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I swear I heard this exact set of lines before but on a video of a rat's nest of cables in a very flammable attic.
this version is easier to understand though, the voices are clearer.
...is this staged?
@niacdoial I don't know.
Could be
Could be
catraxx 
@Erpel @niacdoial The voices are from another video, It's a common electrician meme.
Aprettyture! [0172]@catraxx @Erpel @niacdoial i wanted to know when this was made and i havent gotten around to disabling AI overview on my new system yet and this is fucking hysterically stupid
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@catraxx @Erpel @niacdoial anyway according to know your meme the original was here: www.instagram.com/reel/C2EMmlrs-K- good skit
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snornikPretty sure the "old lady" voice is British voice actor "Tiny Tim".
Melroy van den Berg@Erpel he is very handy in burning houses down.
Tryst 🏴 🇮🇪 
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Sluether 
@SuperSluether @tryst @melroy @KayOhtie The audio is some old recording from England, if I remember correctly.
It's kind of a meme now especially under professional electricians.
(Training some myself, this kind of video is always nice to make people think about electrical safety)
It's kind of a meme now especially under professional electricians.
(Training some myself, this kind of video is always nice to make people think about electrical safety)
Jencen - Please don't call me Derg@Erpel @SuperSluether @melroy @KayOhtie @tryst I once had a customer who said "I get a shock when I touch the sink and the washing machine"
Told them not to touch the sink and the washing machine!
I then proceeded to touch the sink and the washing machine. Oooh tingly!
I'll just touch it again to make sure. Yep. That's an electrical fault!!!
@SuperSluether @melroy @KayOhtie @tryst @Jencen Depending on the voltages a RCD (GFCI in north America) should catch that.
we feel way smaller currents than the ones that make those trip rhough
we feel way smaller currents than the ones that make those trip rhough
@Erpel @SuperSluether @melroy @KayOhtie @tryst I'd say it was about 5-10 mA
But a lot of houses UK side still don't have RCD stuff. I imagine it's more now than when I was a site spark 15 years ago.
But that was the main part of the business at the time. Board changes to meet RCD regs
But a lot of houses UK side still don't have RCD stuff. I imagine it's more now than when I was a site spark 15 years ago.
But that was the main part of the business at the time. Board changes to meet RCD regs
@Jencen @Erpel @SuperSluether @melroy @KayOhtie Had this exact fault at my parents' in Italy. The supply was TT, but the spark had wired it as TNC-S, so there was a few volts between the CPC and the water pipe. A ground rod and separating N and E fixed the problem.
@Jencen @SuperSluether @melroy @KayOhtie @tryst TN-C-S by accident is not something I hear very often
@Erpel @SuperSluether @melroy @Jencen @KayOhtie The sparky was not competent. My great uncle Guido knew someone who could "do it cheaper" than a qualified electrician. There are so many issues with that installation.
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schratze@Jencen @Erpel @melroy @KayOhtie @tryst I lived in a house once where the advice was "close the washing machine and only then press the start button, otherwise touching the door will give you an electric shock"
It took the previous residents a broken washing machine and a broken dryer until they finally took a look at the wall socket
Ed Davies@schratze @Jencen @Erpel @melroy @KayOhtie @tryst Some chaps I worked with in the early 80s shared a rental house. The washing machine was in an outhouse in the garden. The landlord was aware that was a tricky situation electrically so he made the installation “super safe” by fusing all three wires.
Yeah, there was a leakage fault to the earthed case, the fuse in the earth wire blew and they started getting shocks, fortunately small, at which point they worked out what was going on.
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Video starts with a caption ovarlaid, sayijg "Inspection finding: evidence of hazardous wiring, both the stove and nearby sink exhibit electrical energization."
Behind it, a bare lightbulb is being held above a metal gas stove and metal sink. The person contacts the threaded side of the lightbulb on the sink, and the end of the lightbulb on the gas stove, and with some adjustment, it lights up.
The person then picks up the probes of a multimeter resting on the sink, touching the red positive probe on the sink and the black negative probe on the gas stove. The multimeter reads 240 volts.
Audio overlaid is a conversation between a male electrician and an older sounding lady, could be someone putting on a voice.
Electrician: who did you say did the electrical work?
Lady: oh that would be my nephew, Thomas, he's very handy.
Electrician: when did his house burn down?
Lady: about two years ago - how do you know his house burned down?
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@Erpel <Nim> if that's actually from America, that's gotta be really screwed up to have 240 accross there
@TransGal4872 @Erpel Right, but the caption does indeed say that both the stove and the sink are energized, so that would point to both being on 120V, on opposite phases (aka really screwed up).
You could get the 240V reading in Europe if one of them is live and the other neutral, but then the caption is lies (which is likely though, this is the internet).
[Yaseenist] CauseOfBSOD@TransGal4872 @Erpel america has split phase supply, which is often broken out on one plug in kitchens to supply 240VAC RMS to a cooker (if an electric one exists)
@TransGal4872 @Erpel across other stuff the phases are mixed around afaik to balance overall load. So you dont need to accidentally build a transformer to perform this particular fuckup.
@CauseOfBSOD @Erpel <Nim> the breaker panel alternates between phases using a comb thing, so it means something is attatched to the next room's breaker.
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Cadbury MooseCan I just say "Fucking Hell!" and leave it at that?
You've obviously got 240 Volt AC between the exposed metalwork on two adjacent appliances, and there's ample current available! Turn off the house power at the incoming supply and have the whole installation checked before it kills somebody.
(I have no idea how you would do this "accidentally", so it might be a good idea to write the perpetrator out of your will for a start.)
majo hashiAh! It 's a hybrid stove 😉
Jon
Jaime Robertson@Erpel Reminds me of the Army housing I lived in when I was a kid in the late 70s; in the kitchen, if you touched the metal sink and the handle of the fridge across from it you’d get a bit if a shock.
@Erpel someone mixed up live and neutral on equipment with no dedicated earth connection?