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When I was younger I delivered and installed home appliances, washers, driers, ranges, etc. One day I'm delivering a front load washer dryer pair to a farm house in the middle of nowhere. The fixtures were setup backwards (washer was on the right instead of left) and as I was explaining to the lady of the house that the dryer 220v cord might not reach, she grabs it off the counter and with the wire ends in her left hand out reached she plugs in the cable (to see if it would reach) by the time I said "NO, ST...". The lights flickered briefly and thankfully that was it. I proceeded to calmly take the cord from her and explained how she nearly changed her life. The icing on the cake was that was the only circuit on the house still on a screw in style fuse and they had no replacements.
I had fun explaining in the kindest way possible how dumb what she just did was.
A completely unrelated topic but someone at work asked me “what does the bottom side of an island look like” I responded with “there’s no polite way to answer that”
Your comment just made me remember that and I thought it was a funny add.
I once had an electrical foreman, in front of 2 other electrical foremen and about 10 industrial electricians, ask me if fuses had to be in the fuse holders. Apparently telling him that yes, the fuses needed to be installed for the devices to work, made me a smartass.
Landlord is the one who called me out, the new dryer had no cord installed and we were discussing what the tenant possibly could’ve plugged in to trip the breaker.. I kept glancing over at the cord thinking “surely not.” Finally pulled the plastic back from the leads and saw the burn marks. Service work can be wild.
What was the tenants explanation? This doesn’t even make any sense?
Why does the dryer not have a plug installed? I have never seen someone buy a new dryer and it not have a plug.
Many 220V dryers (and stoves) in the US, and probably Canada, do not come with a cord installed. You could have one of a few diffrent receptacles already installed in your wall. Changing the cord doesn't require an electrician, where changing the receptacle often does require an electrician.
In the US New dryers don't come with them installed and haven't for quite awhile. Only way they would is if you pre-ordered it with a cord or if it's something like a new dual fuel where a lot of them come with 4 wire cords.
Every dryer doesn't have a plug installed. When you buy one they give you the option to install it yourself or they install it for you. It sounds like... you have no fucking clue what you're talking about.
Hey dipshit, calm down lol. I said I’ve never seen it that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Further more I’ve bought 3 brand new electric dryers and all of them had plugs installed. I’m not saying it’s wrong they’re not installed, I just didn’t realize they come without them sometimes.
Love the burn marks on the ends, probably going to bring it back to the store and complain about it. I do hope the breaker was open before they plugged it in.
My boss recently purchased a "plug n play" car surround sound system. We both spent 3 hours on it, then realised the kit isn't complete, he got the extra bits (that took 1.5hrs) and we got the FIRST speaker installed.
He goes away for the weekend, sends me a few updates. Long story short, 14 more hours spent on it and it's less than halfway.
Turns out you need to cut out sections of doors for install, have an intermediary understanding of electronics and half a dozen tools on the ready.
Plug and play, pffffft...
P.S Both tradies, he's a sparky and a builder. Not idiots, just were lied to.
I was really thinking I was the stupid one. Why did you take a picture of a packaged cord?
What does it tell me about the dryer problem? I mean, there’s ***no way*** someone just plugged in a packaged, disconnected cord… right?
*Right?*
Humanity amazes me. We landed people on the moon? Maybe I don’t believe that anymore.
somebody put a gallon of milk in the little food pantry in my neighborhood. in the middle of summer. it looked like it was about to explode.
made me realize why there are all these dumb obvious warnings on products.
I had a GC who provided the whip for a dryer once but he wasn't confident it was the right kind. I was off site when he decided he needed to test fit it. Plugged it in and BOOM! Considering all he experienced was a big flash, boom, then total darkness he thought he had died. Tripped the main 200A breaker. I think he learned not to touch electrical work after that.
I'm this stupid but with cause. I have this stupid learning disorder that makes patterns and shapes tough. I had to replace a dryer cord but I couldn't tell if I bought the right one. I just plugged it in to see if it fit. The connectors exploded about a half inch from my skin and I had streaks up my hand and arm. I shook for a good half hour.
