Yep, I've heard thos called Sony power cables, too. When you don't know what to call it, that makes sense.


Well, my argument that you should not call a slot screwdriver a flathead sort of falls apart when faced with this absolutely correct designation. Nobody's going to learn this, just as I still don't know which IEC connector is the C16, which the C17, etc. Sony versus Mickey Mouse makes as much sense as learning the shortened designation, C7.

I just wish there were some way I could look for information like this. I would just drive to the library and find some reference book. But once I found it, I suppose it would be a drag to have to sit there and draw out by hand what each type looks like.... You know, for reference in discussions like this. Too bad there's no easier way.


It took only a moment to realize which one that was when I first heard this. It was a funny kind of scooby doo "hruuhh?" moment.

Now that i think about it... I am pretty sure the sony version is the one with the one round one square side connector.

figure 8 is non polarized

circle/square is polarized

that is how most are labeled

I have lots of packages of P&S right angle (downward facing) plugs that are two piece molded. You can cut the cord you have and put on the plug end.
You can have them for .50ea.+shipping. The can go in a padded envelope.
These have always worked great with rack power strips.
Not sure if this will help in time, but wanted to give you the option.

Do you mean right angle (cable exiting to the right of the outlet) or down angle (cable exiting to the bottom of the outlet)? If the latter...it's a no-brainer. Here's what we order:

[Link: signalandpower.com]

Here's a schematic:

[Link: signalandpower.com]

Figure 8 (rounded on both sides is non-polorized). Squared off on one side is polarized...they are both C7 however so be sure to check. The item above is figure 8 non polarized as you requested.

You can also use this to extend the cord from an apple power supply to the outlet as well.

That's interesting. The photo shows the polarized connector and the line drawing shows the non-polarized. I wonder which one you get.


Because it's the exact one.


Who is P&S? Is it Signal and Power, the company cited just after this post?

That's it! Thanks.

If anyone bothers to be so careful, and this crowd which is fine with figure eights and mickey mouses doesn't seem to need to be that careful, the polarized C7 is the C7P.

FWIW, the hot side is the squared-off side.

Not to be a d*ck, but


both the photo and the line drawing show the requested non-polarized plug.


and


this does not have a right angle as requested, so it's not the "exact one".

Right you are. I swear, when I first looked at it, the photo showed the rectangular end. Even now, looking closely, the end on the left of the photo doesn't look completely round. My bad.

And yes, it's not a right angle.

You're not a d*ck for pointing out inaccuracy. All of this stuff depends, at some point, on being technically correct about everything.

If the salesperson taking the cable order can interpret "figure 8" or "mickey mouse" and then choose the technically correct item, then someone, somewhere, has chosen the complete impossible-to-remember designation. If the salesman can't, as we couldn't tell at first what the HELL the OP was talking about, then we need to come up with the proper number.

I'm still a bit stymied as to how to easily spec, without a photo that sales and I are both looking at, a polarized right angle plug to be sure it goes the way I need it to go. I've had to laugh at Quail's designation of such a connector going one way as being a right angle connector -- I learned that "right angle" means 90 degrees -- but the same connector going the other way is a "left angle" connector.

This is somewhat like trying to convey to someone on another planet what "left" and "right" are.

I was just looking at the specs for different connector types and found that the figure-8 connector is also called a shotgun type. How did we miss that? It's obvious now that I've seen it. And why has nobody called it the infinity plug?