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Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoYou can short the terminals on a car battery with your body with no issue, but It might melt the hardware and set the floor on fire! What they should really do is connect a HV source and charge up the pole. Won’t cause any lasting harm, but hopefully it’ll convince them they drove a screw through a live wire.
asbestos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Who the hell told you you can short a car battery with your body? You absolutely can’t.
socsa@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
You definitely can.
Source: am high level electrical engineer.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
That’s not a short, by definition.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Isn’t it? You’re shorting the battery terminals by connecting them directly, it’s just a shitty wire lol
tomiant@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Oh yeah? What level?
credo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Two joints
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is this a semantic argument about my use of “short”?
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
The way you worded it makes it sound like it’s very easy to short a battery with your body, not that attempting to short a battery will cause “no issue” because it won’t actually work.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m aware - I very intentionally spared everyone the lecture on the mechanics of how this works because it is, on the whole, very boring. However if we really wanted to get into the boring technical details nobody but us cares about then yes, you are indeed shorting the battery, it’s just for a ludicrously small amount of current.
asbestos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Did you mean short circuit the battery using your bare hands?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I meant contact both terminals at once with your bare hands.