You're going to be even more angry to learn that your apartment neighbor is using the shared building power to run an industrial aluminum smelter on his balcony as his side hustle. It does explain why he's posting all of those pallets of 6061 alloy bar stock and ingots for sale on Nextdoor and Facebook Marketplace though.
I remember one time I was at a large industrial site working on a cabinet cooler (dedicated air conditioning for large electrical cabinets) on a motor drive cabinet which was was running 480V 3 phase with feeder wires the size of my thumb when their safety guy walked by and saw me poking at the cooler fan with a screwdriver. The conversation went something like this.
Safety guy looking rather concerned: "What are you doing?"
Me: "Cabinet is getting warm because the cooler quit. The fan motor isn't running so I'm trying to give it a bump start with a screwdriver to see if the motor is siezed. Gotta do it this way because otherwise I have to pull the whole cooler off the cabinet to access it properly."
Safety: "You know those wires there are 480V right?"
Me: "Yup."
Safety: "You know those will kill you if you touch them right?"
Slather it in butter ... then fry an egg on top ... keep cooking eggs and start up a small breakfast place and call it the 'Ground Nut Breakfast Joint'
There's a positive wire touching where it shouldn't be. The metal object, whatever it is, leads to ground, completing a circuit. Metal acts as resistance, converting electricity to heat and light - like the filaments in a toaster or an electric heater. This can also create sparks. Either way it's a sure way to cause a fire. If the metal is thin or melts at a low temperature, or the electricity is high voltage, the metal can melt, causing leaks. Cold liquid coming in contact with hot metal can flash to steam and possibly cause an pressure explosion or worse, depending on if there's gas or other flammable stuff in the environment. It's also an electrocution hazard.
This can happen if summer critter gets in there and chews open a wire. That's what usually causes actual electric fires.
Last time I heard this sentence, it was said by the then fiancée (now wife) of one of my friends, who lost a testicle as a teen (the friend, not the wife), when they announced she's pregnant.
The big grounding busbar there is giving the current a much better path to ground than your body would, so you're pretty much entirely safe from electric shock.
It do be pretty hot, tho, so your fingie is going to be ouchie burn burn.
Before someone asks why so much current to earth: blue N wires are connected to it too, so it's the PEN pole of the mostly obsolete but still very common TN-C system. Such current to PE would instantly trip GFCI/RCD in a modern TN-C-S system, now it's just overcurrent through some appliance or wiring gone short circuit and non-compliant breaker/fuse that failed to trip.
Solid shitpost. I'm angry just looking at it. Someone, anyone fight me!
Your father is a hamster and your mother smells of elderberries.
The fact that you switched the mother and father makes me unreasonably irrate😆
Like God when a sperm is wasted
No, he becomes quite irate, not irrate.
It’s been over 20 years since I’ve seen that movie…
My goal was to anger and insult you, and it appears to have worked!
They also changed the tense from past to parent...
I fart in your general direction!
Now listen here, my good man...
I fart in your général direction!
You're going to be even more angry to learn that your apartment neighbor is using the shared building power to run an industrial aluminum smelter on his balcony as his side hustle. It does explain why he's posting all of those pallets of 6061 alloy bar stock and ingots for sale on Nextdoor and Facebook Marketplace though.
i need to see that bosnian ape society video
That's why my bitcoin farm keeps tripping the breakers. That bastard!
I remember one time I was at a large industrial site working on a cabinet cooler (dedicated air conditioning for large electrical cabinets) on a motor drive cabinet which was was running 480V 3 phase with feeder wires the size of my thumb when their safety guy walked by and saw me poking at the cooler fan with a screwdriver. The conversation went something like this.
Safety guy looking rather concerned: "What are you doing?"
Me: "Cabinet is getting warm because the cooler quit. The fan motor isn't running so I'm trying to give it a bump start with a screwdriver to see if the motor is siezed. Gotta do it this way because otherwise I have to pull the whole cooler off the cabinet to access it properly."
Safety: "You know those wires there are 480V right?"
Me: "Yup."
Safety: "You know those will kill you if you touch them right?"
Me: "That's why I'm not touching them."
Are you posting to Lemmy from the spirit world?
How'd you think they became a warlock?
I thought that was how Lichs were created tho?
If you involve high enough levels of electricity you can choose which
Alternativelly, having been bitten by a radioactive animal early that day, they're now an animal themed superhero.
They are being channeled by the avatar.
Ah, the Buddhist ground. Untethered from all earthly matters.
