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Reminds me o “magic” and “more magic”.
I love the question mark on the bottom. Even they don’t know what’s happening here.
the power control center for the failboat
My husband wired that I bet! An electrician came round one time and told me that hubby had wired the “mains” together and he was shocked my house was not burned down. The man fixed it all and showed me why the breakers needed to be separated. Probably not explaining it correctly but I still say that looks like something the husband did
My father (an engineer, BTW) did the same thing in the process of kludging together a light and power outlets for the garden shed. My mom had to call someone in when several outlets in the house promptly stopped working and knew there was a problem when the electrician took one look in the box and turned green.
LOL – The electrician was “shocked”. That’s rich!
This is the equivalent of a perpetual motion machine – and endless supply of energy, since it can’t be turned off. And so simple – all one needs is a pen to turn a simple toggle switch into an inexhaustible source of power (similar to how one can turn an Acme guided missile into a coyote-seeking missile by using a pen to add a position to its selector switch).
Or like your car can have unlimited fuel by simply using a piece of gum to keep the needle pointed at the F.
I think the electrician meant to put NO instead of ON?
If he wrote “Instant death”, it would have given away the surprise.
Not a kludge, this is a standard system where main power can come from one of two power grids, usually the second grid is a backup power generator, but not always.
No, you just can’t see it, the bottom one says “NON?” It’s an acronym for Not On Numbnuts.
(Ignore this, it’s my first Kludge Komment)
It’s a male switch…..
it’s always turned on !
OFF is the central position, so you can’t close the lid if the job is not done.
Someone is too optimistic.
Well you see, Jerry, our executioner never actually learned to read, so we decided that rather than risk having him look stupid and erode his self-confidence, we would rig the switch so that no matter where he pushed it the juice would flow. Pretty clever, huh?
I think its mislabeled. It should say on, oner and onest..
“I left it on, Your Honer, honest!”
This must be hellous on the household. “Son, will you go to the lights off on?”
Mmmm. Guess. 50/50 chance of being right.
Never, never, NEVER tick off your electrician. He could leave you a nasty surprise.
Submitted for you’ll approval, this is a story of a man who just can’t turn his evil house off. Welcome to the twilight zone.
This is true…nothing can ever be turned off. Must be the breaker box for someones brain
On the contrary, I come across way too many people whose brain seems to be permanently off.
Some people didn’t have that option installed.
Um… that’s just… what?
Oh god, can I have one of these installed on my girlfriend?
Notice the question mark. Someone must have tried it and discovered “this is on, so this must be… also on? Huh?”
The lower setting is for philosophers.
This must be the cousin to the Ockle (from Douglas Adams’ The Meaning of Liff: OCKLE (n.) An electrical switch which appears to be off in both positions.)
This wins. Hands down.
Once you make a Douglas Adams connection… No more has to be said on the subject.
This is the typical disappointed behavior of a homemaker when he realized that there is still juice on the main while mounting the ceiling lamp.
What a painfull lesson he had to learn!
I said switch it to ON not on!
No, it should clearly have been set to
ON
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Turn up the reactor power, three , more, rectangles!
This reminds me of a kludge my Father-In-Law did once. My wife and I bought his house from him that had originally been built in the 1930′s. He had added a room next to the kitchen and wired the room into the kitchen. What he ended up with was the electric stove shared one circuit with the new room and the other circuit with the rest of the kitchen. The fuse for the new room blew one day about supper time. While a new fuse was being located, someone went into the kitchen and turned on the stove to start supper competing the circuit in the room. The lights in the other room came on and behaved as though the stove was a dimmer switch.
Needless to say, we’ve since rewired the entire house.
I encountered something like that a few years ago when installing a new light fixture in my hallway. Don’t know exactly what happened, but power somehow managed to feed back to the light. Blew my ass off of the ladder!
The electrical inspector came by, and wrote the comments on it. The owners didn’t like him saying NO, so they took the panel out and reinstalled it upside down.
Does anybody remember that old school game – Zak McKracken And The Alien Mindbenders?.. The switch for the stupidifier machine was identical.
In case of power surge, turn to run!
Instead of :You could buy a “RMU” Schneider/Square”D” Main supply feed from the medium for 2 Output services. It shouldn’t be used for Coffee grinder ot toaster. RMU= Ring Main Unit.
- “Honey is the Electricity “ON” ???”
- “Yes Honey it’s “ON?” do you want me to turn it “ON”?
- “No it’s OK leave it “ON” ”
- “What did you say??? “On” or “On?” ?
- “I Just told you Dear “ON”!!!!
- “What??? I can’t understand you! You want it “ON”, “ON?” or “ON!!!”
- “What the ….?
- “……”
- “Oh for Christ’s sake Just turn the damn switch “ON” @%#$*%@^!
- “OK it’s “ON @%#$*%@^!”!!!!
lets see…connect conduct A to conduct B…AH SCREW IT! JUST START PRESSING BUTTONS!
schrodinger’s fuse box