Mesmerizing video of high voltage glass insulators being lifted into the air

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A mesmerizing thing, so many thoughts, I must rest.

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From Popkin!

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I felt exactly like this last weekend, leaning out of my house window and feeding a string of lightbulbs down to the cement surface a story below, so that I could temporarily string lights in my backyard.

I set it up, and took it back down, without breaking a bulb! :muscle:

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That is … a lot of insulators and probably a lot of volts

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/71614/guessing-power-line-voltage-from-the-number-of-disc-insulator

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It was nice of them to include a human for scale.

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