Electric fixtures will work properly in an empty bath, but in a full bath they will certainly fail.

"Mains voltage"? We're not in Europe!

I want to hang out with Big Clive, AvE, and PhotonicInduction. We can drink beer and break things. (ElectroBoom is not invited.)

Speaking of which ...

I have a brand new phone battery that I bought a couple of months ago, that doesn't fit into the phone I bought it for. What's the best way to turn an unwanted LiPo battery into an incendiary device?

(Disclaimer: it will be placed into the bottom of my burn barrel. I do not intend to burn down Jeff Bezos's house, even though he deserves it.)

Just overcharge it.

There are four terminals. Two of them are marked (+ and -) and the other two are unmarked. Hopefully the other two are just sense pins and I can pump high voltage into the + and - terminals until I get an explosion.

I suppose a car battery charger on the highest setting will do the job.

I think he made a power bank or a flashlight or something out of it? That's all nice and nice and all, but I want an explosion.

This lovely comment was posted to my generator video today:

"Why can't we back feed thru a dryer wire? I think it's a 14-2 wire which it can handle really high voltage."
-- from YouTube user "itchy vag"

Some people will never understand. :(

Well, it can handle 600v.... That's like 400v more than it needs!

There you go. Generator supplies 240 volts at 30 amps, but if you step it up to 480 volts at 15 amps, you can carry it over 14 gauge wire and step it back down at the other end. Totally worth it to avoid buying a few feet of orange NM.

With the peak of hurricane season now in effect, I'm hoping for a Big One so that my popular generator video gets a lot of views.

I've been in the new house for four years now, and we still haven't wired it for the generator. :(

I've been in the new house for four years now, and we still haven't
wired it for the generator. :(

You can always backfeed through the dryer plug. ;)

This is one of those situations where the perfect is the enemy of the good.
The "right" way to do this house would be to convert the two-meter system back to a one-meter system (because it isn't an illegal two family house anymore) and replace the main service disconnect with a 200 amp outdoor rated panel with feed-through lugs for the indoor panel, a 100 amp breaker for the "other" indoor panel, and a 30 amp breaker interlocked with the main for the generator inlet. But that would be considered a service change and probably cost thousands of dollars. All of my money is going towards tuition and orthodontics right now.

So at the moment I'm considering a cheaper alternative, which is to put an aftermarket interlock on the subpanel that runs the main level of the house.
The interlock + breaker + cable + inlet would probably cost less than $200.
I'd need to find a way to get the freezer and the router in my garage running on "upstairs power" but the panel is only about ten feet away.

Or I could be the world's biggest hypocrite and backfeed through the dryer plug.

Or I could be the world's biggest hypocrite and backfeed through the

dryer plug.

Your secret's safe with me.

We won't tell anyone., We'll just add it in subtitles to your video.