[Milsurplus] Toggle switch conventions

[WA5CAB@cs.com]

Well, in all fairness, it has to be stated that the British standards mostly 
came first historically, preceding the American ones.  The rest of the world 
came in a distant ninth.  Or in the case of the current French Dictator Jaques 
Chirac and his Hamas buddies, 243rd.

In a message dated 9/9/2003 8:20:41 PM Central Daylight Time, 
zottola@yahoo.com writes: 
> I think as a general rule, the British tend to be
> non-conformists with everyone else in the world. Not
> necessarily a bad thing, except when you try to export
> your goods to countries with opposite standards.
> 
> The British cars are right hand drive and have the
> slow lane is on the left. As opposed to American
> cars(and other European) which left hand drive and
> have the slow lane is on the right.
> 
> A pilot friend, told me that propellers turn the
> opposite direction (I forgot if it was clockwise or
> counter-clockwise) on British made planes compared to
> planes made everywhere else in the world.
> 
> The British have their own televion standard (PAL),
> before that I think they had another unique standard
> that used 441 scanning lines. 
> 
> I actually like power "down" on my homebrew equipment,
> but insist on power "up" on my home light switches.
> 

Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
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