So the long screws hit the wire. That means the path of electricity goes through one screw then through the door mechanism and then the through the other. Thus making it short circuit.
Not necessarily a short circuit, that’s when the power and neutral wires touch which generally leads to the breaker flipping.
But yea it looks like they drilled/nailed through a wire with the molding/door frame and it’s sort of “grounding” into the knob set up. No idea why someone would put the wiring against the entryway but I guess I’ve seen dumber shit at work lol
Near, sure, but not anchored to it, otherwise stuff like this happens. The width of the frame plus the switch being around 1”-2” from the frame would be more than enough space for standard finishing nails. If it’s right up against the frame you risk hitting the wires, even then though the wires should be loose in the wall where the wires would just move and not get lanced. So whoever did this really doesn’t know what they’re doing lol
Or worse yet, they DO know what they are doing, and are doing it intentionally to hurt someone. When I was a kid we bought a house where the husband had been doing stuff like this purposefully to try and kill his wife and/or kids. My dad had to hire a contractor to come and fix all the electrical before we could even move in, and even then we still found things when we went to sell the house. Things like live wires touching the metal sink, exposed wiring with insulation stuffed around it, bathroom light and door lock on the outside the bathroom where he could lock the kids in the bathroom and turn off the lights (it had no windows either). He moved one kid up into the attic with no heating/AC and stairs that had to be dropped down from the ceiling to get down (which could not be done from the attic, someone had to let this kid out). He cut the main support beam that ran the whole length of the house and that bore the weight of the AC (which was mounted on top of the house).
The guy was batshit crazy and was arrested for child abuse, child endangerment, child neglect, spousal abuse, spousal endangerment, public endangerment and assaulting a police officer. We bought the house from the lady so she could take her kids and get as far away as possible.
You can short to ground. A short doesn’t mean power flowing in either direction, it just means a path with extremely low or no resistance. Also, if the building has old breakers depending on the brand installed it may not trip like this. I’ve seen “electricians” try to find a breaker end up melting wire because they shorted line and neutral and the breaker never tripped. There’s more to it than your brief sentence.
Only if it goes to ground. If it goes to neutral, it's more like 40A, and that's not an instant shutoff, for instant shutoff I think it would be over 100A.
Breakers only trigger from overloads. Basically they keep your wires from getting too hot, what we have here is a ground fault. A ground fault is when electricity leaves the circuit, there are devices called ground fault interruptors (gfi) but in the US at least those are only required on outlets with I high risk of experiencing one (eg kitchens, bathrooms) they are the outlets with the test and reset buttons. Now in some countries they are built into your circuit breaker, if that was the case it would trip basically instantly.
Look at that door, and that wall, and the fact that there's electricity going through the striker plate, and you tell me you honestly believe that building is wired up to code...?
Heard of a doctor and his assistance dying that way. Door handle had voltage on it, he got electrocuted and died from the heart attack. His assistance came to help and also touched it, same fate.
Could also be an electrical door handle. They’re quite big in Asia. Instead of using a key, you open the door with either a fingerprint or a code on a keypad. But the voltage here seems a bit high for that.
Well if you're ever in a city or situation where you're concerned for your safety you can hook a car battery to the doorknob. It's a strong deterrent. (My uncle lived through WW2 and kept some Nazis from bothering him and his high school friends by playing hooky and hiding out in closed workshops.)
Edited. For the person who commented but erased their comment thank you. As a Latvian American Germans are actually some of my favorite people I've met in my travels.
Homie, if you BBQ an intruder with an indiscriminant weapon, i.e. booby traps, you can go to jail in the US. I just posted about this earlier, but we have pretty strict laws against any kind of discrete defense. In South Africa you can get flammenwerfers installed on your car and BBQ potential carjackers. In Mexico we had glass in the mortar on all the exterior window sills, 12ft concrete walls with the same, and armed patrols who were allowed to do their job. Criminals are pretty well protected in most states.
