Cords

But you dont really care about voltage, do ya?

Also known as a "nope rope"

I thought this was an anti homosexuality meme until I read the top comment.

I've got to stop using Lemmy. It is changing me...

I heard there was a secret cord.
you plug it in to meet the lord.
But you don't really care for safety, do ya?
It goes like this, you plug it in,
And in a flash, the lights go dim,
The power's gone,
and now it’s running through ya.

They very much do exist, though. Often used sketchily with generators.

No problem.

I got these baddies

I'm not American, Christmas lights aren't a thing here like they're in the US, can someone explain?

/But hardware stores don't want to sell it tooooo youuu..../

Practical IQ test with binary result ("pass"/"fail").

as someone who has strung a ton of lights the wrong way around on more than one occasion... I can understand the desire for some magic solution that doesnt require undoing and redoing your work..

but fuck, You don't mess around with electricity.

People also make these stupid suicide cables to plug generators into houses during disasters, often backfeeding power into the lines that may be down and can cause serious injury to workers trying to restore power.

I've used a suicide cord before in some rare instances. When I was finished I immediately took it apart.

Just use 2 paper clips and some duct tape, problem solved!

On the one hand, there are legitimate uses for double ended male cords. On the other, absolutely none of those legit uses invovle christmas lights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-4mvK2FW78

Plugging the cord in the same outlet isn't dangerous itself, but the prongs will be live on the end that's not plugged in, I'd suggest not touching them. Where it IS dangerous is when people try to use them with a generator to back feed their panel. Don't do that.

You gotta lick it after you plug it in so you know it's working.

It's also good to backfeed a generator into an outlet

I don't really get it. Sure, the exposed prongs would be energized once you plugged one side in, but if you plugged the other side into a second outlet (assuming you didn't cross live/neutral), nothing would happen. (those two outlets were likely tied together anyway)

My old boss had one, for when power went out, he could back feed from his car to the house. I never touched it.

You can also use them to test the voltage, similar to testing a 9v battery.

... but you don't really care for logic do ya?

Darwin cable.

So if these are people wiring their Christmas lights wrong, assuming these are led lights, doesn't this "solution" not work bc of the polarity anyway? Or is that only a DC thing with diodes? I only did okay in my physics electricity stuff lol

i guess if someone's putting up their lights backwards, then it makes sense that that person also thinks it's less work to drive to the hardware store and buy a non-existent extension cord than it is to just redo the lights

They tried calling it a doom cord, but heavy metal band started having electrical problems.

Spectaculair give me 14 of them right now

Fine, I'll just use a couple of those with an ethernet coupler.

cries in ground fault circuit interruptor

I worked at an electrical supply store foe a while. The amount of people trying to make these is really way too damn high. At least once a week.

Oh I call the cables I use to wire up my controllers "suicide cords" because it's just the hot, neutral, and ground hanging out one end, waiting to touch me...

Tell me you've never used a generator without saying you've never used a generator.

I'm struggling to imagine what the use case would even be.

If I ever buy one of these, I'd only ever use it to encase in resin and put on a shelf as a comedic ornament.

I don't know much about circuits but could you switch the polarity to make this work?

I made one of those once by accident. I was talking a long extension cord that had been cut in two and converting it into two smaller cords. I messed up and attached the male to the wrong cable.

We intentionally made suicide cords all the time at my old job lol

I'm sure someone would sell you one.

I used it to connect a generator to the wall and give me some temporary power in my house when I was renovating. It's only dangerous if you are stupid.

Ah the idiots who would send their own souls to some sort of purgatory in their mistaken belief that those mythical plugs exist.

Lemming Line

NO

But you don't really build those here do ya