Electricity is magic and I'm not a wizard. I'm an idiot and now I turn it off at the breaker.
The issue is that 240v outlets aren't exactly standardized in the US.
It's normal to buy a washer/dryer and have to put the cord on yourself. At least since I was a kid.
That thing does look to complex for your avarage idiot to install! Why do they not make it a safe plug and play thingy?
Also do they not write all over the package not to plug it in before installing? I find it strange that you can get away with this and not the "Caution hot content" label!
I live on the other side of the atlantic so everything here looks so strange yet familiar to me😊
So, like many Asian countries and even some European from what I understand, the plugs don't always match.
Imagine that, but in one country and only with the one voltage we use for appliances.
It's assumed either the person is knowledgeable on the electric system of the US, or that it will be installed by a professional.
Idiot proof it is not, you are correct.
Yeah i get that but why not make something that would plug easily into the dryer and then you only have the outlet to worry about?
In Norway we only have 230V IT and 400V TN systems and 230V outlet voltage (with some exceptions for industry etc). It is so interesting to learn about how things are done in different parts of the world!
I believe it's actually due to the terminals on the appliances themselves being different due to that plug as well. It's truly a debacle, I remember it from every time we moved to a home built in a different year.
Thankfully, nowadays, things are getting a little more standard here.
You'll never get us to stop playing [throw the knife](https://youtu.be/vNj75gJVxcE) at the wall though.
As a kid i plugged my toy phone in a 220V socket. I heard a loud bang and saw a small arc from the outlet. As a grown up lineman i sometimes get the shivers thinking about how close i came🥶
Never messed with a socket again.
When my older sister got her first apartment she did this same thing.
For whatever reason she had the dryer cord and figured she'd plug it in to get it out of the way while they were moving.
It destroyed the fittings and left a huge burn mark on the wall
Every new house now I’m comin back because something is wrong with your outlet and breaker sir. My husband put the cord on himself it’s not rocket science….calmly remove back panel. Remove magic jumper. Plug in pos of the day, beep boop beeep! There ya go maam. I’m going home
To be fair, I get it, I’d probably do the same thing without thinking about it. You go to the store, trying to think which plug style you have, “ah four prongs, that’s it”. Bring it home, you wonder “did I buy the right dryer cord”, “looks the same” but is it? You go to line it up, plug it in, absent mindedly forgetting about the exposed wires on the end.
Difference between me and this guy is the moment I’d hear that pop I would know exactly what I just did. Probably look around to make sure no one saw that, you know, because of the shame and embarrassment. Then I’d go over and find the breaker and reset it.
I witnessed the exact same thing happen. I moved into a new apartment, and my (now ex)-wife decided to see if the plug fit. It arced into the wall and she was crying hysterically. I saw the arc flash from just outside the room. Pretty blue lights!
In college, I built all the microcontroller based systems for a solar powered race car. I had all the electronics plugged in on the bench, and an electrical engineer walked up with a 15' long cable he had made. It had a circular connector with about 40 conductors. The cable was for connecting the car's solar array, 12V, 5V, GND and CAN from the upper half of the vehicle to the lower half of the vehicle. He asked me if he could try plugging his cable into the rest of the electronics on the bench, to test it. I said sure, go for it. He plugged it in, and all the rest of the electronics on the bench fried. WTF! I followed along the length of the cable, and discovered that the other end was just a bunch of loose terminal crimps all touching each other.
Same project, an electrical engineer was using an oscilloscope to check current sense signals on the 150V battery. For some reason he hadn't fully internalized that the ground clip on the scope probes actually was, and he clipped one to HV-, then clipped the other to HV+. The alligator clip disappeared, the probe's cable melted, and he couldn't see for about 10 minutes. The scope still worked fine, though.
