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Moo the cow posted:Germans and their ovens... If you have a job, it's worth doing it properly 
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Sagebrush posted:
And assuming you have two outlets on different sides of the split phase within two feet of each other, which I haven't had anywhere I've lived unless you count a dedicated appliance outlet. I'd imagine that cable was made for use with a generator that was internally 240v but only exposed 120v outlets.
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That cable was made by a stack exchange poster where everyone is telling him he will die https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/266647/taking-two-120-volt-outlets-and-combining-into-240-volts
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New Zealand doesn't have the safest outlets but I like that they have little individual switches for each outlet. It seemed pretty standard when I visited at least.
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Jun 20, 2020 22:59
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why dont you just install the sockets upside down so the ground is on top
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My dad always said to avoid drinking hot water from the tap because of the risk of Legionnaire's disease 
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If you have legionella in your hot water you're going to get sick from inhaling aerosolized water droplets while showering way before you have any problems from drinking it.
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Antigravitas posted:If you have a job, it's worth doing it properly Well yeah, it's annoying to keep coming up with solution after solution.
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RabbitWizard posted:False. Does this have some mechanism to make it so hot and neutral are not swapped when you plug it in the other way?
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so if I wanted to use a british appliance in my US home, would it be easier to use an adapter to tap off of one of the two 240v sockets I have for my oven and dryer? also i never noticed but they have completely different plugs, I guess I only rly ever deal with dryers since all the rentals I've had come with their own oven range but not washer/dryer equipment  e: i cant think of a reason to use a uk appliance, tbh, when i make tea i just use a kettle on a gas stove burner Peanut Butler fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Jun 21, 2020 |
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/lac-megantic-crude-oil-train-canada-guernsey-saskatchewan-rail-1.5608769quote:Why crude oil trains keep derailing and exploding in Canada — even after the Lac-Mégantic disaster?
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Peanut Butler posted:so if I wanted to use a british appliance in my US home, would it be easier to use an adapter to tap off of one of the two 240v sockets I have for my oven and dryer? depends on what it is. british and americans use a different electrical frequency, so motor based appliances either run a little too slow or a little too fast, i forget which.
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Jun 21, 2020 00:51
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Hardon Crime posted:why dont you just install the sockets upside down so the ground is on top All of the outlets at my job are like this, but our electrical contractor is top notch and doesn’t cut corners. Not sure how widespread it is in practice.
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its required by code in most places ive lived. its so if the plug comes loose and something metallic falls it can't connect the leads and short. with it upside down, it will connect a lead with the ground and short to ground. My Spirit Otter fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Jun 21, 2020 |
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My Spirit Otter posted:depends on what it is. british and americans use a different electrical frequency, so motor based appliances either run a little too slow or a little too fast, i forget which. British motors run faster and develop more power on American frequency. That’s not always a good thing, but it’s worse going the other direction. Motors designed for sixty hertz could have their iron cores enter magnetic saturation and badly overheat.
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Story time! I worked at a certain UPS manufacturer for a number of years. I started on the phones there supporting smaller UPS capping at 10kVA. I once had an electrician call in blaming us for nuking a classroom full of computers. Turns out he bonded a ground to neutral on one of the 208v single phase units you could hardwire to get 120v to the room. Problem is, the unit specifically stated it only output 208 single and the wiring diagram doesn't demonstrate any 120v outputs. If you're saying "but D3lness, one hot to ground on single 208v should still net you 120v!" you'd normally be right. HOWEVER! this UPS didn't acheive 208v using two 120v legs at a 120 degree phase angle! No no! Company that will remain nameless noticed it would just be cheaper to simulate 208v single by using one leg at 60v and the other at 165v (I don't remember exactly, this was almost a decade ago) at a 180 degree phase angle. Dude flipped a figurative coin, hooked up the higher voltage leg, and killed a bunch of PCs in a school lab. No surge protectors either since the unit doubled as one. The guy was a huge dickwad to me so I took perverse pleasure in explaining to the school employee in charge of the project that his contractor hosed up by ignoring documentation and the call ending with "Thank you for the clarification D3ness, we'll talk to the contractor from here." The fact that he has load on the circuit before testing with a multimeter was just 
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The Real Amethyst posted:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/lac-megantic-crude-oil-train-canada-guernsey-saskatchewan-rail-1.5608769 If only there was a better way to transport oil, like some kind of line of pipes
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https://i.imgur.com/vzYSjov.gifv https://i.imgur.com/KeZlkpA.mp4 Yin and yang Cartoon Man fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Jun 21, 2020 |
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I can't help but think of James Taylor.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:not much of a security system if it can be taken out by a single tripped breaker I'm not sure doing things right is much of a priority for a place that had to plug something in before they put the plate on their outlet.
