{"id":44252,"date":"2022-09-06T14:02:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T14:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=44252"},"modified":"2022-09-06T14:02:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T14:02:45","slug":"electricity-polarized-plugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/electricity-polarized-plugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity: polarized plugs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about electricity and household wiring: the tutor looks into the idea of polarized plugs.<\/h2>\n<p>\nAs I understand it, a polarized plug has one prong bigger than the other; a polarized outlet has the left slot bigger than the right. The small prong on a polarized plug is the &#8220;hot&#8221; one.<\/p>\n<p>The reason polarized wiring is safer is that, knowing where the &#8220;hot&#8221; side is, you can easily install a switch that just opens it &#8211; you needn&#8217;t open both sides.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/electronics.stackexchange.com\/questions\/392879\/why-plug-is-polarized-in-the-us-what-are-the-benefits\">electronics.stackexchange.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hunker.com\/12536777\/how-to-know-which-is-the-hot-wire-in-a-two-wire-plug\">hunker.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acworks.com\/blogs\/ac-works-connector\/polarized-vs-non-polarized-household-electrical-safety\">acworks.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about electricity and household wiring: the tutor looks into the idea of polarized plugs. As I understand it, a polarized plug has one prong bigger than the other; a polarized outlet has the left slot bigger than the right. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/electricity-polarized-plugs\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Electricity: polarized plugs<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1023],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electricity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44255,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44252\/revisions\/44255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}