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“Suicide cords are played out.” “I have an idea.” 
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That's a generator input, it's hooked to house wiring through an interlock that requires you to disconnect the external main breaker before you can connect the generator circuit to the panel. It's never hooked to live power except when a gen cord is plugged into it.
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Mar 15, 2022 16:29
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Platystemon posted:“Suicide cords are played out.” If that's paired with an interlock, that's the proper way to hook up a generator.
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Mar 15, 2022 16:29
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It’s on /r/electricians, so guess if it’s hooked up right. Kind of.
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Mar 15, 2022 16:32
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tomapot posted:I will send you another photo of the dead snakes once I receive it. Snakes, I hate it!
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Mar 15, 2022 16:32
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tomapot posted:My wife is in commercial property management so she see all kinds of stuff. The bees reminded me of this email she sent me (slightly edited to remove names/locations). Were all 20 snakes electrocuted, or was it just like a place old snakes go to die surrounded by mice?
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Mar 15, 2022 16:44
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Platystemon posted:“Suicide cords are played out.” Also loving the expert vinyl siding patch job.
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Mar 15, 2022 16:45
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Fender Anarchist posted:That's a generator input, it's hooked to house wiring through an interlock that requires you to disconnect the external main breaker before you can connect the generator circuit to the panel. It's never hooked to live power except when a gen cord is plugged into it. It's also not a correct inlet box. They look like this:  That is a plug someone appears to have hydraulic cemented into the wall. I'll leave it to your imagination what the rest of that connection looks like (hint: there is no safe way to do it, certainly nothing code compliant).
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Mar 15, 2022 16:57
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It’s a cord running through a hole in the wall. It’s got ten feet of slack. The description doesn’t state this explicitly, but I suspect that it has a plug on the other end and just runs to a socket inside the house. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Mar 15, 2022 |
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Mar 15, 2022 17:04
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Platystemon posted:It’s a cord running through a hole in the wall. It’s got ten feet of slack. The PO of my brother's house was kind enough to run one of these to a 2-pole breaker and label it "OFF," you know, for safety.
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Mar 15, 2022 18:30
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Sloppy posted:Were all 20 snakes electrocuted, or was it just like a place old snakes go to die surrounded by mice? All burnt up but the bigger ones took out the building along with them.
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Mar 15, 2022 20:58
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goodness that is a lot of snakes
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Mar 16, 2022 06:27
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Cat Hatter posted:If that's paired with an interlock, that's the proper way to hook up a generator. The connector is, but the means by which they installed it is not good... though I'll give slight kudos for trying to MacGyver their own outdoor weatherproof covered outlet box, even if it could get them killed...
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Mar 16, 2022 06:32
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Mx. posted:goodness that is a lot of snakes Was a lot of snakes.
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Mar 16, 2022 07:32
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SourKraut posted:The connector is, but the means by which they installed it is not good... though I'll give slight kudos for trying to MacGyver their own outdoor weatherproof covered outlet box, even if it could get them killed... I'd still rather take a weatherproof box with a cord connector installed in it (with an interlock) over someone backfeeding their panel with a suicide cord and a Sharpie note saying "Turn off MAIN when using generator" on the panel.
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Mar 16, 2022 18:21
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By popular demand posted:Now wasps on the other hand... A few years ago I woke up to maybe 30 wasps thudding themselves against the glass sliding door that leads to the backyard of the house. Heard what sounded like an electrical hum from a big closet in the center of the house. Open the door and it was any insect horror movie you can think of. Thousands of wasps buzzing around in the dark. It had a sliding door, so no tight seal, was killing wasps against the outside door with a flip-flop, after 200, I found a probably horribly poisonous no longer available for commercial sale bug bomb from my late grandfathers house. Let it go, waited a few hours, and the ground was covered in at least the 2 inch thick carpet of wasps. Waited a couple days and went in the attic to see the nest. They had bored through a soffit, and built this monstrosity the size of a garbage can The bomb kill them all, and the scent of decay was horrible. Like honey and routing animal combined. Was disoriented with the stink while i was shoveling out the nest that I put one leg through the ceiling Ended with only 5 or so stings, Was mainly worried about my very aggressive to animals dog, but she came out Unscathed. gently caress wasps If anyone’s asking, how did you not realize they were building a massive wasps nest in your house? I heard the chewing but I couldn’t see it when I Looked in the attic from the access hatch so I didn’t figure out what was going on until it was too late. They had chewed through the closet ceiling to escape the attic and branch out in life.
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Mar 16, 2022 21:10
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https://i.imgur.com/PqQVK1h.mp4
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Mar 16, 2022 21:40
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I cannot derive the sequence of decisions that led to this past, "dude, you know what would be fuckin sweet?"
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Mar 17, 2022 00:33
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Hotel?
