Well, maybe it’s because you may die if you accidentally touched touched the prongs? The purpose of female plugs is among other reasons to prevent accidentally touching them.
Comment on Cords
yesman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t really get it. Sure, the exposed prongs would be energized once you plugged one side in, but if you plugged the other side into a second outlet (assuming you didn’t cross live/neutral), nothing would happen. (those two outlets were likely tied together anyway)
Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
QuizzaciousOtter@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I guess the fact that it can kill easily is not enough to call it a suicide cable lmao
dufkm@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, let’s call it a self defence cable instead. Like a corded taser.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
In addition to the exposed prongs, it also means you are passing current into a circuit of unknown capacity without using a safety breaker. You may also be back feeding into your neighborhood power grid and can kill people in the street/other houses that were not expecting the lines to be energized.
Metype@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The problem really is the super exposed hot prong you now have one you plug one end in
Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
50-50 chance whether those two outlets are on the same phase or opposite faces; if it’s the latter, congrats, that’s a 240V short.
Besides, if there’s an outlet at the far end of your strong of lights, you don’t need this, you just plug it in there
brianorca@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Two things: 1: there’s a high chance you do cross live and neutral, or even live and live on different phases. 2: using it to plug in a generator to power your house can kill electrical workers who are trying to restore a power outage. (If you fail to open your circuit breaker.)
Davidchan@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Double live is very bad and the cord becomes a literal short. If you’re lucky a breaker will flip or fuse burn out. If you’re not so lucky you have a cable thats either going to start a fire burning its insulation off and melting itself, or potentially exploding depending on quality and type of cable.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why would you “need” one of these if you could plug in the other end into a second outlet? The point is that idiots don’t plan out their christmas light layout and end up with the wrong end at the outlet. They decide that they would rather drive to the hardware store and buy/build a suicide cable rather then just taking the lights down and rehanging them or running an extension cord to where the male end of the lights are.
mipadaitu@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You don’t work around dangerous things assuming you’ll never make a mistake, you work around dangerous things assuming you’ll never make three mistakes at the same time.
You are not immune to making one (or more) mistakes, no matter how careful you think you are.
BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Correction: you don’t work around dangerous things assuming you’ll make a mistake long