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    Twist-on wire connectors are a type of electrical connector used to fasten two or more low-voltage (or extra-low-voltage) electrical conductors. They...
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    Rat-tail splice (redirect from Twist splice)
    or it can be twisted and then held in place by the internal metal spring or threads of a twist-on wire connector, also called a wire nut. For safety...
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    connector Tube socket Twist-on wire connector AC power plugs and sockets Audio and video interfaces and connectors Banana connector Battery holder Battery...
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    currents induced in each of the two wires are very nearly equal. The twisting ensures that the two wires are on average the same distance from the interfering...
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    Crocodile clips Screw terminals and terminal blocks Wire nuts, a type of twist-on wire connector Leads on electronic components Battery terminals, often using...
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    A DC connector (or DC plug, for one common type) is an electrical connector that supplies direct current (DC) power. Compared to domestic AC power plugs...
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    terminals) and wires connected to it, the voltage, and single- or three-phase power.[citation needed] A connector with ground terminal has more wires than poles:...
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    A modular connector is a type of electrical connector for cords and cables of electronic devices and appliances, such as in computer networking, telecommunication...
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    systems and as a common type of video connector. It has a twist-to-lock design, where two lugs on the female connector engage slots in the shell of the male...
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  • present on the wire, such as the output of variable-frequency drives. American wire gauge Electrical wiring in the United Kingdom Twist-on wire connector National...
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    worldwide. The connectors used for registered jack installations are primarily the modular connector and the 50-pin miniature ribbon connector. For example...
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    insulation. On the connector pin 2 is opposite pin 1, pin 3 is next to pin 1 along the length of the connector, and so on. On the cable, the wire connected...
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    Al/Cu wire connector". These special twist-on connectors have a distinctive purple color, have been UL Listed for aluminum to copper branch circuit wire connections...
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  • historic site in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Marr or Marrette, a twist-on wire connector Minimum acceptable rate of return or MARR, a project finance concept...
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  • SCART was the standard connector of the analog era in Europe. S-Video was an improvement over the F connector. Tip-ring connector with 4 conductors. S/PDIF...
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    2-pin connector with a similar locking tab to the modular connector, if thicker. IEC 63171-6 industrial: This standard defines five 2-pin connectors that...
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    punch-down blocks and modular connectors. Most Category 5 cables are unshielded, relying on the balanced line twisted pair design and differential signaling...
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    person connecting/disconnecting a male and a female cable connector (unless the person wears insulating gloves). Incorrect use of the ground connector as...
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    barbed wire. It uses single barb wire twisted on the line wire (strand wire). Double barb. Also known as 4-point barbed wire. Two barb wires twisted on the...
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    light-emitting diodes in the connector. Genuine Dell laptop power supplies use the 1-Wire protocol to send data via the third wire to the laptop computer about...
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    Screw terminal (category Electrical connectors)
    replacement of wires or equipment, generally with standard hand tools. Screw terminals usually avoid the requirement for a specialized mating connector to be applied...
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    Light switch (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    screw terminals are hollow and allow up to at least three 1 mm (CSA) wires, twisted together, to be inserted to a depth of up to 10 millimetres (0.39 in)...
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    The DIN connector is an electrical signal connector that was standardized by the Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN), the German Institute for Standards...
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  • Twist is a 2025 literary fiction novel by Irish author Colum McCann. It was released on March 25, 2025. Irish journalist Anthony Fennell joins the crew...
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    Category 6 cable (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    parameter. At a frequency of 500 MHz, an ISO/IEC Cat 6A connector performs 3 dB better than a Cat 6A connector that conforms with the EIA/TIA specification (3 dB...
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    converted into solid round wires by rolling them between flat surfaces or the strip wire drawing method. The strip twist wire manufacturing method was superseded...
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    in metallic cables (for example, twisted pair wire or coaxial cable), and to locate discontinuities in a connector, printed circuit board, or any other...
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    variants include a gasket and a twist-lock ring which seals the two connectors together. Plugs have cylindrical connector pins arranged in a circle, with...
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  • USB hardware (redirect from USB connector)
    computer industry has used. The connector mounted on the host or device is called the receptacle, and the connector attached to the cable is called the...
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  • pin-to-pair assignments, or pinout, between the pins in a connector (a plug or a socket) and the wires in a cable. Pinouts are critical because cables do not...
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