buickanddeere
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That has to be a purposeful dig to try and encourage some excitement. Nobody with any sense and understanding of electricity and distribution system would use a suicide cord.
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That has to be a purposeful dig to try and encourage some excitement. Nobody with any sense and understanding of electricity and distribution system would use a suicide cord.
Ivan49
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Mine got a good maintaice run this weekend. Power went out at 1:45 wed night and came back yesterday about 1:30. I had to go downstate yesterday and it was lines of power trucks heading north on 131. Many areas up this way will not get power back until middle of the week. A ig thanks to the crews who worked thru Christmas to help out people they do not know. We had straight line winds of 70 to 90 miles an hour and many areas are flattened. Many lost their roofs not a Cristnas present they wanted I am sure
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I'm thinking the frequency of power outages is due to overhead lines.
Having lived in places where power is underground... power outages were very rare if at all...
Having lived in places where power is underground... power outages were very rare if at all...
buickanddeere
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High voltage underground cables tend to suffer failures . Higher the voltage the more inclined to explode. At work the entire site is being converted to 13.8KV overhead from 13.8Kv underground for reliability.
Buildings gone and lives lost in a number of recent events...... looks like Texas also got hit hard today.....
Stark reminder not to to take people or things for granted.
Rgds, D.
grsthegreat
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I just did a bid last saturday for a customer that plugged a suicide cord into a welder outlet to power his house after the power was out for 3 days. He remembered to shut off the main breaker before plugging in generator, but after power was restored he forgot to unplug the gen set BEFORE he three the main breaker. I saw the reminants of his welder circuit and a ruined generator. The gen starts, but produces no power. Hes having me install a proper transfer switch. It used to ge a nice honda generator. Not anymore
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buickanddeere
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Thankyou for the real life example of one of the many things that go wrong with an illegal and dangerous cobb job farmer fix. There is a long line of persons here that think the double ended suicide cord is just fine.
They don't even know and don't want to know the difference between a ground conductor and a neutral conductor either. and use a three prong welder receptacle for 120/240.
DarkBlack
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Yes and no.
It's how I've actually done it for countless years.
Yes, it's not code compliant, and year after year it gets you excited.
cqaigy2
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So you keep doing this on purpose?