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Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours agoAll the outlets in our house were installed upside down, off it wasn’t for bulky transformers that plug directly in & chunky plugs which now have the wire going out upwards, I’m sure it would be a sensible and slightly safer way to do outlets
blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
But bulky transformers are a thing, so there’s that. In any case, what would make the ground on top “slightly safer”?
tomkatt@lemmy.world 50 minutes ago
If the plug is loose and you grab and yank it, there’s no risk of touching the hot, and the ground won’t hurt you. Also, with ground side down, loose outlets expose the hot connection when gravity pulls it down, while this doesn’t happen in the ground up orientation.
blitzen@lemmy.ca 11 minutes ago
I’m not going to say rightside up is unequivocally the “right” way, but I’m not really convinced the things you (and others) are saying is demonstrably safer in any real sense.
toynbee@lemmy.world 44 minutes ago
If subverting conductive falls onto the contacts, it’s not bridging anything.
Technology Connections did an episode about why some plugs have holes in the flats. I believe he briefly covered this topic in that video.