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| Thread ID: 144152 | 2017-07-24 20:59:00 | Electricity use | lakewoodlady (103) | PC World Chat |
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| 1437583 | 2017-07-24 20:59:00 | Hi, If I plug my phone charger into a stove socket, does it draw more power than an ordinary wall socket. My sister is the electricity police and says not to plug my charger into the stove. I'm only staying with her for one day lol! LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1437584 | 2017-07-24 21:04:00 | Should draw the same, it can only draw what the charger needs I think | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1437585 | 2017-07-24 21:11:00 | She is mistaken, it will draw what it draws irrespective of the location of the socket. | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1437586 | 2017-07-24 21:12:00 | Should draw the same, it can only draw what the charger needs I think Exactly as Gary says. The wiring to the stove is designed to handle a far bigger load than the 10amp wall sockets in the building for obvious reasons however the phone charger will only draw what it needs no matter where it is pluged in |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1437587 | 2017-07-24 21:13:00 | Dave said it better than I in far fewer words :) | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1437588 | 2017-07-24 21:17:00 | That's a new one....how does she think it works? Lets say you plug a laptop in....it then sucks more power out, which would blow it.....wouldn't it. I'm guessing she is confused about amps...and circuit breakers, you put too much load on one breaker, it pops...but that's not sucking more power into a device, that's just connecting (usually via multi box) too many separate items off one circuit. In my house, half the kitchen, one bedroom, all the lounge and the garage are off one, we have discovered. That's fine usually...but if we have say, the heater on, dryer on in garage and I then plug the vacuum in, it pops it. Overloading it....is why. Not one device extracts more power....more power would fry the appliance. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1437589 | 2017-07-24 21:34:00 | If you have a look at the plug of the charger it will tell you how many amps it draws and that is the amount of power that it uses regardless of which outlet it is plugged into. You can tell your sister that she has been misinformed. | Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1437590 | 2017-07-24 21:35:00 | One thing I have heard from a sparky and also from a guy running a safety course I attended is that some stove wiring is borderline dodgy and the power points are best avoided all together. Plus I think people have been known to lay the power cords across hot elements which is not the smartest of Ideas. I thought it interesting but I've always ignored that advice myself, they are convenient and that's what they are for. My Jug is permanently connected to one of them. Did your Sister state her reasons for not wanting you to use the stove? is it power usage or safety? Anyway for the most part I adopt the "their house their rules" kind of policy with my family, even when I disagree or think they are being foolish but I will tell them so as well :) |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1437591 | 2017-07-24 21:36:00 | Think she's on a different planet sometimes. Maybe "draw power" is the wrong thing I said. She actually said use more power. LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1437592 | 2017-07-24 21:56:00 | A phone charger is in the 2.5 - 10W range typically (5V @ .5 - 2amp), even if you took the worst case of 10W and doubled it to 20W then left your phone charging for 8 hours that's 160W/H at 25c per 1000W/H so that's approximately 4c of power. In reality it will be less than 1c for most full charges of a phone - and that's all assuming it draws maximum power the whole time which it won't. So a little more than bugger all is still bugger all is my point, and we all know it won't actually use more power anyway as already discussed. But it's her house and not worth the aggravation - shrug and use a different power point. |
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