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Mar 17, 2022 01:44
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Beef Of Ages posted:I cannot derive the sequence of decisions that led to this past, "dude, you know what would be fuckin sweet?" EVERYTHING'S SET SEND IN THE DRYWALL CREW Drywall crew don't give a poo poo. They're here to DRYWALL
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Mar 17, 2022 02:50
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Beef Of Ages posted:I cannot derive the sequence of decisions that led to this past, "dude, you know what would be fuckin sweet?" It's a lovely hotel, stuff is stuck in the walls so people can't steal it
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Mar 17, 2022 02:59
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Beef Of Ages posted:I cannot derive the sequence of decisions that led to this past, "dude, you know what would be fuckin sweet?" Meth, and a couple sleepless days and nights, and you have a built-in beautiful entertainment suite
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Mar 17, 2022 12:26
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They drilled through a solar panel? Would it still work?
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Mar 17, 2022 12:34
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By popular demand posted:They drilled through a solar panel? Would it still work? Not this one. Photograph was described as “Solar Service Call today, seems a panel isn’t reporting”.
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Mar 17, 2022 12:40
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By popular demand posted:They drilled through a solar panel? Would it still work? I'm pretty sure it will but the warranty is definitely voided. e: I guess it won't!
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Mar 17, 2022 12:43
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I'll see if she has pics, but a friend of mine bought a Y2K prepper house in the NC mountains a few years after Y2K did not alas end in the breakdown of society. these people had a green roof installed and they loving drilled through it, ruining the whole thing. the hole was so that they could mount a Gadsden flag.
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Mar 17, 2022 12:44
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Depending on how the panel is set up electrically and where the damage is, it could be possible to get partial power. That just isn’t such a case.
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Mar 17, 2022 12:46
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Empty Sandwich posted:I'll see if she has pics, but a friend of mine bought a Y2K prepper house in the NC mountains a few years after Y2K did not alas end in the breakdown of society. The most elegant, self-contained own. This should be bronzed and mounted on a wall.
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Mar 17, 2022 14:36
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This reminds me very much of Galt's Gulch, the Libertarian "Paradise" they tried to build in Chile. If you have not read about it before, it is worth a look: https://www.vice.com/en/article/bn53b3/atlas-mugged-922-v21n10
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Mar 17, 2022 15:54
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Empty Sandwich posted:I'll see if she has pics, but a friend of mine bought a Y2K prepper house in the NC mountains a few years after Y2K did not alas end in the breakdown of society. LOL my plan in case of a SHTF breakdown of social order is to identify and rob people like this. Who needs to prep when you can loot?
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Mar 17, 2022 16:26
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My brother(a licensed electrician) sent me these this morning when he got to a job to clean up a previous "handyman's" work.   Ran the gently caress away from that job and stopped at a convenience store and saw this lol 
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Mar 17, 2022 16:50
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IncredibleIgloo posted:This reminds me very much of Galt's Gulch, the Libertarian "Paradise" they tried to build in Chile. If you have not read about it before, it is worth a look: I looked for more info and I would like to recommend the last sentence of the penultimate paragraph of this: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Galt%27s_Gulch,_Chile
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mattfl posted:My brother(a licensed electrician) sent me these this morning when he got to a job to clean up a previous "handyman's" work. Did he run away from the job because he didn't have time to do all that work? Hates money? Homeowner wouldn't pay the amount required? Just curious as my skill level is in the change outlets arena only.
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mattfl posted:My brother(a licensed electrician) sent me these this morning when he got to a job to clean up a previous "handyman's" work. I have only ever done shipboard and industrial electrical work, not super familiar with residential, but it looks like that panel has a lot more problems than just being housed in a husky case.
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Mar 17, 2022 21:47
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What's with that... crusty lump in the upper right of the "cabinet"?
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The crusty lump may be the remnants of a putty or compound used to seal the gap that would exist between the wire and the punch out that it went through, in order to prevent moisture infiltration and other such things. I imagine the use case for it was eliminated with the removal of the top of the panel.
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By popular demand posted:They drilled through a solar panel? Would it still work?  I thought someone had put down a foil tile for retaining heat.
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for that panel the answer is drugs right?
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Phanatic posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeImprovement/comments/tdx6b5/steam_gurgling_and_a_smokey_smell_coming_from_the/ Remember this from Reading Rainbow? That's just about how the volcano Parícutin started.  quote:The eruption began on February 20, 1943, at about 4:00 PM local time. The center of the activity was a cornfield owned by Dionisio Pulido, near the town of Parícutin. During that day, he and his family had been working their land, clearing it to prepare for spring planting.[9] Suddenly the ground nearby swelled upward and formed a fissure between 2 and 2.5 meters across. They reported that they heard hissing sounds, and smoke which smelled like rotten eggs, indicating the presence of hydrogen sulfide. Within hours, the fissure would develop into a small crater.[4][11] Edit: Dionisio sounds pretty cool quote:Before leaving his home for the last time, Dionisio Pulido placed a sign on the cornfield that read in Spanish: "This volcano is owned and operated by Dionisio Pulido." HelloIAmYourHeart fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Mar 18, 2022 |
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