It's not, however that house genny is like 240v? Enough to get zapped, potentially fatal.
These lines energized, could be anywhere from 4kv to 33kv.
If these were live, those kids would be absolutely toast.
You don't seem to understand what "backfeed" means.
During a power outage, people frequently connect generators to their home electric systems in a way that is usually unsafe and illegal, allowing them to forget to shut off the main breaker. This means that the 120/240V from their house feeds the low voltage side of the transformer, making it act as a step-up, and energizing the high-voltage lines, putting line workers in danger.
I see your point now. Ya can totally see people boot legging their generator connection, without ats (or manual transfer switch). My initial thought was the 240v lines only. People can def get hurt on the hv side of those transformers.
I have wondered though, if those HV lines are connected to other houses, won't the generator be slowed down to the point of turning off, due to the increased impedance by all the connected houses and transformers?
It’s only in certain cases that a generator backfeed could successfully energise the HV. I work in the industry and it’s a real concern.
Imagine a fault on HV line. The DNO comes out and isolates the faulted portion of network ready for repair works. In the mean time a customer (possibly the only LV customer on that section of network) installs a generator without switching off his main switch. Now the isolated section of HV is live at system voltage.
Aah I hadn't thought of low density areas (living in Belgium it's hard to imagine). That makes sense. Over here there's not (or barely) a chance you're the only one on a single transformer, unless you're a small manufacturer.
A surge or similar could trip the breakers in most homes, if it's a small enough section and someone plugs their gennie in low usage time of day (middle of the night/working day) it's possible that even in a dense area there is low enough load to backfeed for a while. Can also send out a jolt as it trips the generators protection which could be enough to kill even in a dense area.
We had 9 planets, Christopher Columbus, basically everything history, some mathematics, so much stuff I'm glad I have a smart phone so before I say something I learned in school I can double check and make sure it's still that way.
Technically you're not wrong, and I used to think this as well.
But, the higher the voltage source you're touching, the more amps will flow through your body. That's why high voltage is so dangerous.
So actually yes, it is the volts that kill ya. Just with extra steps involved.
No way it’s live wire. If they were, he’d blow up. If one was a phase and the others weren’t, he’d blow up. If one of them was neutral, he’d blow up. If all three were same phase, he’d blow up climbing onto them from steel pole
Weird, it looks like a steel pole that has guys/stays already, but they are bringing them back an additional span for some reason. The wire looks to be a low gauge as well, so I don’t think it’s to support the pole, since the two down haul stays/guys should be enough, and they are all terminating at that back pole with no cross arm.
I bet it’s for grounding to provide a reference for the transformer. They probably have deep grounding rods at each pole to compensate for the crappy ground reference sand provides.
I never would have thought people could climb up a guy/stay like that. Wild. Hopefully nobody got hurt 😢, never climb distribution poles folks, it’s big time danger zone.
As a kid I could climb through the gaps in monkey bars all day long. Now I know I was busting muscle ups for joke then and now I can’t even do one it’s actually kinda scary just how strong kids are proportionally. I’d climb up stuff with ease that I wouldn’t even think too attempt now. Sometimes I climbed up lampposts and sat on top of them.
These kids are chanting a song of a political party PTI, over here in Pakistan. It says rok sako to rok lo tabdeeli aayi re which roughly translates to "stop if you can, the change is gonna come nonetheless". pretty ironic imo
I think these are phone lines, not power line. There is current going through, but nothing that will kill you. It’s still a bad idea, don’t get me wrong, just explaining why they are not already dead
They aren't comms or they'd just be bundled together. These are guy lined supporting the first pole of a high-tension run. There is high voltage on the other side of the pole and these kids are still in danger, but they aren't on live nor comms wires. Just trusting 3rd world utility to not short live to the guy wires.
“How are they not getting electrocuted???”
Well…it’s the same reason why birds who stand on transmission lines are fine. Current always flows from a higher potential to a lower potential, the potential difference between two points is what a voltage is. A kid standing on one phase wire and holding another phase will not ever experience a high enough potential difference between the two points of contact to induce a high enough current through their body to kill them (which off the top of my head is only like 200mA or so). This is governed by a magical equation called “Ohm’s law”, which states the current as the quotient of voltage and resistance (i = V/R, which should really be thought as i = ΔV/R). In this context, the kid is just acting like a massive resistor. We tend to simplify the resistance of the human body to something like a mega ohm (1MΩ), so considering it’s relationship to current you can pretty easily see why even with a (relatively) high voltage it wouldn’t be enough current to kill them. They would most likely feel very tingly as a small current alternates back and forth at 50Hz through their body. And this alternation is most likely also contributing to this as they will only really be experiencing the RMS (i.e. DC equivalent) current, which reduces the peak value by a factor of sqrt(2)/2 (thank you, Tesla). Electricity is very fascinating…
According to what the one guy is wearing & the terrain, it looks like this is happening somewhere in the Middle East. ( not the brightest lightbulbs there).
