you hear the breaker operate well before the no load disconnector (isolators) open at 0:45
@homelaptop4510
4 жыл бұрын
What happened? Where am I supposed to look at?
@AbhayNayak
4 жыл бұрын
what are those rod which came up? it is like some sort of switch>?
@lt1caprice57l
3 жыл бұрын
This is a switch on a 500kV transmission line. The rods that came up are the switch contacts. Yes, they have to be that big.
@AbhayNayak
3 жыл бұрын
@@lt1caprice57l What would happen if they aren't that big. Does small switches also this kind of leak but on such a small scale that we don't notice it?
@hockypockies780
4 жыл бұрын
Jacob's Ladder -> High Voltage Arc -> Airblast breaker what will i find next?
@hazeypig3492
8 жыл бұрын
does this happend because of pressure?
@ryank1273
7 жыл бұрын
That first blast scared the shit out of me!
@drz400smguypessel9
8 жыл бұрын
THATS TOO COOL, I WOULD LOVE TO DO THINGS LIKE THIS EVERYDAY
@gtavlossantosisadriverstown
4 жыл бұрын
Then do itlol. The first step we take in making anything happen for ourselves is the thought of it happening for ourselves.
@СветланаЛузанова-к2д
Жыл бұрын
Веселые и довольные голоса людей-значит:все хорошо!!
@JustinKoenigSilica
9 жыл бұрын
what are those ribbed things used for? i see them everywhere in electricity...
@Electroblud
9 жыл бұрын
+Justin Koenig They're insulators. They keep the magical pixies (otherwise known as electrons) from jumping where they don't belong.
@JustinKoenigSilica
9 жыл бұрын
Maanuueel42 \m/(^_^) how does the shape affect retention of electrons?
@Electroblud
9 жыл бұрын
Justin Koenig With exposure to dust and water the surface of an insulator becomes conductive, forming a path for the pixies to ground. The ribs increase the distance they have to travel on the surface thus decreasing the amount of pixies lost, saving huge amounts of money and power. They also act as protection from dirt, which decreases the conductivity even further. It does not however help against arcing, since the flying pixie stream just jumps over those ribs. Btw.: I have no Idea where I picked up this pixie thing, but since then I keep calling electrons magical pixies. Please don't be irritated by that :D
@lwkite
8 жыл бұрын
ElectroBlood: The "magical pixes" is the best answer ever! I'm going to steal it.
@Electroblud
8 жыл бұрын
lwkite I have in the meantime remembered where I had the pixies thing from. KZitemr AvE says it all the time.^^
@flaplaya
7 жыл бұрын
1000 HP Of Air Compressors? Holy Shit!!!! Sounds like a lot more than 125 lbs per sq/inch too. Keep it clean and safe out there guys. Stay in your lane and you get home safe. Right everyone?
@bountyhunter4885
2 жыл бұрын
"All rise !...the Honorable Judge Frankenstein presiding." ⚡⚖️
@tuxitalk4-tuxipolitixpage772
3 жыл бұрын
I like the mechanical "arms". It reminds me of those kinetic sculptures of mechanical parts allowing a ball to move. Only this is with electricity.
@xxafthabxx9346
4 жыл бұрын
first YT recommended high volt arc then I'm here for no reason
@carpetrug01
5 жыл бұрын
what does that do? did people lose power ?
@Metro248
3 жыл бұрын
How do i get into this career field?
@Mrbeefy957
5 жыл бұрын
What makes those things stand up
@SyphenHouse
11 жыл бұрын
зверь6228 The best of Jungle Gyms... except you don't really want to touch most things!
@Chesser2007
8 жыл бұрын
just don't touch more than any one thing at a time, and you'll be fine.
@quaztron
8 жыл бұрын
Uh, no. It's 500kV. Don't get within like 10 feet of anything while touching anything else (including the ground). Standing on a plastic bucket, you'd still get zapped by creepage current. Even hanging from a live conductor could put dangerous current through your hands due to capacitive current and corona discharge from your legs. (A bird resting on the same wire wouldn't get as much current because it is smaller.)
