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deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 months agoIt can also kill a lineman working on the power lines outside your house, thinking they’re not energized.
Comment on Cords
deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 months agoIt can also kill a lineman working on the power lines outside your house, thinking they’re not energized.
SirDerpy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It could. But, there’s more layers to this swiss cheese model of safety. For example, the lineman’s procedure is to ground out, then isolate, then test and to ground out. They’d need to skip both ground out and test to be electrocuted by an asshole with a generator.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Of course, but we should never be advocating for the elimination of slices. Don’t use the suicide plug, get it wired up correctly with isolation.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 months ago
What if the generator was connected after the lineman’s test?
SirDerpy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Then ground out bypasses the body.