The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test

Hdm, my previous post was mostly tongue-in-cheek.

My intention is to leave the one I installed in for about about a week and then swap in the other for another week or so.

Stehno: Great-it's hard to get that tongue-in-cheek cheek stuff sometimes when it's in writing. Thought some of those ungrounded circuits of yours might of fried your air conditioning or something!

Yeah, I'm really quite surprised at the almost mass hysteria of some of those guys.

You were quite diplomatic I might add.

-IMO

Hdm and Stehno....Some facts...

There is zero chance that I mixed up the outlets which I received (although I have no way, except trust, to know what I was given). I was, of course, aware of the risk of mixup, and took suitable precautions.

The screws were removed and placed in the plastic bag when I first received the outlets. I thought that the "two screw" outlet might be a way of telling which was which, although I guess Hdm did something more clever than that!

On the back of each outlet I marked "A" and "B" just in case the little slips of paper got lost.

Both sides of both outlets were "burned in" on the refrigerator. (That's why it took so long).

I am 90 percent sure that the Cryo'd outlet was the one with two sets of screws. I didn't think to note this carefully, as I didn't think the screws were significant. The extra screws were simply removed: no chance that screws were switched between outlets.

The outlets were sent to Stehno labeled "A" and "B". A sealed envelope contains the key.

Thanks Ed. You are correct on all counts! As it turns out, when I sent the 2nd receptacle to Ed, it only had one set of screws (just because I had previously been using it that way, not to differentiate between the receptacles-I made other markings on the cryoed receptacle to differentiate it). But I can tell you now that the extra set of screws has been cryoed. As I said above, I doubt if this will have much of an effect on the outcome as my gut feeling is that it is the cryo of the power contacts themselves that has the bulk of the effect, but Stehno may want to make note of those screws and use them only on, say, the upper half of each receptacle to keep things consistent.