wrote:


secondly, you can see any attempt at size reduction will
be thwarted by the first wall wart to come along.


I dont understand that. Wall warts would have no effect on the use of
smaller plugs as well as the present standard.

The way I see the size question is we dont to see want a long row of
sockets on teh wall, but we do want more sockets to use nowadays.
Fitting 6 sockets in the space of 1 double would solve that, and since
both systems would be fully compatible, it would not affect the use of
present plugs in those sockets, they would be usde as now at the same
density as now. And the new plugs would fit the present old sockets
too, so there would be no compatibility problem.

If you are maintaining compatibility, then you will need the same pin
layout and spacing. So yes you could put them closer together
(especially if you oriented each rotated 180 degrees), you could make
the plugs skinny, triangular, and have the cord exit from the top (i.e.
US style) rather than the edge. You could squeeze four (maybe even as
many as eight) into the space of a current double socket. However if you
plug an exiting design wall wart into one you would probably obscure
four sockets in one hit.



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Cheers,

John.

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