My wife was stringing up lights on the garage wreath and had one strand turned around and wanted me to make one of these to “fix” it so it could plug in. It took a second to explain to her the other end was just going to be an exposed line voltage plug.
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disorderly@lemmy.world 16 hours agoMy friend worked in a hardware store for a couple years and he said that around Christmas time you get about a dozen people asking for these.
billwashere@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
kossa@feddit.org 16 hours ago
This tale is old, and I still don’t understand what people try to accomplish with these?! Like, I know hanging like a trillion extenders behind each other is also a way to start a fire, but what are people trying to do with male-to-male cables? I’m at a loss.
Peasley@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I always heard they were for powering a house off a generator
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
There is a kind of person who knows how to do that safely, but that kind of person has already installed an actual load transfer switch to do it the right way.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
I still do it I have a lot of blackouts here, I Hari to close the breaker turn on the generator and then every 15 min go downstairs to unplug the gen, and turn on the breaker to know if the electricity came back, I’m cheap but I’m also getting tired of the whole process.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
When you daisy chain christmas lights and just put up 1 of them backwards.
shalafi@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I made one for the little generator at my camp. The idea was to plug the output into an outlet in my homemade shed and power it all the plugs, plus energizing an outdoor socket.
Never got around to wiring the shed and it was easier to simply not use the other male end and wire it straight into the outside outlet. Now I can fire up the genny and have a hot outlet outside the shed.
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 14 hours ago
They’re typically used for backup generators