I’m really glad Mary Shelley left out the parts about Dr. Frankenstein’s earlier experiments.
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and so????
So, the Europeans with their 220 volt wall plusg have added Darwinism to their list of accomplishments.
Quite clearly an immersion heater. Nothing to see here, people. Move along.
If this was at MIT, they’d skip the water and electrocute the dogs directly. Cook ‘em in ten seconds that way…
Ten Seconds Flat.
But yeah, I’ve done the ‘two forks and a plug’ cooking before. It’s a bit underwhelming. Tends towards tough and chewy.
This isn’t a kludge, it’s an immersion heater.
We don’t see the business end of it, but it looks like they’re simply using an immersion heater for its intended purpose. Try again when you’ve got a picture of lamp cord wrapped around two rusty nails stuck in either end of a wiener.
hahaha, actually, I have done the nails (non-rusty) with a lamp cord wrapped around the ends before, to cook hot dogs, it works very well, and is fairly entertaining in the process! Of course, it was more for the entertainment value, the microwave & convection ovens were right nearby… LOL
My wiener only has one end. But I would rather not stick a nail (rusty or otherwise) in it.
Old handheld immersion water heater = Not really a kludge.
24V AC on the mains socket below might qualify though.
Yea, also earth symbol on a socket with only 2 holes ?
That’s the symbol for AC, not an earth symbol. Why the 24 VAC, I have no idea.
The earth symbol is on the socket itself (not the ~ on the label above it).
I’m not sure thats an immersion heater so much as an extension cord.
Immersion heater was also used to light up charcoal BBQ. Would be a kludge if used as a pool/bath heater.
+1
Maybe the kludge is that these are not wieners, but frank(enstien)furters, …
this is nothing special, they do this is american jails all the time.
1. Pity the fool who boils water for tea with the same immersion heater later… (hot dog flavoured water or what…)
2. 24 V would likely be DC, not AC – this was the standard voltage in phone sockets in Eastern Europe at one time.
p.s. no idea what the purpose of a standard wall socket at 24 V may be, though. The old phone sockets were a fairly complicated contraption.
Almost everywhere in the world, standard voltage on phone socket is 48V, not 24.
24V AC or DC on normal mains socket is pretty common sight in stage lighting and such things. There is special form of both CEE E/F plug (as on picture, but with rectangular pins) and CEEplug (green, with different pin configuration and locking slots) that should be used for low voltage mains but almost nobody except hospitals actually care about that. And it’s probably safer to use normal socket for grounded LV circuits instead of the correct one, as the special LV plug is often reserved for devices that should be isolated from ground.
Using regular sockets for 24V devices would result in putting regular plugs on the devices, which means the devices could be plugged into a regular 230V socket — which isn’t safe at all.
If it wasn`t an immersion heater, wouldn’t it blow the fuse when you do this ?
Not if you can get enough resistance between the legs of the circuit; no.
24V is industry standard for more or less anything in the world (thank God we don’t have to deal with stupid high voltage regulation and adapters).
If it was DC I’d say camping as trucks and big caravans use 24V DC as opposed to 12V DC in a car.
As it’s AC I can only imagine we’re in some sort of maintenance lab/workshop where engineers need that to debug faulty equipment.
It’s really easy to change 24AC into 24V DC thus 24V AC is the most useful power source for maintenance.
It’s standard, boring and just a heater, go away there’s no kludge here.
Stop calling them wieners dammit!
They’re hotdogs.
@dfox:
You’re probably right – my memory may fail me and I’m no electrician…
@Pyromaniac605:
I did, I did too call them hot dogs!
Thought weiners became hot dogs when they’re put in a bun.