That may be how they install them in hospitals, but they don't HAVE to ....
per Archtoolbox.com:
Ground Pin Up or Ground Pin Down?
There is an age-old debate about whether an electrical outlet should be mounted with the ground pin up or down. Unfortunately, there is not a fully accepted answer. However, it is commonly accepted that the National Electrical Code (NEC) of the United States, or NFPA 70, does not provide any specific direction for the orientation of the outlet.
Some theories about the orientation of an outlet:
- The outlet should be oriented with the ground pin up because if the plug comes slightly loose and a metal object were to fall from above, the ground plug, which usually does not carry current, would deflect the object so that it would not hit is live prongs. It is accepted that this idea began in health care facilities where many tools used for patient care are metal. The story goes that hospitals were wired by union electricians and as the unions grew the practice spread to other types of buildings.
- The outlet should be oriented with the ground pin up because this pin is longer and the plastic around the plug is meatier, so it will help to keep the plug inserted in the outlet.
- The outlet should be oriented with the ground pin down because a person grabbing the outlet will have their index finger at the bottom side of the plug and the index finger sticks out further than the thumb. Having the ground down will keep a person's index finger from touching the live pins.
- The outlet should be oriented with the ground pin down because many common household items such as nightlights, timers, and battery chargers are oriented with the ground pin down. In addition, GFCI outlets, which have text on the reset and test buttons, are oriented with the ground pin down (and the text readable).
A quick internet search provides comments that easily debunk any of these theories. The most basic answer is that it truly doesn't matter which way your outlets are oriented. Select the strategy that best works for you.
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ELEVEN - rotary cutter tool machines
FOUR - CO2 lasers
THREE- make that FOUR now - fiber lasers
ONE - vinyl cutter
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I watch any tradesmen doing work in my house. It is sad because most are honest but there is always one who is not.
This is a good argument for having the ground pin up. It might eliminate the genetic traits responsible for people wrapping their fingers into the prongs of a plug.The outlet should be oriented with the ground pin down because a person grabbing the outlet will have their index finger at the bottom side of the plug and the index finger sticks out further than the thumb. Having the ground down will keep a person's index finger from touching the live pins.
Most of them would likely learn after the first time.
None of my nightlights have a grounding pin or polarized plugs.
jtk
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Guess I’m just a meat head..
No ear protection, eye protection and Incase you can’t tell i was trying to use my mouth as a dust collector lol. Didnt work so well but better than nothing lol.
We sure do have fun every once in a while.
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I don’t know but here in the Boston area Brazzillians in the trades have a very good reputation for being very hard workers. It has bee my observation and oppinion that more often than not the Brazilian next to the white guy is a far harder, more willing and in the last ten years often more skilled.
Once upon a time in the trades Brazilians would had held low skill jobs in the trades. Now I see 9 outs ten times the best trim carpenters are brazzillian.
I for one would hire a Brazilian over the average white guy hands down bar non any day without hesitation.
The average Brazillian in the states had the skills to earn enough in Brazil to buy a ticket to the states and he had enough confidence in his skills to risk the money and come to the states to earn better wages. The ones who could not do well enough to buy a ticket or risk coming are still there in Brazil.
In the San francisco are the Brazil room is a well known wedding venue. Made of tropical hardwoods to showcase the lumber from Brazil for the 1939 worlds fair it was taken down and moved to a park in Berkeley California around 1940. Never been inside just peeked in the windows. Quite a showcase of timbers inside. No idea if the exterior wood is special or just old growth redwood.
Bill D.
https://www.herecomestheguide.com/no...brazilian-room
https://www.ebparks.org/activities/corpfamily/br/
Wow. Look at this. Wavy at all the overlaps, and instead of bending at the wall transition, they added another course. Wind will get under that for sure. Old homes here are built with the roof dovetailed into the wall. The rafters end at the inside edge of the wall, leaving a bend for the last 18” or so at the edge over the flat of the wall. I believe it also aids in holding the roof down in high winds at the wall join. You’re supposed to bend the sheathing over that- not make a new course. Over three weeks now and they are still not done. Look at that ridge cap. This is a FEMA crew. Again- not my house or this would have ended before it began.
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Ugh, that roof looks horrible, like something you'd see in a shanty town in a 3rd world country. Worse, actually, because in a 3rd world country you expect that & they are doing the best with what they have.
Does the neighbor have a clue?
Maybe you could surreptitiously record them standing around doing nothing before they get in to doing the shoddy work and send it to an interested member of Congress or someone in the island's government.
jtk
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)