I vote Legrand too - not a fan of the sockets, but the switches are nice.
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I think they have tried to make them symetrical
Repeating rather than mirror.
Doesn't look right.
But it'd be a dull old world if we all liked the same things (and very messy) - I guess there are enough people out there who think "that's different - I like it" for them to make them, or they would stop.
Doesn't look right.
But it'd be a dull old world if we all liked the same things (and very messy) - I guess there are enough people out there who think "that's different - I like it" for them to make them, or they would stop.
The greenbrooke double sockets that fit on single boxes also use the same switch positions
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Thanks for the posts.
I didn't say I liked them! I just wanted to match them up.
I didn't say I liked them! I just wanted to match them up.
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They have one advantage though - helping prevent accidental switching of sockets, where you meant to turn one off, but inadvertently turn off the other - irritating to say the least, when a CD is being written on a computer connected to it! 
Outboard ones are good for that but you have to think a little too hard with these!
Outboard sockets butted up together in dado trunking in an IT suite end up like normal twin sockets where they meet
I have to agree though, they do look wrong. If having two central adjacent switches causes confusion - you shouldn't be alive.
Case closed. (Bangs gavel).
Edit: or not knowing what adjacent means. (kills self).
Case closed. (Bangs gavel).
Edit: or not knowing what adjacent means. (kills self).
The main reason is for locations where people wearing gloves are likely to use them, but i expect most people are aware of that
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Outboard sockets butted up together in dado trunking in an IT suite end up like normal twin sockets where they meet
They do indeed!
Which is why in my IT site (the office!) they are either separated by telecomms outlets or a big gap....
There are three classes of symmetry:-
Rotation ( \ | / - \ | /- \ )
Reflection ( \ / \ / \ / \ / )
Translation ( \ \ \ \ \ \ \ )
But I agree it doesn't look right.
The layout does have one advantage for the manufacturer in that single sockets and both halves of a double socket will all be built from identical components, so they have fewer different bits to make.
Saw something similar many years ago where each socket of a double was completely independant of t'other. Each socket had it's own terminals, with no connections at all between the two halves.
Normally that would be more work to wire, but jolly handy if you wanted to extend a ring from that point.
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