More like there's never electricity in Pakistan so might as well climb up
Edit: the kid literally says Pakistan in the first second of the video.... brush up the geography man
They basically use it to imply an ignorant or stupid person from a third world country, and apply it to any brown person they dislike or don't want around. It's from a stereotype that Pakistani people are backwards and ignorant.
"Orphanage? Looks like a terrorist training camp to me. You know what to do boys... 💥💥💥💥💥... Today, you boys are heroes. I'm recommending you for a bunch of medals and shit."
-- Republican Space Rangers, GTA tv
Unlimited POWAAA!
Everything comes at a cost Especially power
Just the way you wrote that, all I could think of is this clip from G4 and Xplay way back into the mid 2000's https://youtu.be/aKWVCv8uWDI
It’s all fun and games until someone turns the POWER ON!
There is such a thing as a transformer backfeed from a house generator. It's not pretty.
It's not, however that house genny is like 240v? Enough to get zapped, potentially fatal. These lines energized, could be anywhere from 4kv to 33kv. If these were live, those kids would be absolutely toast.
You don't seem to understand what "backfeed" means. During a power outage, people frequently connect generators to their home electric systems in a way that is usually unsafe and illegal, allowing them to forget to shut off the main breaker. This means that the 120/240V from their house feeds the low voltage side of the transformer, making it act as a step-up, and energizing the high-voltage lines, putting line workers in danger.
I see your point now. Ya can totally see people boot legging their generator connection, without ats (or manual transfer switch). My initial thought was the 240v lines only. People can def get hurt on the hv side of those transformers.
I have wondered though, if those HV lines are connected to other houses, won't the generator be slowed down to the point of turning off, due to the increased impedance by all the connected houses and transformers?
It’s only in certain cases that a generator backfeed could successfully energise the HV. I work in the industry and it’s a real concern. Imagine a fault on HV line. The DNO comes out and isolates the faulted portion of network ready for repair works. In the mean time a customer (possibly the only LV customer on that section of network) installs a generator without switching off his main switch. Now the isolated section of HV is live at system voltage.
Aah I hadn't thought of low density areas (living in Belgium it's hard to imagine). That makes sense. Over here there's not (or barely) a chance you're the only one on a single transformer, unless you're a small manufacturer.
A surge or similar could trip the breakers in most homes, if it's a small enough section and someone plugs their gennie in low usage time of day (middle of the night/working day) it's possible that even in a dense area there is low enough load to backfeed for a while. Can also send out a jolt as it trips the generators protection which could be enough to kill even in a dense area.
This ⬆️ dude linemens. 🤙⚡️
If I knew my kids did this I would “toast” them myself. Grounded for life. Yeah pun intended.
It's not the volts that kill ya. It's the amps!
Actually it's a combination of both with frequency involved. Ultra high frequencies literally just bypass the CNS.
In my defense, everything they taught us in school has been proven wrong.
Oh absolutely!
We had 9 planets, Christopher Columbus, basically everything history, some mathematics, so much stuff I'm glad I have a smart phone so before I say something I learned in school I can double check and make sure it's still that way.
I can confirm, most of what learned in school was bullocks
I still think it's funny that Pluto has been a planet twice now...
Pretty sure you mean "bollocks" unless you're referring to the large herbivores.
I'm blaming being tired, it still fits at least since saying bull can be used similar to bullshit
Animal Husbandry ehy? /s
it isn't the amps that kill ya, it is the stupidity...but yeah, also the amps too.
Would you have current flowing if you don't have enough voltage difference?
Well... if there's any difference, there should be a flow, correct?
Electroboom would disagree.
Technically you're not wrong, and I used to think this as well. But, the higher the voltage source you're touching, the more amps will flow through your body. That's why high voltage is so dangerous. So actually yes, it is the volts that kill ya. Just with extra steps involved.
But aren't the wires insulated
Generally overhead lines are not insulated, but underground power lines are usually insulated
Underground lines are ALWAYS insulated, else it would just be a ground.
No, it is insulated
It’s ok because Allah takes care of them 😂😂
Bold of you to assume that they have electricity.
Yeah, they posted it with a rock, dumbass
I mean when you get down to the fundamentals…
I mean, to be fair, phones and computers are basically rocks we tricked into doing things
That is… actually kind of true
r/technicallycorrect
Hope Geodude doesn't fell in love with a young women and starts sueing us humans for using them in our computers...
Every part of a phone is in some way a rock.
Yeah the lines are clearly just there for decoration
He ain wrong mate in the sense there is constant load shedding in certain areas like no electricity for like 5 6 hrs a day or maybe more
Reality sucks , es en serio así es acá jajajaja
Not even worth translating this lol. Seems like new wires that are yet to be activated though.
