In article , "Pete C." wrote:
Doug Miller wrote:

I'd love to hear your explanation of how this will "blow stuff up."

It has a decent potential to "blow stuff up", when Joe Bozo homeowner
yanks on the vacuum cleaner cord, cracks the receptacle and goes to
replace it. Joe Bozo homeowner who has no business being in the box to
begin with and doesn't remember which wire went where.

If Joe Bozo homeowner doesn't have enough sense to turn the breaker off before
he sets about replacing the receptacle, and doesn't pay any attention to which
wires go where -- there are much larger problems than having an Edison circuit
in the box.

I've seen some
pretty screwed up stuff like that and I see no good reason to add this
risk when simply installing a separate box and outlet for the $2.50 will
eliminate that risk.

That's just nonsense. Having only 120V present in the box does nothing to
eliminate the risk caused by homeowners who are stupid enough to work on live
circuits without knowing what they're doing.

You're seeing the wrong problem here.


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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.