Re: High Voltage Destruction

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:58:32 GMT, Rich Grise <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> Gave
us:

Some months or years ago, someone gave a detailed description of what
exactly happened - there are actually two switches there, and you can
actually see the thing just to the right of the arc terminal burn up;
this contributed to the big arc - I don't remember exactly what that
first failed part was - some kind of arc quencher that failed, I think.
I'd look it up, but google groups search is way broken, so it's not even
worth the bother.

Maybe somebody else remembers.


I seem to remember that it was a three phase switch, and all three
were supposed to open, and only one did.

The grid banging transformer fire/explosion was a pretty good video
too. Wouldn't want to be within a hundred feet of that one...
.

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