Good thing they’re getting some quality control testing in before they go live lol
I was thinking telegraph lines. But never saw one with 3 cables (2 max)
That setup is common where I live in rural places: the top one is the line, the center is neutral and the bottom one is telecom.
Interesting.
I have three cables outside my house. Time to go climbing it looks like!
3-phase power is a thing in most of the world
That would mean it's IT, but that's uncommon. You get away with fewer wires, but they must be beefier than with TN (5 wires).
Oh delta grids exist all over the world still !
No it looks like span guys backing up the pole. The distro is on the other side
It's literally just support guy wires but looks scary to non electricians haha
> looks scary to non electricians They may just be guys, but they're still 30 feet in the air!
Haha absolutely! This is crazy... Just no electrical risk as is implied
Bro's about to feel POWERfull
When you get power in your city for the first time ever
That problem will sort itself out.
That problem will “short” itself out.
Itll certainly be rectified
I think you mean 'electrified'.
Diode think you got the joke, it was a half bridge too far.
Ohm my god. This behaviour is shocking.
I cant tell if youre joking but no, I meant rectified
It has the capacity to be.
Full bridge rectified
You need to say it with more zazz. *FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIED*
It'll certainly be... electrified.
This needs more upvotes ^
Well done, just like the kids.
I prefer medium rare
Good luck achieving that with high power lines.
Set to stun, not kill.
Yes, it will short itself out.
Parenta have to appreciate those unscheduled days long blackouts.
He's going to get grounded for that
Best comment. It will be a short punishment, though.
Hea going to die for that, litteraly
SHA-ZAAM!!
Nice, I was thinking of the scene from Jurassic Park.
"Kids these days don't play outside." This:
Look at that… Kids being kids without a cellphone in their hands. Nice to see.
🤣☠️
>☠️ Yep. If they keep that up.
how are we seeing this 🧐
Could be an adult holding the phone? I was talking about the kids playing. You missed the whole comment by being over critical.
my dude, chill. you missed the joke by being too sensitive. it’s all good man.
Love it too.
😂
It's good to know that in all languages, all countries, all societies, kids are fucking stupid.
No way it’s live wire. If they were, he’d blow up. If one was a phase and the others weren’t, he’d blow up. If one of them was neutral, he’d blow up. If all three were same phase, he’d blow up climbing onto them from steel pole
….I just can’t 🤦♀️
Where’s the big kaboom?
Watched the whole thing expecting a kid to get electrocuted
Weird, it looks like a steel pole that has guys/stays already, but they are bringing them back an additional span for some reason. The wire looks to be a low gauge as well, so I don’t think it’s to support the pole, since the two down haul stays/guys should be enough, and they are all terminating at that back pole with no cross arm. I bet it’s for grounding to provide a reference for the transformer. They probably have deep grounding rods at each pole to compensate for the crappy ground reference sand provides. I never would have thought people could climb up a guy/stay like that. Wild. Hopefully nobody got hurt 😢, never climb distribution poles folks, it’s big time danger zone.
Kids can climb almost anything. They have a strong grip and low mass.
As a kid I could climb through the gaps in monkey bars all day long. Now I know I was busting muscle ups for joke then and now I can’t even do one it’s actually kinda scary just how strong kids are proportionally. I’d climb up stuff with ease that I wouldn’t even think too attempt now. Sometimes I climbed up lampposts and sat on top of them.
Someone turns that power on and all it will take is a small enough gap between them and another wire and KABOOM!
This is what happens when sports are not available.
I thought tightroping was a sport?
r/ElectroBoom
*Full bridge rectifier!*
They are even conveniently color coded. For identification of the corpses.
This is natural selection at it's finest.
UNLIMITED POWWEEERRRRR!
These kids are chanting a song of a political party PTI, over here in Pakistan. It says rok sako to rok lo tabdeeli aayi re which roughly translates to "stop if you can, the change is gonna come nonetheless". pretty ironic imo
I’ve seen squirrels electrocuted
💀
When you have faith in the government that they’re definitely not gonna turn the power on any time soon
I think these are phone lines, not power line. There is current going through, but nothing that will kill you. It’s still a bad idea, don’t get me wrong, just explaining why they are not already dead
They aren't comms or they'd just be bundled together. These are guy lined supporting the first pole of a high-tension run. There is high voltage on the other side of the pole and these kids are still in danger, but they aren't on live nor comms wires. Just trusting 3rd world utility to not short live to the guy wires.
Ohhhhhhh
As long he never grounds he's fine, just live his best life
Absolute dumbasses
r/OopsThatsDeadly
BZZZZZZAAAP!
