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At 19:00 on Sunday night one of the Eskom Merensky Substation transmitters exploded causing a part of the station to erupt into flames.
The Eskom employees at scene were unable to specify the reason for the transmitter exploding. The Tubatse Fire Department and mine rescue team were at the scene to control the fire.
Entry to the substation was denied due to safety precautions. No injuries were reported. At 21:00 the fire was still ongoing and another fire truck arrived at the scene. During the fire the town was still fully supplied with electricity. The blaze was only extinguished at 02:30 the next morning.
Read the full story in this week's edition of the Steelburger/Lydenburg News.
Reader Comments
. . . you are blithering.
as a resistance taking a heavy dosage of electric current. Due to that heavy dosage of electricity and the fact that it was "off-line", instead of on-line , it acted as a an electrical resistance and due to that fact it blew
up. It's a classic mistake. I hope the analysis made what happened understandable. Happy to explain it again if you want to.