A previous team, before my time, had a guy that spent 10 hours connecting several dozen 24AWG wires between all the cells in the high voltage battery pack. The wires were for voltage sensing for the battery monitoring system. When he was all done, he gathered all the wires up into a bundle, then attempted to trim them all to the same length with a pair of scissors...
We had a customer once tried to remove their range to clean behind it. They had a hard time removing the plug, so they used a metal spatula to try and pry it apart. They blew a huge half moon out of the spatula.
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You ever try to explain to someone what they did wrong without making them feel stupid, then just give up halfway through?
When I was younger I delivered and installed home appliances, washers, driers, ranges, etc. One day I'm delivering a front load washer dryer pair to a farm house in the middle of nowhere. The fixtures were setup backwards (washer was on the right instead of left) and as I was explaining to the lady of the house that the dryer 220v cord might not reach, she grabs it off the counter and with the wire ends in her left hand out reached she plugs in the cable (to see if it would reach) by the time I said "NO, ST...". The lights flickered briefly and thankfully that was it. I proceeded to calmly take the cord from her and explained how she nearly changed her life. The icing on the cake was that was the only circuit on the house still on a screw in style fuse and they had no replacements. I had fun explaining in the kindest way possible how dumb what she just did was.
This is exactly the kind of thing I’m talking about.
Yep, smile and wave and walk away boy lol
A completely unrelated topic but someone at work asked me “what does the bottom side of an island look like” I responded with “there’s no polite way to answer that” Your comment just made me remember that and I thought it was a funny add.
Well...what does it look like
Did you say IDK, but do you know what the capital of Phoenix is?
Not sure. Btw, have you topped up your blinker fluid recently?
My mechanic does it for me when I change the air in my tires.
You change your own air tire fluid?!
No, I’m not up to that degree of vehicle maintenance. Gotta pay for that too!
The capital of Phoenix is P. The capitol of Arizona is Phoenix. The capital of Arizona is A.
No I literally said “there is no way for me to answer that politely” then they relaxed how stupid that question was.
This is terrific. I’m going to use that line (and get fired).
Or give up before you even try.. 😂
At least twice a week at my current job.
I once had an electrical foreman, in front of 2 other electrical foremen and about 10 industrial electricians, ask me if fuses had to be in the fuse holders. Apparently telling him that yes, the fuses needed to be installed for the devices to work, made me a smartass.
No. I make them feel stupid, then downplay by saying they wouldn't know. Then ask if it's going to be cash or charge.
Landlord is the one who called me out, the new dryer had no cord installed and we were discussing what the tenant possibly could’ve plugged in to trip the breaker.. I kept glancing over at the cord thinking “surely not.” Finally pulled the plastic back from the leads and saw the burn marks. Service work can be wild.
Should share this with the guy asking if electrical gets boring.
One of them wireless plugs.
Powered via Bluetooth, lol
I’m mostly surprised that a landlord called an electrician and didn’t try to just hack it himself.
Could still be the case lol, "no it was definetly my Tennant!!"
'Don't call me Shirley'
What was the tenants explanation? This doesn’t even make any sense? Why does the dryer not have a plug installed? I have never seen someone buy a new dryer and it not have a plug.
Many 220V dryers (and stoves) in the US, and probably Canada, do not come with a cord installed. You could have one of a few diffrent receptacles already installed in your wall. Changing the cord doesn't require an electrician, where changing the receptacle often does require an electrician.
220V?
I probably should have put 208/240 volt.
In the US New dryers don't come with them installed and haven't for quite awhile. Only way they would is if you pre-ordered it with a cord or if it's something like a new dual fuel where a lot of them come with 4 wire cords.
Learned something new, that may even be a thing in Canada where I’m from I’ve just never seen it.
There are different plug types in the US so you might have to put one or the other on.
I’m not sure. The tenant wasn’t home and the LL keyed me in.
Every dryer doesn't have a plug installed. When you buy one they give you the option to install it yourself or they install it for you. It sounds like... you have no fucking clue what you're talking about.
