Are a death cable. These are always fun. Never do this guys even for a joke this shit will kill u.
Despite all the hate, I do have one of these. I used to have a box next to my furnace with a male end, wired up to the switch so that if the power went out for a longer duration in the winter, I could plug the furnace into the generator with an extension cord and heat the house. When the furnace was replaced, I was too lazy to wire up another. A friend who’s dad is a master electrician told us that in an emergency, you could flip all the breakers in the box to off including that mains, use a male to male cable to plug the generator into a wall outlet and flip on the furnace breaker and the breaker where the generator is plugged in and power the furnace that way (so long as both circuits were amp rated the same).
Of course, it came with a disclaimer that he’d deny telling us this to the insurance company and a warning that “bad things would happen” if we somehow enabled the mains to the power company.
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“bad things would happen” if we somehow enabled the mains to the power company.
There’s a reason code requires generators to have an interlock with the mains, and it’s primarily so people don’t electrocute lineworkers.
This is how extension cables are recharged.
They just used a short one for demonstration purposes.
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Made one of these on accident by repairing an extension cord with 2 males.
Plugged it in, threw the end in the yard, walked up to my saw, “Oh FFS!”
Reversed the cord, plugged it in, walked up to my saw, “the hell…”
Walked back to the porch and started to reverse the cord again, “This can’t be right.”
Plug first, check of the repairs are done correctly later, is what i always say.
Sparks are just a layer 1 error messages.
My local hardware store has one of these signs. I managed a different hardware store about a decade and a half ago, and I also made a very similar one. (Mine was nicer, and routered out of a scrap piece of plywood.)
You would be amazed at the number of times we’d get asked that question. Typically it involved a story along the lines of, “Well, my wife started putting up her end of the Christmas lights at one side of the house, and I started putting up my end at the other side of the house, and we met in the middle, and…”
The ol’ Lady and the Tramp excuse, huh? Lol
I don’t understand how people need help making a cable like that. AFAIK It’s a length of 3 wires wrapped in insulation, and two plugs. It’s a hell of a lot simpler than ethernet.
Some older things might genuinely need that kind of cable, like a leaf blower or something
The thing is if someone doesn’t know how to make one of these, they definitely don’t know why it’s a bad idea.
They absolutely do not. The simple point that if you plug one end in, the other will have exposed live wires in the prongs proves that that is never done. Power connectors are gendered for a reason and the reason is electrical safety. Female for output, male for input. Always. Everywhere.
I don’t understand how people need help making a cable like that.
You underestimate the sheer stupidity and lack of education of the majority of the American public.
People voted for trump. Clearly there are plenty that don’t see why this is a bad idea.
I saw a video on YouTube where a guy did plug a male to male in and guess what, nothing happened. He went on to explain that most outlets have a safety mechanism for this scenario built-in.
He went on to explain that most outlets have a safety mechanism for this scenario built-in.
wat? The only dangerous part of this scenario is when you only have one end plugged in and you have a hot, male plug. Unless you reverse one of the ends, the outlet wont react and if you do short it by reversing the ends, the Breaker, not the outlet will cut off the power.
Also, you also shouldn’t have male-to-male cords in the first place.
