[ARC5] 125 VAC Line? Make Your BA's Happy,

[Robert Eleazer]

Back circa 1979 an electrician in California told me that 120VAC power receptacles should be installed "upside down" with the ground pin on the top, because:

1.  It is less attractive to a child because it does not look like a face.
2.  If you drop something conductive, like a thin piece of metal and it hits a partially inserted plug, it will not short across the two power leads.
3.  If you trip over a power cord and jerk it, the plug will tend to just come out of the socket rather than the ground pin breaking off - which I am sure we have all seen occur.  This is the one that really makes sense to me

I started installing electrical receptacles that way.  However, I was having my pool equipment rewired a few years ago and I asked the electrician about that, and he said it was true and that if he was wiring in a hospital he would indeed do it that way, but for ordinary homes he still installs it ground pin down.

By the way, a while back Amazon had a really good price on some rather beefy isolation transformer.

Wayne
WB5WSV      
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