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• edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  YSK it’s probably not a good idea to post a link where people could buy the thing you tell them not to use

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  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s natural selection.

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  • AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sorry. I ran into that and it was the inspiration for the post in the first place. At least both sides have a ground, I guess?

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• gointhefridge@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What even is the potential point for this? Is it just a suicide cable?

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  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve heard it called a “suicide plug”. A common use for them is back feeding power from a generator into your homes electrical panel during extended power outages.

    It can technically work but comes with major safety risks such as:

    • Giving yourself a nasty shock.
    • Electrical fire.
    • Electrocuting anyone who comes in contact with the power line, i.e. a lineman who might assume the line is de-energized.
    • Blowing up your generator when the power comes back on.

    The proper way to do it would be to have a transfer switch and generator plug installed. The transfer switch guarantees that when you’re running on gen power, you’re not back feeding through the transformer out to the power line.

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Electrocuting anyone who comes in contact with the power line, i.e. a lineman who might assume the line is de-energized

      This is one of the reasons why your solar panels don’t function during a power outage.

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  • RicoBerto@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Christmas lights come in strings with a male plug on one end and female on the other, sometimes in the course of hanging them up people create a situation where they think they want to connect the two female ends together, thus they think this is the solution.

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    • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The hardware store here has a big sign up about this every winter, explaining why, if you think need this you are wrong, if you ask for one we will not give you one, if you make one yourself you will probably die.

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  • Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If the electric power company has cut your power, e.g. because you didn’t pay, you still can get power from your kind neighbour.

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  • Devial@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nominally you can use it to plug a generators output into a household circuit, which will provide power to that circuit in cases of a blackout, saving you from needing to unplug everything critical and daisy chain 10 multiplugs to the generator.

    It could also be used to connect two seperate household circuits together, if only of them is actually live for whatever reason.

    In reality you shouldn’t his at all, ever. Just daisy chain the extension cords. If you forgot to isolate the circuit by flipping the main breaker (easy to do if there’s no power anyway, because of a blackout), and then the grid comes back on, your generator is gonna have a real bad time. And then there’s obviosuly the electric shock risk of using something like this.

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  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We used one to run power to a garage a couple times per year. It’s relatively safe if you use it right and never have power running through the cord until it’s fully plugged in.

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    • Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Safe, until someone (accidentally) detaches the wrong end.

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  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I hesitate to explain.

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• Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is also illegal most everywhere.

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  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I had to check if this really is what OP describes. Yes, it is:
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  Argh! Order a deathtrap from AliExpress!
  (OK, to be fair, I got an electric shock from one of these once - hand made by my landlord - and I’m still alive)

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  • fascicle@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What is the use case for this

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    • bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sometimes people put Christmas lights up in the wrong direction and try to use this as a quick fix rather than taking the lights down and reversing them.

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• sicjoke@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Non UK plugs in general give me the fear.

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hey the other european ones are also fine

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    • sicjoke@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have yet to encounter a European counterpart that compares. (Italian electrics in particular are downright dangerous).

      UK plugs are the best in the world. Fight me.

      youtu.be/UEfP1OKKz_Q

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• termaxima@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In other words, don’t use homosexual cables when dealing with high power !

  Jacks and USB get to be gay, power cables don’t.

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