When Electricity Went Out of Control

[@kindlin]

11:08 Playing Thunderstruck on tesla coils has to be peak internet.

[@wossle73]

Just gonna say that🤘

[@narrativeless404]

Nah It has to be 22:01

[@bobann3566]

@@narrativeless404 Or, 18:27

[@bobann3566]

@@narrativeless404 Or 21:45, that was cute.

[@SecularFelinist]

A power line down at a cemetery. That's a zombie movie in the making.

[@tomrogers9467]

No corpses were injured during the making of this movie.

[@EphemeralProductions]

Which one was that?

[@Jislas442]

What do you call a electrician that has gone insane. A welder.

[@christiaansteyn4088]

😂

[@uwiniscool7084]

golden comment 🤣🤣

[@Vulcan650Vampire]

What do you call a welder without a Hott gf? An electrician.

[@chanvalentine8283]

😂

[@Rick-S-6063]

Q: What are the only two types of electricians? A: Careful and dead.

[@HeartcoreMitRA]

-This might be the most epic transformer explosion ever captured on video ElectroBOOM: grunts gelaously

[@michaelmartin9022]

ElectroBOOM: Now watch what happens when I hammer a nail into it

[@Adreitz7]

6:20 Looks like an electrical explosion inside a drain pipe. It's amazing to see two huge manhole covers go flying 30 feet in the air simultaneously! I wouldn't want to be anywhere near that.

[@EphemeralProductions]

Power line laying on ground next to the tree

[@RossRadford]

@23:15 Trying to put out an electrical fire on a live circuit, on a conductive aluminum ladder. Genius 😵‍💫

[@jays106]

yea when i was on fire dept in a small town winter a majority of our calls were during heavy snow for tree on wires burning all we could do was sit there and babysit it until the power went out or the power company showed up to deal with it we would not even be dumb enough to try to put it out. most times once the breaker on the line tripped and power went out the fire did too

[@kc_for_now]

Yeah...that aluminum ladder is a much more direct path to ground than that wooden pole.

[@superawesomefuntime2162]

I'll never forget the ice storm in Detroit, had to have been the 90's I was just a kid. Power lines went down everywhere but one landed on a neighbors garage and set it on fire, I'm pretty sure my dad saved some guys life that was literally pulling out his garden hose to spray it on a live wire.

[@AsmodeusMictian]

Ahh.....the sound of angry electrons. Good stuff.

[@Mtnmanmike62]

It's one thing to see the video, but if you're there you can feel the vibrations in your chest. 60 cycles of raw power.

[@LOUamber-n9l]

Thats why they kept saying don't live near those cables

[@Zofsm]

@@Sgt_Bill_T_Co Ultraviolet , certainly. But not X-Rays

[@VladMoneybagsThe3rd]

Including a decease coworker who experience it.

[@Aranimda]

Some prefer to do things in a slightly more relaxed pace. 50 Hz.

[@Chez8922-kf6cy]

Wicked evil.

[@nonsequitor]

So good seeing something on KZbin that *isn't* a compilation of terrible quality shakey rapidly panning vertical video 🙌🙏

[@SPak-rt2gb]

Cameraman never dies

[@axtrifonov]

11:40 this song is called "Thunderstruck"

[@Notdextergrif]

No shit

[@BritishEngineer]

I’m studying electrical and electronics engineering, transmission network / power systems design is one of the things I plan to specialise in besides power electronics. These videos just help to motivate me to get good grades and stick it.

[@em1osmurf]

i was a navy Electrician's Mate for 21 years. show the aftermath of these. i had to deal several times with "ordinary" people that misunderstood the deadly power of electricity. most of these i was looking for what went wrong to make them happen. good advice: if a line falls from a pole, stay over 3 poles away from where it fell. a loose cable can crack at you like a whip and roast you.

[@chanvalentine8283]

Thank you for your life advice. You might have saved mine in the future.

[@TonyLoechte]

The high voltage pendulum Is what every man should have in his garage 😂

[@Sgt_Bill_T_Co]

"Electricity is a great ally, but don't ever let him shake hands with you" THomas Edison.

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

The saying that I heard applies equally to either electricity or fire: "It makes a good servant but a bad master."

[@Sgt_Bill_T_Co]

@@melkiorwiseman5234 It also applies to alcahol.

[@CLipka2373]

8:25 - yeah, no. That's not a short circuit. That's actually quite the opposite: Iced-over power lines cause the pantograph to lose direct metal-to-metal contact, causing an electric arc to form across the gap. The arc is quite hot, at times hot enough to melt a bit of the metal, which drops down as sparks.

[@tookitogo]

That must absolutely ruin the catenaries, no? Could one maybe have some kind of scraper ahead of the pantograph’s contacts to clear ice first?

