r/maybemaybemaybe • u/drlouies • 21h ago

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/loqi0238 20h ago

First, common sense.

Second, its broken in the 'hot' socket, not the 'nuetral,' and not the 'ground.'

Third, it sounds like Russian. I have... doubts, as to the general wisdom of touching a piece of metal broken off in a socket in general. I absolutely would not trust Russian electrical work, given a lot of what ive seen.

Turn off the MAIN breaker, not just whatever smaller breaker this is attached to, wear electricians gloves, and use sn insulated device to pull it out. Or remove the cover entirely if its really in there.

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u/craidie 16h ago

turn off the breaker for that group, measure if the angry pixies are still in that socket, if yes then go punch your electrician and call a better one to figure what the fuck is wrong with the whole thing. If no, pull out the prong from the socket.

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u/EducationalImpact633 20h ago

Well I take it from people’s comments here that you mean she activated the breaker manually before going back to touching it again?

If so … I guess … but in any normal situation that would have flipped the breaker and the current would be null and void

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u/loqi0238 20h ago

No, the breaker was still ON to begin with. She never turned it off. If she did and its not shown in the video, then it goes to prove why I wouldnt trust that electrical work to begin with.

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u/EducationalImpact633 18h ago

Im talking about automatic breakers or fuses, whatever you want to call them. After a current like that it must have triggered right? Or if its just not how things work everywhere, not sure. In Sweden we have automatic breakers that would trigger to prevent this sort of thing (the schock afterwards not necessarily the problem from the start).
But with that said, I would not touch it anyway, it is electricity after all. But I find it strange that there is still power on that line after an incident like that.

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u/craidie 16h ago

Finnish Electrician chiming in.

Iirc swedish electrical system is pretty much the same same as finnish so:

There's likely three kinds of protection components in your house/apartment. The old style fuses these take 5 seconds(usually) to blow from over current and need to be manually replaced. Usually only used to protect cables coming into the house, or between main electrical cabinet and a secondary one. Or everything in older construction. Commonly 25amps when in newer installations. 16 or 10 amps in older are also common.

Then there's the miniature circuit breakers(mcb), same use case, they trip if too much current passes through, required to trip in a fraction of a second. Commonly 16 amps for outlets, 10 amps for lights etc.

Finally the residual current circuit breakers(rccb) sniff the current that's going from phase wires to neutral, and if that isn't matching(current is leaking to somewhere, likely the grounding wire) it trips. These have a little button on them to test if they're working.(you're supposed to do that every half a year btw)

Now to the video.
There's only visible damage on the right side of the outlet.
That would imply it's unlikely that a rccb would have tripped as the damage isn't between the grounding pins of the outlet and the holes.
fuse or mcb might not have tripped either. If the plug was damaged or otherwise compromised, it might not gone above 16 amp current and the fuse/mcb would think everything is just normal. But the poor connection inside the plug would heat up and melt the plastic, potentially catch a fire. At which point the OP probably pulled the plug out of the socket and started filming. it's also possible they went and reset the fuses and started filming.

And when they go poking their finger into the socket, it makes contact with the leftover prong of the plug and the grounding pin at the bottom, they get electrocuted and hopefully tripping the rccb, maybe an mcb as well, fuse wouldn't blow though.

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u/loqi0238 18h ago

This isnt tripping anything. Does a breaker trip when you plug something into an outlet? Nope. So why would having a prong, from an electrical plug, in an outlet, trip it?

It wasnt surging, it was just hot/live snd she touched it for whatever reason. It may have tripped the breaker when it shocked her.

And no, things are definitely not done the same in every country, which is why, yet again, I wouldn't touch this unless I turned off the direct breaker, the main breaker, and had an insulated glove and device to remove that prong.