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minus-squarederanger@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·5 months agoIt can also kill a lineman working on the power lines outside your house, thinking they’re not energized.
minus-squareSirDerpy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-25 months agoIt could. But, there’s more layers to this swiss cheese model of safety. For example, the lineman’s procedure is to ground out, then isolate, then test. They’d need to skip both ground out and test to be electrocuted by an asshole with a generator.
minus-squarederanger@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 months agoOf course, but we should never be advocating for the elimination of slices. Don’t use the suicide plug, get it wired up correctly with isolation.
minus-squareEmpricorn@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoWhat if the generator was connected after the lineman’s test?
minus-squareSirDerpy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·5 months agoThen ground out bypasses the body.
It can also kill a lineman working on the power lines outside your house, thinking they’re not energized.
It could. But, there’s more layers to this swiss cheese model of safety. For example, the lineman’s procedure is to ground out, then isolate, then test. They’d need to skip both ground out and test to be electrocuted by an asshole with a generator.
Of course, but we should never be advocating for the elimination of slices. Don’t use the suicide plug, get it wired up correctly with isolation.
What if the generator was connected after the lineman’s test?
Then ground out bypasses the body.