Sentence examples for mains socket from inspiring English sources

You should also try plugging another device into the socket just to make sure that a fuse hasn't tripped in the main fuse box and that the mains socket that the plug is plugged into is actually live.

(With an ordinary mains socket, by contrast, recharging could take all day).

It just needs to be plugged in to a three-pin mains socket.

Every mains socket was infected with a black box, feeding lamps, telephones or mysterious gadgets we didn't dare disconnect.

The bikes use power from a rechargeable battery, which can be removed from the bike and charged at any mains socket.

For starters, it weighs 5lbs (2kg), and needs to be plugged into a mains socket.

THE dullest bits of the many electronic devices people plug into mains sockets in their houses and offices are the power adaptors.

It holds enough juice for days of standby time on your phone or 40 hours of iPod music, and can be recharged using either mains sockets (worldwide) or its tough, fold-out solar panel.

Because a law of the universe - presumably linkable by some undiscovered grand unification theory to Moore's law - holds that the number of transformers a modern home or office requires will exceed the number of mains sockets available.

Lighting, blinds and mains sockets are controlled by KNX technology, which is interconnected with BACnet (Fig. 2).

Our idea is to develop a low-power wireless system for energy consumption analysis at mains sockets, which can be installed into every household or office.