I heard there was a secret cord.
you plug it in to meet the lord.
But you don't really care for safety, do ya?
It goes like this, you plug it in,
And in a flash, the lights go dim,
The power's gone,
and now it’s running through ya.
I used it to connect a generator to the wall and give me some temporary power in my house when I was renovating. It's only dangerous if you are stupid.
as someone who has strung a ton of lights the wrong way around on more than one occasion... I can understand the desire for some magic solution that doesnt require undoing and redoing your work..
but fuck, You don't mess around with electricity.
People also make these stupid suicide cables to plug generators into houses during disasters, often backfeeding power into the lines that may be down and can cause serious injury to workers trying to restore power.
Plugging the cord in the same outlet isn't dangerous itself, but the prongs will be live on the end that's not plugged in, I'd suggest not touching them. Where it IS dangerous is when people try to use them with a generator to back feed their panel. Don't do that.
I don't really get it. Sure, the exposed prongs would be energized once you plugged one side in, but if you plugged the other side into a second outlet (assuming you didn't cross live/neutral), nothing would happen. (those two outlets were likely tied together anyway)
So if these are people wiring their Christmas lights wrong, assuming these are led lights, doesn't this "solution" not work bc of the polarity anyway? Or is that only a DC thing with diodes? I only did okay in my physics electricity stuff lol
i guess if someone's putting up their lights backwards, then it makes sense that that person also thinks it's less work to drive to the hardware store and buy a non-existent extension cord than it is to just redo the lights
Oh I call the cables I use to wire up my controllers "suicide cords" because it's just the hot, neutral, and ground hanging out one end, waiting to touch me...
I made one of those once by accident. I was talking a long extension cord that had been cut in two and converting it into two smaller cords. I messed up and attached the male to the wrong cable.