He's wearing rubber flipflops. He'll be fine.
Electrician job
Submitted 1 year ago by funny@lemmus.org to [deleted]
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Hyperreality@kbin.social 1 year ago
ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I like gifs that end with a twist.
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lightswitch to switch your own lights off.
reflex@kbin.social 1 year ago
Asudox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
spongebue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was in rural India for a friend’s wedding. They set up a giant tent pavilion to use as a dining hall, with fans hanging from the top. This was a ways away from the main house, but there were some power lines nearby so they just got power straight from the grid.
Also, day of the wedding, there was a large sound system for the musicians and priest. All the components were plugged into a power strip, which was powered by a couple loose wires stuffed into an outlet
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Living in India is playing life on hard mode
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Natural selection at it’s finest, unless someome does a really bad fucky-wucky.
UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That is a lot of confidence in the insulating properties of those pliers he has there
pepperonisalami@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And his sandals.
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
fun fact: there’s 400 Volts between the terminals laterally. that’s gonna be one hell of a cardiac arrest.
satans_crackpipe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Current is what kills the heart. AC is more dangerous and it can cause ventricular fibrillation.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Actually it’s both. You can have as high of a current as you want, if there’s no high enough voltage potential, current simply won’t flow. Any battery can push more than few amps of current easily, but voltage potential is not high enough to push it through your body. In general you are right, minimal amounts of current are enough to cramp a muscle, however it takes a lot of pushing to get to that muscle.
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
you need at least 100V DC or 50V AC to break the skin’s resistance, then there has to be at least 30 mA. which isn’t hard to do with a body resistance of a couple kΩ.
source: i’m an electronics technician
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 1 year ago
bfg9k@lemmy.world 1 year ago
fuckin thing SUCKS
gets zapped
Dashi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
OK so yeah, that guy doing it if crazy. That has been covered. But that also looks to be at ground level where anyone can walk by and touch it?!?! That seems like a bad idea too
visrpr3@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Everyone local is informed not to touch it, if someone does, that’s a skill issue
Dashi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean the 8 year old child didn’t really know better
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 1 year ago
Where are the "if it works it's ain't stupid" redditors?
Thteven@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Realizing that something can work AND be stupid.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think we have all had coworkers like that and if someone hasn’t, they are that coworker.
youngalfred@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Replacing a fuse
abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Holy cow! That’s crazy
pepperonisalami@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Holy cow, eh…
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
i mean if it works…
mriormro@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It doesn’t, this is just an example of accidentally not killing yourself.
Rognaut@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No. This is a gross misunderstanding of electrical safety.
nucleative@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah these people have only a rudimentary idea of what’s going on and very little idea what happens if they make a mistake
ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I’ve legit seen an electrician do similar in a 480V switchgear in the US… used to help with installs of industrial submetering equipment, but rather than waiting for a facility shutdown, we would often install our CTs on live equipment. IIRC he wasn’t even wearing arc flash gear…
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I mean at least It looks properly grounded.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Fusible link”
frezik@midwest.social 1 year ago
“He’s grounded, so it’s OK” - Someone on YouTube
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Me irl
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because I’M HOMER SIM-
yemmly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
tfw at the end he grabs the pliers with both hands 😬😬😬
abfarid@startrek.website 1 year ago
What does it matter if he grabs a single pair of pliers with both hands? Why did he make that bend in the middle tho?
jackoneill@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Electricity likes the path of least resistance to ground. If you are only touching with one hand, most likely the current well run down that side of your body to ground more or less. If both hands are touching it makes it more likely for the current to cross your heart which greatly increases the risk of death
mriormro@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cross your heart and hope to die.
Armaell@kbin.social 1 year ago
The bend at the end, I suppose is to put the strip in tension and make it less likely it will slip
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Grabbing with both hands you make it extremely easy for electricity to go through your heart. Electricians are usually thought not to use both hands for anything if possible, since if cable is powered chances of serious injury are slimmer. Also twist at the end was to increase tension on the wire.
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
i imagine that puts the wire under tension for better contact at both ends. pretty smart actually.