George,
Musser and I were brought up by Hixson to put them in ground up, he always gave the "gravity" theory. I, however, have found out that manufacturers design their electric-utilizing wares for ground-down orientation... Stress on 90º and 45º angle appliances cords are my biggest beef... They're designed that way to
relieve stress. Night lights and other plug in devices like CO detectors tend to become upside down...
As far as manufacturer's "labelling", residential Leviton recepts have the wording stamped readable ground down, spec grades are readable ground up.
I now put them in ground down for residential, and up for commercial/industrial unless told otherwise by the powers-that-be, or if existing recepts already dictate otherwise.
Your argument is noted for my arsenal!
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[This message has been edited by sparky66wv (edited 05-03-2002).]
