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[–] [email protected] 98 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I love how the warning just asks you to make sure but doesn't really try to talk you out of it.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well that's their whole business

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

And really, it's none of their business

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

This business kind of sucks. If you make good quality products it will work too well so no one would ever recommend it so you get no exposure. If you make shitty quality ones all the ones that survive is going to bitch about it and lawsuits and blah blah blah.

Anyways if anyone has any ideas on how to turn this business around let me know.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Start a rubber ducky challenge on tiktok, that’s like a guaranteed 500million sales

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Would be good for climate change too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

The funny part is that it wouldn't even work.

If the plug was on a GFCI outlet, it would trip once neutral and hot are shorted.

If it wasn't on a GFCI outlet, it would be an inefficient water heater. Current is inversely proportional to resistance, and the inch of tap water between both conductors has a significantly lower resistance than the human sitting at the other side of the tub. At American voltages of 110V, the worst thing that will probably happen is the wires heat up from the current passing through them. Now, if it only had the live wire exposed and you had a metal tub, that might be a different story...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You assume the neutral wire is present and connected to the neutral prong, as it is in typical appliances. If I were to make this ducky, I wouldn't connect anything to the neutral or ground prongs in the plug. Indeed, I'd connect all three wires in the cord to the hot prong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That is my first assumption, yeah. I did note at the end if they intentionally didn't connect neutral and ground and it was a metal tub, that would work

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s got a British plug so it’s at least 200 volts.

But yeah, probably ok if the water isn’t too salty and you stay away from touching the electrodes.

I’m still not getting in with one though. At over 6 feet, I take up the whole tub + most of the time anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

But yeah, probably ok if the water isn’t too salty

If you're going to be passing a current through your bath water, you would want the bath water to be as conductive as possible. You don't want the salt water in your body to be the path of least resistance. You want the current to flow around you, not through you.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Ground fault protection has entered the chat

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Do I look like an Iranian maniac? (for the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/user/msadaghd)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That man is insane in a most delightful way.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Everybody said that soldering 5v stuff onto mains voltage could not be a wholesome experience. Apparently, they didn't tell Mehdi because he just went out and made it one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/user/msadaghd

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Fun fact, even if you try to hold a breaker in the 'on' position, it would still trip the exact same way. Pretty smart design (to stop pretty dumb people killing themselves or others).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget the mandatory fuse included in the UK plug.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can you demonstrate how that works?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I could, but it wouldn't do much of anything unless a path through my body had considerably less resistance than the water between the conductors in the duck.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

He's got a gun!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Even without that it wouldn't kill.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Really could not have a better demonstration of what a joke the CE label is.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

Lol, it looks like an ObviousPlant product.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

By buying this duck you have already made the wrong decision.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

You can buy it as a gift

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As long as it's not a toaster, everything's going to be okay.