@traymuse3810
7 жыл бұрын
quaztron mad distance is about 35 feet
@NelsonBigGunP200Fan
7 жыл бұрын
This shit is very interesting and awesome at the same time. You won't catch me going near it though. Electricity is not forgiving, I like to live and not be killed by thousands of volts.
@MrTheHillfolk
7 жыл бұрын
Christopher Ryan Getting your finger in a household outlet can kill ya too...just gotta be safe and double check yourself about 8 times.
@TheUniversalEyes
11 жыл бұрын
Looks like a fun jungle gym.
@Kn270
7 жыл бұрын
Beast6228 I tried it out once but my heart exploded ☹️
@edmundthefox3656
7 жыл бұрын
Yeah. It is a jungle gym. Hell's jungle gym.
@denelson83
Жыл бұрын
This in Ontario?
@ericl8743
5 жыл бұрын
So where do I plug in my phone?
@Big_Chungus935
5 жыл бұрын
500kv usb port
@TheCgrules
7 жыл бұрын
Substations have some interesting stuff that I can't wait to learn about to be a lineman
@lolbots
6 жыл бұрын
good for you, I'm sure it will be an electrifying experience
@jamesjay8479
5 жыл бұрын
So? Have you gotten on a line crew?
@joyjeetpaul2218
3 жыл бұрын
What is airblast ?
@misterl1668
5 жыл бұрын
The power to become Electro will be mine!!
@dogmandan79
2 жыл бұрын
That’s it?
@robertgift
6 жыл бұрын
What was the first bang heard?
@brucecampbell5917
6 жыл бұрын
The breaker was opening before the disconnects opened
@honoratocastor8110
4 жыл бұрын
I worked in Yemen General Electrucity Corp...( YGEC )....as electrical substation engineer....waycack 1983 - 1986....under the supervision if Kennedy & Donkin consulting engineers from U.K.....I worjed in Dhanar Substation & switchyard....( 132 / 33 kv )
@robfetter9933
7 жыл бұрын
What switch yard is this? looks a lot like Nanticoke.
@SyphenHouse
7 жыл бұрын
Cherrywood.
@multimang0steen
5 жыл бұрын
The unseen that made your life comfortable
@bapu78
5 жыл бұрын
I am not understanding single thing going on here but still watching this people must get award to work in such dangerous area this is worst than war zone area
@beatchildproductions
6 жыл бұрын
Honestly, I love a good ol' power outage.
@misterl1668
5 жыл бұрын
You'll find all the crazy ppl in a matter of moments in a power outage
@timdoreen3933
3 жыл бұрын
Makes old sparky the electric chair look like a Hasbro toy
@weaesq
7 жыл бұрын
About 0:23. I heard it but not sure which breaker is being tested.
@CuthbertNibbles
9 жыл бұрын
If the airblast breaker already opened, where does the current for the arcing at 0:45 come from?
@CuthbertNibbles
9 жыл бұрын
+CIA Imagine a light switch in your home. On one side of the switch, you have a light bulb. On the other, 'the grid' outside your house, where you get your juice from. Now, let's say the bulb burnt, and had to be replaced. The smart thing to do is power off the bulb before replacing it. There's long been talk about whether light bulb power will kill you, but why risk it, eh? Anyways, what's in this video is basically a giant, massive switch. On one end, you have high voltage transmission lines, the ones on the tall metal poles you see rubbing along the country side, and on the other, you may have a load (not one lightbulb, maybe half a million) or a power supply, feeding power into 'the grid'. Now, the grid can't be powered down completely, since pretty much all of it is connected, so the high voltage side is always energized. But the other end isn't. So, let's say this is a switch for a small wind farm, and one of the wind turbines had a problem. This cuts it off from the half a million volts (I'd put money on that being deadly) that are on the grid, so technicians can fix the problem without being vaporized. Unlike a light switch, shutting off this much power has problems. If you have two points close to each other, and power would be flowing through them if they were touching, they can arc under high voltage. That can be seen with the arms. These arcs are very hot, damaging to the ends and hard to control. The loud bang is an air piston quickly pulling one end away from the other, to avoid arcing. The second arm fully separates the grid from the other end. Any questions?
