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    • Xavier@lemmy.caEnglish
      18·
      5 months ago

      What‽ Why would such a thing exist ??? 🤔

      Testing your electrical panel? and how fast the firefighters are to get to your house?

      • ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        292·
        5 months ago

        Ob it’s far stupider and more deadly: hooking up your personal little generator so you can backfeed electricity to your house during a power outage.

        It’s even more stupid and deadly than it sounds.

          • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            17·
            5 months ago

            There’s a specific process and kind of panel you need to back feed power into your home

            Basically your panel needs to have it setup so that it can either be powered by the generator or the grid. 1 or the other but never both at the same time.

          • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            5 months ago

            Um, no. Normally you would use a regular male to female extension cable for that. Your electrical panel would have a male plug on the wall which is specifically wired up to safely provide power to your home.

          • Ferris@infosec.pubEnglish
            31·
            5 months ago

            teslas specifically don’t generate electricity

            what is going on in this thread?

            • fkn@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              5 months ago

              “As a” implies knowledge that it is not a generator but can effectively be used as one.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        “I ran my Christmas lights without paying attention, and now the plug is on the wrong end. Can I just have a male to male so I can feed them the wrong way?”

    • Landless2029@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      5 months ago

      I’ve seen these used in low income homes where the basement electricity is paid by the landlord for coin operated washers. Then someone gets their electricity cut (lack of payment) so they use these cables to jump the outlets and steal electricity from the landlord.

      The dude just went to a hardware store and bought an extension cable and a replacement plug head. Snipped the female end and added the male in like 5 minutes.

      The only practical usage of those things is jumping a generator to a house during a blackout.

        • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
          11·
          5 months ago

          I keep hearing this as the “Reason” but never backed by anything that makes sense. I’ve never needed to jump my generator to my house, and don’t particularly care to even in the event of “disaster” so don’t attack me like I’m doing this…

          If you successfully suicide jumper your generator to the grid. Wouldn’t the collective load of all your neighbors stuff kill the generator? (eg bog it down to the point that it turns off? [if it has no breaker]) Also wouldn’t the load of literally your whole neighborhood trip off the breaker in the generator(or in the panel)? Doesn’t this leave it as the only “risk” is if you happen to turn on the generator as the lineman themselves are specifically holding a live wire with an active connection to a ground/neutral before the previous stuff can happen? Or only if they happen to isolate you and then you turn on the genny after? Wouldn’t you agree that this last thing would be an incredibly rare?

          And I can never find an article where a cable was determined to be the cause of an electrocution…

          Now because the internet is the internet… I’m not advocating for using suicide cables… There’s much easier reasons why this is a terrible idea (exposed live contacts being literally the primary one). But I just never understood the “lineman” argument with all the stuff that would have to go specifically “right” in order to do that kind of harm to a lineman.

            • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
              11·
              5 months ago

              You have one article from 1989 from a 3rd world country and think that’s analogous to what we do in any 1st world country?

              Further your article doesn’t state the cause of the lines being energized. There’s no evidence that a persons generator caused this.

              Since you actually addressed NOTHING that I’ve brought up.

              Do better. Snarky asshat.