Re: Upside down oulets

They used to mark a 'wall switch controlled' outlet by installing it 
ground up (upside down)

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