I moved into a house built in the 1950s in the north eastern US and this outlet is on the back of the house but I can’t find anything like it searching online. If anyone knows what it is I’d greatly appreciate the enlightenment!

  • TrapRag@lemmy.worldOP
    6·
    2 days ago

    Thank you, I’ve never seen older than the 6P4C, I love learning little tid bits of history like this!

    • Prairie_Madness@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 day ago

      Sure. Honestly I’ve never seen one in person. 4 wires is the norm for telephones and I figured it was too small to be high voltage so I guessed comms then researched it. Ended up being right luckily 😅

      Wonder if it actually still works

      • TrapRag@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        22 hours ago

        Thats good question, I might have to go antiquing to find something to try it out with… although i suppose I’d have to pay to activate the line so maybe not.

        And yeah I ruled out power right away since theres no poka-yoke feature to prevent mixing up hot, neutral, and ground, but “four prong outlet” and reverse image searching weren’t getting me there.