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From: erk@americ.UUCP (Erick Parsons)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re:  Question about electrical outlets
Message-ID: <erk.3182@americ.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 90 12:02:33 GMT
References: <90240.090730MADIF@ROHVM1.BITNET> <842@ecicrl.UUCP> <1990Aug30.012428.14541@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> <1990Aug30.165822.19356@amd.com>
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>In article <1990Aug30.165822.19356@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>In article <1990Aug30.012428.14541@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) writes:
>
>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?

   Believe it or not some electricians (Good electricians) do this very
same thing. The reason I've been told is to allow the ground prong which
is by far the sturdiest prong on the "cord cap" (Plug) to support the
weight of heavier cords helping them stay plugged in. Seems to me in a
hospital this would be a very desirable trait :-)

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