Horizontal safe zone with 'dry lining' back boxes

[JohnW2]

To my mind the parts I've maked as 'socket' should be the 'outlet'

Yes, but going back to how this started, if we were to call electrically female ones 'outlets', what would we then call the (electrically male) things which we 'plugged into them' - "inlets", perhaps (sounds a bit odd )

 

[SUNRAY]

Yes, but going back to how this started, if we were to call electrically female ones 'outlets', what would we then call the (electrically male) things which we 'plugged into them' - "inlets", perhaps (sounds a bit odd )

Plug.

EDIT from post 189

 

[ebee]

Some connectors have both male and female contacts.

Hermaphrodites ? Awwh John beat me to it! Well I did get up late this morning

 

[JohnW2]

Plug.

So what if the panel-mounted connector were an 'inlet' (i.e. electrically male) - would it still be a plug that you plugged into it?

 

[SUNRAY]

So what if the panel-mounted connector were an 'inlet' (i.e. electrically male) - would it still be a plug that you plugged into it?

From post 189

 

[SUNRAY]

However our National Broadcaster in their infinite wisdom elected to use this format

So we have been lumbered with the crazy situation where sometimes the 'loop out' is a socket/female and the 'mains in' is also a socket/female requiring a lead with 2 plugs and of course the opposite with 2 sockets leads too.

 

[SUNRAY]

On the kettle lead we would just say male and female not plug and socket.....well I would anyway...

I'd say IEC Plug / IEC socket or depending who else were in the conversation C14 / C13

 

[JohnW2]

From post 189.....

So you'd plug the socket into the panel-mounted 'inlet' (which a good few people would also call a 'socket', since something was being 'plugged into it') ?

 

[SUNRAY]

So you'd plug the socket into the panel-mounted 'inlet' (which a good few people would also call a 'socket', since something was being 'plugged into it') ?

Would they call these sockets?

 

[JohnW2]

Would they call these sockets?

I think many might with the panel-mounted one, but not the 'free' one.

 

[SUNRAY]

I think many might with the panel-mounted one, but not the 'free' one.

No hope then.

 

[morqthana]

The terminology for labeling the corresponding members of a pair of mating connectors follows the usual rules for the gender of connectors: a 'male' connector is the one with pins on the smallest element, 'female' has corresponding receptacles. A 'plug' connector enters the 'socket' connector, judged by the largest element. For most other cable types, plugs are male and sockets are female. XLR cables are unusual in that, at least in audio applications, all four combinations of male and female, plugs and sockets are equally common. XLR connections often employ many free female connectors and panel-mounted male jacks. There is a loose convention for audio work that signals are generated by equipment with male pins and transmitted to those with female receptacles.

 

[morqthana]

 

[JohnW2]

Yes, as we discussed before, there are some connectors which are 'true hermaphrodites'- and unless one of them is panel-/chassis-mounted, I don't think there's much hope of finding a particularly logical or rational way of allocating 'plug' and 'socket' descriptors to them, so it's probably best to not use either of those words at all in such circumstances!

 

[Risteard]

Not being Irish, I'm only slightly familiar with that word, but I would not call it 'craic' - as I tried to explain, what I've written was for the sake of those who feel the need for strict adherence to 'the regs' (even if, in some circumstances, I'm perfectly comfortable to 'ignore' them myself).

But you're married to an Irishwoman.