Number one thing I never expected, when moving networking equipment...
Some idiot wired a 230v socket in a mildly terrifying and dangerous way... Yes, that is 400v and all my equipment has now let out the magic white smoke...
Fuck some electricians!

Wow. What equipment broke?

@retoor ISP modem and a PoE-switch. Lucky I was only testing, so the expensive stuff is fine

@Folkmann isp modem is annoying. So no internet for a while?

@retoor yes

That I have never seen before. How the fuck did they mess that up? You should be able to claim damages with the owner or previous owner if it's bought.

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@hjk101 Single-phase AC is 220 - 240 V, 3-phase AC is 380 - 400 V. Need I say more?

@hitko most of the time that isn't connected or if it is it's on a perilex socket (at least in this country). So that is quite a hard thing to screw up and pass the inspection.

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@hitko yeah, but 3 phase usually have 5 pins, this one has 3.. Thus it should be 220v single phase. The plug in the picture is the regular plug we only use for 220v (Denmark)

@Folkmann @hjk101 Obviously those outlets are standard 220 V outlets, but then, the cable going into the box is obviously a 3-phase cable, and the sketchy hole for the cable clearly wasn't made by a qualified electrician.

Could be that someone didn't have the proper 3-phase plug and outlet, so instead they connected the 3 phases + neutral to two regular sockets, and then used two regular plugs to connect whatever appliance they needed to connect.

@hitko ah missed the cable. Though someone might have split it off or accidentally connected the 3-phase by accident.
Now it makes more sense that some saw the proper socket but got a modern appliance that only requires 230v so they replaced the socket with this box and have two sockets for the price of one.

@retoor You can delete your own posts on devRant.

Good prank. At least they didn't write the third phase to the protective ground pin... Or did they. Better check all sockets completely for similar tweaks before use.

You get 400VAC in all outlets if you remove the neutral from the system. Been there done that 😀

3-phase has 3 "normal" 230V circuits and 400V between those circuits.
so either someone needed 400V and commited the sin of not making that obvious or - more likely - someone messed up and put the wrong wires. like L1 and L2 instead of L1 and N

@electrineer been there done that. Not my proudest moment but I lived

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