Electrical socket question

MaxP779

MaxP779

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Theres no negatives to attaching say 8 appliances to 1 wall socket right? This is from two daisy chained 4 socket extension things.

In total all appliances together would draw ~600w all together and that's probably a very high estimate.
 
I wouldn't recommend it. 4 extension leads adds up to a lot of resistance for that 600w to travel though.

In all honesty, the more stuff you plug into one socket, the greater risk of magic smoke and fire.
 
I wouldn't worry about it tbh, as long as your not drawing much power thats fine, if your worried just use a decent extension like belkin ones have thicker flex and better quality but anything should work fine

The worse things people do is run 2 13A appliances like fridges from one extension, cos they are not running 13A at the same time all the time the fuse doesn't blow but does sometimes run over 13A at times and it overheats and burns out the extension / socket.

ps. Cos a 13A fuse can run upto 19.5A before blowing etc
 
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HardwareGeek said:
I wouldn't worry about it tbh, as long as your not drawing much power thats fine, if your worried just use a decent extension like belkin ones have thicker flex and better quality but anything should work fine

The worse things people do is run 2 13A appliances like fridges from one extension, cos they are not running 13A at the same time all the time the fuse doesn't blow but does sometimes run over 13A at times and it overheads and burns out the extension / socket.

ps. Cos a 13A fuse can run upto 19.5A before blowing etc
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This!.

We had an issue at work where someone plugged a 3KW heater into the extention lead that was also powering the kettle and the microwave. All was fine until one cold lunchtime when the fire was on max and someone turned the kettle on while someone was heating there soup.
 
600W will be fine.

I currently run more than that off one plug socket via 4 daisy chained extension leads and have done for about 4 years with no issues.
 
Ah that's great!

Ive got:

PC - ~380w max (furmark + prime at same time!)
Amp - ~20w
Screen - ~20w
Phone charger - not much?
Printer - not much?
Light - ~14w
Clock - not much?
Electric blanket - ~75w max

So the total wattage isnt really a problem i just dont fully understand electricity, amps etc etc so yeah. Ill leave it as it is :cool:
 
All your basically doing is taking a spur off the circuit via a plug top and extension, you could do this with fixed wiring within the regs, its all good.

Draw small amount of power = fine
Draw too much power = fine (fuse blows to prevent problems)

Worse thing is drawing an intermediate amount of power, enough to overheat and burn out the plug top, extension & socket but not enough to blow the fuse, this is where the problem is
 
Anox said:
I wouldn't recommend it. 4 extension leads adds up to a lot of resistance for that 600w to travel though.

In all honesty, the more stuff you plug into one socket, the greater risk of magic smoke and fire.
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traditional resistance in a ac circuit is negligible, especially as its all in parallel

a 13amp wall socket can draw enough for a 3KW load without fusing/tripping with the right fuse, assuming current pull (magnetic field initialisation is a mofo) wont peak over that for a small duration, it should be ok.

current rush is something to watchout for
 
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