Forbidden Tech

[a_union_of_kobolds@lemmy.world]

This is all reasonably accurate. Source: electrician, who worked at a supply store for a while. I've had people ask how to make all kinds of stupid cords.

If you don't know what you're doing, don't fool with electricity

[lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca]

It also backfeeds the grid and can kill someone working on the lines.

[tekeous@usenet.lol]

Sounds like they don’t like gay cords and that’s a hate crime

[featherconstrictor@sh.itjust.works]

This shit post is shit

[the_hideous_orgalorg@sh.itjust.works]

My friend's house does this with their generator. There is a lockout on the breaker, and the main must be off to move it and open the one that feeds the back porch where they tie the generator in. Once the breakers are cycled, they can plug the generator into the outlet on the porch, and it runs there, sheltered from the weather. When the main power is working again, they turn off the generator, remove the cord, disable the breaker, toggle the lockout bar, and turn the main back on. The particular outlet on the porch is useless when using grid power because of this setup.

[endofline@lemmy.world]

So what you are telling me is that I can just make one at home?

[freshparsnip@lemm.ee]

It is written in the book of Leviticus: "It shall be unclean for one end of an electric cord to match the other"

[spacenoodle@lemmy.world]

Yes, but only once.

[appletea@lemmy.zip]

yeah, that's some counter-productive signage.

like getting on a bus and seeing:

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please don't

GROPE STRANGERS

[bluesheep@lemm.ee]

I've heard the Christmas lights one before too, but I never got it. How do (American) Christmas lights work that you'd need one of these cords?

[ohstopyellingatme@lemmy.world]

I have a 50’ (15.25 m) extension electrical cord on a wind-up reel.
It has a separate 10’ (3m) cord from the reel hub, to plug into the wall outlet.

All I want is a way to plug it into the wall and be able to unreel it as I work, without that 10’ section getting all twisted. Kind of like a phone cord detangler (pic below), or the brake cable detangler/gyro on BMX stunt bikes.

I was trying to think of a way to make one but apparently it’s a “dangerous fire hazard” or whatever.

[shawiniganhandshake@sh.itjust.works]

In North America, Christmas lights usually have a plug end and a socket end so you can connect multiple strings together in series.

If you accidentally put the plug end at the top of the tree, it might be tempting to try to buy or make one of these cords so you don't have to take the lights down and redo them.

It is as dumb and lazy as it sounds.

[and009@lemmynsfw.com]

Titty squeezy

[canonical_warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Holy shit, this is what that part in the bible is actually about. People back then just didn't know about electricity so they thought it was about gay people.

[ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Sorry, what is "this time of the year"? Suicide September?

[derisionconsulting@lemmy.ca]

People use them to make their generators power their homes, by adding power into an outlet.

So, whatever time of year power outages are likely to happen in this area.

[random_character_a@lemmy.world]

There are voltage converters (230V<->120V) that have female connectors in both ends. So if DIY guys are playing with tech from other continents.

[doctordevice@lemmy.ca]

I'm gonna guess winter, hanging Christmas lights. People string up their lights and then realize far too late that they put two strands with female ends facing each other and instead of restringing they look for a male-to-male cord to bridge the gap.

A little live wire shouldn't stand in the way of holiday cheer, after all.

[uuldika@lemmy.ml]

honestly tho. if the Torah is legit its advice should apply to the future too. haShem wouldn't just have been writing to Moishe's time.

[semi_hemi_demigod@lemmy.world]

Joke’s on them I can make one myself