ECN Forum Forums Photo Discussion Forums Photos for General Discussion A Different type of Duplex Receptacle

"I wonder if one-up and one-down was done purposely"

I would guess that it was done on purpose. In order to make manufacturing easier. The unit is to small to have wires between the two opposite receptacles. There would probably be three small/solid busses (with two female ends) between the receptacles. Keeping both grounds in the same position would be too commplcated to manufacture.

Not to mention, too complicated to spell

Cool find. Were there lots of them?

How do wires attach to this thing? Does it have terminal screws, pigtails or push-in terminals?

Gotta admit that the first picture threw me off. I saw "receptacle" in the title and saw a piece of pipe and thought someone had goofed and gotten pix mixed up.

Crash, isn't that how those cube triple-taps are made? The contacts are all stamped out of a flat sheet of brass or steel or whatever that is then shaped to fit the recesses of the plastic housing. Wouldn't it have been easier to have all the conductors go "straight through"?

[This message has been edited by SvenNYC (edited 11-27-2003).]

Yes Sven. The cube triple-taps would be manufactured in almost the same way. In this receptacle it looks like the hot and the "neutral" go straight through, if the hot and the "neutral" go straight through, then the ground cannot go straight through.