• Sabata@ani.social
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    15 hours ago

    You don’t have dedicated high voltage discharge device, a screw driver taped to a big not conductive stick?

    • addie@feddit.uk
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      14 hours ago

      You’ll give me traumatic flashbacks to our electricians checking the industrial overload settings by dropping a spanner onto the busbars. If the switchgear tripped out before the spanner melted, then the settings must be correct.

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        4 hours ago

        I’m reminded of that video of the two guys in an attic with a massive transformer and then using the ends to melt steel tools. I also wonder what wonderfully fun lung diseases those guys ended up with

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        13 hours ago

        How else am I supposed to check if the “kill your entire family twice” capacitor out of a microwave is angry or not?