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Everytime someone ask AI for wiring diagram, Medhi’s mom will go slap them with a slipper.
I’m sending this to my electrician friends.
I guess if left unchecked, the AI faithful will ultimately wipe themselves out. Too bad it’ll take too long to save the rest of us.
I showed this to my electrician dad. He had a chuckle.
Doesn’t this just bond neutral to ground? It’s definitely illegal and will kill you if some other device has a short and makes ground hot, but at least it’s not a suicide cord
this shorts live and neutral, ground pin is not even present (different shape) otoh if you need help wiring a plug, you probably shouldn’t
There’s no ground pin, but there’s no hot wire.
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It would put phase directly on the metal casing of the appliance, if the circuit protection didn’t work.
Please avoid the temptation to comment on something you know nothing about, this is actually a serious safety concern if someone followed this diagram.
Even worse. Orientation of pins like this is used in 240V circuit which means it has two antiphase live wires. This means that after shorting them, if one trips but not the other (if these two have independent breakers - idk if code requires otherwise) 120V is sent to device ground, and this one can be cut off by GFCI if used, but i hear it’s uncommon
If it was normal 120V circuit, breaker would cut off live and left neutral connected to device ground, which still can be some 20V depending on conditions
Ooh, I hadn’t even thought about voltage being backfed through the neutral.
Have you heard of something called a floating neutral? That could cause some issues.
Yea, but at this point multiple things are seriously wrong
This is a plug. The big pins are live + neutral, which are shorted together and connected to the wire labeled ground (which heads to the exposed metal of whatever appliance is on the end of this cable).
hot wire is in the socket, assuming it was wired correctly
Yes there is, the earth is connected directly to phase.
What the actual fuck. The prongs aren’t even oriented correctly. And the ‘live’ wire is just tied to ground.
So glad we’re burning down the rainforests for this.
I was curious and found we do actually have plugs with those pin orientations.
It’s 240v though, which means two live wires on opposing phases shorted together and connected to the appliances ground wire… Even better.
I plug in my arc-welder.
I exit existence.
No no no, you just get assigned to the great omni pattern buffer, may O’Brien find and rematerialize you as soon as he is able =P
Instructions unclear, Baron Samedi rematerialized me. Does this mean I gotta go shock myself stupid again until O’Brien does it?
… Do you know… what year you are in?
2025; sorry, old personal story from 2019. Just a funny NDE I had once. Have a good day!
Ah I was trying to keep going with pop culture jokes and was suggesting you may have been Twin Peaks Season 3 zapped into an alternate timeline, where maybe it was back when… was it The Living Daylights?
Whenever it was when whichever Bond movie had Samedi as the big bad came out.
=P
Instructions unclear, balls are tight and I can feel a 60Hz hum. When do I insert the neutral wire?
Bend over and I’ll show you
Why is it on the floor next to the soap I just dropped?
Because safety standards in porn are for rubbery devices only. Metal ones are juuust fine, now stop fluffing, our star needs to get back in there!
“You will die”.
Sounds like AI is bringing back natural selection.
Is it me, or do people actively celebrate the death of weak people? It is quite unnerving.
Actively celebrate?
No.
Feel zero sympathy?
Yes.
Well, that confirmed a suspicion I had.
Here I go listening unironicaly to Peter Thiel I guess.
How come he didn’t promote chatgtp
This is fucking fantastic.
Just as a PSA, black wire to brass screw, white wire to silver screw, bare or green wire to screw on rounded prong. Also, black wire is hot, white is neutral, green is ground.
As another PSA, if you reply on comments like this to go about wiring anything electrical, do yourself a favor and call a professional.
I mean, replacing a plug on a cord is like a basic human thing that most people should be able to do. A one minute video will show you how.
If you can’t figure out how to change out a plug, you probably can’t adult.
Adult checking in here. I’ve never had to replace a plug for anything… can’t say I know how to either.
If the only thing wrong with your appliance is a damaged cord, which usually happens near where it’s plugged into the wall, and it is a three-pronged cord, the information above is sufficient to replace the plug. Note that you will need to be able to identify the three wires and the color they represent, which is usually followed in decent power cords (of course, not all of them are decent).
Absolutely, if you aren’t confident in your knowledge and don’t have someone who can verify your work, don’t do it. It’s cheaper to throw away any given appliance than it is to throw away your home via an electrical fire. But basic AC electricity isn’t that complicated, even if it’s more complicated than basic DC electricity.
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In the US*
Except when white is hot for odd light switch layouts. (Which should be wrapped in black tape, but you know Shady DYI or I Know a Guy electricians.)
This won’t kill anybody. It’s not wired to anything but a ground wire.
The next diagram it hallucinates may be lethal though.
Neutral is also wired to live. Isn’t that a short circuit?
The neutral is hot but it’s also grounded, electricity should take the path to the ground instead of doing anything meaningful on the neutral. You could probably measure a bit of current but not 220.
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That ground wire goes directly to the metal casing of the appliance.
This isn’t the outlet, it’s the plug that goes into the outlet. Presuming you had it would fit into (the plugs are oriented wrong), it would be about as safe as shoving a fork in instead.
I understand what it is. But any normal GFCI would trip before it could cause any harm to anything. Even a normal breaker would trip before it created a problem, well other than sparks and likely fire. Since this is covered unlike a bare fork it is moderately safer and would not allow current through the body.
It’s irrelevant though as the image is just stupid. If you can’t immediately see that you should never be allowed near anything electrical.
And there actually is a plug that is oriented like that. It’s a Nema 6-15. And the great thing about it is it’s a 220v 15amp connector. And the plug would also fit in a Nema6-20 which is 20amps. So even more deadly.
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I mean what the fuck am I even seeing?
and also, spicy ground.
Honestly doesn’t look particularly dangerous. I think this nets you a ground neutral connection with two test points?
Would it be useful? Absolutely not. Dangerous? p Probably not.
JUST. WHY. There are so so many freely available photos already online that don’t need to be generated AGAIN
But those images are hosted by companies other than Google. You might visit those sites instead of staying on a Google-owned domain where they can keep making money off of you.
If this truly needs to be said, a giant meteor is too good for us. I get that people are stupid as fuck but Jesus, trusting your life to AI at this point is next level idiocy