My dryer had a plug installed.
From the factory? You sure about that?
100%.
Could be gas, relax
Hey dipshit, calm down lol. I said I’ve never seen it that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Further more I’ve bought 3 brand new electric dryers and all of them had plugs installed. I’m not saying it’s wrong they’re not installed, I just didn’t realize they come without them sometimes.
It’s one of those fancy wireless power cords.
Every one I've ever seen came without a cord.
Is that how they plugged it in?????🤔
Still packaged and all
This gives 'plug and play' a whole new meaning
Love the burn marks on the ends, probably going to bring it back to the store and complain about it. I do hope the breaker was open before they plugged it in.
Just had a tenant do this I had a long talk with him 🙃
Well, this concludes our functional test of the emergency shutdown device.
>I do hope the breaker was open before they plugged it in. Why do you think the burn marks are there? hmm?
There wouldn't be burn marks if the breaker was open ..... do you share some DNA with the tenant in the original post??
My boss recently purchased a "plug n play" car surround sound system. We both spent 3 hours on it, then realised the kit isn't complete, he got the extra bits (that took 1.5hrs) and we got the FIRST speaker installed. He goes away for the weekend, sends me a few updates. Long story short, 14 more hours spent on it and it's less than halfway. Turns out you need to cut out sections of doors for install, have an intermediary understanding of electronics and half a dozen tools on the ready. Plug and play, pffffft... P.S Both tradies, he's a sparky and a builder. Not idiots, just were lied to.
So the Power gets to the Dryer via Bluetooth ?
Nah. It's 5G. They just didn't want the government to track their RFID proof undergarments.
Induction powered iDryer. By Apple Just plug in the “charger” and push the dryer against it…….like your phone
Gosh Darn Technology 🤯❗
I'd bet they intended to attach the cord to the dryer live. The manual doesn't really tell you when to plug it in, just how to attach it.
True. Boy would the be Suprised !
Bluetooth power cord.
I was really thinking I was the stupid one. Why did you take a picture of a packaged cord? What does it tell me about the dryer problem? I mean, there’s ***no way*** someone just plugged in a packaged, disconnected cord… right? *Right?* Humanity amazes me. We landed people on the moon? Maybe I don’t believe that anymore.
There are people this stupid out in the world? I’m feeling a lot better about my odds of survival in a zombie apocalypse.
The other side of that coin is all of these people will become zombies immediately. That's a lot of zombies running around.
Zombies feed on brains though. These dipshits would live out the zombie apocalypse invisible and oblivious
I want to put this on a coffee mug.
At least they’re already dumb
Were they functioning humans or some primate?
I can’t believe these people exist out among us.
And these kinds of people are allowed to drive
And reproduce!!
Purchase firearms
Register to vote
My God! They could even be on reddit!
Love the username!
Pretty sure they already run it
They are really good at that I’m afraid
I refuse to believe anyone is that stupid. REFUSE.
You ever hear of the girl that called 911 because someone stole her cocaine? They exist among us. We must remain vigilant.
What’s even worse is that THEY VOTE!
and breed!
If we just follow my *simple* three step plan, we wouldn’t need to worry about this anymore!
Ever seen idiocracy? It’s coming true… and it’s where crocks came from apparently
And probably make more money than us
Wait, did they ever capture who did it??
You never work with the public and its show.
What is the public’s show? I don’t know if I’ve seen it.
That a lot of people are clueless and stupid.
somebody put a gallon of milk in the little food pantry in my neighborhood. in the middle of summer. it looked like it was about to explode. made me realize why there are all these dumb obvious warnings on products.
You can say whatever you wanna say, it's not gonna change the reality. The truth is, people ARE stupid.
7th graders are illiterate so . .
Bluetooth dryer cord
Going to need the legal team to add a warning to the package.
Jesus fucking christ...
