Having lunch at a little local stand and it sounded like a bomb went off. Windows rattle in the buildings the whole deal. Are Thai manager asks the locals <deleted>. Oh bad electric wires it does that every once and a while. Speechless

 

 

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Exciting isn't it?

 

Had it rained recently?

 

HV insulators spent winter getting dirty, first rain dampens the dirt and we get flashover.

 

Bang! Time for new underwear.

Yep. Big bang in our soi on Sunday. All the lights go out but TV came back on so i sat in the dark with no AC/fan etc and watched TV.

 

It happens about once or twice a year.

Some time back a mate and myself were in an upstairs restaurant in Church St, Bangalore (India) https://www.zomato.com/bangalore/20-feet-high-church-street worth a visit if you're in BLR.

 

On the other side of the road is a substation with a 66kV incoming supply. A light smattering of rain was falling. There was a definite fizzing hum coming from the transformer, followed shortly by a very large flash and bang. The restaurant staff didn't even flinch, they knew it was coming (we didn't, beer was spilled).

 

 

Been mostly dry here. Looked like it opened all three phases. The wiring in this area was interesting even by Thai standards.


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Exciting isn't it?

Most exciting was coming within 10m of getting hit by lightning when I was young. That was a pant filler. Couple of years later on a tour of the high voltage lab at UofW that a friends father ran he couldn't understand why I was not as impressed as the other kids with his indoor lightning till I told him about having a front row show of the real thing.


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20 minutes ago, JohnMc45 said:

Most exciting was coming within 10m of getting hit by lightning when I was young.

Yeah, a few years back I was working on the (then) PUTRA LRT in KL. We had literally just got all the comms up and running when I wandered outside for a breath of air to be greeted by a fair to heavy rainstorm.

 

Whilst contemplating how to get to the car there was a f***ing (flipping) great flash and bang (maybe 20m away), retreating back to the comms room I was rewarded by a room full of red (comms failed) lights. Every single incoming line was fried despite "state of the art" lightning protection. Grrrrr.

 

Fishing with my dad on a lake it northern Ontario. Had not rained in like two months. No sooner than we get a line in water then the sky goes from blue to black and opens up with a rain that would even impress Noah. Run the boat aground on the beach and head for the buildings. About 20-30 feet from the tree line when lightning hits the tree in front of me. I am soaked to the bone and the hair on my arms still stands up, can't see for several seconds welding flash times ten and the only thing you can smell is ozone. That made a impact.


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25 minutes ago, Arjen said:

Like this....

Maybe similar, but not exactly ?  

 

Someone mistook a Finnish water engineering video for a lightning strike. Impressive, but still man made chaos. 

 

Ya that's a controlled blast. The "lightning" is the shock tube fuse.


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if only we could harness all this energy...

2 hours ago, Arjen said:

What is the story behind this?

I put a link to snopes in my original post

16 minutes ago, Arjen said:

On 3/11/2018 at 10:47 AM, RichCor said:

I put a link to snopes in my original post

Where is your original post? or where is the link? or what is snopes?

 

'Original post' would refer to my first response post to you in the thread topic (see post #10)

The 'link' in that post is the text highlighted in bold.

The default html/xml color indicating a url link is blue, but ThiaVisa prefers to set it as absolute black, while standard bold text is then rendered a shade lighter. So any absolute bold text on ThaiVisa page may be link text. Mousing over them may reveal them as links.

'Snopes' is an Internet reference source website for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation covering mostly US/English referenced issues/items. The link I included goes to the associated snopes article on the video.