Melted

Perhaps you had a poor electrical connection inside the plug socket. All you really need to get hot for a specific current is to have resistance. Not the I know anything about it.

Glad it didn't start a serious fire ! I'm not sure what your adaptor was adapting ? but the common AC to DC adaptors are notorious for their poor quality - many recalls; many unapproved or phony approvals in the aftermarket junk. Sometimes they have small-print restrictions for "continuous use" .. whatever that is ... John T.

No, just a triple adapter to plug in three mains powered devices.

I'm not having a good day. My cat's flea killer just went bang. On closer inspection, it's got a 240V bulb in a 125V fitting. I've had nasty words with the seller and manufacturer (Aspectek).

Now that's possible. One of the devices is a vacuum cleaner, and it does yank the cable sometimes. So it could have been the adapter pin in the socket contact, or either end of the fuse clip. It had melted all the way from the socket clip to the far end of the fuse, presumably by thermal conduction.

WTF is a "plug socket"? It's either a plug or a socket. Which did you mean?

I don't understand why people say that. I say plug or socket, never both. So er.... if there are plug sockets, there must be other types of sockets? Ones you don't put plugs into but something else?

Eye socket Tooth socket Dry socket Ball and socket Spark plug socket Cigar lighter socket Hip joint socket Shoulder joint socket Croquet hoop socket Drain pipe socket Lighting rig spigots into barrel socket Trans-tibial prosthetic socket for lower limb amputee etc

:-)

Alan

But tends to get called an adapter.

When people say "plug socket" I think they mean socket. For some reason they add plug as an adjective.

Do you ever say "I'm just driving my road car to the food supermarket"?

Try "electrical socket". "Plug socket" is still ambiguous. And normally context helps anyway. "Plug the vacuum into the socket" is quite clear. You obviously don't mean to plug it into your eye.

To distinguish it from the other sockets like the spanner sockets etc.

We do say rail car with those that run on rails.

Most language is.

If you expect any language to be completely logical and rational, you'd best just hang yourself now, you'll be disappointed.

It appears to be common usage.

I don't know where the resistance occurred, Maybe the Plug. Maybe the connection between the plug and socket.

I did say I didn't know anything about it. Are you the type of person who takes an admission of ignorance as an opportunity to try and appear clever?

That's a different kind of animal. Mostly one talks about a plug at the end of a wire, or a socket on the wall. That's clear enough.

A socket made to accept a plug?

Also, some holiday light strings have a socket built into the plug (as well as the socket on the other end).

Lightbulb sockets? Connectors on a stove where you connect the elements?

When discussing matters electrical, the *default* meaning for socket is one on the wall.

And when discussing an adapter, it's obviously got one plug part and a number of socket parts, because without a plug part it's illegal, and without a socket part it's useless.

I expect you say "foot pedal", too.

That's a "light socket". But the socket for plugs is the most common one, so you just say socket.

Rarely spoken about, you'd describe them fully.