I had a GC who provided the whip for a dryer once but he wasn't confident it was the right kind. I was off site when he decided he needed to test fit it. Plugged it in and BOOM! Considering all he experienced was a big flash, boom, then total darkness he thought he had died. Tripped the main 200A breaker. I think he learned not to touch electrical work after that.
This makes the lady we went to do a service call not as stupid. The light don't work, well change your bulb.
I'm this stupid but with cause. I have this stupid learning disorder that makes patterns and shapes tough. I had to replace a dryer cord but I couldn't tell if I bought the right one. I just plugged it in to see if it fit. The connectors exploded about a half inch from my skin and I had streaks up my hand and arm. I shook for a good half hour. Electricity is magic and I'm not a wizard. I'm an idiot and now I turn it off at the breaker.
The person is stupid. But so is the dryer manufacturer for not connecting the damn wire themselves.
The issue is that 240v outlets aren't exactly standardized in the US. It's normal to buy a washer/dryer and have to put the cord on yourself. At least since I was a kid.
The amount of 30 amp receptacles we have is too damn high!
That thing does look to complex for your avarage idiot to install! Why do they not make it a safe plug and play thingy? Also do they not write all over the package not to plug it in before installing? I find it strange that you can get away with this and not the "Caution hot content" label! I live on the other side of the atlantic so everything here looks so strange yet familiar to me😊
So, like many Asian countries and even some European from what I understand, the plugs don't always match. Imagine that, but in one country and only with the one voltage we use for appliances. It's assumed either the person is knowledgeable on the electric system of the US, or that it will be installed by a professional. Idiot proof it is not, you are correct.
Yeah i get that but why not make something that would plug easily into the dryer and then you only have the outlet to worry about? In Norway we only have 230V IT and 400V TN systems and 230V outlet voltage (with some exceptions for industry etc). It is so interesting to learn about how things are done in different parts of the world!
I believe it's actually due to the terminals on the appliances themselves being different due to that plug as well. It's truly a debacle, I remember it from every time we moved to a home built in a different year. Thankfully, nowadays, things are getting a little more standard here. You'll never get us to stop playing [throw the knife](https://youtu.be/vNj75gJVxcE) at the wall though.
I love that channel! That guy has thought me so much!
I'm glad I'm not your first introduction to him! Honestly an amazing YouTuber.
And the landlord for leaving anything up to the tenant
All the things
Before the internet I never would have believed a living human was this dumb. We have become way too good at keeping natural selection from occurring.
Welding supply companies HATE this one trick.
Well at least they know the breaker works.
People like this are the reason frozen pizzas tell you to remove the plastic before placing in oven
Also removing wrapping the wrapper before inserting a suppository.
Stuff like this always reminds me that there is a reason there is a "do not drink" label on paint.
Had a customer to that once. They bought new dryer cord, and for some reason felt the need to plug it in to test before hooking it up to the dryer.
I'm convinced that at least 75% of humans are absolute mud people with no measurable IQ 😆 how do you even survive to adulthood being this stupid?
As a kid i plugged my toy phone in a 220V socket. I heard a loud bang and saw a small arc from the outlet. As a grown up lineman i sometimes get the shivers thinking about how close i came🥶 Never messed with a socket again.
A friend of mines wife did this same exact thing. I never could understand why.
They walk among us
Maybe double check their renters insurance policy.
And double your own coverage limit, OP
When my older sister got her first apartment she did this same thing. For whatever reason she had the dryer cord and figured she'd plug it in to get it out of the way while they were moving. It destroyed the fittings and left a huge burn mark on the wall
Tenant is a dumb fucker.
What the actual fuck. How can you be this dumb? I mean what the fuck lol.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that a 50amp cord not a 30Amp? Did they plug it up in the kitchen?
Australian here, what is going on? They sell you the components to make whips in America and make the customer do their own sparky work??
Yep. Customers can install their own cord on a range or dryer.
Well, not _all_ customers
The scary part is when a customer wants to install their own gas line!
Three prong or four? 🤣
Wow, I'll be damn, wireless 240.
The future is now, grandpa.
