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To: WildHighlander57

How did the voltage suddenly get too high and how do explain the blueish thing moving around humming? It wasnt a camera lens error or spot because at the end it flits back and forth with no camera movement


1,350 posted on 02/07/2021 6:44:53 AM PST by Ymani Cricket ( "Pressure Makes Diamonds" ~General Patton)
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To: Ymani Cricket

What I did notice was the trees and bushes thrashing around in the wind.

Could be power lines touching and the power becoming unbalanced because the power generation station couldn’t switch over.

Looks to be during a storm .


1,368 posted on 02/07/2021 7:52:23 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: Ymani Cricket

“How did the voltage suddenly get too high and how do explain the blueish thing moving around humming? It wasnt a camera lens error or spot because at the end it flits back and forth with no camera movement“

It looks as if there was a short circuit or transformer fault behind the store.
If the electric system sensed the short circuit, automatic switches will open. There are switches in some circuits that will re-close after a certain amount of time. If the fault still exists you can possibly see arcing throughout the circuit do to high current inrush on the lines. The zig zag of the blue arcing is a result of AC aka alternating current. (I’ve seen this up close. Video exists online as well of this phenomenon)


1,448 posted on 02/07/2021 10:20:36 AM PST by BigpapaBo (If it don't kill you it'll make you _________!)
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To: Ymani Cricket

The humming noise from the arc is 60hz ac power. Shows the source was from an electro magnetic generator power plant. The path the arc is following is a 1200 or 4160 volt power line, the two wire high voltage feed to the powerpole step down transformers that you see every couple of hundred feet on the power poles.

The multiple flashes and cascade of sparks is one of those transformers biting the dust behind the gas station. The wind is real crazy high and randomly gusting blowing the wires into each other starting arcs that are the hopping up and down the street following the pole wires till the safety cut out. Note that most overloads on power lines allow 3 shorts till they trip for manual reset. This allows the lines to clear off a random tree branch.

They look like big balls of fire to the camera, however they are actually ribbons of arc a foot or less long. Just as bright as the suns surface though so it overloads the camera and the eye.

Incredibly dangerous to someone walking around under the wires in front of his house to take videos. A downed power line can look just like it is off and safe when all it has done is cooked off all the water out of the soil till it has a large diameter disk of high voltage soil. As animals put one foot into the circle it arcs them. So lineman slang is “the circle of death”, when you find a 10 foot circle of dead animals around a contact point for a power line that does not trip.

Never walk within 25 foot of a downed powerline, no matter how quiet it looks.

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1,515 posted on 02/07/2021 12:17:56 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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