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Default 3 prong outlet, which way is up?

On Aug 28, 6:07*pm, "Steve Barker DLT"
wrote:
Ground down. *the other way looks stupid.

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"john" wrote in ...
Does the 2008 NEC specify which way to orient 3-prong outlets?


Should it be


ground on top
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...2/Electrical_o...


or


ground on bottom
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?


The tradition seems to be ground on bottom, but I heard it is safer to
have ground on top so falling coins are less likely to short out a loosely
plugged in plug.- Hide quoted text -


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But little kids dont think its a face. When my daughter was little the
only outlet in her room that she could see frightened her until I
turned it with the ground up.


Jimmie