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Posted by on September 24, 2005, 7:05 am
They were showing on the news that transformers on poles were
exploding. Why do they explode? I know that shorting causes this, but
generally they are protected by fuses on the poles.
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Posted by on September 24, 2005, 10:14 am
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 07:05:09 -0500, maradcliff@UNLISTED.com wrote:
>They were showing on the news that transformers on poles were
>exploding. Why do they explode? I know that shorting causes this, but
>generally they are protected by fuses on the poles.
A lot of time it is just the fuse that "explodes".
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Posted by SQLit on September 24, 2005, 11:26 am
> They were showing on the news that transformers on poles were
> exploding. Why do they explode? I know that shorting causes this, but
> generally they are protected by fuses on the poles.
Fuses make nice fire balls. If the fault comes faster than the fuse can blow
then the transformer grenades. Which is generally REALLY spectacular.
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Posted by on September 24, 2005, 3:18 pm
>> They were showing on the news that transformers on poles were
>> exploding. Why do they explode? I know that shorting causes this, but
>> generally they are protected by fuses on the poles.
>Fuses make nice fire balls. If the fault comes faster than the fuse can blow
>then the transformer grenades. Which is generally REALLY spectacular.
They just happened to be interviewing a woman stranded in her car in
the middle of the hurricane, when a transformer blew right in view of
the camera. It was VERY spectacular. Looked like fireworks.
Everything went dark, except for the tv crew lights, and the reporter
got rather excited, but immediately said it was a transformer. The AC
hum was something else !!! I wish I could see that news clip again.
Immediately after they showed a huge piece of roof steel entangled in
the wires behind them. so that was most likely the cause. Those
reporters are often pretty wreckless. What started out as a pretty
mundane interview turned out quite spectacular. Of course those
reporters love stuff like that....
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Posted by Duane Bozarth on September 24, 2005, 3:36 pm
maradcliff@UNLISTED.com wrote:
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> ... Those
> reporters are often pretty wreckless. ...
I say clueless...
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>exploding. Why do they explode? I know that shorting causes this, but
>generally they are protected by fuses on the poles.