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RCD UPSIDE DOWN ?

garywwess

Hi All,  hmm,  i have a shiny box with a plug on it..  so far so good ..except the RCD is mounted upside down, i would have thought that generically speaking ALL switches for isolation or reset would have been “lift to reset” & trip down for off but cant find anything that backs this up.. but, the wording is also upside down on this one and on another where the wording is correctly oriented it clearly states up for ON when it is obviously the other way round (proved live).. 

any reference material you can point me too..

gary

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    These conventions change, sometimes for good reasons.

    Railway signals used to be horizontal for stop and down for go until some linkage failed and a signal dropped when it should have been up. Net result catastrophe and the new convention became up for go with fail-safe rather than fail-danger.

    Light switches can of course be mounted either way and in some other countries (e.g. USA) it is up for on and down for off.

    Two (or more) way switching breaks the mould.

    But AFAIK, switched sockets (which are not ordinarily found elsewhere) have always been up for off and down for on.

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    These conventions change, sometimes for good reasons.

    Railway signals used to be horizontal for stop and down for go until some linkage failed and a signal dropped when it should have been up. Net result catastrophe and the new convention became up for go with fail-safe rather than fail-danger.

    Light switches can of course be mounted either way and in some other countries (e.g. USA) it is up for on and down for off.

    Two (or more) way switching breaks the mould.

    But AFAIK, switched sockets (which are not ordinarily found elsewhere) have always been up for off and down for on.

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