Plug loads refer to electric power consumed by products through an ordinary alternating current plug socket.
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The court heard there were baby gates in place and plug socket covers along with coverings on table edges.
The pen has been designed to be compact and easy to use, you just plug it into a power socket and can start drawing anything within minutes.
Users connect the adapter via an Ethernet cable to a router, and then plug the adapter into a wall socket.
Yes, but these new hybrids will have a plug that connects to a wall socket, giving consumers a choice of using (mostly domestic) electricity to replace all (mostly foreign) gasoline on most trips.
To find the energy hogs, you simply plug each appliance into the meter in turn, and then plug the meter into the wall socket and leave it switched on for a fixed time.
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My husband and I wasted gas driving around after the storm, trying to find a place with an open electric socket where I could plug in my dead laptop to finish a deadline project.
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Plug the cable into the motherboard socket.
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Attaching appliances to a power socket via a smart plug containing sensors and a ZigBee transceiver allows information about the appliances' power consumption to be beamed automatically to a broadband router within the home, and thence to a web server located elsewhere.
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"There's going to be one type of socket and one type of plug, " McQuary said.
On the bottom edge is a trick flap that's both a micro-USB socket and a USB Type A plug depending on how it's positioned -- the micro-SIM slot is cleverly hidden behind it.
This isn't the defunct EV1 we're talking about here, nor some of those other models we've heard about before, this is the Phoenix Motorcars electric SUV, which can be plugged into a wall socket and recharged with the same plug that powers your garden party boombox.
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The box will still ship with a micro-USB to USB cable in the box, allowing the handset to plug into a deskbound computer or a mains charger with a USB socket.
We're pressing on with battery research for plug-in hybrid vehicles that can be powered by electricity from a wall socket, instead of gasoline.
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