Comments on: Ground Pin Up or Down? That is the question http://diy.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/ground-pin-up-or-down-that-is-the-question/ The Home Improvement Stack Exchange Blog Mon, 27 Feb 2017 14:23:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.6 By: Jeremy W. Sherman http://diy.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/ground-pin-up-or-down-that-is-the-question/#comment-6677 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 01:50:19 +0000 http://diy.blogoverflow.com/?p=43#comment-6677 If you do put it sideways, you should put the larger prong up. This corresponds to the grounded conductor. Should something fall on just this prong, or this prong and the ground pin, it would not become electrified. The other way around, and you have either a short between hot and ground, or a hot metal picture frame waiting to shock the daylights out of you when you pick it up.

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