This was in a guesthouse bathroom, there was a showerhead pointed right at it.

  • ridago@programming.dev
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    I’d argue this is not an exception, just a misunderstanding of what “works” means. Clearly the “protecting wires in case of overload” function is not working…

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    This is a 20 amp circuit breaker, not only is it unprotected, when it failed someone bypassed it instead of replacing it with something correct. If you took a shower in the morning and water splashed on these open contacts you wouldn’t need coffee to get your heart started.

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      Ignoring all the obvious bad decisions, what were they trying to accomplish? Even if that was wired correctly in a breaker panel enclosure I can’t figure out why it would be placed in a location that had a shower head pointed at it.

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      6 hours ago

      The wood bullet into the tile grout was a nice touch I thought.

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      It doesn’t really even need an exception. Working means disconnecting when more than 20 A are drawn, and this doesn’t do that. The rule works just fine, and counterexamples always boil down to someone misunderstanding the design goals and using a bad definition of works.

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        Yeah, I’d argue that even taken more broadly any shower that kills the occupants cannot be said to “work” by any reasonable definition.

        Obviously, we can all think of one very notable and very unreasonable definition, but I doubt that was the intention here.

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          Yeah, I’d argue that even taken more broadly any shower that kills the occupants cannot be said to “work” by any reasonable definition.

          Well, are they clean???

          They were until they died and shit themselves.

          Yes… That is a problem, then.