Also occasionally self-immolates.
I am laughing my way to hell, along with you 😂
This is the best comment I have seen in a long time.
🏅
Forbidden gummy
It's cherry flavored!
It's a low current warning. It means the system needs more amps!
Instructions unclear, now driving a time traveling Delorean
It's fun to see old reddit memes on decentreddit
It's the service light. You need to call an electrician.
... preferably from outside.
You gotta press it really hard to reset it but be careful because buttons that haven't been pressed in a long time are usually very cold
It just means the system is active. You can just ignore it.
technically not incorrect
Well, the safe to ignore part is incorrect.
OC said you can ignore it, not that it's safe to ignore it.
It's cherry flavored!
I can smell this room.
That's the cigarette lighter
It means that your fuse is still working for at least a couple more minutes
I read your comment in Dale's voice
It's an emergency stop button and you need to press it NOW
Slather it in butter ... then fry an egg on top ... keep cooking eggs and start up a small breakfast place and call it the 'Ground Nut Breakfast Joint'
Hey everyone, I am a layman(uneducated in this field) in these matters. How does one make this happen?
There's a positive wire touching where it shouldn't be. The metal object, whatever it is, leads to ground, completing a circuit. Metal acts as resistance, converting electricity to heat and light - like the filaments in a toaster or an electric heater. This can also create sparks. Either way it's a sure way to cause a fire. If the metal is thin or melts at a low temperature, or the electricity is high voltage, the metal can melt, causing leaks. Cold liquid coming in contact with hot metal can flash to steam and possibly cause an pressure explosion or worse, depending on if there's gas or other flammable stuff in the environment. It's also an electrocution hazard.
This can happen if summer critter gets in there and chews open a wire. That's what usually causes actual electric fires.
I don’t want to make it happen, I’m just curious.
Better question might be: "How to make sure this NEVER happens?" 😄
That nut is working overtime.
Last time I heard this sentence, it was said by the then fiancée (now wife) of one of my friends, who lost a testicle as a teen (the friend, not the wife), when they announced she's pregnant.
He should've put a gps tracker on them
Honest question.
Would touching it burn you, electrocute you, or both?
Burn, not electrocute.
The big grounding busbar there is giving the current a much better path to ground than your body would, so you're pretty much entirely safe from electric shock.
It do be pretty hot, tho, so your fingie is going to be ouchie burn burn.
Is this account an AI thats been fed dialog exclusively from Josh from Let's Game It Out?
All that's left is for a conversation about eating food, and your reply is
Josh wouldn't be this sane.
Yes
Burn. It's a loose connection.
Could also electrocute though if your body is a better path to ground than the bad connection.
Cherry flavour
It's just red paint, the electrician just marked the connection, you can clean it up now
It's not supposed to do that.
FTFY
Screw you dude, you're hanging by a thread with these puns
I just saw an opportunity and took it. Well, I’ve got to bolt now!
Oh screw off..
yeah it's supposed to glow green
Says “touch me, you know you’re curious”.
If truly at ground it'd just be a nasty burn, though with the current flowing.. That might not quite be at ground potential there
Its the piss light. You're supposed to piss on it.
That would generate a lot of smelly steam, but would be safe otherwise.
Before someone asks why so much current to earth: blue N wires are connected to it too, so it's the PEN pole of the mostly obsolete but still very common TN-C system. Such current to PE would instantly trip GFCI/RCD in a modern TN-C-S system, now it's just overcurrent through some appliance or wiring gone short circuit and non-compliant breaker/fuse that failed to trip.
Is your nut red and hot to the touch? Could be an STI, time to see the doctor.
Self cleaning cycle.
that's a self-indicating manifold adjuster! get that over to [email protected]
Always nice to see someone spreading the word about VX!
i'm trying, man
It's ready to eat.
Your bill's gonna cost a bit this month
It’s fine, the smoke makes the electrons flow faster
The electrons must FLOW
You get them mad enough, they'll flow even if you thought there was enough of an air gap.
I will touch it to determine the temperature
Ground lug nut and bolt: I'm tired boss
That's the system on light before the days of light bulbs. Quite the vintage set up you got there.
Your earworm of the day:
The Heat Is On. 🔥
You're welcome! 😀👍
Its about to let the smoke out.
Does means? I thinks I'ms gettings as strokes
well you found the fuse
If you look very carefully, there's four, maybe five pxels between the n in on and the m in my that aren't a holy shit moment.