In live in an appartment block and the ceeling light in my hallway isn't metered. It seems to be connected to the building supply rather than my individual supply. So basically, free electrisity. I bought an adaptor plug like in the picture so now I can plug anything into it. Relaistically how much do you think I can pull from this without being detected or causing a fire?
It's all metered. Thank Tesla for being too much of a cuck and giving his patents away.
>Thank Tesla for metered connections
You're a complete fricking idiot. It was that worthless shithead Edison who fricked everything up, not just the metering.
> how to tell us you know nothing without saying it.
>Edison bad
>Tesla good
Pick up a book, you homosexual.
NTA, and I understand that Edison was a chad and Tesla was an autist, but what does any of that have to do with the electric meter on my house?
Edison and General electric actually made useful electric devices and wielded electricity for modern society to develop.
Tesla wanted to basically send free electricity through the air though.
Tesla made some cool shit and was a based pigeonfricker, but that idea was moronation. He didn't actually understand EM and energy correctly. You can't make one of his towers work without losing 99.9% of the energy. It would be like making a 500 foot tall tower in your town with a 1 gigawatt light bulb in it, and using window reflectors to light up rooms in your house. Could it work? Well, yeah I guess, sorta. It'd be shitty, annoying, and would waste an oil barrel worth of electricity every few seconds, but you could technically get just enough light in your living room to read a book.
You would be amazed at the amount of stuff that was entirely useless when invented only to be made highly efficient by a later innovation. Your homework is to find 3 examples and bring them back here.
yeah I read that book too, most of it was bullshit.
> tesla free energy
Even if true, they’d charge for it and get more profits. Like cell phone plans, I get only 10 text messages per month in 2023 which were originally supposed to be free and zero-cost using an extra, unused 140 characters in the cell network data packets. The monitoring and accounting just to bill for them is the only cost. Sadly, it’s part of the canadian telecom kleptocracy.
If the bulb socket is rated for a 60W bulb, that's only half an amp.
The bulb socket itself is probably the bottleneck here, and you shouldn't exceed what it's capable of.
So your answer is: half an amp.
And even if the bulb socket *can* support a higher current , then you're assuming that the wiring in the building and the circuit protections are all working correctly and would trip if the circuit is overloaded.
But what if it doesn't?
Who knows how bad the wiring might be in an apartment building, or whether the circuit protections work correctly, or that there isn't some underlying issue that has been there all along, but hasn't caused an issue yet because you're the first butthole who considered doing this.
Overloading this circuit could cause a fire.
Don't be selfish.
It's not only your home, anon.
>If the bulb socket is rated for a 60W bulb
it's rated that because of heat, not amps or watts. it can draw whatever the wiring can handle.
depends on which wiring you mean
wiring in the wall for lighting can take 15 amps in Europe (the standard, though obviously as with most standards it's not absolute), but the internal wiring of the lamp is always way thinner
>it's not only your home
Even better
>60W bulb
60w of heat that is. You can run full beans on that circuit thru the edison socket, 15-20A whatever the breaker is.
>.t ran a compressor in a storage unit on one of those
at best its a 660 watt socket, at worst its a 60 watt socket
so 5.5 - 0.5 amps
Kek reminds me of an apartment building I lived in that had storage units in the garage. I managed to open mine and found it was empty and started storing stuff in there. I had 4 outlets in there.
Turns out it was shared between the whole building. I have a commuter plugin hybrid and started charging against that which was charged as a share against the whole building. However, the landlord israelites somehow had their costs exceed what the state said they could legally charge so they were paying out of pocket.
As for you OP, you're going to have a wire dangling from the hallway which will attract attention. You might as well hack a wall and see if you can get power from the wall source like a Brazilian in a favela.
>light in my hallway isn't metered
it's always metered.
