Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them?

• sevan@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • Kelly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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• VinesNFluff@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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

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• Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I mean there can be either outlets or light fixtures connected to them, generally the switched outlets have lamps plugged in though.

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  • frazorth@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And we have that too.

    We are talking about standard sockets, they all have off switches on the socket.

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