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Maybe technically. But the ground isn't ***usually*** on the top. Even when Googling "electrical outlets," you'll find that there is a standard image of an outlet with the ground position on the bottom.
Besides, if it wan't a thing, articles like this wouldn't exist:
The reasons given were valid. In my days as an electrician, I came across many who gave similar valid reasons to installing the outlets that way.
Code doesn't specify, and it's usually just personal preference.
I prefer them the traditional way.
Notice, you said "traditional way"--I'm presuming you mean ground-down--which indicates there is a "majority opinion" on the issue.
I have heard from the "ground-up" camp that having the ground up when the faceplate is metal would protect against a short circuit if the faceplate fell loose and slipped behind the plug.
But the larger industry appears to validate "ground down" as the norm, inasmuch as we see that all directionally molded plugs direct the cord toward the ground, not away from it.
My kids were taught "Don't put it down, put it away." If something is put away in the same place each time it is used it will never be lost (and cleaning up will be a lot easier.) Maybe the OP can learn a new trick or make a sign like that for herself.
My kids were taught "Don't put it down, put it away." If something is put away in the same place each time it is used it will never be lost (and cleaning up will be a lot easier.) Maybe the OP can learn a new trick or make a sign like that for herself.
Keep in mind that for the time being, that's just a slight bit impossible. I'm in a temporary home, just under a year left on the lease, where the goal was not to move in, but unpack minimally while sorting through rapidly packed boxes and dumping what I don't need while more efficiently packing stuff back up.
With the exception of two locations, a bathroom or maybe either of the two A/V equipment locations, any item stands to be shuffled as the inventory of my material life is examined. Ie, one A/V location has an assembled galvanized steel shelf with around 8-12 DVD/VHS units tied into a flat screen, so that's basically "permanent". The other is atop a dresser that the other flat screen sits with a DVD player....and two cassette decks, one receiver, 2-3 turntables, .....awaiting for me to find an amplifier and a laptop controller in the packed stuff, so it all can be brought together.
So between A, limited available shelf space and B, limited drawer (or back pack hooks), it's not quite that easy.
Keep in mind that for the time being, that's just a slight bit impossible. I'm in a temporary home, just under a year left on the lease, where the goal was not to move in, but unpack minimally while sorting through rapidly packed boxes and dumping what I don't need while more efficiently packing stuff back up.
With the exception of two locations, a bathroom or maybe either of the two A/V equipment locations, any item stands to be shuffled as the inventory of my material life is examined. Ie, one A/V location has an assembled galvanized steel shelf with around 8-12 DVD/VHS units tied into a flat screen, so that's basically "permanent". The other is atop a dresser that the other flat screen sits with a DVD player....and two cassette decks, one receiver, 2-3 turntables, .....awaiting for me to find an amplifier and a laptop controller in the packed stuff, so it all can be brought together.
So between A, limited available shelf space and B, limited drawer (or back pack hooks), it's not quite that easy.
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