Amazon could soon be on the hook for safety of third-party products it sells and ships — Government order could classify it as a distributor, potentially exposing it to more legal claims::undefined
Fun fact: when you plug in one side of a male to male connector the other becomes hot, if you somehow manage to plug it in you WILL fuck up your electrical system
I’ve seen these used in low income homes where the basement electricity is paid by the landlord for coin operated washers. Then someone gets their electricity cut (lack of payment) so they use these cables to jump the outlets and steal electricity from the landlord.
The dude just went to a hardware store and bought an extension cable and a replacement plug head. Snipped the female end and added the male in like 5 minutes.
The only practical usage of those things is jumping a generator to a house during a blackout.
Edit: yes please bring on the down votes for me sharing a story about how the poor use these scary cables. Real nice.
Yes, in theory that would work. But they actually make main disconnect switches for this in the event that the main breaker fails. It’s a mandatory install in all grid tie electrical generator systems (including solar).
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I mean, how is it not a distributor? Honest question, all those trucks sure do look like they are distributing products.
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Finally. They sell ship loads of dangerous and faulty wares
How in the name of God are they not a distributor?
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I think distributor normally sends to other business rather than gen pop. I might be wrong though.
They do VAT receipts in my country, that’s B2B
Hahaha good, fuck bezos and fuck amazon.
When they first started, Amazon really did have great products, but now it’s just overpriced reverse engineered low QA crap.
Hey, low QA crap isn’t a fair assessment. I recently bought something that had absolutely NO QA behind it.
Maybe then they’ll stop selling male to male extension cords
Saw a YouTube video about it. It’s not a big deal. You can plug them into an outlet and it’s fine.
https://youtu.be/H-4mvK2FW78?si=YDSQ8a98mAoQq1OE
Fun fact: when you plug in one side of a male to male connector the other becomes hot, if you somehow manage to plug it in you WILL fuck up your electrical system
https://youtu.be/H-4mvK2FW78?si=YDSQ8a98mAoQq1OE
Or adapters to plug a 30A device into a 15A receptacle
I’ve seen these used in low income homes where the basement electricity is paid by the landlord for coin operated washers. Then someone gets their electricity cut (lack of payment) so they use these cables to jump the outlets and steal electricity from the landlord.
The dude just went to a hardware store and bought an extension cable and a replacement plug head. Snipped the female end and added the male in like 5 minutes.
The only practical usage of those things is jumping a generator to a house during a blackout.
Edit: yes please bring on the down votes for me sharing a story about how the poor use these scary cables. Real nice.
And that “practical use” kills linemen.
I think the correct way to jump is to flip your main so you’re disconnected. I’m probably talking out of my ass tho.
I don’t own a generator nor have the need. Just basing this on what I’ve seen in the wild.
Yes, in theory that would work. But they actually make main disconnect switches for this in the event that the main breaker fails. It’s a mandatory install in all grid tie electrical generator systems (including solar).
Rossman would be pleased.
About fucking time. They’ve known about the massive problems for years and haven’t acted.