Re: Upside down oulets

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 18:28:21 +0000 (UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(D. Gerasimatos) wrote:

>
>I didn't realize there was a "right side up". Outlets often have the
>ground at the top so that if an appliance pulls away from the wall only
>the ground is exposed. I have seen outlets mounted both ways in homes and
>in commercial installations. Which way is "right side up"?


Until recently outlets were installed with the blades on the top and
the ground on the bottom - now they are being installed "upside down"
because of the potential for something falling across the blades and
shorting the circuit.  (Unless specifically marked the up or down
sides of an outlet could be determined by the orientation of any
writing on the outlet, while most outlets were thought to be correctly
installed during the time since the grounded outlet became standard,
now only the newest ones are right side up.