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| Thread ID: 86857 | 2008-01-30 19:56:00 | Are some people asking for trouble ? | wainuitech (129) | PC World Chat |
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| 635605 | 2008-01-30 19:56:00 | As the title says - went to a persons place yesterday, returned the PC, and the power cable had dropped behind the Desk- crawled under it to get the plug and Holy Cr*P :horrified - Talk about multiboxes - counted them up - a total of 6 ( six) multiboxes, both 4 and 6 plug all daisy chained together , running off one wall socket. All sockets had working plugs, and a couple had a double adaptors as well. Told the person thats a big fire risk - he said " always been like that" - the One wall socket was running two PC's / LCD's Printers, clocks, and electric blankets. :groan: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 635606 | 2008-01-30 19:59:00 | You have warned him,you can do no more. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 635607 | 2008-01-30 20:06:00 | I wonder if an insurance company would pay up if that was the cause of a fire? | FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 635608 | 2008-01-30 20:12:00 | Is it as bad as it looks? The daisy chaining will put the load on 2nd and subsequent multiboxes through the cutout in the 1st. His computer problem wasn't related to power cutting off was it? | PaulD (232) | ||
| 635609 | 2008-01-30 20:14:00 | Well, ok - the man obviously has a minimal system. It will get up to a more normal number of connections in time. ;) As long as the first thing in the chain is a multibox, the current is limited to 10 Amps by the circuit breaker. That is better protection than a standard outlet gets, since with a ring main that may have a 32 amp fuse at the switchboard (old regs permitted it, dunno about now). The heating / fire risk is from resistance at a dodgy plug, if the load (which is limited to 10 A total) is spread among many connectors, the individual connectors carry such light loads they are unlikely to get warm. The risk comes when you unplug something to work on it, and find that it was the wrong plug as you start dancing. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 635610 | 2008-01-30 20:24:00 | The house in question was 50 years old and predated cut out switches,hence the concern. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 635611 | 2008-01-30 20:36:00 | The house in question was 50 years old and predated cut out switches,hence the concern . Are you acting as wainuitech's driver these days? Any overload switch I referred to would be on the multibox . The fuses or circuit breakers in NZ houses have always been to protect the cabling not the outlets or what's plugged into them . |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 635612 | 2008-01-30 21:48:00 | Provided the total load does not exceed the maximum ratings of any part in the circuit, there should be no problem.... right? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 635613 | 2008-01-31 00:33:00 | Are you acting as wainuitech's driver these days? Any overload switch I referred to would be on the multibox . The fuses or circuit breakers in NZ houses have always been to protect the cabling not the outlets or what's plugged into them . No,I am his assistants mate and we know what we are talking about . |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 635614 | 2008-01-31 02:13:00 | If the combined load is less than 10 amperes it will be ok just messy. C1 |
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