Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas

Lizardking27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Wizzard@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah, if you want to electrocute some poor linesman outside. If you have considered purchasing a generator for emergencies, get the transfer switch installed and be prepared so when you do it, you do it safely.

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  • rekabis@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m hardly an electrician and even I know to have some sort of a cutoff switch that can isolate the home if I want to power it separately.

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  • Lizardking27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Obviously you shut off the main breaker so as not to backfeed. Didn’t think anyone would be pedantic enough to make me say it. I wasn’t writing out a tutorial.

    Point being, there exists a purpose for the allegedly purposeless thing.

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