Cool electric arc

An electric arc is an electrical breakdown of a gas which produces an ongoing plasma discharge, resulting from a current flowing through normally non-conductive media such as air.

As far as I can tell there’s an over-voltage on one of the phases and it’s arcing over the ceramic conductor like it should, until it makes contact with a second phase that is…

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  1. Posted March 7, 2009 at 6:50 am | Permalink

    is that real? thought this kind of arch would always take the shortest connection trough the air.

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