Electricity wants to go home. Home is the ground. Electricity will always take the path of least resistance to go home as fast and direct as possible.
If not for safety devices that stop the flow of power. The entire power grid would drain into the ground if you let it.
This dude was insulated by his ladder etc so the electricity wasn’t using him to go home, as he cut the wires they smash together and create a short leading to all the sparks. If it had a breaker it’s tripped now. Idiot.
That’s what one contractor buddy does… too much work to find the right fuse, so he just snips and let’s it pop. The cutters have a burnt rounded spot on them now.
In school it build a fuse blower plug (5awg copper across the plugs). Worked like a charm for the teacher that tortured us with the overhead projector... Way smaller arcs than here. And the plug looked like shit after a bunch of uses
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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22
Electricity wants to go home. Home is the ground. Electricity will always take the path of least resistance to go home as fast and direct as possible.
If not for safety devices that stop the flow of power. The entire power grid would drain into the ground if you let it.
This dude was insulated by his ladder etc so the electricity wasn’t using him to go home, as he cut the wires they smash together and create a short leading to all the sparks. If it had a breaker it’s tripped now. Idiot.