xkcd #2848: Breaker box
xkcd #2848: Breaker box
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Any electrician will warn you to first locate and flip the house's CAUSALITY circuit breaker before touching the CIRCUIT BREAKERS one.
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Physics students really do love flipping the friction breaker
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Bold of them to assume there are that many circuits in any house built in my area. Most of the breakers will apparently control nothing, and then there's exactly one circuit that controls half the house, including the kitchen, so if you run the microwave and a blender at the same time, it'll trip.
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I just got a giant, house-encompassing circuit like that broken up in my house. It ran the entire length of the front of the house, one wall each from two bedrooms, the entire living room, and one wall of the garage. Like who on earth ever thought someone would want all of these things controlled with the same circuit breaker? Getting it split up was the best money spent.
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Someone from 1950 when there were only 3 items in existence that plugged into a wall outlet.
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does this turn off regular bugs or software bugs? Or both?
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Lol I live in an old house where the electrics are messed up like that. We got a new water heater last year that uses significantly more power than our old one. So if we used the coffee machine (on the opposite side of that floor of the house), we had to unplug the panel heater in the hallway!
We had an electrician install a new breaker for the water heater and that fixed the problem lol -
Is there a room where it's abnormal to eat pizza?
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Bathroom?
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I eat in the shower when I'm home alone.
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But what if my circuits are already broken? Is there a circuit fixer box somewhere?
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I see many Japanese wood planers from above.
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Wouldnt the whirring fan you didnt realize was on be on the breaker for appliances containing an f?
I cant work in this chaos
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It's a "hot water heater" because it only heats water that is sexy.
Or is the water heater itself super sexy? We may never know
It just occurred to me that I actually do have a hot water heater. Two actually. I put them in under my kitchen sink - one raises the 125F domestic water to 140F (and provides near-instant hot water), and the second takes that 140F water and heats it to 185-190F at a dedicated faucet (for filling stock pots, making large quantities of tea, etc). I think I have as much copper run to push electrons as I have to deliver the water in my kitchen sink.