Re: Learning from Experience
"... a deafening bang as a live 240v cable was cut ..."
I used to do a bit of work for Corus/Tata. One of their plants, in Wales I think, suffered a partial power failure. There was a public footpath across the site, surrounded by fences, and with a cable bridge across it. When they went to investigate they discovered that some would-be copper thief tried to cut through a cable - a 10 kV cable! Fortunately it was an armoured cable so the short was between live and the earthed armour but it must still have created a significant fire ball (see YouTube for examples). What was left of the blade of the hacksaw they found by the cable bridge looked ... interesting.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
