I wrote a violation last week to a contractor who had installed a duplex receptacle on a wall and it had a nub in between the two blades of the receptacle that prevented one from pluging in anything but a special cap with a recess that would straddle the nub on the receptacle. For me this does not satisfy the code for a general purpose receptacle required by 210.52 NEC. He ended up installing a duplex receptacle with half of it with the nub and half of it without the nub. He then split wired the receptacle so he could control half of it with the home automation system and the other half would serve the wall space as a general receptacle. Was I wrong?


George Little