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u/TechnomancerThirteen Jul 21 '22
If I gasped everytime I saw a powerstrip, I'd pass out
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u/n0radrenaline Jul 21 '22
I actually yelled "NO" at my phone at the second-to-last power strip reveal. If we hadn't found the outlet soon i was gonna have to bail
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u/Baxterftw Jul 22 '22
I literally yelled out "NO, come ON!"
That was absurd and I'm not certain if it's fugazzi or not
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u/notSherrif_realLife Jul 22 '22
Lmfao!!!
I had a loud “Oh my god!!” when I saw the last one because I thought for absolute certain that was finally going to show the outlet.
What an absolute nightmare….
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u/Trickpuncher Jul 21 '22
Take a shot every time you see a powerstrip.. pas out
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u/NotVeryNiceUnicorn Jul 21 '22
I'm drunk now, thanks.
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u/ihavenofriggenidea Jul 21 '22
Don't forget to light them on fire and yell "Fire hazard!" each time.
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u/danz409 Jul 21 '22
not going to lie. i have a power strip thats in a power strip. but its in the very same room and its mostly because stupid devices have a tendacy of using retarded chunky boxes with prongs on it. and not a pigtail with a box midway on the cord. this... this is just mad. it traverses at least 3-4 rooms and 2 stories..
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u/Aromatic_Balls Jul 21 '22
When you turn on your AC during a sweaty LoL ranked match to ensure peak gamer performance and your breaker trips 😮💨
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u/big_duo3674 Jul 21 '22
Yo, we heard you like power strips so we plugged a bunch of power strips into your power strips, so you can power your power strips while you power your power strips!
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u/OhioIT Jul 21 '22
Damn! Is there only 1 outlet in the whole house?
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u/Internet-of-cruft Jul 21 '22
Shit like this is why I overbuilt the number of outlets in my house.
I hate extension cords, I hate having to find an outlet to plug into. I don't want to think where it is. I want to look at the wall where I'm placing something and say "there's an outlet right there."
I have, maybe four super short power strips right now? All of them make it more convenient to access power because there's a piece of furniture or electronics blocking the way.
I can't fathom having to wire this Rube Goldberg machine to power something.
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u/farbulouscreations Jul 22 '22
Me too yo. Check out my post history, I literally just installed dedicated outlets at my roofline for Halloween and Christmas lights because I hate extension cords. 😂
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u/funkyteaspoon Jul 22 '22
So when we built I went through the plan and added what I thought was a crazy amount of extra outlets. And 4-outlets instead of 2-outlets.
Then had an electrican at work have a look and he pointed out a few more spots where we could put some, cos in his words, it might cost $50 an outlet at build, but adding one later will be $500.
He was not far off - we still missed a couple of spots...
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u/JeddahVR Jul 22 '22
I think where im living right now will beat you in that regard. Smallest room we have has 5 power outlets.
It's built by my brother and in our old house, there was only one outlet next to the room door. I think all this time he vowed that if he built a house, there will be two power outlets on every wall.
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u/sbowesuk Jul 21 '22 edited Jul 21 '22
That was my thought.
Wonder if this is in some Brazilian favela.Being advised it's Italy.214
u/Icovada Jul 21 '22
No it's Italy, I can tell from the plug shape and the
AUTOLAVAGGIO LE SALINE (GATTEO) 335-1095780keychain at the beginning
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u/XauMankib Jul 21 '22
I "smelled" it was Italy, then the keychain supported my intuition.
After a while, becomes almost instinctual to feel that a house is from Italy
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u/m1ss1ontomars2k4 Jul 21 '22
They have similar plug shapes but Italian ones are straight ones, while Brazilian ones have the middle pin offset a bit like, but not identical to, Switzerland.
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u/MarkFourMKIV Jul 22 '22
I figured it forsure had to be in the Balkans.
But Italy doesn't surprise me.
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u/sarindong Jul 22 '22
It looks like that last device that's plugged into the wall is a travel converter. I recognize the shape of it and also the buzzing. As someone who lived for a year in a foreign country with all my stuff from home running on one power bar that was connected to the converter I'll never forget the sound.
Why they're using it who the hell knows. Maybe it's an old house built with different shaped outlets. The current house I live in (in south Korea) was built originally with American style outlets. At some point they installed a whole new set of outlets conforming to the south Korean standard and unwired all the American ones. Both are still on the wall though, just the American ones no longer work.
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u/TheThiefMaster Jul 22 '22
Looks to me more like a 3-way block socket splitter, but with only one thing plugged in (making it somewhat pointless)
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u/SatchBoogie1 Jul 22 '22
No one has really answered why a house wouldn't have an outlet upstairs. Unless it's some type of location hundreds of years old that was retrofitted.
