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[–] marretics@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Funnily enough we had such a cable at home for reasons unknown to me. Then of course the inevitable happened: I was electrocuted by it. I'm fine, but I can definitely agree that such a cable should not ever be made, whatever the reasoning, just don't do it.

[–] LapGoat@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

if you have a generator and your house has no electricity, you can power your house by plugging a generator into an outlet.

I am not an electrician and dont know how this would safely be done, i assume your house would need to be disconnected from the grid or something.

[–] pftbest@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are cases when electricians working on the street to restore power get shocked by some house generator feeding power back to the grid.

[–] LapGoat@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

That makes sense, people shouldn't do that then i guess.

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