[SOC] Need advice from SOCs

[w7dra at juno.com]

teh whole world is tryihg to make everythihng idiot proof (why use speel check?) the fat prong is neutral the small one is hot if you use (like i do) transformerless hv power supplies is is best to know where the neutral and the hot reside.........but i digress mike w7dra

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Tom McCulloch <thom2 at att.net>
To: soc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [SOC] Need advice from SOCs
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2018 13:30:27 -0500

Hi gang,

  Well it's the Holiday season again and once more I've waited until it 
was cold enough to put the holiday lights up outside of the house.

Seeing as though I have had a lot of these lights quite a while, about 
half of them have the older plug and half the newer one (by that I mean 
some have the plugs where both prongs are the same size and some have 
one prong larger than the other ).

I'm not quite sure what you call this phenomenon, but I call it a pain 
in the rear!  Particularity when it comes to trying to plug a new male 
into an old female.  Because the new plug is too large for the older 
receptical.

My solution is to "modify" a newer extension cord by clipping the cord's 
offending male prong down to a smaller size that will fit into the 
female end of older string of lights.  The female end of the extension, 
cord, being newer will accept either a new or old string of lights.


So, my question to this learned group is:  Will my house burn down?

Thanks,

Tom WB2QDG

SOC# errr, I forget

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