very basic question

"John"




** What ambiguous drivel.

 PCs use IEC leads with a female plug at the PC end -  so no prongs.





.......   Phil

You've been a great help.

I was looking for something like this:

http://www.rayheffer.com/iec.shtml

Or this

http://www.accesscomms.com.au/reference/reference_draw.htm

Kevin Martin

"John"





** Looking at the IEC female plug,  with the earth pin uppermost,

then from left to right it is :   Neutral  -   Earth  -   Active.

The  IEC female plug is known as a C13.

It is " female " because it has sockets, not pins  !!

That idiotic web page you found from some half witted compewter geek
got everything  100 %  dead WRONG.

The imbecile who wrote it does not even know male from female.


IMPORTANT:

The IEC male socket ( aka C14)  must  NEVER  be attached to the end of a AC
power cord  -   since that creates a  100%  LETHAL   male to male lead.




.......    Phil

see http://www.electronics2000.co.uk/data/pinout/iec.htm

I thought you would be amused.

PS and yes I didn't notice until you pointed it out. It is
actually very hard to find a correct and clear IEC plug and
socket wiring guide on the net.

"aussiblu"



**  If you find one -   post it.




.......   Phil

<http://www.switchcraft.com/products/pdf_files/connector-55b_schematic.pdf

Can't see any 'pinouts' given there just dimensions.

   Then you didn't look very close.  'L", 'N', and 'E' are shown,
exactly where Switchcraft molds it into their products.  It is visible
on their EAC227, EAC327, EAC309,EAC315, and EAC311 drawings.

Sorry; aging eyes after blowing them up to 200% I can see them.

   200%?  Hell, that's where I *start*, and I use a 22 inch monitor. ;-)

Hopefully the rewirable connectors are not being made in China
by someone using a web site as  a labelling guide though.

And if you do a Google image search for "IEC plug" or "IEC
socket" even those selling them mix the terms around 50% of the
time. So much for IEC being a standard.

"aussiblu"




** The problem seems to be with the meaning of the terms " plug" and "socket
".

The common  IEC  C13  " plug "  is a female connector  -  for obvious safety
reasons.  It  *plugs*  into a mating socket which is male, since it has
pins.

The way most makers have long described connectors like these is to
completely  AVOID   the use of  " plug " and " socket" .

Instead, the terms " line male" or  "line female" are used for ones that
attach to cables  &  " panel male " or  " panel female"  for the ones that
mount on equipment.

This pretty much eliminates the ambiguity of  " plug "  and  " socket "  -
for most people that is.

There is no accounting for autistic IT geeks lacking even one scintilla of
common sense or it seems the basics of the  "birds and bees" .




.....   Phil

So is Wikipedia wrong here too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60320

Firstly it can't really be wrong since no connection details are given.
Secondly why would anyone trust Wikipedia anyway? Sometimes it might be
right of course, but knowing when it is frequently wrong is the problem. And
if you are already sure, why bother looking?

MrT.

I was asking was it wrong in what it describes as a socket.