Plenty of blocks in my are have unmetered lights in communal halls, works like street lights they calculate number of lights and time on and just charge a set rate cost.
no
the whole block is metered
whole block minus all apartments = energy used for communal uses (pumps, lights, etc)
power combating is not that trusting
*power company is not that trusting
this is true for all the "unmetered" stories
power company also has meters for groups of houses, so you can't steal much power from before the meter (if all the meters from the group don't add up to the reading of the group meter then they will send people to find the culprit)
frick off dont tell me how my block works butthole its not metered
bait?
unless you run your local branch of POCO you wouldn't know shit
everything is metered somewhere.
Do you have the electrical drawings? No? Then don't frick around
Seems to be connected....
Was not the case in my bachelor pad, the hall outlets and lights were pretty much randomly connected to some nearby apartment. Admittedly was a very old building.
It's in the hallway, why do you think you can unplug it and screw in your weirdo adapters without people noticing?
Get an adapter, and plug your clothes dryer in. Go to town. I promise your clothes will be dry along with anything and anyone else in the building.
how old is the building? if its really old and has knob and tube you can pull about 15 amps before smoking everything out. depending on how the building is wired it might be able to handle up to 25 amps. people forget this is how appliances used to be powered. you may have more free circuits in your apartment its super common in old buildings
I recently had the same idea until I realized the equipment I needed to run would probably make the wires in the wall glow red hot.
Lighting wires aint meant to carry much
>I realized the equipment I needed to run would probably make the wires in the wall glow red hot.
>Lighting wires aint meant to carry much
PrepHole electrical expert has arrived
The reason I bought it was to plug in a ‘diy 220’ box and it would pull a constant 15 amps on wires that are meant to carry 5 at most.
when you know zero about electrical wiring.
100w
Used to live in an apartment with electric baseboard heating, and a window air conditioner. Realized one day that the ductwork that heated the community hallways ran above my laundry closet. Installed a giant vent in it and heated and cooled my apartment for free for two years. That POS air conditioner could break $150/mo easy in summer. Goddamn those things are inefficient...
What are you powering? A rice cooker? 1000W times an hour a day times 200 days a year* times let's say 25¢ per kWh (high end), that's about $50 per year. It will take six months just to recoup the cost of the extension cord. You would save more just by shopping for a cheaper phone service or by selling one (1) thing that you don't use anymore, plus you will not run the risk of getting kicked out and/or sued by the landlord.
* I suppose you do not eat rice every day
NOOOOO YOU CAN'T DO THIS YOU HAVE TO PAY THE LANDLORD YOUR FAIR SHARE OF $2200 A MONTH PLUS UTILITIES TO LIVE IN A SHITHOLE 1BDR APARTMENT
crying soi boi is u tho.
>NOOO I cant afford to live anymoe. I cant afford to house myself!!
>proceeds to vote for everything free from government. Which raises property taxes and savings passed on to crying soi jack.
>tries to steal electric and burns his whole poverty district to the ground killing all the poors.
>their poverty charred corpses all continue to vote for Biden.
>meanwhile rich pepe picks up a fat insurance check for the property valuation designed to rais property taxes.
>The plan worked. The "free" light bulb he left was bait all along to catch the next fat check and kill the poors
Get good u poors u will never be smart or good. Your landlord will always be 3 steps ahead. Thats why he owns you and you can never "stick it to the man"
Better to just replace the lamp with pic related or you'll end destroying the high resistance lightbulb socket with 1-2 amps of constant use.
>the high resistance lightbulb socket.
Bro Edison screw was used as a fuse holder for decades.
these tards dont know that they used to power washing machines off knob and tube lighting circuits before someone came up with the outlet
Want some toast, fren?
Please don't bother yourself anon, let's sit and let my 8 year old kid make the toast unsupervised in the kitchen.
use it to charge up USB power banks then use those to charge your phone or run a raspberry pi or something
OP should just do it and measure the AC voltage at the extension cord while slowly adding more shit (amps) onto it. Stop when voltage drops to 114V AC.
Ideally the Porcelain socket is 25A, Nylon is 5A.
The problem is from the lack of strain relief when you're adding a cord and just shitty rando sockets. I've burned up a socket in the last year just doing 2 amps for christmas shit, and I've done 5 amps longterm that survived for basement lighting. Both setups would flicker/cutoff easily if you poked the cord.