Actually, they do exist; that’s kind of the problem.
Y’see, what ya do is take yer two cords and cut the ends off. Strip the wire and tie 'em together. Then ya wrap em in electrical tape so they’re water tight! Bam! Problem solved!
Not enough guns.
You mean these?
I posted these ones I found at the ski area I worked at 8 years ago. I wish they were a joke but some fucking moron had made these and used them on the trees in front of the lodge. In piles of snow too.
Me and my dad actually had to do this with a high voltage plug for an air compressor.
We had a welder that had the same plug as our air compressor but we needed it to be longer. So we spliced two male ends together to make an extension.
It was only extremely dangerous for about 5 minutes but that was some of the sweatiest 5 minutes of my life.
Next time you should unplug it from the wall first to be less stressful. :)
Open the window too, get some air moving in there
It’s ace, so you can buy two plugs with terminals and make your own anyway.
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Burning your house down can make you brighter for a bit, tho.
You’re fired
Here’s a short extension cord version of one
The explanation of why they’re a bad idea is valid though. Usually the kinds of people who know just enough to want this type of plug are also the type of people I wouldn’t trust with one.
Edit: I’ll go ahead and explain why people want plugs like this. These can be used to backfeed power from a generator into a house, letting you used different outlets/lights in the house. A knowledgeable person can actually use something like this safely, but most people who would use something like this don’t know enough to do it correctly. The dangers about doing this are:
- You can easily shock yourself off of the exposed pins of the cord. You can avoid getting shocked by waiting to plug into the generator until the other end is connected first.
- You can backfeed power onto the electrical grid. The power going backwards through the transformers will step up the voltage to thousands of volts, and could seriously injure or kill the linemen who are trying to fix the outage. This is avoided by making sure you’ve opened either the house’s main disconnect breaker or the breaker for the individual circuit you’re plugging into.
There are some safer ways to setup this type of generator use, there are special generator power cords/outlets that won’t have exposed energized prongs if plugged into a generator. There are also transfer switches or breaker interlock kits designed to prevent someone from being able to backfeed power by requiring them to disconnect commercial power before the generator can be fed into the house’s distribution panel.
It’s pretty telling that the product page has zero reviews. I don’t think this product has any surviving users.
I think it’s been taken down and relisted multiple times, possibly due to reports. I’ve seen these plugs on amazon for years now.
Yeah makes sense. The whole listing is super sketchy.
Yeah but the cable has “anti snow” feature so…
"Is this UL certified?
I trust NANCHANGZHENGFUYUANGUOJIMAOYIYOUXIANGONGSI for all my dangerously illegal electrical needs!
Even funnier is if you click on the brand SCTOU to see other products, the other items from SCTOU appear to be questionable body armor and anti-bird spikes. Seller names are different as well, but they’re all similar random Chinese names.
The car community has a saying “Only when you know all the rules are you allowed to break some of them”
Also in TTRPG community, but they break it all the time.
Am I crazy or is the example picture of the interlock backwards. Both sides can be turned on, but only one can be off at the same time 😅
You’re right, I hadn’t noticed that. They have the breakers labeled backwards from how they normally are.
Yea I had to scroll down to the review pictures, I seriously thought I was going crazy over what is a super simple thing lol
I’m not well informed, but I wouldn’t be surprised if in some places it wouldn’t be legal to sell that kind of cords (because of being a safety hazard and such).
For a generator you ideally want a 220v version so that you can power all the circuits in your house. Which makes the suicide cord all the scarier.
In that case, you’d probably have a male RV style covered plug mounted on the exterior of your house so you could use a standard 220 cord.
Omg please everyone report that listing z
They should put what they are called in the electrical world to help drive home the point. “Suicide cords”
Sales go up
Minus the cord?
It cracks me up that they’ll sell chainsaws to anyone.
I used to know a hardware store that sold guns in the 80s. Guy bought one, walked down the block, robbed a bank with it, and died in ensuing police shootout. Store stopped selling guns after that.
