the holidays are never officially here until i see the christmas light extension cord of death by electricity and I have yet to see it.
gotta do everything myself around here
people keep tagging this as homophobia
@words-writ-in-starlight To answer the “what the fuck is that” tag: a male-male “suicide cord” is typically what dudes who know just enough about electricity to be dangerous do when the power is out and they bought a generator in a hurry. Plug one end into the generator, plug one end into your house, boom, you’re backfeeding the panel, you have power.
Problem 1: When you plug one end in, the other end is now live, so even the lightest touch will electrocute you.
Problem 2: backfeeding doesn’t stop at your panel unless you have a special disconnect in place, so if a utility worker is trying to get your neighborhood their power back and you’re backfeeding into the local grid, you might electrocute them, too.
Problem 3: Assuming you don’t kill the lineman and they get your power back on, you know have two sources of power running at the same time, through the same breaker. That will probably just fuck up your generator, but you might also set some of the wiring in your walls on fire.
There are other use cases for this but the generator one is the most common. Anyway, never make one of these. If you see one for sale do not buy it. If you see one in use, consider fleeing that situation.
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