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American usage

The article mainly documents American naming conventions. The A, B and C battery designations were never used in British English, and possibly in other international English variants too. A = LT (Low Tension), B = HT (High Tension), and C = GB (Grid Bias). The article would be improved if expanded to document non-American naming conventions properly. Unfortunately I don't have time to do this myself at the moment. --80.176.142.11 (talk) 21:50, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have now documented BE nomenclature within the article. It would be helpful if editors in other English speaking countries (Australia, India etc.) could document their local usage. I would expect Canadians to use American nomenclature, as they did with most aspects of tube/valve technology. --80.176.142.11 (talk) 09:39, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have added redirects for LT Battery, HT Battery and GB Battery. --Ef80 (talk) 10:17, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A, B and C battery was the normal usage in the Australian Army up until the valve sets were finally replaced (the VHF CPRC-26 type D or 26 set and the HF WS A-510 were still in use in training in the 1970s). Andrewa (talk) 15:03, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Anachronistic and possibly offensive terminology

I suggest reviewing use of the term "wife approval factor" (or "wife acceptance factor") in the Obsolescence section to refer to the level of tolerance by women to messy and technical apparatus which at the time were seen as a hobby more suited to men. While I don't see documentation of the actual aversion by women, the perception that women disliked messy equipment is documented, as is the intent to design around it. So the mention of this phenomenon is appropriate, but the term wife approval factor is described in its own page as having been coined later, in the 1980s, and now considered sexist.

In other words, I am drawing a distinction between using the term and describing the use of the term. Describing its use may be appropriate in some contexts but using it seems not to be not since it is now considered offensive. With respect to this article however, it seems not to have been used in the time covered by the Obsolescence section, so that would make discussion of its use irrelevant. I'm open to correction if this is not the case, but it is still worth editing to describe use of the term instead of actually using it in the article. Lex (talk) 17:36, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]