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Cartoon Man posted:https://i.imgur.com/KeZlkpA.mp4 people going to extremes to get haircuts is sad and dangerous.
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BattleMaster posted:Does this have some mechanism to make it so hot and neutral are not swapped when you plug it in the other way? Appliances are either properly isolated or grounded, so the safety aspect of polarised plugs doesn't matter.
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British plugs are inarguably the most osha for standing on barefoot.
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The last twenty seconds of Project Binky are definitely OSHA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo0oqVtCJt8&t=2620s
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Cojawfee posted:The french plugs seem nice in that they seem to be recessed, so you can't accidentally drop a coin and have it fall on exposed prongs like you can with a US outlet. but why is the ground terminal poking out like that? You don't need to recess it for that, Australian/NZ plugs have the start of the active and neutral prongs insulated. Jenny Agutter posted:New Zealand doesn't have the safest outlets but I like that they have little individual switches for each outlet. It seemed pretty standard when I visited at least. What's wrong with them?
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Yeah they're the same as Australian outlets and they're fine? The insulation on the prongs makes sure that even if they fall out a bit nothing can short them by falling in. And you can bend in the prongs a little on the plug so that it's harder to push them in, making sure they won't fall out. While we're on the subject, I just saw this one posted in the wild. 
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https://i.imgur.com/UlkbDOC.mp4 gas explosion in Zhejiang
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In 2017 I traveled to Canada through an agency, and on their briefing they mentioned that this adapter would be good to have. So I ordered one - five stars on the web store, btw - but they arrived on the day of the flight, so I didn't really have a chance to even look at the thing until I actually got to the house I was staying. When I finally got to the house, I inserted this into a socket and the thing lit up in sparks (inside the casing, thankfully). I immediately took it out from the outlet and threw it back in my luggage, and later or I left a one-star review complaining about it being a fire hazard. Later still I got an email saying that my review wasn't approved for displaying.
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starkebn posted:https://i.imgur.com/UlkbDOC.mp4 Holy poo poo
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Dunno about the camera operator, but the guy in front is very lucky the window he was looking out of was open.
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`Nemesis posted:All of the outlets at my job are like this, but our electrical contractor is top notch and doesn’t cut corners. Not sure how widespread it is in practice. It's extremely common in commercial and extremely rare in residential in my experience. Some places have local amendments that make it mandatory in one or both types of construction but mostly it's just contractor preference.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6FbUiiwutQ&t=965s There's Laser chat going on in the Riot thread that I don't want to contribute to.
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https://giant.gfycat.com/ImpassionedCompetentIbizanhound.webm
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Looks like a toy.
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Lurking Haro posted:Appliances are either properly isolated or grounded, so the safety aspect of polarised plugs doesn't matter. The used to not be! And you could have the casing bonded to neutral, with an unpolarized plug, which would do some interesting things to you if you hosed it up.
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Polarised plugs are safer even today. Look at a simple lamp with an E27 socket. If the polarity is reversed, the switch won’t break the hot wire, and what’s worse is that the bulb socket is hot, not the contact deep in the base of the socket. It’s not hard to accidentally touch that.
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Platystemon posted:Looks like a toy. Yeah it kinda does, but I think the person's arm moves towards the end of the clip. This looks like a toy as well. https://giant.gfycat.com/CompetentAdeptAlligator.webm
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BattleMaster posted:Does this have some mechanism to make it so hot and neutral are not swapped when you plug it in the other way? No. But that only matters if you are working on a device while it is plugged in. Worst case i can imagine is a light bulb change.  In this case the whole metal screwy part could indeed be hot.
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