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If I have a lamp on a shelf above a socket why does the wire have to come out of the bottom of the plug and then curl back upwards? Why can't it just come out of the top, and go straight up? Same goes for appliances to the left or right.
Rotating Sockets
http://www.psfk.com...les-over-plugs.html
[theGem, Nov 13 2008]
Pivoting sockets
http://www.cyberguy...asp?productID=17698
[theGem, Nov 13 2008]
Baked
http://i122.photobu...neteenthly/plug.jpg
Right here, right now [nineteenthly, Mar 12 2010]
[link]
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At such places, you can just fit the socket upside
down.. |
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unscrew, rotate (make sure wired dont short), screw |
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The cord on my battery backup does what Mony is talking
about. |
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The wires come out of the plug downwards so that the electrons do not have to struggle against the force of gravity to get out of the plug and on to the wire. |
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Gotta be kind to those little buggers that Thompson could almost see. |
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Water rarely flows through rubber too. Perhaps a little seal (the rubber kind, not the fish-eating kind) would do the trick? |
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What country are you in? What do these sockets and plugs look like? Post a link and I too will know what you are on about. |
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They make plugs that rotate so that they can be plugged in
at any angle. They also make rotating sockets and pivoting
sockets. [link] I think this idea is baked from all angles. |
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[zeno] picture a small flattish "wall-wart" |
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//What country are you in? // Kenya
//What do these sockets and plugs look like?// 3-pin domestic plugs
//Post a link and I too will know what you are on about.// I don't know where they are, if anywhere. Perhaps theGem knows...wait a minute, found the link. The pivoting socket would do it...just. |
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(+) it actually took me a while to understand, but finally I got it....and your idea is a good one. |
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And while you're at it, you could consider some sort of 'ball and socket' deal, which will allow the cord an entire hemisphere of rotational freedom (this can take care of the 'left' and 'right' appliances also, no?) |
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That would do it. It is baked re the moving socket but not re moving plug. |
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Yep, get it now. That needed fixing indeed |
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I also want this for UK 3-pin plugs. I could rotate the socket, but it's a double, and I want one going up and one down. |
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I think British safety standards specifically require the wire to come out the bottom though, which sucks. |
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I have an example of one right in front of me on the desk right now (three-pin because i'm in England), so that seems not to be so, [xorsyst]. |
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//I have an example of one right in front of me on the desk right now //
Where did you get it? |
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