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Nice comment. I was scrolling and going "ooh looks like a bomb", "oooooh", "oh yes thats basically a bomb".
by spacecadet 3y ago
Nice comment. I was scrolling and going "ooh looks like a bomb", "oooooh", "oh yes thats basically a bomb".
- jacquesm 3y agoIf you like this kind of bomb then you should check out the various diy powerwall channels and blogs. Some of those I can't watch without yelling at the screen.
- Loughla 3y agoThey're amazingly funny. Just the overall sense of "oh it's just a matter of time before this person loses their house in a fire." Yes mr. power, that small sandbag will stop the inevitable fire. We put in solar this year, and my neighbor, who I used to think was reasonable, walked me through the MASSIVELY unsafe powerwall he installed after learning on YouTube how to do that.
- jacquesm 3y agoTime to move... I have a freestanding house for a reason. I've seen more than one place go up in flames because someone figured their attic gardening project would compensate for the mortgage.
- Loughla 3y agoLuckily we're country neighbors, so he's ~3/4 of a mile away. I'll be able to see the flames, but other than that, I'm good. If he was connected to my house, or even close like in a suburb, I would absolutely report him to someone. But because he's not, I just chuckle to myself and appreciate that he has no spouse or kids to die in the inevitable fire.
- jacquesm 3y agoI think part of the problem is that on the outside Lithium Ion cells look no different than any other battery to a lay person. They probably assign roughly the same danger level to them that they would to a C-cell, rather than the conveniently pocket sized handgrenade that it really is.
- CoastalCoder 3y agoIs this kind of thing covered by building / electrical codes? It sounds like a domain where that would be sensible, given the potential risk to building occupants. EDIT: For clarity, I'm referring to a power wall, not the Second Life UPS.
- Deprecate9151 3y agoIt's going to widely vary by local jurisdiction. In the US though, generally building codes would end at the recepticle. If this was hard-wired it would probably be an issue for the inspector, but otherwise it would be out of scope.
- CaliforniaKarl 3y agoI expect UL would have something addressing this.
- jacquesm 3y agoHomebrew stuff is not required to be certified by UL, in fact, surprise nothing is required to be certified by UL. But UL certification will have the effect of retailers marketing your products and reselling them for you.
- JohnFen 3y agoBut if you have fire insurance on your house, the odds are very good that your coverage will be void if you have non-certified things installed or plugged in. Many homeowners have discovered this the hard way, and their coverage was denied even if the fire wasn't caused by that equipment. Just having it installed is enough.
- jacquesm 3y agoInteresting! But fortunately it doesn't apply to me, and it would seem to me that if the fire wasn't caused by that equipment that would be a fairly easy thing to challenge. Because to deny coverage after the fact on a 'gotcha' like that would seem to be illegal.
- fragmede 3y agothis being the Internet age, someone's gotta have built a lithium ion bomb intentionally and detonated it somewhere safe
- spacecadet 3y agoMy coworkers and I machined a stainless crucible and lit off a thermite charge on a pier in SF... didnt post online... so maybe Im making it up... XD
- spacecadet 3y agooh LOL never thought of that, its like they are a virtue signaling crack house!