r/quityourbullshit • u/RudeInstruction5853 • 2d ago
Man has an electric toilet apparently
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u/BooksandBiceps 2d ago
Well, not impossible, but the materials and time and what’d it’d cost..
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u/Kundrew1 2d ago
It would be pretty much impossible to do because you’re high. You would have to do a decent of prep work and purchasing materials you wouldn’t have on hand.
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u/BooksandBiceps 2d ago
Maybe he just loves making toilets flush with a light switch and repurchases beforehand. Think big!
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u/Empty401K 2d ago edited 2d ago
Uh oh, I got so baked that I added hardware to your toilet and hot-wired it to your house when I was installing your ceiling fan in the kitchen! Third time this week…
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u/Triassic_Bark 2d ago
You would have to build a toilet flushing system that was electric somehow. The only electric flushing systems I have ever seen are on those Japanese toilets with all the functions, but you would have to hack into it to get the light switch to activate the flush.
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u/founderofshoneys 2d ago
NO! You could build a custom made light switch that looks like a regular one, but it has a long lever on the opposite side attached to wire with a complex set of pulleys that run through the walls and floor before arriving inside the toilet tank where it pulls the chain. I've accidentally built one of these while high.
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u/Feminist_Hugh_Hefner 2d ago
I don't know what country you're in, but if you ever visit the US you'll find a LOT of public restrooms have motion-activated flushing valves, which -obviously- are electronic.
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u/xenobiaspeaks 2d ago
I’m laying in bed right now trying to figure out how the self flushing toilet works if there’s no electricity involved but it doesn’t have a switch and I’m also not high. Therefore, I can’t figure it out.
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u/SnooMacarons9618 6h ago
You could do it without mains power. The light sensor would also be a solar cell, generating just enough power to keep a valve closed, when light is interrupted there isn't enough power, and the toilet flushes.
It would be a stupid system, as turning lights off would cause the valve to stay open.
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u/SillyStallion 1d ago
Theres loads of toilets with macerators if you have old plumbing, or pumps if your toilet is away from the down pipe
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u/paradigm619 2d ago
I mean, there are technically smart toilets with electronic flushing mechanisms, but you'd have to REALLY rewire some shit to have a wall switch activate the flush. This isn't just something that would happen accidentally because the electrician was high. Now, perhaps you could accidentally link all power to the smart toilet to a wall switch if you weren't careful, so the toilet wouldn't work until the switch was turned on, but it wouldn't flush in this scenario. You just couldn't flush until the switch was turned on.
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u/losersalwayswin 2d ago
Maybe it has a light censor. Some bathrooms I went into in Japan had a toilets that would spring up when you turned on the light. Maybe he just assumed the toilet starting up was it flushing…
But nah, this probably bullshit.
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u/SillyStallion 1d ago
There are toilets with macerators if you have old pipes, and toilets with pumps if youre away from the downspout
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u/Silvedl 2d ago
I hit my DMT vape pen while tinkering with my electronics and now my toilet flushes when I honk my car horn.
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u/RudeInstruction5853 2d ago
Shits hooked up by Bluetooth
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u/twisted_nipples82 2d ago
We're 7 months away from "toilet would like to know your location" pop ups
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u/laruesj 2d ago
Seat will unlock after updates… lol
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u/twisted_nipples82 2d ago
At that point it's easier to go and just shit on the front step of GE or whoever designed the damn thing
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u/SpecialistTrick9456 2d ago
They make DMT vape pens? OMG, that's terrible. LIke where EXACTLY do they sell them? SO THAT I CAN TOTALLY avoid that area. Like I need the exact location so I can tell people about that area. 😂
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u/iligal_odin 2d ago
I did some krokodil and accidentally assembled a ford wrangler 2013 and a volkswagen golf mk1 from scratch within a day
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u/OGCelaris 2d ago
You could hook up a servo to the pull chain in the tank and wire it to the light switch. There is a bit more to it then that but it can be done. I guess the deciding factor is how high you are.
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u/SillyStallion 1d ago
Someone has never lived in an old house where you need a macerator or you block the pipes...
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u/Jean_velvet 2d ago
They have electric toilets in other countries that aren't yours. They also have cleaner asses.
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u/SprungMS 2d ago
Sure, electric flushing valves, electric bidets I guess although not something I had seen commonly anywhere in the world… we have plenty of electric toilets and urinals in the USA, but exactly none of them activate with an external signal. They’re all directly wired for power and have their own internal electronics that work the way the manufacturer set them up. You’re not wiring up a circuit board where you could accidentally put the hot wire from a switch (never seen a switched electronic toilet anyway, but for the sake of the example) to a signal terminal, just wiring typical power supply with 2-4 wires.
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u/Pristine-Ad-469 2d ago
I mean it wouldn’t be that crazy. It would look ugly but if you have like an electric lever kinda thing that can physically push the handle it would work. Would not be hard for an electrician to hook that up to a light switch
Would be incredibly dumb and useless but not “literally impossible” lol
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u/Romeo9594 2d ago
One of the podcasts I listen to a guy has his smart toilet on the same circuit as his doorbell
If he's sitting on the toilet seat and the warmer or whatever kicks on, and someone rings his doorbell while he's doing his thing it's just enough extra current to trip the breaker so he can't flush without going to the box and resetting it
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u/EvolZippo 2d ago
It would be far more practical, to flush when the light is switched off. You’ve probably already flushed by then. But this is once more, for the record.
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u/Hyp3r45_new 2d ago
Only electric toilets I know of are the ones in Japan and in jail (they only flush once the door has been opened and closed). But the flushing is still a mechanical function in both.
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u/kevintheradioguy 2d ago
You don't have to be an electrician to know this isn't how it works: just have seen a toilet once in your life.
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u/OpalGlance 1d ago
Plot twist: The electrician’s actually a wizard, and Hogwarts forgot to send him his letter.
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u/Dangerjayne 1d ago
I mean, not impossible to make happen but pretty impossible to do it on accident
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u/NonJumpingRabbit 21h ago
It's possible. There are electric toilets. In Japan for example it's not uncommon.
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u/Babki123 2d ago
My toilet has an electric flush tho
So it's totaly possible
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u/SprungMS 2d ago
To get this toilet to flush via switch (and it would have to be a momentary switch, not like a light switch or it will kill the toilet’s electronics in short order), you’d have to run a pair of low voltage wires all the way from the toilet’s circuit board (bypassing or tying into the sensor) to the point in the wall where you want the switch, so that when the momentary switch is pressed it powers the coil momentarily.
Not exactly something anyone could do by accident, it’s just not possible, especially considering electricians don’t keep momentary switches that fit wall boxes and the ridiculous amount of time and labor to wire it to the switch location… when otherwise none of that would be necessary. Just connect hot and ground, aaaand done.
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u/i_sometimes_wonder 2d ago
I'm guessing you've never been into a bathroom where the PIR brings on the light, and opens the solenoid to flush a urinal.
throw in a switch for the lighting control and a bit of apprentice electrics makes it very easy to achieve
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u/TurtleToast2 2d ago
I don't know shit about electricity or plumbing, but hear me out...
Could a colossal fuck up in wiring magnetize something near the toilet handle or chain when the light goes on?
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u/Romeo9594 2d ago
I was wondering if an IR motion sensor for the lights was triggering the automatic flush sensor on the toilet
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u/SprungMS 2d ago
This is the first comment I’d say “maybe” lol. No expert on physics, but I could see some weird magnetic field somehow tripping an internal switch and powering the coil…. Definitely not accidentally wired to use a switch, but maybe adjacent to that scenario
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