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  • XavierEnglish
    20·
    5 months ago

    What‽ Why would such a thing exist ??? 🤔

    Testing your electrical panel? and how fast the firefighters are to get to your house?

    • ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world
      English
      342·
      5 months 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.

      • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        5 months 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

        • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          20·
          5 months ago

          There’s a specific process and kind of panel you need to back feed power into your home

          Basically your panel needs to have it setup so that it can either be powered by the generator or the grid. 1 or the other but never both at the same time.

        • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          5 months ago

          Um, no. Normally you would use a regular male to female extension cable for that. Your electrical panel would have a male plug on the wall which is specifically wired up to safely provide power to your home.

        • Ferris@infosec.pubEnglish
          41·
          5 months ago

          teslas specifically don’t generate electricity

          what is going on in this thread?

          • fkn@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            5 months ago

            “As a” implies knowledge that it is not a generator but can effectively be used as one.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      51·
      5 months 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?”