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.
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.
89 Comments
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 153 pts · 67d
Solid shitpost. I'm angry just looking at it. Someone, anyone fight me!
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 128 pts · 67d
Your father is a hamster and your mother smells of elderberries.
nilaus@lemmy.world · 78 pts · 67d
The fact that you switched the mother and father makes me unreasonably irrateš
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 67d
Like God when a sperm is wasted
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 67d
No, he becomes quite irate, not irrate.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 67d
Itās been over 20 years since Iāve seen that movieā¦
My goal was to anger and insult you, and it appears to have worked!
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social · 3 pts · 67d
They also changed the tense from past to parent...
danekrae@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 67d
I fart in your general direction!
Klear@piefed.world · 13 pts · 67d
Now listen here, my good man...
Kaput@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 67d
I fart in your gƩnƩral direction!
partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 67d
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.
rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz · 15 pts · 67d
i need to see that bosnian ape society video
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 67d
That's why my bitcoin farm keeps tripping the breakers. That bastard!
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 142 pts · 67d
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."
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 72 pts · 67d
Are you posting to Lemmy from the spirit world?
Lumisal@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 67d
How'd you think they became a warlock?
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 66d
I thought that was how Lichs were created tho?
Lumisal@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 66d
If you involve high enough levels of electricity you can choose which
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 67d
Alternativelly, having been bitten by a radioactive animal early that day, they're now an animal themed superhero.
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 65d
They are being channeled by the avatar.
Rooskie91@discuss.online · 76 pts · 67d
Ah, the Buddhist ground. Untethered from all earthly matters.
Also occasionally self-immolates.
xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day · 13 pts · 67d
I am laughing my way to hell, along with you š
YaxPasaj@lemmy.eco.br · 6 pts · 66d
This is the best comment I have seen in a long time.
mkhopper@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 66d
š
namelivia@lemmy.world · 60 pts · 67d
Forbidden gummy
dance_ninja@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 67d
It's cherry flavored!
antsu@discuss.tchncs.de · 51 pts · 67d
It's a low current warning. It means the system needs more amps!
fartographer@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 67d
Instructions unclear, now driving a time traveling Delorean
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 67d
RichardNixos@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 67d
It's fun to see old reddit memes on decentreddit
Kaligalis@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 67d
It's the service light. You need to call an electrician.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 67d
... preferably from outside.
MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca · 45 pts · 67d
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
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 34 pts · 67d
It just means the system is active. You can just ignore it.
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de · 39 pts · 67d
technically not incorrect
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 67d
Well, the safe to ignore part is incorrect.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 67d
OC said you can ignore it, not that it's safe to ignore it.
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 67d
It's cherry flavored!
Etterra@discuss.online · 28 pts · 67d
I can smell this room.
DaleGribble88@programming.dev · 27 pts · 67d
It means that your fuse is still working for at least a couple more minutes
morphballganon@mtgzone.com · 5 pts · 67d
I read your comment in Dale's voice
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 27 pts · 66d
That's the cigarette lighter
itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 67d
It's an emergency stop button and you need to press it NOW
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 67d
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'
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 24 pts · 67d
That nut is working overtime.
fonix232@fedia.io · 23 pts · 67d
Last time I heard this sentence, it was said by the then fiancƩe (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.
conartistpanda@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 67d
He should've put a gps tracker on them
Batmancer@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 67d
Hey everyone, I am a layman(uneducated in this field) in these matters. How does one make this happen?
Etterra@discuss.online · 38 pts · 67d
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.
Batmancer@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 67d
I donāt want to make it happen, Iām just curious.
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 67d
Better question might be: "How to make sure this NEVER happens?" š
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 67d
Honest question.
Would touching it burn you, electrocute you, or both?
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 52 pts · 67d
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.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 67d
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
cepelinas@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 65d
Josh wouldn't be this sane.
MrQuallzin@pie.eyeofthestorm.place · 25 pts · 67d
Yes
Triumph@fedia.io · 9 pts · 67d
Burn. It's a loose connection.
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 67d
Could also electrocute though if your body is a better path to ground than the bad connection.
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net · 18 pts · 67d
Cherry flavour
pewpew@feddit.it · 16 pts · 67d
It's just red paint, the electrician just marked the connection, you can clean it up now
AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 67d
It's not supposed to do that.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 67d
FTFY
0ops@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 67d
Screw you dude, you're hanging by a thread with these puns
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 66d
I just saw an opportunity and took it. Well, Iāve got to bolt now!
over_clox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 66d
Oh screw off..
rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 67d
yeah it's supposed to glow green
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 67d
Says ātouch me, you know youāre curiousā.
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 67d
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
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 66d
Its the piss light. You're supposed to piss on it.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 64d
That would generate a lot of smelly steam, but would be safe otherwise.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 11 pts · 66d
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.
Aganim@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 67d
Is your nut red and hot to the touch? Could be an STI, time to see the doctor.
lime@feddit.nu · 10 pts · 67d
that's a self-indicating manifold adjuster! get that over to !deltahunters@feddit.nu
hakase@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 67d
Always nice to see someone spreading the word about VX!
lime@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 67d
i'm trying, man
icelimit@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 65d
Self cleaning cycle.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 67d
It's ready to eat.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 67d
Your bill's gonna cost a bit this month
Mpatch@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 67d
That's the system on light before the days of light bulbs. Quite the vintage set up you got there.
Kintarian@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 67d
Itās fine, the smoke makes the electrons flow faster
PodPerson@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 67d
The electrons must FLOW
YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 67d
You get them mad enough, they'll flow even if you thought there was enough of an air gap.
stormeuh@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 67d
Ground lug nut and bolt: I'm tired boss
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 67d
I will touch it to determine the temperature
BenLeMan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 67d
Your earworm of the day:
The Heat Is On. š„
You're welcome! šš
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 67d
Its about to let the smoke out.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 67d
Does means? I thinks I'ms gettings as strokes
swagmoney@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 66d
well you found the fuse
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 67d
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.