I hadn't really thought about this until just now, and it was seeing someone else's post about wiring in some USB sockets that did it.

I confess that I haven't looked really hard at USB sockets, but it does strike me that almost all the ones I've seen have been USB-A; i.e. the ones in which the rectangular plug will only fit one way round.

And because USB-C - the oval plug and socket which isn't handed like the A type - is gradually overtaking USB-A, I wonder, if you were to go to all the trouble of installing USB-As, a couple of years down the road you might find yourself in the very situation you were trying to avoid in the first place in having to use adaptors.

It's certainly the case in cars - no sooner do cars get USB-A sockets for plugging your rechargeable Wayfarers into than they're all being replaced with the C types and you have to go back to using the sun visor and squinting.

I appreciate all this stuff changes all the time as things move on, and doubtless USB-Cs will become redundant with the advent of neural wireless charging using nothing more than the power of your noggin, but maybe until then it might be an idea to hold off installing an array of soon-to-be redundant USB-A sockets and go back to a plug-in charger for the time being.

And you can always use a 240V socket for plugging an overpriced and weedy camping kettle into for a brew as well - in the proliferation of USB-powered gubbins I've never seen anything resembling a kettle; one which would take less than two weeks to get a teapot's worth of water above tepididity, at any rate.

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Just like you I'm unsure of how quickly Technology changes, so although I'm not adverse to making holes in my Eriba I went the plug in adaptor route.
https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/koppla-3-po...white-40415031/ I leave it plugged into one of the front window ledge sockets all the time and at £6 it's a bargain. Still no use for a kettle though.

Colin

We just use a 4 plug socket/2 USB port Power Block which also doubles as a 1 metre extension something like this but cheaper in Lidl sbout 3 years ago..

https://www.screwfix.com/p/masterplug-13...harger-1m/5427g

Randa