If it was a joke then hopefully your still working as an electrician because it is not that good. 😉
Damn Canadian Receptacles
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Irrelevant to anyone other than the guy who loaded the yokes into the yoke installing machine.
If printing on the strap was important, the first item printed would be "TOP".
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For anyone who actually gives a chit bout Canadian UL….
Underwriters Laboratories of Canada (ULC) was originally an unrelated Canadian clone of UL. This pissed off UL’s Board of Directors. Over time (decades) they got seats on ULC’s Board of Directors until they could do a takeover. It’s now a division of UL.
canada.ul.com
In UL’s Product IQ, if the UL GuideInfo (alphanumerical) ends in “7” or “8”, that’s US UL’s Listing or Recognition categories, respectively, for Canada. If instead a “C” is appended to the 4-letter GuideInfo, then that’s ULC’s GuideInfo equivalent GuideInfo (for Canada) instead of US UL’s.
Underwriters Laboratories of Canada (ULC) was originally an unrelated Canadian clone of UL. This pissed off UL’s Board of Directors. Over time (decades) they got seats on ULC’s Board of Directors until they could do a takeover. It’s now a division of UL.
Underwriters Laboratories of Canada (ULC)
Underwriters Laboratories of Canada (ULC) is an independent product safety testing, certification and inspection organization.
canada.ul.com
In UL’s Product IQ, if the UL GuideInfo (alphanumerical) ends in “7” or “8”, that’s US UL’s Listing or Recognition categories, respectively, for Canada. If instead a “C” is appended to the 4-letter GuideInfo, then that’s ULC’s GuideInfo equivalent GuideInfo (for Canada) instead of US UL’s.
I agree that it is not important, and does not indicated how the receptacle is to be orientated when installed, but it is not random and is always the same on our receptacles. To read it the ground pin has to be up.
I am curious if the receptacles in the US are the same. (My guess is yes, they are the same)
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Not All, some are both ways, some are right side up. 😉
All right the op is not forth coming with a pic
so i will
keep in mind, less than great phone
however the stamped in writing on the yoke is right side up with the ground up
the back of the yoke has
made in usa
stamped in
the mfg is eaton, standard 15A duplex recept. bought from local SH
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so i will
keep in mind, less than great phone
however the stamped in writing on the yoke is right side up with the ground up
the back of the yoke has
made in usa
stamped in
the mfg is eaton, standard 15A duplex recept. bought from local SH
your pic and mine are proof of what backstay said
they are both ways in the us
they are both ways in the us
i never got the joke part either, but the discussion went waay beyond that IMO
welcome to the club, make an innocent aside and BAM you are front and center being flogged LOL
Depends on the manufacturer, with Leviton (Our largest resi manufacturer) the ground would be down to read the logo and UL label more easily. However, with Hubbell and others it can be either way. The NEC does not require the ground to be down but given the fact that just about all of our 120v pigtails (Millions of them) with 90 degree attachment caps have the ground on the bottom, most electricians by standard practice, install them with the ground down. However, If you go into most of our hospitals you will see the the ground is up because most of the pigtails on their testing machines etc. do not turn the attachment cap 90 degrees but rather are straight in.
Our National Fire Protection Association almost put GROUND UP in the NEC around 1990 because a restaurant worker was killed in Cincinnati, OH when he crawled across a stainless steel table and his gold necklace fell down and hit the hot prong of a 120v attachment cap that was not pushed all the way in. Caused tons of lawsuits and several electrical engineers (Probably from Ohio) to petition the NFPA to change the NEC. They argued that he would have lived if the ground prong had been up. I never did hear the reason that that our NEC was not changed, but I would bet it was because of the standard practice (That I mentioined above) by all the pigtail manufacturers of putting the gound on the bottom.
Never seen one that wasn’t upside down. You got a picture of one like that?
No code for receptacle orientation in Canada either
Yeah, sure ... Gonna start callin' you Backout
Geez you're stubborn. That pic I posted earlier was the first receptacle I pulled off the shelf. Here's the second:
Even the writing on the plastic is rightside up, FFS.
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Ikr?
You're using that term a might loosely when referring to me.....
Sideways with the hot down so your gold chain doesn't get you in trouble?
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I remember it but much of it is speculative at best. Even with grounding contact up, the restaurant workers chain could have bypassed any contact with the grounding and grounded contact and struck the ungrounded contact. Only GFCI could have prevented that fatality.
Plus, now further recessing of the contacts due to TRR.
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