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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Funnily enough we had such a cable at home for reasons unknown to me. Then of course the inevitable happened: I was electrocuted by it. I'm fine, but I can definitely agree that such a cable should not ever be made, whatever the reasoning, just don't do it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Naughty plug survivor 🫑

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

if you have a generator and your house has no electricity, you can power your house by plugging a generator into an outlet.

I am not an electrician and dont know how this would safely be done, i assume your house would need to be disconnected from the grid or something.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are cases when electricians working on the street to restore power get shocked by some house generator feeding power back to the grid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That makes sense, people shouldn't do that then i guess.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I made one of these when I was young, poor, homeless, and imminently dying due to being swiftly being frozen to death (with bone tumors coming in second place in the death race). I was able to get an abandoned metal shead with a small heater working quickly in a sudden ice storm using on hand parts and a pirated "outside" power line.

Outside of a significant situation like that... it's not a good idea

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That’s badass, glad you made it and wrangled the naughty plug

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean he'll, in high school residential electricity class we had one of these for testing our walls, one time it burnt out a wire and the teacher only let me fix it as I was the top of the class, mind you we were only a class of 6 so...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

In those situations, that is the best class sizes for electricity tomfoolery, sprinkled heavily with bravely, and a side of youth assumed immortality.

It is also a good class size to swiftly move bodies, of things get too bad.

I had a similar sized class when I apprenticed as an electrical worker via "future farmers if America" funding.

I learned so many good ways to fix things correctly, and three times that number in "bad" ways to fix things.

Guerrilla learning method with pratical daily needed subjects is SORELY missed now-a-days.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No frotting the electricity

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Sound it instead.

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