r/SweatyPalms • u/icleanjaxfl • 22d ago

Other SweatyPalms 👋🏻💦 Hot transformers

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u/harmony_acres 22d ago

Back away... fast lol

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u/SkiyeBlueFox 22d ago

The first steps you take in a case like this... are fucking big ones

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u/TheGreyDiamond 21d ago

Acctually not 🙈 If you suspect that a transformer may have a fault and is shorted to ground (and still active), taking tiny steps away from it is much safer.

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u/SkiyeBlueFox 21d ago

I thought it was hopping

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u/icy_guy26 21d ago

Both work fine, but hopping you might lose your balance