Are both ends the same size? if not then maybe he made it for a special purpose.
Question for rustcollector, just thinking abut costs, what are electricity rates in the area your referring to?.
I live in northern British Columbia Canada and our rates are as follows.
we pay a basic charge of $0.1835 per day or about $5,50 to $ 6.00 per month depending on days in the month.
then the first 700 KW hours are charged at $0.0858 per KW hour. This rate fluctuates because some months we've had up to 1350 KW
hours at the lower rate and I have asked about this but never got a straight answer, got tired of waiting on hold for a supervisor to come
on the phone and answer my questions.
Any thing over the basic rate for that particular month is charged at $ 0.1287 per KW hour.
These are residential rates, I know industrial and commercial user have different rates which are a little lower but I don't recall how much lower.
Be interested to know what others are paying.