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In the US telecom and broadband are not allowed to be higher on the pole than power wires.I would have guessed telecom cable right up to the point it flashed. Must have been an insulated secondary voltage cable but hard to tell.
I would have guessed telecom cable right up to the point it flashed. Must have been an insulated secondary voltage cable but hard to tell.
Generally speaking. Depending on use, you can have a mix of space if owned by the same utility. Qualified workers in the space also comes into play. Not sure where this was or who is on the pole.In the US telecom and broadband are not allowed to be higher on the pole than power wires.
It does look like that. Maybe his dancing around caused contact further down the line.That wide spot on the cable sure looks like a Telco splice box.
Like maybe he slipped and the arc was added?there've been warnings about twerking, and people
sadly disregard them.
hm. look at the flame propagation, and the position of
the twerker as he drops. i think it's a manipulated video,
to be honest.
If secondaries means 600 volts or below systems, you won't get that kind of arc through a human body.I watched it again.
The bottom wire is telcom. The middle wire must be a secondary. and the diagonal is obviously into the ground.
My take... the 2nd-ary flashed over to the telecom & ground. The 2nd-ary's around here are not fused, So whatever the POT can put out, it will put out, and it flashed over......
I could be wrong.... but that is my take.
Like maybe he slipped and the arc was added?
add: Watched again and it looks real. Who knows?
Grizzled old hound that I am, I agree.indeed, who knows.... i don't see the middle wire as being MV, as it
looks like it might be a triplex, with a tap off of it. i don't see a 240
volt arc flash with a darwin candidate as the conductor having a flash
profile like that. 35KV, maybe.
and the source of the video.... "the funny farm". ok, i'm a skeptic.