Happy Outlets

March 1st, 2013
ideas, nema5
AC outlet with upside-down ground socket

There was a time when th design was on someone's drawing board and this would have been a small tweak. (I see references to this being Philip Labre's 1928 design, but the patent shows a flat ground pin.) At least Denmark got it right.

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