[BC] Attack of the Demon Dimmers

[Bernie Courtney]

nope both were switched...this was @ Rutgers...I'm lucky i had power
to begin with, let alone them spending another $2 pulling an extra
strand of copper to make the one outlet a constant on =)  They
definitely pinched any penny they could during construction.

bern



On 5/27/05, khcs at juno.com <khcs at juno.com> wrote:
> 
> Bernie observed:
> 
> >i had a dorm room that had this "problem", and the suspect
> outlet
> happened to be right where i wanted to put a refrigerator...needless
> to say after i moved out of that room there was a switch on the wall
> that said "switched outlet" but yet for some strange reason didn't
> seem to control anything ;-)
> 
> ------------
> 
> Did you try both outlets?  It is common to wire the switch to the top outlet and have the bottom outlet on all the time.  At least, all of the switched outlets are set up that way in my home.
> 
> 
> Glen Kippel
> KHCS
> Palm Desert, CA
> 
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