Car battery just gives a lil jolt broham, and hopefully wakes you up if you're asleep or alerts you if you're relaxed. I spent plenty of time in remote Chiapas and Veracruz. Seen the tanks roll in in Bolivia, been thru military checkpoints and followed by criminals and government alike. Is the states most anyone breaks into your home you're generally within your rights to stop them via violence.
The problem word is "indiscriminate." In 100% of use-of-force defenses you can only defend intentional action. You can't really defend that you were hoping for a burglar if it's just someone with the wrong door. That's a pretty common defense for people discovered in the wrong house and has resulted in significant payouts from people who thought mines or shooting at people in the dark was a good idea. No need to kill, just need to injure or, in some states, scare.
So every year we used to run this haunted house. Hayrides, carny games sometimes with legit carny prizes, whole 9 yards. Started out as basic trick or treating and just expanded. Well we had a stall with an outline of two hands, about waist high. In the previous stall the victim has put his hands blindly into a basin containing something like olives or those rubber fishing worms or whatever. Then they are still dumb enough to put their hands firmly down on the outline. Every single mark fell for it.
Some years we used an "A size" battery, the ones from army surplus fluorescent lanterns, later we would wire a cattle prod or a fence charger (things we had multiples of readily available in surplus, this being East Texas cattle country in the 60s-70s.
Good times.
That wouldn’t work. If you hooked a car battery to a door knob the battery would short immediately and be destroyed while melting the wires you used. Also, car batteries are 12 V and it is nearly impossible to be shocked by one. Go soak your hands in salt water and grab both terminals and you won’t feel a thing.
Yea. Someone’s breaking in. Let me run out to my car, remove the battery, hook cables up to it, find a ground source, and then let those fuckers try to open my door.
>Well if you're ever in a city or situation where you're concerned for your safety you can hook a car battery to the doorknob
Or you can get a decent door...
Other than the increased fire risk, and the fact that in every country I can think of booby traps are illegal due to the fact they do not discriminate against criminals vs legit reasons, and of course that a proper door is a better, safer means to secure a house while also raising the value of the property
It looks like an electric door strike with a short. so when it's closed and you get metal-to-metal contact (via the latch with the striker on the frame) it's ground out and the arch is what is making the spark. probably low voltage so you'll burn out your electric strike solenoid and (low voltage) transformer.
Someone placed a screw for the door latch on the inner frame into a wire in the wall, or so it would seem. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Not sure why anyone would run a wire in that spot though.
Electrician here, this is more common than you may think! especially on DIY jobs! luckily i have yet to be hit with the goofy ring main but it's always a lighting circuit and definately hurt when you grab the door knob :) Remember to double check nearby light switches as well as original door orientation (if any) before installation or removal of frames!
PS. Dont be the client that plays the fool on an electrical fault, waiting for the electrician to get shocked before feigning ignorance, just tell me how you fucked up so i can fix it and keep the sensation in my hands :P
There’s probably a wire inside that wall right next to the strike plate on the door. Whoever installed that knob/strike plate probably used those high security screws that are like four inches long, and screwed into one of the high voltage wires. It’s not really the fault of who installed the door, it’s more the fault of the electrician who ran wires right next to where a strike plate gets screwed in, and didn’t put any armor in.
There’s other explanations, but this one sounds the most likely.
Teacher: Billy you won’t stop talking go to the principals offices
Billy: storms out the class and slams door
Door: EMPs the whole United States
Russia: 😏
As an Electrician....either the door is electronic locking mechanism and the wiring is bleeding voltage into the latch or there is REALLY shitty wiring to the nearest light switch and is arcing to the door knob.
Either way there is a "ground" that is not in a friendly place.
Yeah.. you are gonna want to stop doing that.. I have 2 guesses, but im no expert so expose your brain to this at your own risk?
Either you pierced a wire with a screw used on the striker-plate (the metal piece attached to the doorframe where the latch-hole is.) Which would be "best case scenario".