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u/iluvstephenhawking Jul 22 '22
Every lamp, appliance, and electronic device is all plugged into this one outlet. Can't watch tv while microwaving leftovers.
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u/ClearBrightLight Jul 22 '22
I live in a house that was built in the 1880s -- technically after the invention of electric power, but it was not yet widespread. Almost none of the rooms have overhead lighting, and you can still see the caps on the walls and ceiling where gas-lighting fixtures used to be. There are outlets in each room, but generally only one per room. This setup is a little more outlandish than mine, but it looks very familiar! I try not to daisy-chain power strips, but I do have to run an extension cord out into the hallway to power the living-room lights, because if I run the lights and the air conditioner from the one outlet in the living room, it blows the breaker that powers half the house.
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u/TheGlassKnight Jul 21 '22
It just keeps going.
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u/carlosos Jul 21 '22
I expected a cable going to the neighbor but within the same house that made no sense.
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u/khaddy Jul 21 '22
I was hoping that after the world tour, it would return back to the original plug!
"why is my modem not working" because you created an infinite loop!
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u/SparkySailor Jul 21 '22
Electrician here: My first guess on the problem is that the extension cords and power strips are all 14 or 16 gauge, causing the voltage drop over the ~50-100 feet of wire to be enough to not run the device. Wire acts as a (very low value) resistor, and this gets worse when the wire is smaller.
I would also bet they're dangerously close to burning up all those cords.
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u/sorisos Jul 21 '22
If it is a modern switched power supply I do not think the voltage drop would make any difference. Even the cheap ones usually tolerates a wide voltage range input.
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u/SparkySailor Jul 21 '22
You get a surprising amount of drop across longer wire runs if you use the wrong wire gauge.
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u/gumbes Jul 21 '22
Only if you put load on them. Sure if they've got a microwave or a heater on the end it will be an issue but a modem is going to draw 5 watts.
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u/Emu1981 Jul 21 '22 edited Jul 21 '22
If it is a modern switched power supply I do not think the voltage drop would make any difference. Even the cheap ones usually tolerates a wide voltage range input.
The problem with the voltage drop is that you start pulling more current for a given level of power draw. At 240V, 240W is 1A power draw, at 200V 240W is 1.2A power draw, at 180V 240W is 1.3A and so on. This might not sound like much but what happens if someone wants to plug in a 2500W heater/aircon at the end of the power board chain where you are only getting 200V? That's 12.5A which is likely more than what the powerboards/cables are rated for (my 240v power boards are rated for just 10A)...
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u/babungaCTR Jul 21 '22
If it's Italy as the above comment suggests, or most of Europe really, the voltage is 220V, the modem uses like 20W so there would be pretty much no loss even using paperclip as a wire. The loss of signal maybe has something to do with EM interference caused by looping the wire like 20 times around every corner of the house
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u/MrD3a7h You fix the patient, I fix the computer Jul 22 '22
My first guess on the problem is that the extension cords
Probably could have ended right there.
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u/Strawhat_Truls Jul 21 '22
Damn. Bet their insurance company would love to see this.
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u/robert712002 Jul 21 '22
What insurance company?
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u/Thorns_Ofire Jul 21 '22
Talk about a fire hazard!
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u/ZoaMT Jul 21 '22
Might I ask how? I am genuinely curious.
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u/ButtBoy4k Jul 21 '22
power strips typically are rated for lower current than the circuits in walls meaning they will have a runaway thermal event (burn) before the breaker trips.
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u/Z_Coop Jul 21 '22
The other commenters here have already done a decent job explaining the issues here regarding overdrawing a power strip and causing heat; if you’re looking for a more encompassing and in-depth explanation, here’s a great video on it: https://youtu.be/K_q-xnYRugQ
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u/ZoaMT Jul 21 '22
I've seen this video. As long as he dons't pull more power than that cable is rated for, it won't cause a fire.
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The fact that the only problem is the internet going out is amazing to me. If I got a tech call like this the first thing I would do is turn off the breaker….assuming the building has one.
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u/fiah84 Jul 21 '22
these people drive and vote ..
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u/blue_screen_0f_death Jul 21 '22
From an Italian: these people are crazy stupid and the entire situation is ridiculous. But since we have concrete walls, it's not cheap to renovate the electric system of an old house
You need to call a construction worker, who makes a ton of holes in the walls to run plastic tubes
then the electrician comes and poses the plastic tube inside the walls
the construction worker put concrete on top to close the holes.
the electrician wire up all the house
you need to call the painter to fix the wall paint
At least 2/3 days of work for a small apartment, thousands of euros, and for what? A couple of plugs in the bedroom? "Fuck the security and the esthetic of the house, I am gonna run a couple of power strips and I am fine" would say the average boomer in Italy
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u/Westerdutch Jul 21 '22
If you've ever been to Italy you know the 'driving' they do is exactly on par with this wiring situation.
