I took a pair of pants, cut the legs off, and presto! Hot-weather apparel! I call them my “shorts.”
(ftg, I think sleeepy2 is saying that he uses two-prong plugs for connecting his speakers to his stereo. No actual plugging of speakers into wall socket involved.)
Wow! That is so cool!
Can you please post a link to the instructions?
And this makes any difference at all???
If you don’t understand what a Major Mistake this is, you have no business doing it.
Period.
I’ll begrudgingly agree with ftg. To sleeepy, it’s funny, but if it gets outside his sphere of influence, it could go awry.
(Actually, all that’d most likely happen is that the voice coil would be melted to slag and the breaker would pop.)
OK, someone please fight my ignorance; what’s the problem with connecting speaker wires to a two-prong plug, and installing a two-prong socket on the stereo itself? Isn’t it still only carrying the minimal current that travels between the stereo and speaker?
I know nothing about electricity, except that without it I can’t watch TV or keep my beer cold.
The problem is that they’re using the internationally standardized plug for carrying 110v AC current and placing it on something the DOESN’T USE 110v AC current. It leaves the possibility that someone, in a moment of ignorance, has the physical ability to plug it into a 110v source.
Proper design dictates that every thing you plug in, should have a unique plug so the end user doesn’t accidentally become a Lawsuit.
I tried another hack when I was a college student that didn’t work out so well. I was hungry, didn’t wanna go outside the dorm for food, but I did have a chicken pot pie in the dorm fridge. So I tried to cook it in the microwave. All the sparking and such made me read the little sign about “Don’t put metal stuff in this microwave” warning. And of course, the pie had an aluminum foil shell.
But I wasn’t through being stupid. I still wanted that pie, and there was no regular oven in the dorm. But I remember about electric grill and how they cook by induction. So I went up to my room where I had an old lamp cord for a lamp that didn’t work anymore. I removed the wires and stripped the insulation from the ends of the wires, about 3" worth on each wire. I taped the wires to floor so that they were an inch or two apart. Then I plugged the wires into the wall. I figured the aluminum shell would be heated as it conducted current between the wires, so I held the pie about an inch over the wires, then dropped it down on top of them.
Blew out the fuse breaker for my roon and several others on my wing of the dorm.
Oh, yah, I’m a hacker, alrighty.