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Do you have individual switches for each plug socket / outlet wired next to the door? That seems like it would take a lot of wiring, and need a lot of switches.

The room I’m currently in has six double sockets spread out around the room. They each have one switch per socket like in the post’s image. If they were wired back to the door, they would need a lot more wiring, and one of the two entrance doors would have to be chosen. You’d then have to walk to that door every time you wanted to turn something off.

It seems like a lot more work for no real benefit.

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grue@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Do you have individual switches for each plug socket / outlet wired next to the door?

No, the rooms I’ve seen wired with lamp circuits would typically have one switch next to the entrance with several outlets wired together to it in the same circuit, along with another circuit of several unswitched outlets. Flipping that one switch would turn all the lamps on at once.

(More rarely, there might be two lamp circuits in a room, with two switches controlling two groups of outlets. I think my parents’ formal living room might be like that, but we barely used it and I haven’t lived there for 20 years, so I can’t quite remember.)

and one of the two entrance doors would have to be chosen. You’d then have to walk to that door every time you wanted to turn something off.

Nah, that’s what three-way switches are for: you can have a switch at each entrance that controls the same group of outlets.

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