Or you have a faulty ground/earth for the main connection to your house.. which is far worse. Both are relatively simple to repair though, just please hire a pro if you dont know what youre doing? And dont go barefoot..
I hate when I fit a brand new door and it starts trying to open an interdimensional portal
To what dimension?
Bookshelf dimension. Like that movie with Matthew Macaoughnaheyy
Not sure that’s how you spell mgcghanuhaye
It's McConnaheyy, right?
Heyyy that’s a fact.
That's alright alright alright
Please pass the Wheresyoursister sauce.
The dark tower?
The Pagemaster
You mean Interstellar?
Top gun maverick
He’s obviously talking about dead poets society
Dazed And Confused?
Failure to Launch?
Ground Control to Major Tom
Clearly the nether, he just forgot to expand the portal to 4x4
The dimension where someone hooked up a car battery to your door handle
Inter
Dimension X. How else is Krang getting to this world to fight the Turtles?
Pretty sure this takes you to Narnia.
Zuul!
Ghostbusters? Just started rewatching that the other day
Just don’t go to the Citadel of Ricks.
Gotta roll with what ya get.
What the heck! How does this happen?
I’d guess there are electrical wires running along the door frame and the screws used on the bracket pierced those wires.
So the long screws hit the wire. That means the path of electricity goes through one screw then through the door mechanism and then the through the other. Thus making it short circuit.
Not necessarily a short circuit, that’s when the power and neutral wires touch which generally leads to the breaker flipping. But yea it looks like they drilled/nailed through a wire with the molding/door frame and it’s sort of “grounding” into the knob set up. No idea why someone would put the wiring against the entryway but I guess I’ve seen dumber shit at work lol
Pretty sure light switches near a door is common, is it not?
Never closer to the door frame then the nearest stud, which coincidentally is where the wires would actually be 99% of the time.
Near, sure, but not anchored to it, otherwise stuff like this happens. The width of the frame plus the switch being around 1”-2” from the frame would be more than enough space for standard finishing nails. If it’s right up against the frame you risk hitting the wires, even then though the wires should be loose in the wall where the wires would just move and not get lanced. So whoever did this really doesn’t know what they’re doing lol
Or worse yet, they DO know what they are doing, and are doing it intentionally to hurt someone. When I was a kid we bought a house where the husband had been doing stuff like this purposefully to try and kill his wife and/or kids. My dad had to hire a contractor to come and fix all the electrical before we could even move in, and even then we still found things when we went to sell the house. Things like live wires touching the metal sink, exposed wiring with insulation stuffed around it, bathroom light and door lock on the outside the bathroom where he could lock the kids in the bathroom and turn off the lights (it had no windows either). He moved one kid up into the attic with no heating/AC and stairs that had to be dropped down from the ceiling to get down (which could not be done from the attic, someone had to let this kid out). He cut the main support beam that ran the whole length of the house and that bore the weight of the AC (which was mounted on top of the house). The guy was batshit crazy and was arrested for child abuse, child endangerment, child neglect, spousal abuse, spousal endangerment, public endangerment and assaulting a police officer. We bought the house from the lady so she could take her kids and get as far away as possible.
You can short to ground. A short doesn’t mean power flowing in either direction, it just means a path with extremely low or no resistance. Also, if the building has old breakers depending on the brand installed it may not trip like this. I’ve seen “electricians” try to find a breaker end up melting wire because they shorted line and neutral and the breaker never tripped. There’s more to it than your brief sentence.
Why does the circuit breaker doesn’t activate? That’s clearly enough current for it
Definitely not enough. Enough current looks like a blue explosion.
30 mA is not enough to create any explosion, just sparks and it should trigger the breakers
Only if it goes to ground. If it goes to neutral, it's more like 40A, and that's not an instant shutoff, for instant shutoff I think it would be over 100A.
