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| did you ever see a plasma ball fly out of a power strip? |
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| Cyberdragon:
If you take a welder to pure silicon you get a ball lightning like fireball (there are theories that ball lightning comes in several forms, combustion + ions and pure ions with the "shells" as mentioned above, so the term has not been officially applied to any specific plasma formation). Given that MOVs are silicon, did it look anything like these? |
| coppercone2:
I think it was less aggressive and more red orange colored, it is not as bright. But maybe it traveled a little bit and cooled off ? if it was the right size, because I did not catch it for the very first part of its travel, but I think if it was ultra bright i would have noticed shadows, then again it was like 3pm But it was not as dim as a rubidium oscillator that I was comparing it to. I don't know how to explain the ethereal property I am describing, that part makes it different. Ok psychologically when I saw it I thought 'what the fuck is that' "i better look where this lands' but I did not think "OH SHIT ITS SPLATTERING METAL' (which is what I thought when my microwave oven malfunctioned). There was something about it that made me ??? instead of :scared: (because in a microwave its like a lightning storm when the magnetron shorts out) Could it have like a gas cloud around it as it travels maybe? But also the question is, if it go out of the ground hole, how did it get past everything without scorching the brass? Those videos show the correct travel path though I think and how bouncy it is explains how it got out from between the wall and the table maybe. |
| Berni:
Yep that looks like the the usual burning ball of molten metal. But it does look rather pretty. Not sure why they behave like that, but i am guessing that the burning is so vigorous that it creates a expanding pocket of gas around it that makes it float and bounce around much like the leidenfrost effect with water on a super hot surface. Eventually all of it burns up and so it looks like it it disappears in thin air. But in can be indeed hard to recall details in a panic moment. I had a cheep chinese PSU module blow up out of the blue and i don't recall what exactly i seen. All i know is that everything went dark because it tripped the breaker, i think there was a loud bang and i think there was a flash but im not sure. Later on i found the glass fuse in that PSU only had the PCB pins remaining, the rest of the fuse was in the form of shrapnel. |
| coppercone2:
this happened at like 3pm with home lights off (the room has 4 plane windows with partial blinds) and an open kitchen with 3x window connected to a porch with 4x big glass window, When I came inside the power came back and I only noticed because the refrigerator was off again but the stove was on so I knew something tripped. (stove clock and refrigerator temperature display), the sony clock is hardly noticeable in the day and its set to dim settings. If it was at night its a different story but this room is bright, the blinds are also not metal but just cloth that diffuses light, the kitchen has no blinds either. I only need light when its already almost dark outside. It was also a very nice day save for the wind. The kitchen window that shines into the room is also facing the porch which is semi sealed (it uses grey smoke diffused plastic corrugation for the roof).. so there was no direct sunlight there, its all nicely diffused with white cloth blinds, corrugated porch roof and the windows that shine directly outside only get inside through reflection, and it was some what overcast, enough at least with high clouds that did not really let the sun shine directly. |
| SilverSolder:
Did you hear the thunderclap / lightning strike itself? Or did it happen far away and just propagate? |
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