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    • Xavier@lemmy.caEnglish
      20·
      2 years ago

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

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

      • Sir Arthur V Quackington@lemmy.worldEnglish
        311·
        2 years 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.

        • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          this is sadly actually one of the largest use cases, it’s called a dead-mans cable (for good reason) but it’s how many northern residents run generators in the winter during power outages. Cheaper then running a bypass switch (which can easily be 300-500$ to buy plus install cost) by a huge margin. They just throw the main breaker prior to running the generator. It shouldn’t be done but it happens more frequently then you would expect especially in the antiqued houses that may not even be up to code in the first place

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        2 years 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
      13·
      2 years 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.

      Edit: yes please bring on the down votes for me sharing a story about how the poor use these scary cables. Real nice.

        • Landless2029@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I think the correct way to jump is to flip your main so you’re disconnected. I’m probably talking out of my ass tho.

          I don’t own a generator nor have the need. Just basing this on what I’ve seen in the wild.

          • fkn@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            Yes, in theory that would work. But they actually make main disconnect switches for this in the event that the main breaker fails. It’s a mandatory install in all grid tie electrical generator systems (including solar).