[@evgenyoms]

@@tookitogo No, because its not just bare metal to metal contact. its actually metal-to-graphite contact. Trolleybus and trams have special graphite elements in pantographs which replaceable and contacts directly to the wire

[@tookitogo]

@@evgenyoms “No” to which of my two distinct questions? I know it’s a graphite contact. Can you connect the dots and explain why this explains the “no” to the question(s)?

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

@@tookitogo I'm guessing that what evgenyoms meant to say is that it doesn't damage the cateneries because the damage is done to the graphite blocks instead, and those are replaceable. I'd guess that the whole reason for using graphite blocks is so that situations like the bus in the video don't cause damage which would require more expensive repairs.

[@evgenyoms]

​@@tookitogoEnglish is not my primary language, so i used a google translate: Trolleybuses have graphite inserts that wear out when in contact with the wire. The trolleybus does not stand still, they moves, because of this the wire at the point of contact does not have enough time to heat up and melt. So this sparks does not harm the wire, but it does harm the graphite inserts, which burn out faster than usual. The wire does not deteriorate and serves for many decades. Just believe me, as a person who has lived in Siberia for 30 years. I see all these sparks and light shows every winter morning. No one pays attention to this phenomenon, but it looks beautiful, yes)) The first morning trolleybuses scrape off the frost and ice from the wires and then the movement continues in normal mode.

[@empmachine]

The host desperately needs a science advisor, but overall this one was pretty neat!

[@mcrekkr]

2:12 that alarms got some grove to it

[@furusato4319]

I didn't hear any sound, just static.😅

[@LoganT547]

Someone needs to sample that 😂

[@KeithLyons-z4h]

3.36 that tree is literally screaming in pain!!

[@MnemonicHack]

You probably know this already, but for anyone who doesnt, what it's doing is cooking the inside of the branches and trunk, and the whine is the air escaping.

[@TheDirtyChef]

​@@MnemonicHack We know but thank you for pointing this out for the normies.

[@PsalmCourier]

@@MnemonicHack thats alright, i find it fun just to discuss that kind of stuff. interesting phenomena really.

[@michealmorrow1481]

8:44 isn't a short curcuit, it's ice on the wires.

[@TheDirtyChef]

That car alarm was a fire beat!

[@RedDadRedemption]

A truly shocking video, awesome.

[@CRASHCENTRALUS]

When electricity goes out of control, it reminds us how much we rely on it, yet how dangerous and unpredictable it can be when mismanaged.

[@markkinsler4333]

Around 3:25 we see a thin wire or a kite string flown over and into power lines, Given that there was a camera at the ready, presumably this wasn't an accident. It was a felony.

[@Peter-Du]

It was cool.

[@tcoiler]

I came to the comments for just this.

[@WTFIdiotsAtWork]

Are you detective sherlock holmes?

[@simontay4851]

No, it was stupid and dangerous, not cold.

[@timacrow]

Pretty sure that was a short circuit test, like the one with the drone a minute later. They launch a thin wire using a gun. See 15:08

[@txcrix9236]

Arcing electricity can be terrifyingly beautiful!

[@Masterfighterx]

1:35 A-10 full BRRRRT

[@scottrackley4457]

My brother is a lineman, actually in Florida right now helping rewire the state. He would call most of these "burning the world down". Also of note, in the main switch yard for TVA nuclear plants (dogyard) if you carry a florescent bulb it will light up.

[@YSongCloud]

That can happen in most switchyards, or even low enough high voltage lines. We have a substation here where the lines going into it are close enough down to make florescent tubes light up when held up.

[@seisies-mama]

Tysm for your brother helping Florida 🙏🏻🫶🏻

[@LoganT547]

You can also do that under high voltage pylons. The corona discharge will easily light up those bulbs

[@Omnidom45]

I just love the sheer raw power of electricity. 11:03 Ayyyy a electrical beat!

[@renko9067]

I love how that second guy is getting his arse under the roadway. I'd be doing the same. The Tesla coil orchestra at 11:20 really made me smile.

[@Ryanthusar]

2:28 - "A blown fuse sounds like a gunshot..." Yes, yes it does. I live in Australia and had an 11kV line fail near my home and blew out two fuses on the step-down transformer on the next pole. It was loud enough to have been heard over 275m/900ft away inside a home, right before the power went out. For those that live in Australia, the 11kV line is the top three lines, also known as the high voltage lines, that sit above the four bottom lines which are the low voltage lines which carry 415volts

[@neil2742]

Not surprised it sounds like a gunshot, often a small explosive charge is what is used to ensure it opens cleanly

[@timacrow]

Many years ago, lightning struck a power pole across the street from our house. I was a kid at the time, and was watching the storm, so saw the flash. Amazingly, no windows were broken, but the whole house shook and pictures and such were knocked from the walls. It was like a bomb, so incredibly loud, and at the same instant, everything went pitch black, of course!

