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2. Automobile auxiliary power outlet - Wikipedia

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   Standardized 12 volt DC automobile plugs are defined in the United States by UL Standard 2089 regarding vehicle battery adapters. This standard covers plugs and cord sets that insert into cigarette lighter receptacles. In Europe, 12 volt plugs and sockets are not specially regulated and do not require approvals for the CE mark. [citation needed]

3. AC power plugs and sockets - Wikipedia

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   Though Type K remains by far the most common socket in Danish homes as of January 2024, newssites and industry magazines have warned that plugging a Schuko plug directly into a Type K socket can give noticeable electric shocks to the point of pain, [28] [29] be dangerous to the point of hospitalising, [30] or even be life-threatening. [31] [32 ...

4. AC power plugs and sockets: British and related types

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   Differences between BS4573 Type C and Europlug Type C. The BS4573 plug has round 5.1mm contacts, spacing 16.7mm. The Europlug has 4mm contacts, spacing 19mm. In order to plug a Europlug into a BS4573 socket, an adapter is required. However, it may also be possible to force the Euro plug into British sockets.

5. Lightbulb socket - Wikipedia

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   The two-pin socket is an update of the bi-post design with smaller pins designed to reduce the cost of manufacture. The 1000-watt FEL medium two-pin base halogen lamp allows designers to insert the lamp into the end of the ellipsoidal reflector through a smaller hole than previously possible with conventional incandescent lamps. This improves ...

6. Edison screw - Wikipedia

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   Some adapters for wall outlets use an Edison screw, allowing a light socket to become an ungrounded electrical outlet (such as to install Christmas lights temporarily via a porch light), or to make a pull-chain switch with two outlets, or to split it for two lamps. Another adapter can make a wall outlet into a lamp holder (lamp socket).

7. Electrical connector - Wikipedia

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   An adapter can be used to join dissimilar connectors. Most electrical connectors have a gender – i.e. the male component, called a plug, connects to the female component, or socket. Thousands of configurations of connectors are manufactured for power, data, and audiovisual applications. [3]