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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Question about electrical outlets
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Date: 30 Aug 90 16:58:22 GMT
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In article <1990Aug30.012428.14541@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) writes:
|As for hospital grade-forget it. You CAN price one-it will help
|you understand why your last medical bill was so steep.

Speaking of hospitals, there's one around here (Kaiser) that seems
to like to install all their outlets "upside down", with the ground
of the three prong outlet on top. I thought they were just
incompetent (scary thought in a hospital) but they are pretty
consistent about it.

Is there method to this madness?

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