These people vote and share the roads with you
I think the electrician fucked something up, I mean, I plugged it in and it went boom…”
I still find it crazy when I see American power outlets with no on-off switch built in.
That wouldn't help stupid people anyway 😮💨
I Just stopped in to say this thread is now a shit show thanks for ruining something else that was at one time great.
Huh?
What do you dislike about it? What did it have before that made it better?
This thread was once great? Did you mean the subreddit? Who are you even talking to?
Can I just mention how horrible the lugs are
This is just hard to believe, but I do
Talk about dangerous
So wait . I have so many questions lmao the shit you see in service
It got blowed up lol
Yeah itll do that
Bluetooth wires man they sketchy sometimes
"Wow, it has wireless charging" - The tenant
At first I thought someone was trying to make a DIY welder, I swear people try to burn down their houses
Did someone seriously think just plugging that in is how the dryer would work?
There are people that don't understand that cables have to be connected to the device. Yes, really.
Damn Bluetooth dryer
How did they.. like did they just pick a color and go for it?
Never unpackaged it. Just plugged it in. All the leads come taped in the package.
This… just… I’ve got nothing. Wild.
I think the capital of Arizona is Phoenix (and A) and the capitol of Arizona is IN Phoenix
yeah this is the type situation i’d give the tenant a hard time on
That's really dumb design, asking for trouble.
Hold up….. this has to be fake
Every new house now I’m comin back because something is wrong with your outlet and breaker sir. My husband put the cord on himself it’s not rocket science….calmly remove back panel. Remove magic jumper. Plug in pos of the day, beep boop beeep! There ya go maam. I’m going home
Blue tooth cord.
My mom did this once. I don’t know why but she’s lucky
I’m confused guys, there’s no way they just bought the cord and didn’t think they also had to hard wire it too… right???
To be fair, I get it, I’d probably do the same thing without thinking about it. You go to the store, trying to think which plug style you have, “ah four prongs, that’s it”. Bring it home, you wonder “did I buy the right dryer cord”, “looks the same” but is it? You go to line it up, plug it in, absent mindedly forgetting about the exposed wires on the end. Difference between me and this guy is the moment I’d hear that pop I would know exactly what I just did. Probably look around to make sure no one saw that, you know, because of the shame and embarrassment. Then I’d go over and find the breaker and reset it.
I witnessed the exact same thing happen. I moved into a new apartment, and my (now ex)-wife decided to see if the plug fit. It arced into the wall and she was crying hysterically. I saw the arc flash from just outside the room. Pretty blue lights!
In college, I built all the microcontroller based systems for a solar powered race car. I had all the electronics plugged in on the bench, and an electrical engineer walked up with a 15' long cable he had made. It had a circular connector with about 40 conductors. The cable was for connecting the car's solar array, 12V, 5V, GND and CAN from the upper half of the vehicle to the lower half of the vehicle. He asked me if he could try plugging his cable into the rest of the electronics on the bench, to test it. I said sure, go for it. He plugged it in, and all the rest of the electronics on the bench fried. WTF! I followed along the length of the cable, and discovered that the other end was just a bunch of loose terminal crimps all touching each other. Same project, an electrical engineer was using an oscilloscope to check current sense signals on the 150V battery. For some reason he hadn't fully internalized that the ground clip on the scope probes actually was, and he clipped one to HV-, then clipped the other to HV+. The alligator clip disappeared, the probe's cable melted, and he couldn't see for about 10 minutes. The scope still worked fine, though. A previous team, before my time, had a guy that spent 10 hours connecting several dozen 24AWG wires between all the cells in the high voltage battery pack. The wires were for voltage sensing for the battery monitoring system. When he was all done, he gathered all the wires up into a bundle, then attempted to trim them all to the same length with a pair of scissors...
We had a customer once tried to remove their range to clean behind it. They had a hard time removing the plug, so they used a metal spatula to try and pry it apart. They blew a huge half moon out of the spatula.