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  • Xavier@lemmy.ca
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    1 year 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.world
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      1 year 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.

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        1 year 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.works
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      1 year 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?”