According to statistics, the global sales volume of mopping boards was approximately $30 billion in 2014, and the global demand for extension sockets grew by nearly 100% in 2018 compared to 2014, and the global market demand for extension sockets has also grown at a rate of more than 15% per year in recent years. While the market demand for extension sockets has increased dramatically, consumer demand for extension sockets is no longer limited to the traditional extended charging function, and the market is slowly moving towards intelligent applications.
Under the current situation, extension socket’s development has met a bottleneck in developed countries. However among the rapid development of economy in developing countries, the demand for the extension socket and for its creative design increases rapidly. Referring to the developed countries and the HOMEBEST extension sockets with rapid popularity of more safe and high-quality brand characteristics in Middle East market in recent years, you may consider from following features to make traditional extension socket design more human and more intelligent, to occupy more market share and attract more consumer groups.
Safer Extension Socket
As a common household electrical appliance in our daily life, extension sockets are often the small thing that we maybe unaware it can be the source of many accidents, including electric shock, fire, children accidentally touched, etc. Various safety protection design is the basis for market launch.
Overload Protector
As a single socket power supply expansion, the power load of the extension socket has a certain limit. For example, the total electrical power load of the extension socket rated 13A and 250V ~ can not exceed 3250W. Once the total power load is exceeded, it is easy to cause the fault of the charging devices or the fire caused by the circuit temperature rise. Homebest designs an overload protector that automatically cuts off the power when the load on the extension socket exceeds its maximum power to protect the device and personal safety.
Protection Door
As the source of household electricity, the extension sockets also need to be paid attention to its protection of children. For this purpose, the supplier of Homebest designs an anti-single plug protection door for the socket hole, with a safety resistance of 75N to prevent electric shock from children's fingers or metal objects accidentally touching the internal copper parts. In addition, the design of the protective door also improves the phenomenon of loose connection and loose drop of the plug to some extent.
Fire-retardant Material
When the high-power devices are charged to the extension socket, the total power is likely to approach or exceed the rated power, which is easy to overheat and causes the shell material to melt at a high temperature, thus causing a fire. HomeBest’s shell adopts the PC/PP material which will not continue to burn or the flame will be extinguished within 10 seconds after contact with the flame at 750℃ for 30 seconds, to prevent the occurrence of fire.
Longer Performance Life Extension Socket
High-quality raw materials are the basis of product quality assurance. As a collection of metal, circuits and power supply, the extension socket has a stricter requirement for material quality. Excellent suppliers should not only promise to use the standard materials, but also use materials far beyond the standard requirements to extend the service life of the extension socket.
High-quality Copper
Almost all the hardware inside the extension socket is made of copper. Homebest uses H62 brass with higher quality than H52. The material is thicker and the copper content is higher, exceeding the requirements of SASO 2815, GSO2117, and IEC 60884 standards. It features better electrical conductivity, less heat and loss, and can effectively extend the service life of the extension socket. The outlets and the internal copper parts are made of a single copper bar, which can protect the internal structure of the socket and withstand more than 8000 times of insertion and extraction, far exceeding the standard requirements.
Thicker Power Cord
The extension socket heats up during use, and its main cause is the total power overload, or substandard cables. Homebest adopts a high-quality VDE certified power cord, using anaerobic copper wire with copper over 99.9999%, cross-section over 1.50mm², can enhance the carrying capacity of the extension socket, withstand greater current, and will not be easy to heat and soften. A strong power cord can prevent the connection from loosening or breaking during movement or use.
More Humanity Designed Extension Socket
It seems that the extension socket is no longer a simple power supply equipment, as people have higher and higher requirements for it, requiring it to be beautiful, portable, practical, and so on. Not only the extension socket, more and more other products also begin to break through their original design, begin to improve the product based on consumer behaviour, to highlight the brand characteristics and to meet consumer use needs.
Compact Size
Mobility is one of the important reasons that extension socket can be widely used. The early definition of moveable on extension socket is more like the length of cable. But according to the current trend of development, we develop the definition of moveable to portable, compact design(narrow or compressed), which makes the extension socket can be easily placed between the table and wall, or put into a travel bag and so on.
Reasonable Spacing Between Outlets
Many extension sockets are designed with multiple outlets, but due to improper position and short spacing, two adjacent outlets cannot cover two standard size 13A plugs at the same time, and the extension socket efficiency cannot be maximized. The HomeBest extension socket is designed to be extremely compact, but it's maximized when it has multiple outlets to power multiple devices at the same time.
Separate Switch for Each Outlet
For some lazy users, they are not used to disconnect the socket in time when the devices do not need to be charged, but in the long-term charging mode, there will be a certain amount of loss for the extension socket and charging devices. The Homebest extension socket provides a separate switch for each outlet, so it does not need to plug and plug many times. Just press the corresponding switch. Control it separately, which not only saves power and convenience but also protects the outlet and reduces damage.
More Intelligent Extension Socket
As the products of the intelligent development of extension sockets, USB and Type-C charging ports have been favoured by the young consumers in recent years. In 2018, the sales amount of the intelligent series extension socket reached 0.9 billion dollars, accounting for 10% of the global market of extension sockets. Following this trend is an important information point for gaining a larger market share.
USB Charging Port
According to consumer behaviour research, people prefer 2-4 USB charging ports for a 3-5 ways extension socket. HomeBest new extension socket with USB charging ports meet the demand of many young consumers. Mobile phones, Bluetooth headsets, and so on are very convenient to charge directly on the extension socket, which not only avoids the trouble of the need for multiple adaptors and multi larger plugs arranged on the extension socket, but also intelligently identifies the required current for charging devices.
Type-C Charging Port
If the USB port is the first step to approaching intelligence, the Type-C port must the second step to follow. Type-C was developed by USB Implementers Forum and became popular after supports Apple, Google, Intel, Microsoft, and other manufacturers in 2014. It can not only carry out data transmission but also carry out charging. It has powerful power output capability and charge transfer speed is much faster than the traditional USB port. Double-headed Type-C will be the uniform trend.
Based on the behaviour of the end consumer and the requirements for safe use, the future of the extension socket will have more possibilities. If the product price does not have an obvious competitive advantage in the market, then on the premise of ensuring product quality, avoiding conflicts with existing products in the market, and reflecting the brand characteristics of products will be a beneficial weapon to attract more consumers and increase sales.
Homebest is the e-commerce division of Landlink and also its own brand. Its products cover extension sockets, wall switches, adaptors, LED lighting and other household accessories, and it has over 20 years of experience in the design, production and sales of these products in the industry. The quality of products is strictly controlled, certification standards are updated timely and marketing information is kept up to date to provide a comprehensive one-stop sourcing service. For any products or industry related information, please link to www.hbsocket.com