High Power Demonstrations

 

Mental note, don’t short out bus bars. 🙂

“Here arcs were intentionally initiated by bridging wires across three copper bus bars in a testing laboratory. Three phase 480 volt power was then applied across the bus bars for about 1 second. The wires immediately explode, forming a conductive plasma which forms high current power arcs between phases. The actual fault current in the demonstration is not known, but is likely in the range of tens of kiloamps.”

8 Comments


  1. Awsome!!!! Alan were did you dig this up now XD I’d love to try this expirement if i could 🙂


  2. lol, wood box and chain link fence


  3. Wow, that looked scary and awesome at the same time.

    And I loved the ‘ding’ at the end. Makes it sound like an old microwave finishing :p




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