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The Real thing - Prototype Talk => Other Prototypes => Topic started by: capeklr on November 30, 2020, 10:04:49 PM

Title: Overhead power
Post by: capeklr on November 30, 2020, 10:04:49 PM

Hi everybody.
Hi voltages and big amps can cause quite a spectacle.
I guess dirty overhead line don't help either.
Enjoy.

https://youtu.be/oeCTj_b-OXo (https://youtu.be/oeCTj_b-OXo)

Title: Re: Overhead power
Post by: Hannes on December 01, 2020, 12:25:58 AM

HI, amazing all the other electronics in the rest of the loko control systems survive those harsh electrical surges and interference.
Just as destructive as lightning. ??? :) Hannes 

Title: Re: Overhead power
Post by: BigEd on December 01, 2020, 03:22:26 PM

I see Metro doing some fire works at 2:27... :loco:

Hannes - there should be many breakers in the system to protect against this. I do suspect the Metro car had the wire earthed via the carriage and then it was supposed to trip by the substation I would have thought. :eek2: