hot damn. I once lived in a house that used a contraption like this to feed elctricity from one circuit into another. I didn’t know and I touched one end… I did fall off the ladder, but I’m still alive.
Of course this analogy is even more flawed than OOP’s.
They can be used to hook a generator to your house if your power goes out, but people will use them for things like if they strung up Christmas lights backwards so 2 female ends are next to each other.
It allows you to move power from a live circuit to a dead one by connecting the outlets between them. The most common use I’ve seen is to easily hook a gas generator to a household circuit during a blackout.
But yes, they’re very dangerous and there are less-stupid ways to hook up a generator that won’t make tripping over a power cable lethally dangerous or risk burning down the house by bypassing the circuit breaker and overloading the wiring in the walls.
But this one is popular because it can be done very quickly and easily with minimal supplies.
When I was a kid our electricity got cut (yes we were poor). We found an outlet with power for some reason. Must’ve been wired to another unit in the 3 family home.
So my moms boyfriend went out to the hardware store and made this cable. Then plugged in the working outlet to a nearby dead one and we got power again…
I don’t remember how long we ran that but nothing exploded.
If I recall he was from another country and they did this all the time across houses when someone lost power or hooking up gas power generators.
they exist and my coworkers kept buying them from somewhere and I never trusted them not to kill themselves so I did the one underpaid above and beyond the boss didn’t deserve by fixing the idiotic wiring
hot damn. I once lived in a house that used a contraption like this to feed elctricity from one circuit into another. I didn’t know and I touched one end… I did fall off the ladder, but I’m still alive.
Of course this analogy is even more flawed than OOP’s.
Can I ask, what’s the (ill-advised) use case for this?
I don’t know anything about electronics but I readily believe this is a dangerous cable
But what I don’t get is what people want it for. I’ve never been in a situation that calls for this
just in case you think your fuse box is bored
They can be used to hook a generator to your house if your power goes out, but people will use them for things like if they strung up Christmas lights backwards so 2 female ends are next to each other.
It allows you to move power from a live circuit to a dead one by connecting the outlets between them. The most common use I’ve seen is to easily hook a gas generator to a household circuit during a blackout.
But yes, they’re very dangerous and there are less-stupid ways to hook up a generator that won’t make tripping over a power cable lethally dangerous or risk burning down the house by bypassing the circuit breaker and overloading the wiring in the walls.
But this one is popular because it can be done very quickly and easily with minimal supplies.
Smartphone chargers / smartphone to computer cables are technically male (USB-A) to male (USB-C).
Challenge accepted!
Anyone know if female-to-female cords are a thing?
they are useless, they keep getting cut when scissoring
Yes and that’s totally fine.
/s
(This is a joke about homophobia)
When I was a kid our electricity got cut (yes we were poor). We found an outlet with power for some reason. Must’ve been wired to another unit in the 3 family home.
So my moms boyfriend went out to the hardware store and made this cable. Then plugged in the working outlet to a nearby dead one and we got power again…
I don’t remember how long we ran that but nothing exploded.
If I recall he was from another country and they did this all the time across houses when someone lost power or hooking up gas power generators.
they exist and my coworkers kept buying them from somewhere and I never trusted them not to kill themselves so I did the one underpaid above and beyond the boss didn’t deserve by fixing the idiotic wiring