Chain transformer explosions

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Every thing is Big in texas ;D

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"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Seems they need to take the pennies out of the fuse boxes.

tm

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Is the video for real?

The video appears to be a loop (see youtube comments). That arcing seems to go on for a hell of a long time in quite a few locations and only 4000 customers affected.....

"Penny'll start a fahr." - an electrician on "Sealab 2021", "The Feast of Alvis".

-- Les Cargill

I see two bright lights above the scene at ~ 0:20 -0:30

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Please, correct me if I am wrong, but IIRC most of suburban US relies on pole transformers (pigs) for every few blocks. Thus a medium voltage MV (1-5 kV) distribution is needed to feed these pigs. This means that open line MV lines are practically on every significant street.

I do not understand how that situation in the video could have occurred.

Assuming that the HV/MV transformer had failed and feeding something like 100 kV into a network designed for 1-5 kV could indeed create something like that. But since nothing like that happened according to news reports, that does not make much sense.

If there was a significant failure between the HV/MV networks as the video suggests, the damage had been much more significant on the MV or even LV (110/220 V) side.

In my neighborhood we have a transformer for every two houses, and underground feed... voltage unknown. ...Jim Thompson

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