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Re: Selling your Automated Home



Nope, downward.
If you stumble against a wall in the dark, you will knock the switch down
(usually)
and that shouldn't turn the power on in a house full of water.

at least, that was the idea.....

Ian.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 4:57 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Selling your Automated Home


> Surely an upward motion should turn it off?
>
> Phil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 10 May 2001 16:37
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Selling your Automated Home
> >
> >
> > > I'm not sure I know what you mean by the Fire Brigade,
> > insurance man -
> > yes,
> > > fireman sam - no. I imagine that an insurance company would
> > try to wriggle
> > > their way out of paying up if the house burnt down as a
> > consequence of a
> > > LD11 or appliance module. 'non-standard' springs to mind as
> > the type of
> > > terminology they would come out with :-)
> >
> > Wooly thinking on my part: my Dad used to be fireman, and he
> > always got at
> > me about putting light switches on "the wrong way
round",
> > because a downward
> > motion should turn it off, not on.
> >
> > that being said, in a standard house you have 2-way
> > switching, so one os
> > always "the wrong way", and there's no master power off
like in a
> > shop/office..
> >
> > best just ignore me till the pills kick in again ;)
> >
> >
> > Ian.
> >
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