On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 12:50:05 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:

Uncle Peter wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Uncle Peter wrote
Rod Speed wrote
charles wrote
Uncle Peter wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Tim Streater wrote
Uncle Peter wrote

Most people just buy a 6 way strip to sit behind the TV. TV, DVD,
etc use nothing like 13 amps.

I just had the sparks add four double-sockets behind where the TV
etc sit.

More fool you.

Then I got rid of the 6 way strip and the adapter. Much tidier.

Much tidier to have the strip inside whatever the electronics is in
and a single lead to the wall socket.

In spades with the computer, its got 3 16 way strips.

What in god's name have you got plugged in there? I've got two
monitors, two printers, a computer, an amplifier, a telephone, and a
portable hard disk for backup.

3 computers, 2 printers, label printer, monitor, scanner, 1 network
router, 1 network hub, 1 printer server, desk lamp, telephone. 12
here.

The other thing I forgot to mention is that you can't use all
the sockets on the plug strips because some of the wall warts
are too big to allow the socket next to them to be used by
anything else.

I don't have that problem.

Because you don't have any of the bigger wall warts.

Anything powerful I have has a seperate wart that's on a wire from a
normal plug.

Some of mine do, plenty don't.

Show me a photo of one that doesn't.

Either get more sensibly spaced strips,

Not even possible.

They are sold in varying spacings, FACT.

None of them allow the biggest wallwarts in every socket, FACT.

Then get the industrial ones, like they put in server racks.

or stop using those old transformer based wallwarts.

No thanks, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to add another plug strip.

Not if you add up the wasted electricity.

Bull****.

Feel the heat off a transformer wart.

All my wallwarts weight about as much as the plastic housing and are
half the size of my hand.

And you have **** all of them compared with me.

I've got loads.

You clearly don't if you can get away with just 8 sockets
or you are actually stupid enough to keep plugging and
unplugging them from the single plug strip.

8 sockets where? At my computer desk? Only the telephone has a wart there.

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