I had the luxury (or curse, depending) once of owning a home that needed all of the wiring replaced.
Being the kind of person that I am, I overbuilt things as I felt was appropriate. As part of that, I certainly wanted to install 20 amp outlets (even though I've never held in my hand a 20 amp plug).
The cost of that, vs good spec-grade 15A duplex outlets, was insane.
I know that the only difference is using one T-shaped contact instead of a straight and some different molds for the plastics. The line producing T-shaped contacts already exists, and so do the molds. Every 15A outlet sold today can transfer 20A safely.
It should be pennies difference in cost, and it was instead whole dollars.
Sucks.
(I'm reasonably certain that we are going to be broadly stuck with this low-current, low-voltage business until something very different comes along, and that any of this is unlikely to change in my lifetime.)
I had the luxury (or curse, depending) once of owning a home that needed all of the wiring replaced.
Being the kind of person that I am, I overbuilt things as I felt was appropriate. As part of that, I certainly wanted to install 20 amp outlets (even though I've never held in my hand a 20 amp plug).
The cost of that, vs good spec-grade 15A duplex outlets, was insane.
I know that the only difference is using one T-shaped contact instead of a straight and some different molds for the plastics. The line producing T-shaped contacts already exists, and so do the molds. Every 15A outlet sold today can transfer 20A safely.
It should be pennies difference in cost, and it was instead whole dollars.
Sucks.
(I'm reasonably certain that we are going to be broadly stuck with this low-current, low-voltage business until something very different comes along, and that any of this is unlikely to change in my lifetime.)