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Friday, March 5, 2021
Question:
Hello Code Gurus,
On a standard 110 volt, 15 amp receptacle with is correct the ground terminal up or down?
Corky Webb
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Answer:
Hello Corky, and thanks for the question.
We get this one a lot. The answer is simply the NEC does NOT have a requirement for the ground terminal orientation on a 125-volt, 15 ampere receptacles. The ground can be up or down and be in compliance with the NEC. This will probably start another fire storm of comments from diehards that believe that the ground has to be up, and followed up by those that insist that the ground be down. Let's see what happens.