Later replies to this question have revealed that you are not trying to represent the concept of power at all - you are asking for a symbol to represent mains input. This explains why you have has so many responses that didn't answer the question you had intended to ask (but didn't).
That is not the abstract concept "Power". Several of the suggestions were the result of misunderstanding your intentions because "Source of electrical power" is a specialised subset of the more general word "Power".
That makes absolutely no sense to me.
Must be my fault.
John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics
No. I've been more or less lurking since 2017, though.
Well, yeah.
It's just sometimes the additional requirements that come later seem like things that the original poster genuinely didn't think about. Or, they did think about them, decided they weren't that common, and the replies say, "I want to do that all the time, so it would be useful for the device to support that".
I'm talking about saying things like "I want to run a 3 hp motor", so the discussion starts out with stuff like "can you get three-phase from the power company" and "do you need constant or variable speed", and then five or six posts in, revealing that you need to do it from a car battery on a desert island.
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