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Re: Switches on Oz power outlets

2000-03-06 17:00:02


Ross Finlayson wrote:

At 01:59 PM 3/6/00 -0800, Cameron Young wrote:
Most of the wall power outlets have little rocker switches built into the
outlet cover that also needs to be turned on.

*Don't* forget to check this if you are charging a cell phone / laptop for
use the next day.  Hotel staff have a habit of turning all these switches
off whenever they clean a room.

Also, don't forget that on wall switches (like almost every country in with
world except the US :-) "down" means "on".

Well, if you pronounce "U.S." as "United States and Canada, except
for parts of my house in Montreal". As I renovated, I made a point
of going through and installing the switches the "right" way up
(drove my Canadian spouse crazy at the time, but she got used to it!
:-) Of course, now I'm selling the place, the agent seems to think I
should switch them all back...

                                - peterd



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