one part of the house has no electricity AC. probably blown
fuse/circuit breaker trip. But I am not going to /or able to fix it
yet. If I take an long extension, connect one end 3 prong male to
the part of the house that has power, and the other end female to the
other part of the house, make a male and male connector . connect the
power to the wall socket of the house that does not have power, Will
it make the other part of the house live ? Assuming that I do not use
too much juice that will trip more circuit breaker.

Yes it would backfeed the dead circuit, however if the dead circuit became
live again, it could cause a dangerous situation



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one part of the house has no electricity AC. probably blown
fuse/circuit breaker trip. But I am not going to /or able to fix it
yet. If I take an long extension, connect one end 3 prong male to
the part of the house that has power, and the other end female to the
other part of the house, make a male and male connector . connect the
power to the wall socket of the house that does not have power, Will
it make the other part of the house live ? Assuming that I do not use
too much juice that will trip more circuit breaker.

definetely a bad idea, better to run a extension cord for some lights,
or fix the open circuit.

your idea could be dangerous and might even cause a fire

Not only a fire, but what about the poor soul who happens to walk in
that room, unplug the "HOT MALE", and not know it's hot. Youch!!!!!

B-A-D idea...

"BiloxiBoy" wrote in message
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Not only a fire, but what about the poor soul who happens to walk in
that room, unplug the "HOT MALE", and not know it's hot. Youch!!!!!

That happened to my first wife. 'Cept she didn't unplug me. She just took a
baseball bat to me.....

Im just curious why you cant or wont make the repair to the wiring and
have opted for porch monkey rigging.

wrote:
one part of the house has no electricity AC. probably blown
fuse/circuit breaker trip. But I am not going to /or able to fix it
yet. If I take an long extension, connect one end 3 prong male to
the part of the house that has power, and the other end female to the
other part of the house, make a male and male connector . connect the
power to the wall socket of the house that does not have power, Will
it make the other part of the house live ? Assuming that I do not use
too much juice that will trip more circuit breaker.

Very stupid idea. Find and fix the real problem.

wrote:
one part of the house has no electricity AC. probably blown
fuse/circuit breaker trip. But I am not going to /or able to fix it
yet. If I take an long extension, connect one end 3 prong male to
the part of the house that has power, and the other end female to the
other part of the house, make a male and male connector . connect the
power to the wall socket of the house that does not have power, Will
it make the other part of the house live ? Assuming that I do not use
too much juice that will trip more circuit breaker.

That is bad from many points of view. Overloading the extension cord
being one. Having some very unexpected excitement upon finding that you are
on two different legs of a 240V circuit.

In short it is a really really dumb idea.

--
Joseph Meehan

Dia duit

Joseph Meehan

do you have a relative tom meehan in pittsburgh pa sheraden? If so he
was my neighbor growing up, and last time I saw him he looked good
espically considering he is the very last of the neighbors still living
there. I am 49 so its a long time ago..

tom was is a heck of a nice guy and so is his wife. Sadly there
daughter disappered years ago and was featured on unsolved mysteries
with robert stack. she was never found

Joseph Meehan wrote:

wrote:

one part of the house has no electricity AC. probably blown
fuse/circuit breaker trip. But I am not going to /or able to fix it
yet. If I take an long extension, connect one end 3 prong male to
the part of the house that has power, and the other end female to the
other part of the house, make a male and male connector . connect the
power to the wall socket of the house that does not have power, Will
it make the other part of the house live ? Assuming that I do not use
too much juice that will trip more circuit breaker.


That is bad from many points of view. Overloading the extension cord
being one. Having some very unexpected excitement upon finding that you are
on two different legs of a 240V circuit.

In short it is a really really dumb idea.

What he said.

Fire. Destruction. Death.

--
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minimize spam. Our true address is of the form .

live and dangerous subject to reverse polarity it could knock out your
working circuit.
and dangerous to the electric company lineman.

if you know that the feed to the first outlet is damaged you would be
safest to temporarily run a new wire from the breaker box to the first
outlet. then do the repair properly as soon as possible.

otherwise just run an extension cord and use a power board for a
temporary fix.

You may want to check out the website below and consider
whether you want to become a candidate:
http://www.darwinawards.com

FYI: Any arrangement of a power cord with male plugs at
both ends is called a suicide cord. Wanna guess why?

wrote:
Joseph Meehan

do you have a relative tom meehan in pittsburgh pa sheraden? If so he
was my neighbor growing up, and last time I saw him he looked good
espically considering he is the very last of the neighbors still
living there. I am 49 so its a long time ago..

tom was is a heck of a nice guy and so is his wife. Sadly there
daughter disappered years ago and was featured on unsolved mysteries
with robert stack. she was never found

Well there are a number of Tom's in my family (about a half dozen
generations of them at least). It could well be that your Tom may be
related, but we did loose a lot of contacts when family members came over to
the US. Pittsburgh would have been a likely location and we did have some
move that way, I just don't know of any were named Tom. If you go back a
little further all the Meehans are related and come from the northwest of
Ireland. BTW I am a bit older than you are so I should have remembered
him.

--
Joseph Meehan

Dia duit

"Will it make the other part of the house live "

People like you are the reason the electrical code exists.
There are a million bad ways to run power. The fact that you
are smart enough to ask first is in your favor. Let's hope
this was a joke or if serious, that you didn't do such a thing.
....thehick