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Warl0k3@lemmy.world 7 hours 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 5 hours ago
Who the hell told you you can short a car battery with your body? You absolutely can’t.
socsa@piefed.social 5 hours ago
You definitely can.
Source: am high level electrical engineer.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
That’s not a short, by definition.
tomiant@piefed.social 3 hours ago
Oh yeah? What level?
credo@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Two joints
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Is this a semantic argument about my use of “short”?
asbestos@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Did you mean short circuit the battery using your bare hands?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I meant contact both terminals at once with your bare hands.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 5 hours 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 5 hours 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.