"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message
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On 12/14/2015 6:50 PM, wrote:
I once lived in a rental house that had 2 switches that were upside
down. (not 3 way). That was not a code violation, but it irritated me,
so I reversed them. Except for 3 way switches, they should always go UP
to turn a light ON. That's just the way it is, and what we're accustomed
to. However, electrically, they work the same way.


I stopped to help a couple guys jump start
a car. "Black for positive, and...."

Took a lot of effort not to say some thing.



I heard that in England the light switches are usually down for on.

Where I worked the last large 480 volt disconnects to get in to electrical
cabinets were color coded so green was off and red was on. They said the
green ment it was safe to go into the cabinet and the red ment danger or not
safe to go into because the power was still on. That stuff came from Europe.

When a company has 2 different standards, they would be beter just painting
over them with the same color as the cabinet.