Ain't no thang ~ on the other hand, this looks to be a major distribution transformer station ~ so it'd have several banks that could blow under overload conditions.
Thought they fixed this problem with those supercapacity capacitors
” you can see transformer after transformer blow as a tornado cruises through almost any urban area. “
Actually, what you’re seeing are ‘line slaps’ and the resulting arcs when a couple of phase lines touch, usually on the slack spans that aren’t pulled taut (tight) ...
” you can see transformer after transformer blow as a tornado cruises through almost any urban area. “
Actually, what you’re seeing are ‘line slaps’ and the resulting arcs when a couple of phase lines touch, usually on the slack spans that aren’t pulled taut (tight) ... also debris coming into the lines can cause this too.
During Sandy I looked out my upstairs window of my house on Long Island and saw transformes blowing all abound. Didn’t see reds, but plenty of whites and especially greens and orange. Things repeated a week later when the Nor’easter blew in. The linked vid is clearly a main transformer blowing.