They’re like that in this apartment we’re renting and I keep seeing them elsewhere. I don’t get it.

  • @Chronographs@lemmy.zip
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    -72 months ago

    It’s not about having a switch it’s about having the switch right next to the plug instead of next to the doorway (where it usually is in the US)

    • @frazorth@feddit.uk
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      212 months ago

      You have a switch for your electrical sockets by your door? What a weird place to put them all.

      We have our light switches by the door. Much more useful.

      • @sevan@lemmy.ca
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        52 months ago

        It’s common in the U.S., especially in apartments, to have rooms with no light fixtures. Instead, there will be one outlet that is wired to a switch by the door. That outlet is sometimes upside down to distinguish it from the other outlets. That gives you the option to connect a lamp to the switch to get the same result as having a light fixture. I would generally prefer that every room has a light fixture on the ceiling, but this is marginally better than having to walk across a dark room to turn on a lamp.

        • @Kelly@lemmy.world
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          82 months ago

          Huh, TIL.

          Here in Australia every house I’ve been in that has an electrical connection has had a light of some form mounted on the ceiling of each room of the main structure.

          It just shows how any assumptions we might make will be proved wrong at a global scale.

      • @Chronographs@lemmy.zip
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        12 months ago

        I mean there can be either outlets or light fixtures connected to them, generally the switched outlets have lamps plugged in though.

        • @frazorth@feddit.uk
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          52 months ago

          And we have that too.

          We are talking about standard sockets, they all have off switches on the socket.

      • Count Regal Inkwell
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        12 months ago

        As I understand it (thanks technology connections), the sockets linked to light switches are made that way in case you want to have like a floor or desk lamp and turn it on when you enter the room