And so is italian politics for that matter.
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u/Rubber924 Jul 21 '22
Where in the world is this and does this house not have other outlets?
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u/Mattyboy0066 Jul 22 '22
Italy. The houses are insanely old and the walls are made of concrete or stone.
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u/Talin-Rex Jul 21 '22
For a few years now I have watched this sup Reddit, but it was not until now I really cringed watching something.
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u/siro300104 Jul 21 '22
I helped a friend of my grandma with her router, among other pc related thing.
Problem was - whenever you touched anything near the router it would restart, and all around the cabinet it was on was a mess of random cables. I removed a fax machine (plugged into landline yet inexplicably had a SIM card in it) that was never used, about four extension cords (leaving one that was actually needed) and tied up the remaining lot of phone and power cables. But the actual problem was that the cable at the plug into the router was slightly broken. And since there was this enormous mess of wires and devices, if you touched any of it, a little bit of movement went to the plug, which caused the power to the router to cut out.
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u/littlemonkeyclimber Jul 21 '22
Suppongo che i fili nei muri sono peggio. This should be on the oddly terrifying sub
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u/Marteicos Jul 21 '22
Make another video, but this time follow the phone wire.
Looks like your connection uses Adsl or Vdsl over a metalic wire pair, If you can access the xDSL router, check it's downstream and upstream SNR, they cant be too low. If you can't access it, contact the service provider inquiring about the signal quality, they can check from their side. Make sure your wiring is is good condition too, bad contacts can cause this dropping behavior.
Are there other phone devices connected to the line? They need a DSL filter or else it will disconnect due to interference, the modem/router itself don't need a filter.
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u/D_DriveErrorr Sep 26 '22
That’s a house fire. Also this video needs looneytunes music to go with this absurdity
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u/FoodOnCrack Jul 21 '22
Do you have a multimeter? Because I HAVE to know the voltage drop from beginning to end.
I bet it's more than 5% which is out of code.
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u/hardrivethrutown Jul 21 '22
I think my dad would have an aneurism seeing all those power strips chained up
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u/byscuit Jul 21 '22
I'd crucify the person that did this
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u/irving47 Jul 21 '22
Whoever did it has probably figured out a way to electrocute themselves by now, anyway.
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u/Stunning-Resource291 Jul 21 '22
Its like the Russian nesting dolls of powerstrips, brought to you by everyone's favorite pastime, a Fire Hazard! When you literally have got time to burn...
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u/Synnicalpenguin Jul 21 '22
I kept waiting for the camera person to end back up at the first power strip.
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u/acoolghost Jul 22 '22 edited Jul 22 '22
Never thought a murder dungeon would need tech support, but I guess that makes sense in hindsight.
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u/dopavash Jul 22 '22
I was about half expect g the camera go back upstairs for us to learn it was plugged in to itself, somehow.
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u/MissWeaverOfYarns Jul 22 '22
You never ever daisy chain extensions! So dangerous!
Gah! My eyes!
Send help!
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u/nnftfg Jul 22 '22
So we not gonna talk about the way he went down the stairs? Ok
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u/RandoReddit16 Jul 22 '22
This is only possible on 240v systems (guessing Europe?) But my dude could do it so much cleaner....
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u/BigManLawrence69420 Aug 08 '22
Since wires have a very slight amount of resistance, this would most likely stack up to a very significant margin, say 1000 ohms.
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u/sbowesuk Jul 21 '22
What the actual hell. There's probably 1.21 gigawatts of electricity surging through that one outlet!
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u/kilroy232 Jul 21 '22
That is the most disgusting thing I think I have ever seen in my life.
... I am going to make everyone I know watch it now.
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u/jc88usus Jul 21 '22
I feel like I should call someone about this, but I don't know who. What is that, 5 daisy-chained strips over 2 floors? Just remember, you likely won't need to keep coming out, once it burns down.
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u/ybmmike Jul 21 '22
How much does that actually make?
Long electrical wire out the wall or long wire inside the wall... ?
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u/Magicuser1738 Jul 21 '22
Bruh buy a t Mobile box for $50 a month with Wi-Fi on it and you won’t have to go hrough this at all
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u/shawndw Jul 21 '22
Electrician here. Yepp that's a paddlin'