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so what exactly is he doing?Cranking something?I worked as an electrician's apprentice for 6 years and have never seen anyhting like that course I worked mainly commercial and residential.Ive been hit with 120 and 240 but thats it.That guy had to have been juiced by some heavy amps/voltage.1911pilot wrote:That one was in our Arc/Flash/Blast training we had to take at work. There were a couple more pretty gruesome ones as well.tacticalsniper3 wrote:he had a really bad day
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I beleive its refered to as arch flash. I know we have specialty body suits that people wear when working on heavy equipment like thatcyclone72 wrote:so what exactly is he doing?Cranking something?I worked as an electrician's apprentice for 6 years and have never seen anyhting like that course I worked mainly commercial and residential.Ive been hit with 120 and 240 but thats it.That guy had to have been juiced by some heavy amps/voltage.1911pilot wrote:That one was in our Arc/Flash/Blast training we had to take at work. There were a couple more pretty gruesome ones as well.tacticalsniper3 wrote:he had a really bad day
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Looks like metal fish tape reel and bussbar collision.. 600v = bad day !!stretch415 wrote:I beleive its refered to as arch flash. I know we have specialty body suits that people wear when working on heavy equipment like thatcyclone72 wrote:so what exactly is he doing?Cranking something?I worked as an electrician's apprentice for 6 years and have never seen anyhting like that course I worked mainly commercial and residential.Ive been hit with 120 and 240 but thats it.That guy had to have been juiced by some heavy amps/voltage.1911pilot wrote: That one was in our Arc/Flash/Blast training we had to take at work. There were a couple more pretty gruesome ones as well.
That looks like it was a phase to phase contact or phase to ground, judging by the size of the MCC room I would say 4160 voltage. The cranking action you were seeing could have bee one of two things, ether a "meger" which is a piece of equipment used for testing equipment , or a old style re-closure that you had to crank before engaging . More than likely it's a old style re-closure . LOL he is standing to still to be using a fish tape.
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Yeah, too big for fishtape. But WAY too big for a Meghometer.Looks like hes crank starting a cold 1913 Studebaker !! But agree it is FULL Bussbar pop.. Probably is Reset after they had been working on it. Notice there isnt a spring reclosure on the fron of the panels like most newer ones. Although it is a neat looking mcc room if it is older. The setup looks like Keystone Foods eufaula Al. Though I would say that most look the same after seen several hundred..dfire wrote:That looks like it was a phase to phase contact or phase to ground, judging by the size of the MCC room I would say 4160 voltage. The cranking action you were seeing could have bee one of two things, ether a "meger" which is a piece of equipment used for testing equipment , or a old style re-closure that you had to crank before engaging . More than likely it's a old style re-closure . LOL he is standing to still to be using a fish tape.
You know, I thought about it some more last night. I bet he was removing the "sled" that houses the starter, overloads, breaker, etc... but I bet it was still energized, thus the arc. The big heavy sleds have a crank to remove them from the buss , when he started removing it the equipment still had a load on it so when it started to separate from the buss it "jumped".Rgray wrote:Yeah, too big for fishtape. But WAY too big for a Meghometer.Looks like hes crank starting a cold 1913 Studebaker !! But agree it is FULL Bussbar pop.. Probably is Reset after they had been working on it. Notice there isnt a spring reclosure on the fron of the panels like most newer ones. Although it is a neat looking mcc room if it is older. The setup looks like Keystone Foods eufaula Al. Though I would say that most look the same after seen several hundred..dfire wrote:That looks like it was a phase to phase contact or phase to ground, judging by the size of the MCC room I would say 4160 voltage. The cranking action you were seeing could have bee one of two things, ether a "meger" which is a piece of equipment used for testing equipment , or a old style re-closure that you had to crank before engaging . More than likely it's a old style re-closure . LOL he is standing to still to be using a fish tape.
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Probably so. That would SUCKdfire wrote:You know, I thought about it some more last night. I bet he was removing the "sled" that houses the starter, overloads, breaker, etc... but I bet it was still energized, thus the arc. The big heavy sleds have a crank to remove them from the buss , when he started removing it the equipment still had a load on it so when it started to separate from the buss it "jumped".Rgray wrote:Yeah, too big for fishtape. But WAY too big for a Meghometer.Looks like hes crank starting a cold 1913 Studebaker !! But agree it is FULL Bussbar pop.. Probably is Reset after they had been working on it. Notice there isnt a spring reclosure on the fron of the panels like most newer ones. Although it is a neat looking mcc room if it is older. The setup looks like Keystone Foods eufaula Al. Though I would say that most look the same after seen several hundred..dfire wrote:That looks like it was a phase to phase contact or phase to ground, judging by the size of the MCC room I would say 4160 voltage. The cranking action you were seeing could have bee one of two things, ether a "meger" which is a piece of equipment used for testing equipment , or a old style re-closure that you had to crank before engaging . More than likely it's a old style re-closure . LOL he is standing to still to be using a fish tape.
your right,thats exactly what it looks like.I hated the flat metal fishtape we had to use.Rgray wrote:Looks like metal fish tape reel and bussbar collision.. 600v = bad day !!stretch415 wrote:I beleive its refered to as arch flash. I know we have specialty body suits that people wear when working on heavy equipment like thatcyclone72 wrote: so what exactly is he doing?Cranking something?I worked as an electrician's apprentice for 6 years and have never seen anyhting like that course I worked mainly commercial and residential.Ive been hit with 120 and 240 but thats it.That guy had to have been juiced by some heavy amps/voltage.
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