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gointhefridge@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve heard it called a “suicide plug”. A common use for them is back feeding power from a generator into your homes electrical panel during extended power outages.

  It can technically work but comes with major safety risks such as:

  • Giving yourself a nasty shock.
  • Electrical fire.
  • Electrocuting anyone who comes in contact with the power line, i.e. a lineman who might assume the line is de-energized.
  • Blowing up your generator when the power comes back on.

  The proper way to do it would be to have a transfer switch and generator plug installed. The transfer switch guarantees that when you’re running on gen power, you’re not back feeding through the transformer out to the power line.

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Electrocuting anyone who comes in contact with the power line, i.e. a lineman who might assume the line is de-energized

    This is one of the reasons why your solar panels don’t function during a power outage.

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• RicoBerto@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Christmas lights come in strings with a male plug on one end and female on the other, sometimes in the course of hanging them up people create a situation where they think they want to connect the two female ends together, thus they think this is the solution.

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  • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The hardware store here has a big sign up about this every winter, explaining why, if you think need this you are wrong, if you ask for one we will not give you one, if you make one yourself you will probably die.

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• Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If the electric power company has cut your power, e.g. because you didn’t pay, you still can get power from your kind neighbour.

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• Devial@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nominally you can use it to plug a generators output into a household circuit, which will provide power to that circuit in cases of a blackout, saving you from needing to unplug everything critical and daisy chain 10 multiplugs to the generator.

  It could also be used to connect two seperate household circuits together, if only of them is actually live for whatever reason.

  In reality you shouldn’t his at all, ever. Just daisy chain the extension cords. If you forgot to isolate the circuit by flipping the main breaker (easy to do if there’s no power anyway, because of a blackout), and then the grid comes back on, your generator is gonna have a real bad time. And then there’s obviosuly the electric shock risk of using something like this.

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• ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We used one to run power to a garage a couple times per year. It’s relatively safe if you use it right and never have power running through the cord until it’s fully plugged in.

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  • Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Safe, until someone (accidentally) detaches the wrong end.

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hesitate to explain.

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