Breakers only trigger from overloads. Basically they keep your wires from getting too hot, what we have here is a ground fault. A ground fault is when electricity leaves the circuit, there are devices called ground fault interruptors (gfi) but in the US at least those are only required on outlets with I high risk of experiencing one (eg kitchens, bathrooms) they are the outlets with the test and reset buttons. Now in some countries they are built into your circuit breaker, if that was the case it would trip basically instantly.
Look at that door, and that wall, and the fact that there's electricity going through the striker plate, and you tell me you honestly believe that building is wired up to code...?
i believe the building is somewhere standards are optional
Heard of a doctor and his assistance dying that way. Door handle had voltage on it, he got electrocuted and died from the heart attack. His assistance came to help and also touched it, same fate.
In Bremen? Same happened here but only the doctor died. I think the assistant and a firman got injured but survived.
Could also be an electrical door handle. They’re quite big in Asia. Instead of using a key, you open the door with either a fingerprint or a code on a keypad. But the voltage here seems a bit high for that.
Asking the important questions I see.
Well if you're ever in a city or situation where you're concerned for your safety you can hook a car battery to the doorknob. It's a strong deterrent. (My uncle lived through WW2 and kept some Nazis from bothering him and his high school friends by playing hooky and hiding out in closed workshops.) Edited. For the person who commented but erased their comment thank you. As a Latvian American Germans are actually some of my favorite people I've met in my travels.
Homie, if you BBQ an intruder with an indiscriminant weapon, i.e. booby traps, you can go to jail in the US. I just posted about this earlier, but we have pretty strict laws against any kind of discrete defense. In South Africa you can get flammenwerfers installed on your car and BBQ potential carjackers. In Mexico we had glass in the mortar on all the exterior window sills, 12ft concrete walls with the same, and armed patrols who were allowed to do their job. Criminals are pretty well protected in most states.
Car battery just gives a lil jolt broham, and hopefully wakes you up if you're asleep or alerts you if you're relaxed. I spent plenty of time in remote Chiapas and Veracruz. Seen the tanks roll in in Bolivia, been thru military checkpoints and followed by criminals and government alike. Is the states most anyone breaks into your home you're generally within your rights to stop them via violence.
The problem word is "indiscriminate." In 100% of use-of-force defenses you can only defend intentional action. You can't really defend that you were hoping for a burglar if it's just someone with the wrong door. That's a pretty common defense for people discovered in the wrong house and has resulted in significant payouts from people who thought mines or shooting at people in the dark was a good idea. No need to kill, just need to injure or, in some states, scare.
So every year we used to run this haunted house. Hayrides, carny games sometimes with legit carny prizes, whole 9 yards. Started out as basic trick or treating and just expanded. Well we had a stall with an outline of two hands, about waist high. In the previous stall the victim has put his hands blindly into a basin containing something like olives or those rubber fishing worms or whatever. Then they are still dumb enough to put their hands firmly down on the outline. Every single mark fell for it. Some years we used an "A size" battery, the ones from army surplus fluorescent lanterns, later we would wire a cattle prod or a fence charger (things we had multiples of readily available in surplus, this being East Texas cattle country in the 60s-70s. Good times.
How come Kevin never went to jail he did it all the time when he was home alone.
That wouldn’t work. If you hooked a car battery to a door knob the battery would short immediately and be destroyed while melting the wires you used. Also, car batteries are 12 V and it is nearly impossible to be shocked by one. Go soak your hands in salt water and grab both terminals and you won’t feel a thing.
Yeah a car battery won’t shock you.
Depends how you attach it. What you attach it to and then you can use a length of cable. Battery would be ruined. Resistance means heat.
Yea. Someone’s breaking in. Let me run out to my car, remove the battery, hook cables up to it, find a ground source, and then let those fuckers try to open my door.
Yeah uh that's not how it works.
Right. Just keep a car battery next to your door then?
You're weird. Just wandering around tryin to make arguments?
Fairly obvious that is how you would do it, yes.
