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Sep. 11th, 2008 08:03 pmStrangest wiring I have encountered: My bedroom in my (very new) apartment has one light switch that triggers two outlet panels, each of them on a wall fairly distant from the switch. What's weirder is that it only triggers the top outlet from each of these outlet panels. The bottom outlet from each is not linked to the switch.
Anyone ever encounter this before?
ETA:
From comments I see this is actually common in places that are younger than I am, in which, you may infer, I have never actually lived before now. It is totally logical -- it's just not what I'd been used to doing, which was "figure out which outlet is the switched outlet; use that one for big lamps; do not use that one for anything else." Consequently, when I found one that did "the lamp thing," I assumed the other outlet set would be happy if I plugged the laptop into one slot and the hard drive into the other. And then I would turn the light switch off, hear the downwhirring of the HD, and get very confused.
Anyone ever encounter this before?
ETA:
From comments I see this is actually common in places that are younger than I am, in which, you may infer, I have never actually lived before now. It is totally logical -- it's just not what I'd been used to doing, which was "figure out which outlet is the switched outlet; use that one for big lamps; do not use that one for anything else." Consequently, when I found one that did "the lamp thing," I assumed the other outlet set would be happy if I plugged the laptop into one slot and the hard drive into the other. And then I would turn the light switch off, hear the downwhirring of the HD, and get very confused.