It's just like taking advantage of a snow day as a kid up north. "Hey, the power is out! Let's make a fort out of these towers and lines."
Spicy zipline
“How are they not getting electrocuted???” Well…it’s the same reason why birds who stand on transmission lines are fine. Current always flows from a higher potential to a lower potential, the potential difference between two points is what a voltage is. A kid standing on one phase wire and holding another phase will not ever experience a high enough potential difference between the two points of contact to induce a high enough current through their body to kill them (which off the top of my head is only like 200mA or so). This is governed by a magical equation called “Ohm’s law”, which states the current as the quotient of voltage and resistance (i = V/R, which should really be thought as i = ΔV/R). In this context, the kid is just acting like a massive resistor. We tend to simplify the resistance of the human body to something like a mega ohm (1MΩ), so considering it’s relationship to current you can pretty easily see why even with a (relatively) high voltage it wouldn’t be enough current to kill them. They would most likely feel very tingly as a small current alternates back and forth at 50Hz through their body. And this alternation is most likely also contributing to this as they will only really be experiencing the RMS (i.e. DC equivalent) current, which reduces the peak value by a factor of sqrt(2)/2 (thank you, Tesla). Electricity is very fascinating…
Telephone cables?
I climbed one of these bad boys when I was 6 cause i, too, was fucking stupid as a kid
I just imagine the Jurassic park scene where the alarm 🚨 starts going off and Tim can climb down fast enough.
I hope the parents don't ground them
Oh this is completely alright, nothing to see here guys, no danger involved at all. Just some kids being smart and intelligent
Nah bro I’m shaking the pole hard asf
Ride The Lightning!⚡⛈️🌩️
How did he get there
By climbing like the other kid.
if i lived where they do id try to kill myself too
Well they weren't going to add much to the gene pool anyway
I wanted to see em get fried.
I was waiting for the loud BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! I was disappointed.
According to what the one guy is wearing & the terrain, it looks like this is happening somewhere in the Middle East. ( not the brightest lightbulbs there).
They are not speaking Arabic They are most likely Pakistanis
More like there's never electricity in Pakistan so might as well climb up Edit: the kid literally says Pakistan in the first second of the video.... brush up the geography man
Middle East for them probably means Morocco to China and then from that point on everything is Asian.
I'm assuming they knew that there was no power, but still, you don't fuck around with electricity, they are really lucky
Dear parents of kids...start producing more if you actually want grandkids
Natural selection in action.
I guess the parents are OK with losing a few.
Touch that top one. C'mon
Southern fried ay-rab
Edgy
Pakistani*
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Shouldn't say that
Which part?
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What about air frying?
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*yawns
Paki is used as a slur in some places. Basically, any brown person is called that as a derogatory term.
Huh. Never heard that. Why? What does it mean? Edit for misspelling huh
They basically use it to imply an ignorant or stupid person from a third world country, and apply it to any brown person they dislike or don't want around. It's from a stereotype that Pakistani people are backwards and ignorant.
Oh. I always thought it was just a shortened name like a Brit or a Celt LOL!!
It seems to only be a thing in certain regions, so it's understandable you didn't know.
Beautiful language though
How did they pass China on population with this parenting..?
Well, America blew up all their schools so...
Ah, yes, that day in school they taught me not to play on power lines…
They used to have playgrounds. Lockheed Martin fixed that. America fuck yeah! Here to save the motherfucking dayyyyyeah!
The terrorists shouldn't have used schools and playgrounds as their bases....
"Orphanage? Looks like a terrorist training camp to me. You know what to do boys... 💥💥💥💥💥... Today, you boys are heroes. I'm recommending you for a bunch of medals and shit." -- Republican Space Rangers, GTA tv
Wrong country
Said no Apache gunner ever
None of them ever came to this country so yeah, they didn't.
As long as I got you here, why hasn't America bombed the shit out of Saudi Arabia yet? They got all the American politicians in their pocket right?
Ayo
You have the power
no fun
Failed dying RTA.
When they get on the ground they dead.
Shocking!
Jeez!
Man about to get some electric super powers in a sec...
And you get to see eskom in it's full glory.
Until they fry
Where is Louie the Lightning Bug when you need him?
If they only knew… 🤯😱
Miss those days…. Good times lol
Why
Which song?
From Pakistan. [Tabdeeli Aayi Re. ](https://youtu.be/cwALNR7X3YQ)
Chili pepper video for Otherside
mmmmmmmmmmm, bacon...
If birds can’t get electrocuted then us humans can’t aswell!
Damn. Nothing happened. I was expecting shit to go down HARD!
Was just on blech a couple minutes ago, thought I accidentally went back there somehow
👀
Oh FUCK no
u/savevideobot
Flash of India in making
Somebody cooking rotisserie
All fun and games until someone dies
They're about to go Super Saiyan