Don’t. Even if you understand what you’re doing, someone else won’t and your family will die in a house fire.

Male-to-male end cables allow for the two leads of an open male end to make contact with anything conductive (including your flesh, causing some pretty gnarly burns) to complete the circuit and start a fire. No conscionable electrician will make these for you. It is the dumbest solution to any problem you’re looking to solve. Don’t.

Just a reminder coming up on Christmas.

  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    I’ve heard it called a “suicide plug”. A common use for them is back feeding power from a generator into your homes electrical panel during extended power outages.

    It can technically work but comes with major safety risks such as:

    • Giving yourself a nasty shock.
    • Electrical fire.
    • Electrocuting anyone who comes in contact with the power line, i.e. a lineman who might assume the line is de-energized.
    • Blowing up your generator when the power comes back on.

    The proper way to do it would be to have a transfer switch and generator plug installed. The transfer switch guarantees that when you’re running on gen power, you’re not back feeding through the transformer out to the power line.