Why does every store refuse to sell you these? Yes, I know the risks. I don't need to be lectured, just give sell me the product.
>>2993094>this stupid useless retarded as fuck thread againgo back to /b/ kid.
>>2993094>Yes, I know the risks.Then you know there is a better alternative. Picture related. Which you clearly DON'T know about, which means you are an idiot. Idiots should never be sold products they 'think' should exist.
>>2993094this is /diy/, take two extension cords and wire/solder/electrical tape up a 4-way hazard monster for ultimate flexibility
>>2993100It’s still got the male pins with potentially high voltage on them.There has got to be a better solution.
>>2993094practical use?
>>2993158you plug one end into ur generator and the other end into a socket
>>299315360309 version of this but one where there is also an electrical isolation switch which is interlocked and cannot be connected until a plug is fully inserted and stops the plug being removed until switched off again.But I would suggest most people who need a gen often enough to add a socket for it might as well hardwire it into a supply changeover switch and build a little shed around it or something to keep it in permanently.
>>2993153It shouldn't ever be wired up so it could do that. That's the point. The male prongs there are never hot. They are sitting there cold waiting for you to plug an extension cord in, and then your connex box or whatever will be powered.And this way you never had to make a suicide plug.
>>2993153That should only be on the cold side of the connection. You can get them for running the power for a wall-mounted TV down. They're literally just as dangerous as an unplugged power cord.The reason male-male cords aren't allowed is because you can plug one end into the hot and have exposed pins with a live charge.
>>2993176so you want to power an entire house through a flimsy plug made for powering home appliance?why don't you just pour some gasoline on your house and set it on fire?
>>2993094I would kinda like one of these someday, but this is because my house breaker is actually secondary to a larger breaker outside the house, meaning, I could switch off the breaker that powers the indoor breaker box, and therefore power the inside of the house without sending power back out onto the grid. I doubt YOUR house is like this though.it also means I'd lack powering my fridge, sadly, because it is on that outdoor breaker box, but oh well.
Anyone ever use anderson connectors to connect their generator to their main panel. I've been looking for some sort of plug solution robust enough to handle the amperages I want to potentially generate. Have a 200A pto generator. I'm thinking a sub box off my main box with some short beefy wires and anderson connectors with an interlock in the main box where you can't turn power on to them unless the main is disconnected.
>drives wristlets screeeching away in terror
>>2993620>anderson connectors with an interlock in the main box where you can't turn power on to them unless the main is disconnected.Some kind of sliding shutter linked to the main switch that covers the anderson connector when the switch is on and prevents turning it on if there's an anderson plugged in?
>>2993094Kid, most people think dipping any live wire of any strength into water turns the water into a death zone. For the love of fuck, never underestimate the depths of human stupidity.
>>2993779I mean, you're forgetting that these can also be used to plug two hot outlets together and burn your house down.
>>2993094Clearly you do need to be lectured>>2993100OP's stupid ass waste of a thread destroyed by one answer>>2993153By that logic, so does any appliance that you plug in. These receptacles are used on the downstream side and so the pins will never be exposed at the same time they are hot.
>>2993789>can also bedon't forget about the fact that you can drop a toaster into a bathtub and fucking die or something
>>2993793And no store has to provide you with something objectively stupid to sell that could be liability traced back to them.
>>2993789I don't think anything bad would happen unless you cross the wires but you can't do that with a ground plug on there
>>2993823Stay in school, kids.
>>2993823>unless you cross the wiresUnless your house was wired by a retard electrician.
>>2993848Would be a good way to test for improperly wired outlets.
>>2993851With an outlet tester. Cheap ones are $5. Slightly better ones are like $8. If you are paying more than that you are getting scammed.
Aliexpress probibly sells them!
>>2993094they should sell this as pride month specialcall them bigots until they cave in
>>2993956Lol. Someone needs to go in and talk about getting some male on male cord action and pressure them into it.
>>2993956>>2993963
just buy a male plug end, cut off the female end of a cord and make your own.
>>2993823If you plug the two ends into two different circuits they'll potentially be out of phase with each other and pass quite a lot of current before the breakers trip. Enough to cause sparks, melted insulation, general excitement, possibly fire.
>>2994020>two different circuitswell of fucking course you don't want to bridge two different circuits but I'm picturing plugging it into the top and bottom plugs of a singular outlet (or maybe two outlets on the same breaker......?) and I don't think anything would happen in that casemaybe I wouldn't be willing to bridge two outlets on the same breaker but come on, both plugs in one outlet, there's no way it blows up
>>2994186And like congress, it is fucking useful how fuckwit?
