Fair enough. As I said, I'm pretty sure that I noticed them first time, but then forgot to count them. However,since I only got to 8 (even without the full stops) I must have missed one other - but I don't know which!
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As I often say, "plug socket" is not really all that unreasonable (for an electrical socket) - to distinguish it from a hex or square drive socket, a socket for a waste pipe, a socket of an artificial limb, a socket of a ball-and-socket joint (biological or engineered) etc. etc. Indeed, if it is not obvious from context, "plug socket" (for an electrical one) would probably be preferable to just "socket" (in order to avoid any possible ambiguity, as in ...... "I went to a 'shed' which sells electrical items, plumbing items and tools and bought a socket").
On the kettle lead we would just say male and female not plug and socket.....well I would anyway...
I struggle, or get confused by the gender, when a part has a socket, but the socket pins are fully shrouded, so the shroud has to be plugged into the plug first - making it a sort of mixed gender.
I was always taught the male has the pins and is the plug, the female has the holes for the pins to go into and is the socket. That has got me through 65 years quite happily.
Very very rarely have I seen anything outside this distinction other than connectors with a mix of both.
For example some audio kit I used to assist setting up had signal cables with only one connector format so an extension cable had identical connectors on both ends which were totally reversable and identical to the connectors they mated with.
Another example
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As I said, essentially the same here.
However, as I wrote, some people feel that one always 'plugs a plug into a socket', so if a male connector is 'panel-mounted' (or otherwise 'fixed', it will, at least in some senses, be the female one that is 'plugged into it' - which would end up reversing the convention with which you and I were brought up!
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In the same way as no BS 1363 inlet
Products like that raise the question of what is male and what is female, since the part with the 'electrically male' pins has recesses in its plastic bits into which the plastic protrusions of the other are inserted - so, in that sense, female. However, with the one you illustrate, it's the (electrically) female one that is designed to be mounted/fixed,and into which the other one (with electrically male pins) that is 'plugged into it - so consistent with the 'normal' situation.
That could be a problem,given the implied need for a (13A max) fuse somewhere, if it were to remain consistent with BS1363 accessories in general.
Except that some users of them have them as outlets, annoyingly others use them as inlets
We were really talking about what they are called, rather than how they are used, but I suppose there is some overlap
I suppose that the (electrically) male one illustrated by morqthana probably would be just about (well, at least, 'almost'!) 'safe enough' to use as an outlet.
To my mind the parts I've maked as 'socket' should be the 'outlet'We were really talking about what they are called, rather than how they are used, but I suppose there is some overlap
I suppose that the (electrically) male one illustrated by morqthana probably would be just about (well, at least, 'almost'!) 'safe enough' to use as an outlet.
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