[@wewinusa]

It's crazy how one small mistake can lead to catastrophic failures like these.

[@chanvalentine8283]

Squirrels, rats, and snakes have a tendency to take down the grid.

[@anythingeverythingchannel8641]

3:58 no more electricity for everyone

[@Neverforget71324]

Would be nice if the narrator actually understood how electricity works...

[@Richard_the_lionheart75]

Who cares

[@Neverforget71324]

@@Richard_the_lionheart75 I obviously do. The narration is idiotic and pointless.

[@simontay4851]

Pretty much everyone that watches this video cares. Everyone except richard_t...

[@valeniusthekat]

Things that make ya go boom 💥👍

[@thomasfholland]

This has got to be one of your best compilations!! Well done! 👍👍👍

[@dotv.9905]

When electricity goes out of control, it is surely trying to test which of us can really live like primitive people. Who needs light when you can play 'find your way in the dark'!

[@JacobTemple_CE]

If you've lived in the same house for more than a year you better know your way around it 😂

[@impressedglobal]

It's one thing to see the video, but if you're there you can scared, the person filming is so brave

[@lucienhikingdroneflying2543]

11:44 👏👏👏👏

[@blackspider3133]

13:13 The balls on this guy for standing under the power lines and not even running away while a tree is falling on them 24:23 So this is how they got the light saber sounds?

[@Fifury161]

Not quite - the light sabre sounds where made by tapping high tension lines (as in guy wires, not actual power lines)

[@criley2723]

​@@Fifury161 That was blaster sounds. Lightsaber sounds were originally picked up accidentally by a microphone passing by an old tv.

[@MsUltrafox]

Great video to show why above-ground power cables are a bad thing.

[@bryansmith7706]

Maybe this is why we should put lines under ground.

[@NATHANFREDERICK-rs7yb]

$$$$$$$$$$

[@valeniusthekat]

@11:04 I wanna go to THAT light show 👀🥰👍

[@kirill9064]

Is this photoninduction music?

[@ZoltanFranko-Doro]

Ken Lee: I Am faster than light! Electricity: We'll see about that

[@lezlienewlands1337]

Proof if it were needed that if you screw around with electricity, it'll screw with you and you may not get a second try. Respect it. ⚡

[@XSorrowGamingX]

22:07 for those of you wondering, song name is bad apple

[@CLipka2373]

28:58 - Yeah, no. "Jacob's ladder" does not refer to such an uncontrolled arc at all. Rather, the term refers to a particular electric device, in which an arc is used in a very controlled manner to dissipate excessive voltage, e.g. from a lightning strike. Even then, the term refers to the device, not the arc. Also, what you refer to as "St. Elmo's Fire" is actually just a mini lightning. Genuine St. Elmo's Fire is a simple steady blue glow. St. Elmo's fire may or may not be accompanied by mini lightnings.

[@meee80580]

Fun Fact- the Lichtenberg patterns shown at 17:00 sometimes appear over the skin on the limbs and torso of unlucky individuals after being struck by lightning. It’s actually a pretty cool sort of “lightning tattoo”.

[@ns_heat8012]

This is truly both a shocking and electrifying video. I experienced some powerful emotions to say the least.

[@Useless_Science]

1:20 oh god its powering up to its final phase

[@linalkhun733]

Fr

[@KissoneKinoma]

I will never understand why it's not a legal requirement to remove any trees within a certain vicinity of power lines so they cant fall onto them. It's like the government wants my power to go out so I'm left alone with my suicidal thought because I require having a working PC with an internet connection to be mentally stable. also 22:00 Touhou - Bad Apple

[@DatBariWitDaHemi]

4:54 Crazy how them tires sound like canons going off

[@stdorn]

22:30 Nice, a home made rotary spark gap its part of the tesla coil circuit.

[@seisies-mama]

20:33 watching the electricity travel down the line was creepy AF

[@alias-c652]

It's, funny how power line shorts sound exactly like our arc welder🤔

[@bzacnew]

8:26 gotta share this right away!

[@josh33025]

I never knew trees can cry and yell.

[@SuzyQ-r4q]

That was a blast! 🤯

[@andyevans2336]

The electric bus was driving down a road with ice on the cables, just burning off the ice.

[@RuralTowner]

17:40 How to cast spells in D&D as a Sorcerer in the modern age.

[@HTC-MOMENTSHUB]

Do incredible moments even exist if we don’t share them with the world, or has social media redefined what makes a moment special?

[@Gilmixz]

8:53 bro does not care at all 😭 (the guy walking on the sidewalk)

[@duudsuufd]

It is not a shortcircuit, but a bad contact.

[@StigDesign]

0:28 i knew it was Norwegian because of the power line pole and nature :D

[@NATHANFREDERICK-rs7yb]

YES,!!! lets go stand and film directly under the power line!

