"Lynn Coffelt" wrote in
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866a's ghostly
blinking and transformers groaning in tune.

Speaking of flashovers...Have you ever seen this video of a transmission
line switch disconnecting a shunt inductor across a transcontinental line
in Colorado?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUdGZ9Qg62o
Most impressive....Even the power line guys were impressed....

The air starts ionizing when one of the switch insulators flashes over as
it starts to open, probably from inductive kick of the massive inductor,
then the ionized air heating to a million degrees RISES, drawing the arc
ever higher, way way longer than gap of the open switch at full open.

Plug "arcing" into the search engine on YouTube. There's lots of great
flashovers to watch....(c;

Larry
--
I have a new strategy to protect the Mexican border. From the border
to inside the USA, 1 mile, we turn it into our OPEN PIT nuclear
waste dump, turning it into a no-mans-land for tens of thousands
of years. Anyone attempting to cross will simply be eaten alive
by neutrons! Problem solved!