@SyphenHouse
9 жыл бұрын
+Donald Scott & +Cuthbert Nibbles Most of it comes from induction from neighboring circuits and equipment. 500kV circuits will typically run for hundreds of miles/kilometers in parallel. The induction from one circuit can create and induced potential of 10-50kV. It's not safe to work on the equipment until permanently installed grounding devices are first connected to the circuit.
@interlakebarnquilttrail803
8 жыл бұрын
+Syphen House I worked around this stuff for 32 years (at the technician level) and we called it charging current. Something to do with the air and ground acting as a giant capacitor. I never fully understood it.
@brucecampbell5917
6 жыл бұрын
The breaker opening only seperates the " load " from the line - the line ( pipes ) are still energized and by opening the switches that did that arcing , the breaker itself was then with power going into it and cluld then be tested and grounded to make it safe to work on.
@andyxox4168
2 жыл бұрын
Don’t believe any of the other bs answers, the slight discharge is caused by tiny leakage current from the line conductors to earth and into the surrounding air. As for the fool with the lightbulb analogy ... 😂😂😂
@chrissy93x
4 жыл бұрын
This is cool and all but whats the point in doing this? is this like typical maintenance check up or is this just the bois having fun by turning the on/off switch? lol
@jetstream454
4 жыл бұрын
It would be for maintenance reasons but they brought the boys along to watch haha
@MrRedeyedJedi
5 жыл бұрын
High voltage scares the R out of me. Electricians will see what I did there.
@kedarunzi9139
4 жыл бұрын
no need to be an electrician, this stuff is taught in primary schools
@108102222
4 жыл бұрын
Ohm my god
@41A2E
4 жыл бұрын
*I* see what you mean.
@salvigames5663
5 жыл бұрын
I love the smell of electricity in the morning
@noah_9886
5 жыл бұрын
salvi games ozone?
@mohantyagi5740
3 жыл бұрын
Standard way,good practice.Make off the breakers first and than open the air break switches.
@degenerate2124
4 жыл бұрын
Is this harrp
@BritishEngineer
2 жыл бұрын
How many PSI
@antonberkbigler5759
4 жыл бұрын
Does that dude have stickers on his hard hat? That’s not OSHA compliant, as the adhesives can weaken the hard hat.
@vinigretzky97
4 жыл бұрын
bruh
@LumaControl
9 жыл бұрын
It this a failure, or normal.
@SyphenHouse
9 жыл бұрын
Normal switching.
@kevinshah1319
8 жыл бұрын
Which place is this?
@Kn270
7 жыл бұрын
kevin shah Cherrywood
@Astinsan
7 жыл бұрын
God bless the line men.. and women.. it's a thankless job
@Master__Chief117
4 жыл бұрын
That windmill was pretty cool, huh
@taraskobets1595
7 жыл бұрын
My works too. I used Inplix handbooks and build it without any problems.
@jopersan8876
4 жыл бұрын
My phone's battery from 10% to 100% for just only watching this
@carterkyle1831
8 жыл бұрын
Wow WHoa .. Lol thats A lot of Juice being separated by a Huge breaker switch ..safety first ...id enjoy having the salary that ya'll guys make ..Lol have fun becarefull..nice video
@slyspy9819
6 жыл бұрын
What's a couple of volts between friends !
@re8672
5 жыл бұрын
Owwwww!!!!! (shuffles across carpet a second time)
@Awave3
11 жыл бұрын
Where was this?
@larsabrahamsson1566
7 жыл бұрын
Are you supposed to not see so much happening in the breakers?
@andyxox4168
2 жыл бұрын
You don’t see the breakers, you hear them. What you ‘see’ is disconnector (isolators) opening at 0:45.
