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Emelia/Emi on Nostr: I'm not kidding about the "15A" outlets almost always being 20As with a different ...

I'm not kidding about the "15A" outlets almost always being 20As with a different plastic face. If you take one apart, you can see the bits for connecting to the 20A's rotated blade. IIRC either NEC or UL requirements were updated to effectively require that a while back, explicitly *because* you can make a legal 20A circuit out of multiple 15A outlets, and one legal wiring configuration effectively "daisy chains" the outlets (takes up less space in the box than a pigtail, but is also somewhat harder to work with, IMO. Wago pigtails all the way)