>>2994203yea that's a good point idk what you'd accomplishing really
>>2993094I hope you fucking kill yourself and not someone else you stupid cunt. I got zapped by one of these last week in some dudes van. He also blew up his inverter when he plugged the van into mains at the same time.
>first time touching mains voltagebuck up buttercup
>>2993094You don't need it.And if you really needened it, you could've just made it yourself.By the way, the board is called /diy/ not /biy/.
>>2993100Only way for that to become hot is if you bypass the interlock feeding mains to the circuit and end up back feeding that outlet
>>2993094Why don't you just /diy/ one?
>>2995683If you're smart enough to diy one, you'd be smart enough to know why this is a bad idea
>>2993094Err goyim because of liability reasons you can't have this
>>2993100
>>2993094can americans not buy power plugs that open up and have screw terminals inside for each wire?WHAT DO YOU EVEN NEED THAT FOR?
>>2995713(You) farming.
>>2993094Retards. Because of Retards. I worked retail for a few years and Jesus fucking monkey Christ people are retarded.I worked at Walmart in a city where people made more money than brains>Get asked if they can use their gas or charcoal grill inside>Had a guy asked if this light bulb (head light) will work in their night light>Had a lawn mower brought back after a guy mixed oil and gas in the gas tank>Get bitched at because it is sold on the website (by a third party) but not in store and get told that it should be sold in store>If (insert a store that is not a Walmart store) sold this or that>Even after quitting Walmart and years later at a different store people bug you to ask if you work their because you have a blue zip up jacket (the dumb bitch thought only Walmart employees wore this jacket, it was a plain blue zip up jacket)>Work at the store and still get asked if you work their>Get a person that still fucks up composite video and audio (red to red, white to white, yellow to yellow)>Person wanted a new wireless mouse, didn't want to pay 20+ for one, asked if they can just remove the (USB) cable and if it will work like that>India kid asking about his college classes for KSU>Customer gets made because I wont give him a ride home from his shopping trip after I got off from my shift. Said it was bad customer service>Tell people it's limited 1 per customer, still asked if they can buy 2 or more>Customers buying store displays of patio furniture, they drive a small car, and asked if you will delivery it in your car or the "company truck/van">Same with fucking grills, buy an assembled grill, take the lid off to fit in their mini van, hand them they parts, they bitch because you wont go to their house and put it back together>Woman wants a smart TV, asks about a TV if it was a smart tv, told her yes and pointed out where it was listed on the box, she buys it and returns it right after buying it because she thinks its not a smart TV
>>2995784>Had a lawn mower brought back after a guy mixed oil and gas in the gas tankTo be fair on this, a lot of older two-stroke motors need this mix to run properly, so somebody just assuming that the gas he still had should work instead of checking first is probably what went down.That said, buying gas instead of electric for a lawnmower these days is its own form of dumb.
>>2995788im sure it says on the gas lid what is supposed to go in
>>2995789>It's a mower, of course I use mix! It's not like that would have changed since I last bought a mower in 1986!
>>2995788What kind of fag uses an electric mower?
>>2995800Why did your mind go to that when confronted with superior mowing technology?
>>2995800electric mower tech has massively and I mean massively improved in the last decade same cutting power as gas on a tenth of the noise level
>>2995825Plus charging batteries is way cheaper than gas, no huffing exhaust, they just turn on instead of needing to yank a cord, way lower maintenance...
>>2995939>runs out of power>need to wait to rechatgeFuck
>>2995949>forgets the rule of everything 2 is 11 is nonethe is no excuse for unpreparedness
>>2995949https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cIOkx6y29a8It's not the mower's fault you can't plan for your yard size based on operational time.
>>2993094diy
>>2996096>diyTo KYS
>>2996084People forget to charge batteries all the time.Gos forbid you're on an HOA controlled property with a half mowed lawn. They will fuck you raw.
>>2996151No suburb has a yard big enough to even quarter-drain a modern mower, and you can even get ones like DeWalt that use your regular power tool batteries you should have at least a half dozen of.
>>2996135>how to use a regular extension cord for 240vthis confuses and engages the suicide cord hater
>>2996264I mean, as long as you're using a sufficiently heavy gauge cable, I guess, but why not just buy/make a proper extension cord for the purpose so you don't fry a 120v device you plug in when you forget you're using that?
>>2996272>using a sufficiently heavy gauge cable >watts wheel240v needs 1/2 the ampacity
>>2993094they don't want you to know about free energy of course.
>>2996273>Missed the main point
>>2996301>upset about a shitpoast seems the cord works as intended
