[sdiy] OT: very BIG capacitor

[nN AAt e e]

are you sure its a failure? i would think it would be kind of unusual for
someone to videotape something that just suddenly happened... and what
sounds like someone yelling 'woo!' at the end... unless the clip is out of
context.

- nate - www.robot-dreams.com - artcore

> This is the only failure
> I have ever seen where the arc lasted so long and grew so large without
> first going phase-to-phase or phase-to-ground taking the circuit out of
> service.  It just keeps growing straight up where it contacts nothing.
>
> Check out the guy on the right by the truck.  The taller the arc gets, the
> more he crouches down behind the truck.