I submitted this photo to chatgpt and it said my toaster was improperly wired.
this post was submitted on 27 May 2026
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STRIKE WHILE THE IRON IS HOT!
YOU HEARD THE MAN, STRIKE!
That's how lightsabers are made.
So it is an air heater and water heater.
If t was grounded it could be an air, water, fire AND earth bender!
We found the problem - it's at the customer's end.
In telecom and ISP talk that would be the customer's side of the demarcation. Whomever is in charge of the physical demarcation changes depending on the issue. Is the problem the demarcation?: it's the customer's problem. Is the problem outside of the demarcation?: we only handle issues regarding the demarcation equipment.
I want to suddenly have access to stick. To... Poke..... Things
And someone would still say it's not hot enough!
(This is a joke, I'm fully aware that's not the water line)
That piece of gas flex has become the only neutral current path for the electrical service to the house. This occurs when the electrical service's neutral conductor fails, and there is no good bonding of the gas service at it's entrance point, and the water service to the building is plastic.
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Just preheating the gas a bit, it’s for better thermodynamics.
It's concerning that there's more than 1 image of this happening
It’s common, this picture essentially explains why building codes exist, and why you don’t hire the cheapest contractor, since they probably aren’t licensed.
or you can just live somewhere that isnt cold
(proceeds to die to brazillian eletric shower wiring)
Do houses in say Brazil not have a gas hookup for water or cooking then?
I get not needing a furnace, our province uses electric water heaters for various other reasons, but still common for cooking as well.
no, gas is bought in tanks, the gas tank is the source of power for the stove and oven, eletric induction or resistor stoves are rare, eletric ovens are somewhat common, water is not heated centrally, the showers heat the water with eletrical resistors, and thanks to brazillian ingenuinity have a fame for having extreme poor and unsafe wiring which results in some accidental deaths by eletrecution during showering (still quite rare though), water tap is not heated, and thus cold during winter, no risk of it freezing in the pipes in the vast majority of brazil, it is not fun cleaning the dishes with water at 15°C during the winter
Ah that’s what they do in remote places around here, we call them propane “pig tanks”.
Our water temp is around 5c in the winter and 15c in the summer, so I totally get it.
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I'd recommend turning off the power before someone goes from blue to well done
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