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Posted by Mark Lloyd on November 23, 2006, 12:46 pm
wrote:
>aemeijers@att.net wrote:
>>
>>>When electricians arrange for one have of am electric receptacle to be
>>>switched and the other half un-switched, is there a convention they
>>>use for which half is on top and which on the bottom?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> In my corner of the universe, the top outlet was always the switched one. No
>> idea if that was 'official', or just the learned custom of the half-dozen
>> electricians I worked with, who were sort of a chronological progression
>> with some overlap.
>>
>> aem sends...
>
>My personal preferrence, switched on the
>bottom .... why?
>That is usually where something is
>plugged in for a long time, like
>a lamp. If you need to use the
>"always-on" outlet, you don't have
>the "fight" the lamp cord to plug
>something in. Not a big deal, but
>that's how I like it.
I'd want the switched outlet at the top, because something you need to
plug in temporarily may be a wall-wart with a polarized plug. Plug
that in the top and you lose use of the bottom outlet.
--
32 days until the winter solstice celebration
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com
"I have found Christian dogma unintelligable. Early
in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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