I guess human life in India is cheaper than the equipment to safely deal with electricity
Electrician job
Submitted 11 months ago by funny@lemmus.org to [deleted]
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ICastFist@programming.dev 11 months ago
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But they launch satellites!!! They are awesome!
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think it’s more of a case “fuck around, find out” but without any rules set in place they can incrementally fuck around and find out. That is to say, people tried this, some of them didn’t die, they got better at it, fewer people died, etc. Eventually you get good at managing risks. Not that they are smart risks. To a degree this makes people think and be extra careful, instead of just relying on rules to ensure their safety, not that am implying electricians in other countries don’t think just that when rules are set in place there’s not so much of a tension and remembering whether you pissed on your slippers before working with electricity.
Sorgan71@lemmy.world 11 months ago
if this electrocutes you its kinda your own fault
Hyperreality@kbin.social 11 months ago
He's wearing rubber flipflops. He'll be fine.
ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I like gifs that end with a twist.
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lightswitch to switch your own lights off.
reflex@kbin.social 11 months ago
Asudox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
spongebue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was in rural India for a friend’s wedding. They set up a giant tent pavilion to use as a dining hall, with fans hanging from the top. This was a ways away from the main house, but there were some power lines nearby so they just got power straight from the grid.
Also, day of the wedding, there was a large sound system for the musicians and priest. All the components were plugged into a power strip, which was powered by a couple loose wires stuffed into an outlet
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Living in India is playing life on hard mode
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Natural selection at it’s finest, unless someome does a really bad fucky-wucky.
UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That is a lot of confidence in the insulating properties of those pliers he has there
pepperonisalami@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And his sandals.
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
fun fact: there’s 400 Volts between the terminals laterally. that’s gonna be one hell of a cardiac arrest.
satans_crackpipe@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Current is what kills the heart. AC is more dangerous and it can cause ventricular fibrillation.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Actually it’s both. You can have as high of a current as you want, if there’s no high enough voltage potential, current simply won’t flow. Any battery can push more than few amps of current easily, but voltage potential is not high enough to push it through your body. In general you are right, minimal amounts of current are enough to cramp a muscle, however it takes a lot of pushing to get to that muscle.
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
you need at least 100V DC or 50V AC to break the skin’s resistance, then there has to be at least 30 mA. which isn’t hard to do with a body resistance of a couple kΩ.
source: i’m an electronics technician
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 11 months ago
bfg9k@lemmy.world 11 months ago
fuckin thing SUCKS
gets zapped
Dashi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
OK so yeah, that guy doing it if crazy. That has been covered. But that also looks to be at ground level where anyone can walk by and touch it?!?! That seems like a bad idea too
visrpr3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Everyone local is informed not to touch it, if someone does, that’s a skill issue
Dashi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean the 8 year old child didn’t really know better
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 11 months ago
Where are the "if it works it's ain't stupid" redditors?
Thteven@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Realizing that something can work AND be stupid.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think we have all had coworkers like that and if someone hasn’t, they are that coworker.
youngalfred@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Replacing a fuse
abbadon420@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Holy cow! That’s crazy
pepperonisalami@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Holy cow, eh…
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
i mean if it works…
mriormro@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It doesn’t, this is just an example of accidentally not killing yourself.
Rognaut@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No. This is a gross misunderstanding of electrical safety.
nucleative@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah these people have only a rudimentary idea of what’s going on and very little idea what happens if they make a mistake
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
i was joking, i thought it was obvious
ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I’ve legit seen an electrician do similar in a 480V switchgear in the US… used to help with installs of industrial submetering equipment, but rather than waiting for a facility shutdown, we would often install our CTs on live equipment. IIRC he wasn’t even wearing arc flash gear…
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Fusible link”
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I mean at least It looks properly grounded.
frezik@midwest.social 11 months ago
“He’s grounded, so it’s OK” - Someone on YouTube
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Me irl
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Because I’M HOMER SIM-
yemmly@lemmy.world 11 months ago
tfw at the end he grabs the pliers with both hands 😬😬😬
abfarid@startrek.website 11 months ago
What does it matter if he grabs a single pair of pliers with both hands? Why did he make that bend in the middle tho?
jackoneill@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Electricity likes the path of least resistance to ground. If you are only touching with one hand, most likely the current well run down that side of your body to ground more or less. If both hands are touching it makes it more likely for the current to cross your heart which greatly increases the risk of death
mriormro@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Cross your heart and hope to die.
Armaell@kbin.social 11 months ago
The bend at the end, I suppose is to put the strip in tension and make it less likely it will slip
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Grabbing with both hands you make it extremely easy for electricity to go through your heart. Electricians are usually thought not to use both hands for anything if possible, since if cable is powered chances of serious injury are slimmer. Also twist at the end was to increase tension on the wire.
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
i imagine that puts the wire under tension for better contact at both ends. pretty smart actually.