On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 14:42:26 -0400, Tekkie® wrote:

posted for all of us...



On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 17:30:19 -0500, dpb wrote:

On 7/6/2019 2:54 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 15:14:01 +0000, Joseph Durand
m wrote:

replying to PanHandler, Joseph Durand wrote:
According to the latest version of the NEC codes.
The ground goes on top.

Cite that please.

The NEC and U/L are both silent on the orientation of a NEMA 5-15r or
any other receptacle for that matter.

Excepting new Code forbids face up in counter and some other
locations...but nothing about up/down in conventional box.

My understanding is the subject has been raised multiple times but has
never had the traction to be enacted.

The face up on a counter thing has been in the code for decades.
You can go read the ROP to see proposals about ground pin orientation
on receptacles and CMP18 consistently rejects them as not being
something the code should address.

Because no money is to made?

Because they don't want to limit manufacturers with useless
regulation.
You can buy a quad right now with the ground in all 4 orientations and
they make receptacles that swivel. There are certainly arguments to be
made for any of them but none convincing enough to change the law.