Led lights and transformers

[EFLImpudence]

It is nothing to do with the device.

It is an English word - a person or thing that transforms something which was obviously misused when the originals were invented which does not preclude it from being used for other things.

 

[JohnW2]

It is nothing to do with the device. ... It is an English word - a person or thing that transforms something which was obviously misused when the originals were invented which does not preclude it from being used for other things.

I'd say that it has quite a lot to do with the device, since it's the device that is "the thing which transforms something".

However, that aside, the "obvious misuse" of the word to refer to wire-wound transformers has been acknowledged and accept by dictionaries for a long time - as, I feel sure, will be "electronic transformer" in due course.

Kind Regards, John

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I don't think that this new term "electronic transformer" (with which the dictionaries haven't yet caught up - but they will!) has got anything to do with what components it contains (wirewound transformers or otherwise) - but, rather, it's a question of the functionality of the device (i.e. if just regarded as a 'black box' with input and output terminals).

Well, until they do we can but all do our best to resist that totally unnecessary move by saying that there is already a perfectly good term available: "power supply".