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It’s also a good thing dildos aren’t made of
metal and connected to voltage.Some are and some pay extra for that…
Like, a motor… The State of Arkansas would pay you for a novel execution device though.
Who is your dildo guy? Their selection is too limited.
You don’t sound fun
Not with that attitude
But… They do exist. They’re just incredibly stupid and dangerous.
Illegal too, according to the sign.
They are ILLEGAL, DANGEROUS, and NONEXISTENT. Get it straight!
Aha! I knew there was a string adapter for my tin can so I can plug it to my audio jack!
YOU CANT HIDE THE TRUTH
They could’ve just said, “If you want a double-ended male plug, go check out the Adam and Eve store webpage.”
“And don’t forget the code Ship2 to get 50% off your order!”
Hmmm not sure what I would do with TWO double male plugs. I don’t have that many people in my bed at once. : / Ummmm you should probably ignore that whole sentence…
Was at a Christmas party last night and a guy dropped a 2 foot long double ended dildo on the table.
Male to Male adapters exist, but electrically questionable.
ASS TO ASS! ASS TO ASS! ASS TO ASS!
What parties are you attending that:
- Someone brings a dildo
- You describe that someone as just “a guy”
Having a dildo is questionable enough. Not knowing the guy who has a dildo at your Christmas party is extremely questionable.
Eh, a couple years ago one of my brothers gifted another brother a dildo from “Santa”. I have 5 brothers, so no one knew for sure who did it. Much hilarity ensued.
Mine
I once decided to buy a dildo to spice up mine and my girlfriend’s bed play. Didn’t pay too much attention to the size, just saw positive reviews and clicked “buy now”. That’s how I ended up with a massive dildo in my mail. There’s no way it would fit her, nevermind me. But, it had a pump on it to simulate ejaculations, so it ended up being used as alcohol dispenser at our christmas party. And yes, there were more people than the two of us. It was certainly more usable than the menstrual whiskey cups that the other guy brought…
Really fun ones.
The guy in question is a firefighter.
Furry parties have more then double ended dildo
I have had this conversation multiple times, about multiple cable types, while in electronics sales.
What’s the best analogy or wording you’ve found for conveying the nature of the problem to people?
It prevents you from connecting two live wires and dying.
I’m not sure there is one, I usually just highlight that they’re one-directional, and you would technically need another nontrivial piece of hardware in the middle.
Then we figured out what their problem actually was.
The electrical ones don’t exist because it would mean you have exposed metal that is carrying current when a human touches it. However, for some odd reason you can buy it for control panels.
I don’t understand this.
Do your Christmas light end with a female electrical socket?
Yep! That way you can daisy chain several in a row.
Could you not just run an extension cord from the male end to the socket though?
EDIT: Never mind…says exactly that in the picture.
The idea is that the string of lights has a male end and a female end. That way you can have several daisy chained and just plug the one with the male end into the outlet. But if you plan it wrong then you may end up with the wrong end in the wrong place, in which case yeah, use an extension cord or hang the lights all over again.
Oh and it’s actually relatively safe this way… Each string of lights normally has a fuse in it, so it prevents the cords from carrying more current than they are designed for.
Thank you, I noticed that was a suggested solution in the picture after asking.
Now I really want one.
Pretty sad that it needs to be explained why these are generally a terrible idea
How else are we supposed to learn/know if not being explained? Omniscience?
Common knowledge that touching electricity = ouch?
touching electricity =
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Nooo, I don’t want to be an old bald man with bad knees!
Honestly that’s not bad knees. Look at how they warp the entire leg shape. Pretty cool
I learned by sticking a butter knife into a outlet as a young child. That was a shocking surprise
Playing throw the knives against the wall?
not if you jump first!
Every day there are thousands of people who hear about this for the first time. I’d link the relevant xkcd but I’m too lazy right now
Here you go: https://xkcd.com/1053/
Thanks!
