"brugnospamsia" wrote in message
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"Andrew Chesters" wrote in message
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Goo Goo wrote:
"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.
What the feck are you on? Just because you have a 13,10 or 3 amp fuse
DOES NOT MEAN the item will draw that current. The fuse just protects
the cable from overload. To find the current drawn, have a look on the
back of your equipment and read the plate where the voltage and current
will be specified.

Did the OP say another socket in the room went off ?

Implies something loose in the back of the one with the 10 way in it (and
the other one being a spur off it, not off the ring)


re-reading it, actually I bet it's the other way round - the hoover's
probably plugged into the other socket on a regular basis and the cable gets
tugged ...