Wiki:Plug socket

[ARWadsworth]

And I am happy for people to use just the word "ring". I wonder if it has an earth or a cpc?

[NT]

e:

Directing newbs to a sizeable article when they just need one point made is poor practice, ie not a very effective way to learn.

NT

[The Natural Philosopher]

well you can and people do.

Traditionally sockets are female and things with prongs are plugs.

That gets a bit confused with an RS232 where the actual sockets are shrouded in a plug like thing, and the actual plugs are recessed inside a socket like thing..:-)

I guess whoever designed the D type connector thing had serious gender issues..

[dennis]

I use one frequently on a telescope.

[The Natural Philosopher]

last time I used one it was to program a PABX. Thank god they come with a web interface now or a USB...

[Tim Streater]

The one I bought some years ago was flaky. I replaced it with a two-porter, downloaded the software from the manufacturer's website (it only came with Windows drivers) and it's been fine ever since.

[Tim Streater]

These are all specialised uses that can be covered by a USB-serial adapter.

[Part Timer]

Why not call it a Jill?

[Frank Erskine]

Fnarr fnarr.

[Frank Erskine]

The GPO (forerunner of BT) used literally millions of these over many decades (think telephone switchboards et.al.), and always referred to the "socket" as a jack.

As did their suppliers.

Which really does give some provenance to the term...

[Dave Plowman (News)]

And broadcasting. The plug was called a jack plug. Leads used for patching double enders. Also a verb - to jack into something. So rather an omni-sexual word.

[John Rumm]

was not suggesting it as a replacement for your article, but in addition...

[David WE Roberts]

You missed out

"..and pay attention at the back!"

Ring Main does seem to be in very common use (judging by Google) so trying to tell people not to use such a commonly accepted term seems both a little picky and also doomed to failure :-)

IMHO ring main may even be a more sensible option, as it implies to me that it is both a ring circuit and is carrying mains electricity.

Not sure many people in the UK talk about an 'outlet' either when they are talking about a 13 amp socket.

This may have already been covered but I lost the will to read when I saw how deeply nested the thread was.

[Plusnet]

And for exactly this reason, the term "Plocket" was coined.

i.e. "It's a connector. I can't work out if it's a plug or a socket, so let's call it a Plocket."

If you really need to know, look at the bits that carry current inside the connector; if they're pins it's a plug, if they're sockets it's a socket. The shape of the body doesn't matter.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

But how do you define those connector that are a mix of pins and sockets?

Going by the body is the safer way.

[Bob Eager]

How about these? (scroll down to "IBM Type 1 connector"....

[Owain]

Yes, but there's a difference between a ring main and a ring final. Usually of the order of a few thousand amps.

Owain

[Owain]

What's the IBM Data Connector (Token Ring) then?

Owai

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , John Rumm escribió:

The connector's hardly the same; the printer end is IEEE1284 and the PC end is 25-pin D-sub. Most PC serial ports are 9-pin.

What Tim means is that RS232 can be configured as DCE or DTE, and this determines the gender of the connector on the device and the cable.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Phil Addison escribió:

Whatever term is used, I hope we don't move to the awful word the Merkins use - "receptacle".