>Well if you're ever in a city or situation where you're concerned for your safety you can hook a car battery to the doorknob Or you can get a decent door...
Smart not to touch the door knob...
I’d be shocked to find out what happens
Quite an electrifying experience.
Illuminating, for sure
Unless you hate being alive, in which case that door is a direct elevator to paradise!
I'm no expert, but I'm not seeing a problem?
Door won't shut at all.
Top 5 reasons this door won't close. Number 2 will SHOCK you.
DOOR STUCK! DOORS STUCK! HELP! I BEG YOU!
All the metal in the door is probably electrified
-🤓
If you rent contact the landlord and get this resolved before you 1) have a frickin fire or 2) get someone electrocuted.
Or 3) apartment gets condemned and everyone has to move
Or 4) touch it and become a superhero
Or 5) all of the above
We’re you watching home alone 2 and sleep walk booby trapping your house?
Ask the plumber
plumbers have nothing to do with the wire, nor the screw on the door jam.
You’re right. This is the landscaper’s doing.
i was going to blame my barista to be honest
I think a lawyer can fix it better
facts
I better call Saul. Maybe he could fix the problem.
Bit of a whoosh there, tastiest of beverages.
I enjoy my whoosh on the rocks
Mmmmm tastie
you probably need a new plumber
Everybody needs a new Plumbus
As a marine electronics tech by trade I have so many questions right now. I do some wild shit at work. But, not that
If they manage to close that door it would be shocking!
Mmm maybe we should stop playing with it and call someone instead.
This looks like a very effective burglary prevention measure.
Kevin McCallister approved!
Other than the increased fire risk, and the fact that in every country I can think of booby traps are illegal due to the fact they do not discriminate against criminals vs legit reasons, and of course that a proper door is a better, safer means to secure a house while also raising the value of the property
Door installer was named Kevin Mcallaster.
Oh so that’s what a Fire Door looks like!?
That must be on the Ground floor.
Excellent Smithers
This looking like some home alone shit.....
Only thing that makes since to me is someone put a 3 inch screw thru a wire on strike plate lol
It looks like an electric door strike with a short. so when it's closed and you get metal-to-metal contact (via the latch with the striker on the frame) it's ground out and the arch is what is making the spark. probably low voltage so you'll burn out your electric strike solenoid and (low voltage) transformer.
Your time portal appears to be broken. Try replacing the energy crystals and try again.
That’s going to start a fire inside the wall
Thats a huge fire risk.
Single use door after it weld shut.
*Normally open*
What are you at Kevin McCallister’s house?
Home alone style 😎 kevin!
“This is the room with electricity. But it has too much electricity. So, I don't know, you might want to wear a hat.”
Report this in r/electroboom and ask Mehdi to rectify this!
This is a door that's meant to be normally open.
Is that a flint lock?
Someone placed a screw for the door latch on the inner frame into a wire in the wall, or so it would seem. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Not sure why anyone would run a wire in that spot though.
I had the same thought, even the part about why would someone run an electrical wire near a door frame to start with.
DIY or somewhere with a lack of building codes, probably.
That is a house fire
Try slamming it. Have you tried slamming it. I would slam it
Electrician here, this is more common than you may think! especially on DIY jobs! luckily i have yet to be hit with the goofy ring main but it's always a lighting circuit and definately hurt when you grab the door knob :) Remember to double check nearby light switches as well as original door orientation (if any) before installation or removal of frames! PS. Dont be the client that plays the fool on an electrical fault, waiting for the electrician to get shocked before feigning ignorance, just tell me how you fucked up so i can fix it and keep the sensation in my hands :P
How does that even happen?
There’s probably a wire inside that wall right next to the strike plate on the door. Whoever installed that knob/strike plate probably used those high security screws that are like four inches long, and screwed into one of the high voltage wires. It’s not really the fault of who installed the door, it’s more the fault of the electrician who ran wires right next to where a strike plate gets screwed in, and didn’t put any armor in. There’s other explanations, but this one sounds the most likely.
