"Lobster" wrote in message
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Goo Goo wrote:

Today i was hoovering through *another*socket in my room, and we had a
power-cut, i think it was in the entire house but i can't tell as nothing
was 'on' that would indicate so, but everything in my room cut out.

What do you mean by a power cut? Why can't you tell what was cut - are
you saying the power came back on by itself?

I don't want to blow up the house, but surely if it says 10-way socket
expander it *should* be ok, even with more than 13amps going through it?

Er - why would you think that?!!

It's a comptuer, video,tv,printer,monitoramplifier and a couple of other
minor things like wireless router.

What other "minor things"? That doesn't sound like 13A so far - where do
you get that figure from?


By a power-cut i mean everything went off in the room i was in, the hoover
on the one socket itself, and the 8/9/10 sockets on the mains-extender which
was plugged into a socket the opposite side of the room. Then everything
came back on.

Later on the computer restarted twice, along with other items powerong off
then back on, so i believe the extender to be the cause.

Also, i don't know what you're thinking of, but how can 13 amps not be
achieved already?!

A monitor has a high-fuse, along with the amplifier surely, and the
television. In fact it would be **** easy to go way over the 13a
thresh-hold.

If you think about it there's actually a far higher chance of attaching 10
items to it and going over 13amps than NOT going over it - you could have no
items rated at 13amps, one at 3 amps, and nine items at 1amp - that's a bit
****e isn't it?

It's the only 10-way-extender i saw in maplin and 2 other
electrical-specific-parts retailers, so i guess that is why.