Water Heater Switch Position
This may have been covered already but we're fairly new to TTs and this may be a stupid question. Why is the switch "ON" position towards the bottom which is opposite the normal way rocker switches wo...
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2edgesword wrote:
I'm a senior citizen, electrical engineer and didn't know there was a particular switch orientation (up/down) for on/off. I must have skipped that class :).
I suspect most of us expect up to be on, down to be off, if for no other reason than that's generally how switches in our houses work. In the case of a slide or awning switch it would only makes sense to push the switch in the direction in which you want the device to move. None of this is rocket science nor does it take a degree in EE to understand. ;)
