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• ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ob it’s far stupider and more deadly: hooking up your personal little generator so you can backfeed electricity to your house during a power outage.

  It’s even more stupid and deadly than it sounds.

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    RIP power company linemen who’ve checked the power’s cut off, ‘til somebody pulls that stunt

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  • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    this is sadly actually one of the largest use cases, it’s called a dead-mans cable (for good reason) but it’s how many northern residents run generators in the winter during power outages. Cheaper then running a bypass switch (which can easily be 300-500$ to buy plus install cost) by a huge margin. They just throw the main breaker prior to running the generator. It shouldn’t be done but it happens more frequently then you would expect especially in the antiqued houses that may not even be up to code in the first place

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  • variants@possumpat.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t you need one of those to use your tesla as a house generator

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    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s a specific process and kind of panel you need to back feed power into your home

      Basically your panel needs to have it setup so that it can either be powered by the generator or the grid. 1 or the other but never both at the same time.

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    • Ferris@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      teslas specifically don’t generate electricity

      what is going on in this thread?

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      • fkn@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “As a” implies knowledge that it is not a generator but can effectively be used as one.

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    • abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Um, no. Normally you would use a regular extension cable for that. Your electrical panel would have a male plug on the wall which is specifically wired up to safely provide power to your home.

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “I ran my Christmas lights without paying attention, and now the plug is on the wrong end. Can I just have a male to male so I can feed them the wrong way?”

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