[@trevorkolmatycki4042]

The trolley bus wasn’t a short… it looks like ice on the lines was causing arcing on both the positive and the negative contact wires.

[@SA12String]

The characteristic brown smoke from a high-current arc is scary AF to me. Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt, will endeavor to never be there again.

[@Blueelectricaltape]

And my FREE ENERGY design generates electricity

[@kj4ilk]

3:38 you could hear the tree crying and dying as it burned

[@mooniniteerr1587]

I can still hear its pain from a electro shock ⚡️

[@TLFail]

Couldn’t stop laughing-what a great video!

[@paladin0654]

6:57 Think you're looking for wire sagging, not "swaying".

[@collectioneur]

Overhead low voltage wires, I can't remember when we last put them underground here...

[@jnooney8225]

He is busy doing the job! We love Jack!

[@BEAR-IncredibleMoments]

5:35 I wish I could have seen this moment sooner

[@LordSmyrnian]

18:00 that's how zombies are made 🤣

[@ostn5781]

Sick beat at 2:14!

[@trevorhaddox6884]

2:10 My Neighbor's Car Alarm 2: Electric Boogaloo

[@tookitogo]

2:41 It sounds like a gunshot because those large fuses actually contain explosives in them to ensure the fuse opens very quickly.

[@evonwilliams-z7b]

Another great job on your videos please send more videos 🎉😂😂😂❤❤

[@robertblake1032]

The thing about people filming these events on there phones is they often miss the event they’re filming.

[@daewooparts]

Love the smell of electricity ⚡️

[@dimitriboha6853]

11:00 Dang!

[@dave24-73]

The Midi controlled coils were cool.

[@WesternIssue]

"Electricity is a great ally, but don't ever let him shake hands with you"

[@ZoltanFranko-Doro]

22:20 I like the music

[@daktari3055]

Out of the all the scary videos I’ve seen this one actually scares me to death.

[@JakDax-l2n]

Too much power for humans I love it

[@HyperCodec]

2:13 damn that car got some fire beats

[@unkleeyerose]

The drones creating shorts to test high voltage lines reminds me of Tim in Monty pythons holy grail.

[@ikonix360]

Substation fires are a prime example when the replacement product (replacement oil for PCBs) is worse than the original.

[@tookitogo]

Many toxic chemicals have extremely useful properties. That doesn’t mean we should go back to using them!!

[@joewoodchuck3824]

Something like this happened right across the road on a smaller scale. A dead tree fell on a hot wire during hurricane Helene a few weeks ago. The wind was moving the tree and intermittently pushing the hot wire it was leaning on against the next wire. The flashes and sound were quite spectacular. The system shut down after a minute or so of that, but the breakers were reset a few hours later. The tree tip eventually burned through and fell away from the wires. We were happy that's the only problem we had during that storm even though we're not so far away from western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.

[@ouroboris]

This is why I call an electrician to change out light fixtures. Me no like shocks.

[@kentmccroskey3712]

it surprises me the number of people who record those events happening whilst stood under another cable that is attached to the cable at fault. proves the cameraman(Woman/Them/They/Who or whatever other pronoun you might be) never dies.

[@davepoul8483]

am so glad we keep our power lines under ground.. UK.. some in small villages maybe still on poles... but..

[@thisdude9363]

The entirety of the yearly GDP of the US wouldn't even begin to cover the cost of burying all our lines.

[@Cyber_Horse_Studios87]

6:32 That poor branch is SCREAMING-

[@tomwilliams8675]

Linemen work on power lines, not electricians.

[@evonwilliams-z7b]

They are still called electrician 😮🎉😂❤

[@tomwilliams8675]

@evonwilliams-z7b No, they're called LINEMEN. In the US, you would be insulting the men and women who trained years to do this dangerous work electricians.

[@tookitogo]

@@evonwilliams-z7b No, they really aren’t.

[@ClassicallyNamed]

Oh shut up

[@MattMorris481]

Thank you! We are called linemen never electricians.

[@dang48]

7:39. Like peeing after you've passed a kidney stone.

[@Teme_FJT]

Many ground faults are described as short circuits in this.

[@PrabhakarSharma-qg4ov]

बहुत अच्छी तरह से बनाया गया वीडियो रिकॉर्डिग संग्रह मेंटेन संकलन अच्छी जानकारी दी आप ने अंग्रेजी भाषा में अगर हिन्दी भाषा में भी होता तो बहुत ही ज्यादा लोग इस प्रक्रिया को देखते समझते इलेक्ट्रिक से होने वाले ख़तरे सावधानी बरतने के बारे में जानते इलेक्ट्रिशियन लाइन मैन को ये देखना चाहिए बहुत बहुत धन्यवाद 🙏🙏🎇💥⚡💡

[@MadScienTEST]

That first clip is the most Norwegian thing I've ever seen.