In article <telecom24.280.16@telecom-digest.org>,
Howard S. Wharton <yhshowie@acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote:
> By daisy chaining your power strips, you are causing the first
> ones in the chain to be overloaded and possibility the circuit
> it's plugged into. And it is a fire waiting to happen.
Every power strip I own has a breaker in it. Please explain just show
daisy chaining power strips to power low wattage power supplies cubes
is able to overload anything without tripping the breakers.
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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I think the problem would arise when
the circuit breaker goes out of order, for example, melted into place
where it should not be. I had a very old (too old to inquire about
refund/replacement) Radio Shack device: 13.5 volts by 3 amps, DC
power. I called it my little 'power house'. I had it sitting out in my
garden shed, plugged in, providing power to a CB radio out there. In
addition to an assortment of plugs allowing me to draw current from it
in various ways (to run radios, etc), it also had a 'reset button' on
the back side, when an overload or a short circuit somewhere caused it
to trip. With little squat legs, it sat on a table back there, and had
a 'cigarette lighter' style plug on the front it it (such as in an
automobile) to either plug in a cigarette lighter or one of the more
permanent plugs used to operate a cell phone or a ham/CB radio in a
car.
One day I went out to the shed to get the bird food (seeds and corn I
put out for the little guys by their nests in my back yard); I could
literally _smell_ that thing cooking when I went in the shed. I
reached up to the outlet and pulled the plug. The power house was _red
hot_ ... just just warm, but _hot_. The little red reset switch on the
back seemed to be stuck. Looking inside the unit, I found the plastic
from the reset switch was melted where the breaker was supposed to
be. That seems to be the problem; not that the strips would overload
and blow their reset buttons, but that the reset buttons would be old
and faulty and fail to work as they should.
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