Re: Drive by science
I've done both, for science, of course. When I was about six years old, I was out playing in my great-grandfather's auto salvage yard. In one of the old derelict cars, I poked the cigar lighter in. A few moments later, it popped out. It was winter, and I could not feel the heat from it, so I touched my tongue to it. The second-degree burn I received proved that a 12-volt cigar lighter was in fact connected to a power source, probably a battery still in the broken rusted-out carcass of an automobile. The power outlet test came about six years later, when I stuck a straightened paper-clip into a power outlet to see what would happen. What happened was a fuse blowing. Fortunately, I was old enough to know how to change out a fuse.
Yes, kids a fuse, not a breaker. I am old.
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