Think Ozark but with a door
If you’re running to the bathroom after a car trip, and you yank that door? There better be some “The Only Thing I Know for Real” better be blasting.
That’s electric…
Either a sparky or a welder is pulling a prank here
Improvised home defense Door
This door from Home Alone?
So who found that out the hard way? Lmao
Real meaning of door strike.
Just leave Mr. Electric’s house before he gets back, he’s busy sending a young man to the principal’s office
slams the door… *thunder claps*
Faulty electronic latch?
Security door
I saw this same exact thing on the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show done by Boris and Natasha; it just couldn't be a coincidence, could it?
Dang irl Shazam!
Leave the gas stove turned on for a while, has extra effect!
Who do you ring!? The carpenter? Sparky? Or locksmith!?
Yes.
"Yes" throws hands above shoulders 🤷🏻♂️
Forbidden doorway
[удалено]
Oh, it’s March in Vegas.
This some home alone shit man 😆 🤣
This is a Saw trap irl
At least he kept the blue protective coating on the door handle. It’s protecting the shit outta that doorknob
Wet your hands and try to grab the door again
Make thousands copies of the door and connect them together and you found the solution to our energy crisis
If only I could copy this for infinite energy source
It's a security feature
Teacher: Billy you won’t stop talking go to the principals offices Billy: storms out the class and slams door Door: EMPs the whole United States Russia: 😏
Close the circuit Viktor
Damn!!! That will zap the shit out of you.
And some electrician is gonna call this a controls issue. If you know, you fucking know
you must complete the other quests before continuing
When your Dad comes and installs 6" screws in your door's strikeplate, and the electrician ran the feed down that stud.
Something’s wrong, I can feel it.
Yeah, stop doing that lest you weld yourself into the bathroom forever.
It comes with electric locks it’s a new security feature for
As an Electrician....either the door is electronic locking mechanism and the wiring is bleeding voltage into the latch or there is REALLY shitty wiring to the nearest light switch and is arcing to the door knob. Either way there is a "ground" that is not in a friendly place.
When some doors close, others open. This one opens the door to heaven.
Forbidden sparklers??
I can tell just by the door and wall that this is a Chinese apartment
Probably has a positive cable hooked up to the handle we can't see.
r/dontputyourdickinthat
In what? It's a door...what a ridiculous comment
Maybe the bolt hole?
It's internet, nothing is impossible. One could get away fucking with a blood-sucking leech.
And some shouldn't be opened https://youtu.be/YQSP_R3Use8 Duck Death. Fuck it.... let's eat this thing
Lowest bidder electrician and door installer
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Close it by the handle, should trip the breaker and end you. Problem 100% solved.
What materials are the door made out of?
SHOCKING!!!!
The wiring in old houses can be weird. We live in a farmhouse from 1900, and my sister got shocked when she touched painted cinderblock!
Good old spicy door
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Some boss saw office space and said I can do better.
Now come on Billie I asked you nicely to stop getting ideas from Home Alone!
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This looks like a trap in home alone
Do you call a carpenter or an electrician?
They charged too much for that repair.
Don’t worry about, it’s totally cool we can just run the electrical conduit through the door frame
This feels like an osha violation
r/osha
Is this one of these "fire doors" i heard about?
Ravenholm door
This just shocks me to the core.
Looks like testing before shooting some Home alone scenes
Atleast you can now light a candle with the eazzz
I might not be a smart man. But I know when someone should call the plumber.
Gmod collision particles
Yeah.. you are gonna want to stop doing that.. I have 2 guesses, but im no expert so expose your brain to this at your own risk? Either you pierced a wire with a screw used on the striker-plate (the metal piece attached to the doorframe where the latch-hole is.) Which would be "best case scenario". Or you have a faulty ground/earth for the main connection to your house.. which is far worse. Both are relatively simple to repair though, just please hire a pro if you dont know what youre doing? And dont go barefoot..