500,000 volt arc

[mad1]

There was reportedly a problem shutting down a 500,000 volt
electric utility circuit by conventional means, so the circuit
was opened at the Palo Verde switchyard while under FULL load,
with spectacular results. (This may be the Palo Verde Nuclear
Generating Station yard about 50 miles west of Phoenix.)
This was NOT the routine way to open a circuit!

link

[tmx468]

Yowza!

[M_Six]

Whoa. Don't think I'd want to be that close. Talk about a hair-raising experience.

[willy_ph]

Unnecessary explitive removed That's incredible!



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[NeoStarO1]

Whoa!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[John Prophet]

I think the dude yelling at the end is the one half squatting down in front of the truck at the end of the video, lol

[nomaxim]

WooooW

Far out

[zen]

That is too cool.
Thanks for the link!

[originel]

i recieved a 404 error...but that's ok i'm pretty certain i've seen this video anyways. if this is the video i am thinking of then what i find very interesting is that only one of the phases arced.

[OuTpaTienT]

Oh man! What happened to it? I wanna see. Don't tell me none of you saved it.