@bristolfashion4421
4 жыл бұрын
I'm confused - we have 'leccy in the UK, too - but no line-men!
@johnnykliegle5361
3 жыл бұрын
I like are 50 plus bury underground!! Just for protection from the signals
@Big_Chungus935
5 жыл бұрын
God. I was at high volume
@смиренный-х2б
5 жыл бұрын
Gotta love the noise of the workers brains being fried.
@jimjohnson4673
4 жыл бұрын
BBC DFL breakers,, they are amazing
@zyanzisabot8806
6 жыл бұрын
NICE VID ITS COOL
@tracynation239
4 жыл бұрын
An arc-cellent video. ♡ T.E.N.
@charleschance8972
7 жыл бұрын
did anything spark
@youtubernouser2410
4 жыл бұрын
All the 1,000 dislikes are from **D A R K N E S S* 😄😄😄
@ghshrksidhc5460
4 жыл бұрын
500 kV?! Holy shit, I'm an electronics technician and we don't operate on more than 30 V!
@richardmyhan8755
7 жыл бұрын
Should do this at night
@stanpatterson5033
6 жыл бұрын
NO, because that's when we need all the power we can get to keep the lights on ! Actually, the power goes out enough with problems, never mind planned outages.
@Youngsta0
5 жыл бұрын
@@stanpatterson5033 Most loads are throughout the day, that's why electricity costs more during the day time.
@ramyg5037
4 жыл бұрын
0:51 - Zzzzhhhhzzz.... Adult fascinated by the sound I guess...
@johnnykliegle5361
3 жыл бұрын
Like different types of lighting
@deadizbetter
6 жыл бұрын
If I put a turbo charger and a hood scoop on my 200 amp panel, it would put this piece of shit out of business.
@MirlitronOne
3 жыл бұрын
59s you'll never get back. Video begins at 45s.
@rockytech8027
4 жыл бұрын
My battery got full charge by watching this
@jason1440
5 жыл бұрын
Shakey....lay off the coffee
@easydoz1
5 жыл бұрын
I hate the recommended videos YT lists after my interest is spiked from this...
@stacyyardley261
6 жыл бұрын
Even more amazing is what is producing the electricity that's truly a work of genus, like natural gas turbines feeding steam to a huge generator..
@andyxox4168
2 жыл бұрын
Sure but gas turbines don’t feed steam to a generator, gas turbines are prime movers for generators in their own right and may use their exhaust heat to feed a boiler to make steam to feed a steam turbine which then drives a generator ... 😔
@wansmg
2 жыл бұрын
sutet 500 kV emang keren
@fightermizan292
4 ай бұрын
Very nice ❤❤❤
@oscarkilo7720
6 жыл бұрын
. Electricity workers are the true Badass
@Eddiecurrent2000
10 жыл бұрын
Bring back Air blast! So much better than SF6!
@jeffreyrie6389
10 жыл бұрын
Leaks a lot and needs more maintenance...but SF6 can be pretty leaky too.. Compressors fail on the Air blast stuff
@Eddiecurrent2000
10 жыл бұрын
We've got GIS which pisses SF6 out on a regular basis, breakers are fine, but impossible to work on. Good old GEC (UK) Airblast still going strong 50 years after installation.I guess we'll never see anything that good again.
@jeffreyrie6389
10 жыл бұрын
Eddiecurrent2000 really? mind you we only have one GIS station down here. and it's rock soild. never had a leak in 30+ years really hard to see the switch position through the little glass windows though, can barely see the tulip
@jeffreyrie6389
10 жыл бұрын
Eddiecurrent2000 But you are right though. we have KSO's that re tough as nailes 50+ years old!!!
@MrSunrise-
2 жыл бұрын
SF6 is being outlawed because of it's global warming potential - true story, sad to say. Oh well, at least the old technology still works.
@TrillMatic187
4 жыл бұрын
Sooo am I the only one wondering how tf do you invent something like electricity.
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