[PCR-1000] Grounding orientation

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From: "John McClain" <digi2@earthlink.net>
To: <pcr-1000@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [PCR-1000] Grounding orientation


> A bobby pin fell off of the back of my daughter's
> dresser and fell across the live pins of a lamp plug that wasn't all
> the way in. This resulted in a blown breaker and big black mark going
> up the wall above the receptacle.

If the receptacle had been installed ground side up, what difference would
it have made here?
Your lamp had a grounded plug? I don't think I have ever seen a lamp with
ground.

I can see the argument for three-pin plugs being oriented this way, but a
lamp?

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