GreenDustFeb 14

Home renovations

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Show threadDaveFeb 14
Ok but for real, that wouldn’t work, right? How would them holding it complete the circuit? The circuit is just gonna be from one screw to the top of the pole back through another screw, not the part the person is holding.
Show threadWarl0k3Feb 14
You can short the terminals on a car battery with your body with no issue (there’s a theory that that’s why you see it in movies so much - if anyone actually tries it the studio isn’t giving them an idea that actually works. Same with duct-tape gags and chloroform), but it might melt the hardware and set the floor on fire which would be fun! 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.
Show threadasbestosFeb 14
Who the hell told you you can short a car battery with your body? You absolutely can’t.
Show threadsocsa

You definitely can.

Source: am high level electrical engineer.

Feb 14 at 11:24pmWeb
Show threadFubarberryFeb 15
That’s not a short, by definition.
Show threadboonhetFeb 15
Isn’t it? You’re shorting the battery terminals by connecting them directly, it’s just a shitty wire lol
Show threadAkasazhFeb 15

The body is a resistor, limiting the fire of the system in the same way if a lamp would be in the circuit.

A short is a circuit with ideally no impedance, there isn’t an ideal circuit and one can debate how much resistance would invalidate the term ‘short circuit’ so both of you might be right.

Show threadanomnomFeb 15
Yeah I think closing the circuit might be more accurate than shorting it in this case. That’s how we referred to it when I was training to be an electrician.
Show threadtomiantFeb 15
Oh yeah? What level?
Show threadcredoFeb 15
Two joints
Show threadtomiantFeb 15
That’s decently high ngl.
Show threadPeriodicallyPedanticFeb 15
What’s a “level engineer”?