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And yet the technical people need accurate names to call things so they can communicate without ambiguity. I think "charging station" is the least confusing te
by elihu 3y ago
And yet the technical people need accurate names to call things so they can communicate without ambiguity.
I think "charging station" is the least confusing term for the fixed infrastructure part. If regular people call those "chargers" in non-technical conversation, then I'm not going to lose sleep over it.
- gambiting 3y agoThe thing that you use to provide your phone with electricity - do you call it an AC-DC converter, or do you call it a charger like nearly everyone on earth, even though the charger part is actually inside your phone?
- Dylan16807 3y agoIt's funny that people don't want to call it a charger specifically because it doesn't do the AC-DC conversion, and your example of a thing people call a charger is an AC-DC converter. And depending on the sophistication of the phone, that converter outside the phone might be doing most of the work.
- gambiting 3y ago>>It's funny that people don't want to call it a charger specifically because it doesn't do the AC-DC conversion Well yeah, they are being silly - I don't know why that would be the distinction, even if it did AC-DC conversion it would have no idea what the battery is doing which is the entire point. >>that converter outside the phone might be doing most of the work. Maybe, but usually the circuit that controls and monitors the battery is inside the phone, not in the "charger" outside. Even battery chargers for power tools and such work this way - the circuit that controls the battery charging is actually inside the battery pack not in the base, but everyone would call the base a "charger".
- elihu 3y agoI call it a USB cable.
- ferongr 3y agoThat's a USB power supply.