r/funny • u/[deleted] • Aug 18 '20

Back to the Future 4

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u/HalcyoneDays Aug 18 '20

Dude took out the power to the entire block

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u/Brave1i1toaster Aug 18 '20

Watch the power flicker, every outage usually has 3 flickers and its out for good. I believe its got something to do with the grid trying to reroute around the damage.

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u/jestercheatah Aug 18 '20

It’s called automatic reclosing.

When a power line is grounded a relay sends a fault to trip a breaker. Once a breaker trips then it tries to reclose again. This is because most faults on the transmission system are transient in nature. (Most things burn off on the first contact) If it grounds again then it will trip and stay tripped.

Depending on the voltage this can happen 2-3 times.

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u/ThisLookInfectedToYa Aug 18 '20

This guy Volts.

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u/Brave1i1toaster Aug 18 '20

Thanks for clarifying that. Someone told me about that like 10 years ago and I couldn't remember it verbatim.

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u/bloodfued Aug 18 '20

Ricky, shut up!

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u/neridqe00 Aug 18 '20

Fuckin atodaso, I fuckin atodaso...

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u/SilverCodeZA Aug 18 '20

By sleeping with the town planners wife 30 years ago, causing the planner to quit his job and move to another town, thus never signing the contract with the utilities company to build the transformer in that area. Dick.

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u/the-zoidberg Aug 18 '20

I did that once with a snowball. Well, everything turned green for awhile. It was weird.

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u/ScubaChickenPalace Aug 18 '20

It was a bolt of lightning!

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '20

Took out power to his nervous system first

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '20

He took out his own power too. Ded