As I understand it (thanks technology connections), the sockets linked to light switches are made that way in case you want to have like a floor or desk lamp and turn it on when you enter the room
Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them?
frazorth@feddit.uk 5 weeks agoYou have a switch for your electrical sockets by your door? What a weird place to put them all.
We have our light switches by the door. Much more useful.
VinesNFluff@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I mean there can be either outlets or light fixtures connected to them, generally the switched outlets have lamps plugged in though.
frazorth@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
And we have that too.
We are talking about standard sockets, they all have off switches on the socket.
sevan@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
It’s common in the U.S., especially in apartments, to have rooms with no light fixtures. Instead, there will be one outlet that is wired to a switch by the door. That outlet is sometimes upside down to distinguish it from the other outlets. That gives you the option to connect a lamp to the switch to get the same result as having a light fixture. I would generally prefer that every room has a light fixture on the ceiling, but this is marginally better than having to walk across a dark room to turn on a lamp.
Kelly@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Huh, TIL.
Here in Australia every house I’ve been in that has an electrical connection has had a light of some form mounted on the ceiling of each room of the main structure.
It just shows how any assumptions we might make will be proved wrong at a global scale.