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Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 month agoYou can short the terminals on a car battery with your body with no issue, but It might melt the hardware and set the floor on fire! What they should really do is connect a HV source and charge up the pole. Won’t cause any lasting harm, but hopefully it’ll convince them they drove a screw through a live wire.
asbestos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Who the hell told you you can short a car battery with your body? You absolutely can’t.
socsa@piefed.social 1 month ago
You definitely can.
Source: am high level electrical engineer.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
That’s not a short, by definition.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Isn’t it? You’re shorting the battery terminals by connecting them directly, it’s just a shitty wire lol
tomiant@piefed.social 1 month ago
Oh yeah? What level?
credo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Two joints
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is this a semantic argument about my use of “short”?
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
The way you worded it makes it sound like it’s very easy to short a battery with your body, not that attempting to short a battery will cause “no issue” because it won’t actually work.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m aware - I very intentionally spared everyone the lecture on the mechanics of how this works because it is, on the whole, very boring. However if we really wanted to get into the boring technical details nobody but us cares about then yes, you are indeed shorting the battery, it’s just for a ludicrously small amount of current.
asbestos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Did you mean short circuit the battery using your bare hands?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I meant contact both terminals at once with your bare hands.