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Sound Reinforcement - Forums for Live Sound Professionals - Your Displayed Name Must Be Your Real Full Name To Post In The Live Sound Forums => AC Power and Grounding => Topic started by: Mike Sokol on February 06, 2019, 06:42:50 am
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This is pretty terrifying. An arc flash is basically a bomb that can go off right in front of you, quite literally in your hands. Wear your PPE, people!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5df06xirApQ
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Is the dummy ok? :-[
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Is the dummy ok? :-[
I'm fine. Thanks for asking! :)
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That was you!!??
I'd be curious to see that flash in real time too.
Sometimes slo-mo down-plays the violence of the event.
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That was you!!??
I'd be curious to see that flash in real time too.
Sometimes slo-mo down-plays the violence of the event.
Initial visual flash to smoking ruins is probably on the order of <5 seconds.
What's not shown is this video is the force of the blast wave; the dummy must have been well anchored.
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Initial visual flash to smoking ruins is probably on the order of <5 seconds.
What's not shown is this video is the force of the blast wave; the dummy must have been well anchored.
I was wondering about that, as it seemed that the dummy should have been blown backwards.
No, not you John.
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Pretty sure this is the same company/test lab-has some full speed and some slow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrpMOzJqszE
The original video is a relatively mild arc flash-the manequin appears to be dressed for a Cat 2 or maybe 3 event. Guess I'm not surprised it wasn't blown back-a person would have reacted and bailed out most likely-though that is not always a good idea when dealing with energized conductors!