Duck Pond Redneckery


When I was in 7th grade I took a few of those 3-prong to 2-hole adapters, shorted the slots together with 12 gauge solid copper wire, wrapped them up in electrical tape and gave them to other kids to plug into outlets in the school.

Only one kid actually did it... Multiple times during every passing periods. He was tripping circuit breakers all over the school.

We never got caught either. :biglaugh:
 
Years ago my old roommate and I made a hotdog cooker.
2 pieces of copper screwed to a board attached to a power cord.
The hotdog completes the circuit. Took about a minute.
So we got the brainstorm to make it better and faster.
Spread the prongs on the plug so it would fit into the 220 dryer outlet.
Plugged it in and blew the hotdog to pieces.:rolllaugh3:
Good times...
 
Years ago my old roommate and I made a hotdog cooker.
2 pieces of copper screwed to a board attached to a power cord.
The hotdog completes the circuit. Took about a minute.
So we got the brainstorm to make it better and faster.
Spread the prongs on the plug so it would fit into the 220 dryer outlet.
Plugged it in and blew the hotdog to pieces.:rolllaugh3:
Good times...
My dad and I used to run power through a narrow strip of aluminum foil to remote ignite the.. How do I say this without certain key words....rapidly expanding materials placed inside a short length of steel water conveyance tube with threaded end caps for the purpose of making very loud noise, and sometimes for the rapid relocation of tree stumps.. ... 😎
 
Years ago my old roommate and I made a hotdog cooker.
2 pieces of copper screwed to a board attached to a power cord.
The hotdog completes the circuit. Took about a minute.
So we got the brainstorm to make it better and faster.
Spread the prongs on the plug so it would fit into the 220 dryer outlet.
Plugged it in and blew the hotdog to pieces.:rolllaugh3:
Good times...
There is only one reason why waiting for a hotdog to cook for one minute is way too long and only one good reason why plugging into a 220 outlet would seem like a good idea and that reason is green. :D
 
But I don't know if it will interfere with the 240 to the pump. The 240 is the result of both hots being put together. Can you tap 120 from one of those hots, by running it through a night light then to neutral or will it attempt to feed 240 to a 120 volt bulb?
All you have to worry about is the voltage between your hot and the neutral or ground.

The 240-volt only occurs because the two legs of the 240 are out of phase. Each one of those legs is only 120 volt, and there's no way to get more than that unless you connect to another hot out of phase.
 
There is only one reason why waiting for a hotdog to cook for one minute is way too long and only one good reason why plugging into a 220 outlet would seem like a good idea and that reason is green. :D
I can cook two hot dogs, in buns with mustard and pickle spear on them in my microwave in one minute.

Ain't no reason to Ted Bundy them.

Unless the microwave is broken. 🤔

All you have to worry about is the voltage between your hot and the neutral or ground.

The 240-volt only occurs because the two legs of the 240 are out of phase. Each one of those legs is only 120 volt, and there's no way to get more than that unless you connect to another hot out of phase.
That's what I figured but when I was thinking about a similar thing with 12 volts I was shot down by one of you guys. Probably you.

The idea was to use a 24 volt solar panel on two deep cycle batteries connected in series, but put a 12 volt load on one individual battery.
 
I can cook two hot dogs, in buns with mustard and pickle spear on them in my microwave in one minute.

Ain't no reason to Ted Bundy them.

Unless the microwave is broken. 🤔


That's what I figured but when I was thinking about a similar thing with 12 volts I was shot down by one of you guys. Probably you.

The idea was to use a 24 volt solar panel on two deep cycle batteries connected in series, but put a 12 volt load on one individual battery.
The only issue I see with the batteries would be making sure the one with 12v load got properly charged. You'd have to charge them individually.
 
They wouldn't balance out the way they would if they were in a parallel bank?
Even parallel, you have to be careful if you draw one down significantly further than the others. Of course, you can only do that with relays to isolate a battery from the bank in a parallel setup, but it's easy on a series. I'd have to dig up the articles, but it takes a lot longer than you'd think to bring that one back up to full charge
 
I just discovered my guitar was gently weeping.

"OMG THE GHOST OF GEORGE HARRISON HAS POSSESSED MY GUITAR"...

Then I'm like "wait a minute...."

I looked up at the ceiling.

Now I gotta partially drain the boiler system and replace a valve in an upstairs bedroom. 🤬



Anyway I'll just pop this right here:

 
I spotted this walking back to the van after taking Sarah to her doctor.

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Menards was closer than home. And I was running low on galvanized drop ceiling wire. That's good shit for when you need to do some emergency hillbilly repairs.

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All better now. :thumbsup:

At least until it rusts through somewhere else.

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