re: Public Service Announcement: Don't assume that the electric

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Ag Zwin

This is what happens when a mechanical engineer (me) reads something like this. It's like when I read a sports page in Australia. I know what all the words mean by themselves. I just don't what they mean when they are put together this way.

I am assuming somebody did something wrong.

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It is ... extremely RARE ... to see a jumper inside a cord end plug housing. It's even rarer to see two opposite legs of a 220v connection tied together with that jumper because the second you plug it in, you have a direct short and your breaker will trip 100% of the time following that loud KAPOW we talked about.

This is one reason I think electricians out to be paid more than plumbers. :-)