• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    so there’s basically no way to do that from upstairs.

    Incorrect.

    stripper poles are tubes and spin on bearings. follow these instructions and you can most certainly electrocute someone with one.

    1. drill a hole in the center of the floor that feeds directly into the “tube” of the pole.
    2. strip 2-3 feet of a solid core copper wire(10-3) to bare copper and kink it into a zig-zag shape that gives it enough width to touch the pole inside.
    3. feed the wire down into the tube until it stops
    4. connect that wire to common
    5. connect the bolts to live
    6. turn the lights on when you hear them on the pole
    7. zap!
    • make sure you’re using a 30amp breaker and switch
    • prepare your butthole for the cops when they show up
    • accept you probably just killed a person. two stupids don’t make a less stupid.
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        24 hours ago

        🤣 I really didn’t. I used to be a contractor and just understand how this stuff works.

        best way to not kill yourself is to know the thousands of ways to die.

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              20 hours ago

              I don’t need to, because I know how electrical circuits work. I don’t think you do. But, go on, explain why I’m wrong.

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                20 hours ago

                I didn’t know I was talking to a professional here!

                what would be the resistance of a plate of 16 gauge aluminum over 9 feet long?

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                  19 hours ago

                  I’ll answer that for you, but first tell me what the (typical, average, ballpark) resistance of a human body is.

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                    19 hours ago

                    totally depends on conditions.

                    for a typical dry adult hand with a moderate to heavy amount of calloused skin, it’s around 100k Ω. add any type of moisture or water like sweat it will be far less.

                    btw did you know the skin is the primary conduit of electrical conductively? only HV is a real danger to your organs because it permeates through all tissue.

                    side note. the internal resistance of the human body sits around 200-400 Ω.

                    so, what’s the resistance of a 16 gauge plate of aluminum that’s 9 feet long? in all honesty it’s probably more likely to be 22 gauge though. which one would have the lower resistance?

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      23 hours ago

      What makes you think that will work? That sounds like a very complicated way of just connecting the common to live with no human in the loop.

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        22 hours ago

        Ikr, this at least makes the pole get hot because current is actually running through part of it.
        But at no point is a human part of the path of least resistance for the electricity.

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        20 hours ago

        the gauge of metal the pole is made from is pretty thin. on top of that, it’s very likely to be made from aluminum.

        if electricity follows the path of least resistance, it would be through the person.

        1. 70% water
        2. large contact surface
        3. typically two points of contact from lower to upper. this is why you need to lower the wire as low as you can down the center of the pole with most of the insulation still on. you want to force the electricity to travel as far as possible until someone touches it.
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          20 hours ago

          Ok, you’re still failing here. The water content of a human body is irrelevant. A large contact area is irrelevant.

          Let me make it easier for you. As I’m sure you know, to be electrocuted an electrical current needs to flow through someone’s body. What part of the neighbour’s body is the current going to enter, and which part is it going to leave?