OUTLETS

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electricmanscott

electricmanscott

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Re: OUTLETS

Here we go again! This one has been beaten to death many times. I do a few dozen kitchen projects every year. Most of your grounded appliances are in the kitchen. It is very rare that the cord comes set up for a receptacle with the ground up. Whatever the case there is no NEC rule that specifies ground up or down.

[ April 28, 2003, 09:35 PM: Message edited by: electricmanscott ]
 
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bennie

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Re: OUTLETS

Many receptacles will never see a three wire cord anyway. The orientation of the ground connection is not important.
 
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racraft

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I disagree Bennie. I have seen polarized flat plugs, where the cord will be directed up or down depending on the orientation of the plug (neutral left or neutral right).
 
iwire

iwire

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Re: OUTLETS

2002 NEC
90.1 Purpose

(A) Practical Safeguarding. The purpose of this code is the practical safeguarding of persons and property from hazards arising from the use of electricity.

(C) Intention. This code is not intended as a design specification or instruction manual for untrained persons.
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IMO up or down is not a safety hazard, either way has good and bad points, I will put it in how the customer wants.

And if it is not a safety issue there should not be a code article to tell us which way to put it.

I think the code should get rid of all these hazardous straight blade devices and have us use only twistlock devices. ;)
 
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bennie

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A polarized plug is only required for an edison base lamp holder.

All other plugs should be non-polarized.
 
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a.wayne3@verizon.net

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A twist lock what a wonderful idea......... Can
you imagine the influx of service work
;)
 
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