Power Plant Substation Explodes On August 17th 1993, the Ives - TopicsExpress



          

Power Plant Substation Explodes On August 17th 1993, the Ives Dairy Substation in Miami, Florida experienced a total system failure. It started when a power surge on the Miami grid fried one of the capacitor banks and caused a breaker to trip open. Unfortunately, the breaker malfunctioned and created an arc fault (a continuous lightning bolt that acted like an uncontrollable welding torch from hell) between the hot side of the breaker and wherever it could find a ground to complete the circuit, thus pulling far more current then the facility was designed for.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 01:18:42 +0000

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