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    Exclamation something shocking.....

    http://www.machovideo.com/article.php?article=3240
    Nothing out of the ordinary....just a switch opening......
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    hehe...thats nice! Like teslacoil

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    Iv seen this before.. Pretty cool.. Apparently this can happen when long cable runs are involved..
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    Someone posted this on alt.lasers some time ago - its pretty impressive and scary. IIRC the poster said that the arm swinging should not have had power to it as I don't suspect this is a regular and desired effect in normal operation. I guess tho. that they knew it was gonna happen otherwise why the audience and VT.
    Impressive how large and bright the arc is in BRIGHT daylight
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    Yes, it's a disconnect switch opening with a defective arc suppressor. A description, and why it's doing what it's doing, can be found here, along with other unintended high-voltage "mishaps" (the video of the substation transformer going up is a good one ;-) ).

    http://205.243.100.155/frames/longarc.htm
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