Wiring for LCD TV

[desgnr]

When i install an outlet behind the tv What is the correct position, Verticle or horizontal ?

[John Grabowski]

*Mount the TV and look in the back to see the best place to locate the outlet as well as the video and audio cables. Sometimes there are templates with the mounts that indicate the best location for the outlet. I usually go vertical.

[hrhofmann]

Depends on which way you want the electricity to come out.

[The Daring Dufas]

Also, if you install it inside out, like a rolled up sock, the plug will disappear into the wall when plugged in. It will take up less space behind the TV. 8-)

TDD

[Ed Pawlowski]

"The Daring Dufas" wrote

Kidding aside, if space behind the TV is critical, use a clock receptical

[The Daring Dufas]

You read my mind when it wasn't in its warped state. 8-)

TDD

[HeyBub]

This was settled about 2,000 years ago when the rabbinc scholars debated the orientation of the mezuzah on the door posts of a Jewish home. Some sages argued for vertical, others for horizontal.

A compromise was finally reached. Mezuzahs are installed at an angle.

[The Daring Dufas]

I asked one of my Jewish customers if the things kept Jehovah Witnesses away from the door. I haven't seen my Jewish relatives in many years because they live in Yankee land or I would ask them. Will the presence of a Mezuzah repel door to door Christian proselytizers?

TDD

[Jeff The Drunk]

Ground pins pointing up.

[LSMFT]

Depends on how you rotate the plug.

[willshak]

desgnr wrote the following:

Correct position for what reason? The electrons will flow through the outlet no matter what position the outlet is in.

[gfretwell]

If you primarily use the TV in the 9x16 mode. you get better pictures if it is horizontal Be sure you use one of those gold plated receptacles too.

[Tony]

Good Gawd.

[Han]

Tony wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Not funny, that's offically required in New York City. Inspector told me, it was so that if a knife falls on the not quite totally inserted plug, the current will be shorted to ground, and not start a fire.

YMMV

[Tony]

Great answer! In what position does the OP want to be holding the plug when he plugs it in? That's the correct position to install the outlet.

[AZ Nomad]

Has anybody also mentioned to install with the outlets facing outward and the wiring in behind?

[HeyBub]

Dunno. They used to show up here and I told them the following story:

Written in Roman (instead of Hebrew) characters, the name of God is YHWH (there are no vowels in Hebrew). When reading the Hebrew text aloud in the synagogue, the Jew speaks the word "Adonai" (lord, master) when he encounters YHWH in the sacred text, much like we say "et cetera" when reading "etc." To avoid taking the name of the Lord in vain, the trick is to never say God's name.

About A.D 200, the Masorites, fearing that the new generation was not learning the holy language, invented vowels for Hebrew. These vowels took the form of diacritical marks above and below the Hebrew letters. When it came to the YHWH business, they Masorites used the vowels for Adonai, since that was what everybody was saying.

Martin Luther, in translating the Hebrew and Greek texts into German did not know the YHWH+Adonai trick, so he wrote the word in the German version of the Bible as "Yahowah."

Using the Luther's German translation, English translators turned "Y" into "J" and "W" into "V" yielding "Jehovah."

Bottom line: "Jehovah" is a completely made up word based on several mistakes. Moses wouldn't know what it meant, Jesus wouldn't know what it meant, and it's possible that when a Jehovah's Witness gets to heaven, St Peter will say "Never heard of you."

I think the Witnesses passed the word around to not bother with my house; it's filled with crazy people.

[HeyBub]

It's entirely possible the OP has crossed swords hanging above his TV.

[The Daring Dufas]

I like rabbis, they're cool and have a fatalistic sense of humor. Southern Baptist preachers usually have a stick so far up their tailpipe that the end of it's that bump you think is their Adam's apple. Catholic priests are funny drunks. I can say this because they're all my cousins. I can pick on family. 8-)

TDD

[Tony]

Yes, my mileage does vary. If a knife falls and shorts out the hot to either ground or neutral, the chances of it starting a fire are probably the same. Not to mention that 99.9999% of the time it will trip the breaker, not start a fire.