scubado Posted November 19, 2012 Posted November 19, 2012 (edited) With all the rush to get things done, do you find yourself making dumb mistakes that make you go WTF?!Last night I was running low on extension cords. So I decided to splice cords together for the next day. This morning I discovered this: Edited November 19, 2012 by scubado
Jay Czerwinski Posted November 19, 2012 Posted November 19, 2012 Ha!! At least that's safe and nobody can get electrocuted by the visa-versa version of this cord!
MCas4380 Posted November 19, 2012 Posted November 19, 2012 now you just need to add a male in to the middle.
scubado Posted November 19, 2012 Author Posted November 19, 2012 now you just need to add a male in to the middle.That could go a couple different directions!
MCas4380 Posted November 19, 2012 Posted November 19, 2012 That could go a couple different directions! LOL
caniac Posted November 19, 2012 Posted November 19, 2012 mine was taking my display apart and putting everything back together three times before realizing I had not plugged any of the controllers in.
Santas Helper Posted November 19, 2012 Posted November 19, 2012 That could go a couple different directions! But we all know it will not work without a male.
Aaron Maue Posted November 19, 2012 Posted November 19, 2012 Thanks so much for sharing the picture. It truly is worth a thousand words, and just what I needed on this Monday. And yes. We've all been there. For me, this year, it was hunting for some SPT cords I planned to reuse from last year. I spent 45 minutes looking for them before I finally gave up and made some new ones. After I finished that night, I went into the house to retire with a beer for the evening. Only to discover them sitting by the front door. I'd brought them inside the night before so they'd warm up and be easier to work with in the 30-degree temperatures outside. ...sigh...
David Rise Posted November 19, 2012 Posted November 19, 2012 I ziptie all of my strings together. Nothing like getting all the way to the end and finding 3 female ends and 1 male end.I somehow get the feeling that there will be a few comments about this one....LMAO!
taybrynn Posted November 19, 2012 Posted November 19, 2012 I believe that is one of those GREEN products ... plug in two strand of lights and they are both converted to ZERO power consumption! Amazing.
scubado Posted November 19, 2012 Author Posted November 19, 2012 3 females to one male sounds like a better party than previously mentioned. Glad you didn't mention the other end of the string, hope you didn't cross cords!
n_gifford Posted November 19, 2012 Posted November 19, 2012 It seems that the closer I get to completion (With any project, not just lighting), I start to make mistakes that make me think WTF? I've made a couple this year, but fortunately I'm almost done with this project. I'm just grateful that none of my mistakes cost me a lot of money, just precious time, and tattered pride...
Guest wbottomley Posted November 19, 2012 Posted November 19, 2012 I've never had a lesbian cord in the display. But... I agree putting a male in the middle. What a lovely sight.
GS Posted November 19, 2012 Posted November 19, 2012 With all the rush to get things done, do you find yourself making dumb mistakes that make you go WTF?!Last night I was running low on extension cords. So I decided to splice cords together for the next day. This morning I discovered this:I see the opposite all the time M-M, people trying to make jumper cables between strings. Fortunately the polarized plugs usuallys stops them from doing damage. I did find on 60 mega tree with m-m jumpers all over. I asked them how they did it (polarized plugs in light strings). They said "Easy, we filed all the large plugs" - Here's your sign!
GS Posted November 19, 2012 Posted November 19, 2012 I see the opposite all the time M-M, people trying to make jumper cables between strings. Fortunately the polarized plugs usuallys stops them from doing damage. I did find on 60 mega tree with m-m jumpers all over. I asked them how they did it (polarized plugs in light strings). They said "Easy, we filed all the large plugs" - Here's your sign!I should get a sign for the mispellings above (no edit on quote posts)
George Simmons Posted November 19, 2012 Posted November 19, 2012 3 females to one male sounds like a better party than previously mentioned. Agreed. It's getting better and better the longer this thread goes on...
Guest Don Gillespie Posted November 20, 2012 Posted November 20, 2012 3 females to one male sounds like a better party than previously mentioned. Glad you didn't mention the other end of the string, hope you didn't cross cords!The only thing that would make this perfect is if the females had big racks.
BrownOut Posted November 20, 2012 Posted November 20, 2012 Are you happy with your cord? How much did you have to drink?-Logan
David Rise Posted November 20, 2012 Posted November 20, 2012 Ran out of likes....crap! This is getting good.
huskernut Posted November 20, 2012 Posted November 20, 2012 I had everything ready, controllers bolted down so they wont walk off, all wiring complete started to test and realized I put them in the wrong places. Should have been 1 2 3 was 3 1 2 . had to open them up and change all the addresses. WTF.
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