How safe are 10-way adapter sockets?

I'm baffled by the fear surrounding multitaps. There's nothing to worry about if you don't exceed the ampage of a single plug socket.

That being said, my wife told me off for using a two socket block adapter the other day. I threw the thing away. I couldn't even be bothered arguing about amps.
 
I can't be the only one here who has a 4-way plugged into an 8-way plugged into a 4-way? :p

Some silly amount of sockets in my room!

Some silly amount of equipment as well :p
 
I've got 2x 8 way in my room into 1 double wall socket.

But they're both UPS style battery / surge protected devices and the overload meter is way below max
 
Haha count yourself lucky

My room has two sockets, a single socket near the window and another on the opposite side, house designers must have been stupid as its not that old a house :/

I run all my stuff of an 8 way.
 
As others have said, it's not really the number of appliances you have, but the total current draw. All those appliances are relatively low-power, so their total power draw will still be far less than (say) a 3KW fan heater.

Given that some of it is sensitive equipment (like the computer), you would want to make sure you have surge protection, but other than that don't fret about it. Just make sure you don't daisy-chain items like space-heaters, kettles and other electronic heating devices in there.
 
vonhelmet said:
I'm baffled by the fear surrounding multitaps. There's nothing to worry about if you don't exceed the ampage of a single plug socket.

That being said, my wife told me off for using a two socket block adapter the other day. I threw the thing away. I couldn't even be bothered arguing about amps.
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What's even worse is when people insist on not using extension leads so get a sparky in to fit a spur instead...
 
mrhhhh my favourite was discovering some handy chap decided to fit a spur for an external socket in my current house. Overall the job was well done, just a shame it was running from the lighting circuit.
 
I will say only this. Plug your mac lead into your macbook, then with the power on, put it straight in the wall. See the sparks fly!
 
Duff-Man said:
As others have said, it's not really the number of appliances you have, but the total current draw. All those appliances are relatively low-power, so their total power draw will still be far less than (say) a 3KW fan heater.

Given that some of it is sensitive equipment (like the computer), you would want to make sure you have surge protection, but other than that don't fret about it. Just make sure you don't daisy-chain items like space-heaters, kettles and other electronic heating devices in there.
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That's what I was thinking, but I was concerned there was some sort of problem that I was missing because of my scanty knowledge of how it works.

I already have separate surge protectors, ones that go in the socket, so I should be able to use the 10-way with one of those in the same way that I'm using the 4-ways with them now.
 
I have a 12-way block and run:

PC with 550w PSU (probably only draws about 300w)
2x 24" monitor both rated at 125w each.
Xbox 360, Wii, Printer, Home cinema amp with 5 speakers plugged into it.
Subwoofer (100 watt)
External HD, 150 watt floor lamp, 40 watt desk lamp, desk fan.

No issues whatsoever in any of the 3 houses I've run this in. It's things like Vacuum cleaners, fan heaters, kettles and toasters that you need to be careful of, electronics are fine..
 
Angilion said:
I'll be running this lot:

PC
CRT monitor
Printer
External HDD
Headphones
Alarm clock
Three floor lamps
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I had 2 4 way adaptors running on a cube at one point, and then the other spare for the alarm clock, what i did is, when im out of the room for a long time i turned them all off, leaving the alarm clock on as to not loose the timings.

Works fine and also very safe when your not in the room and if you are there, you can contain any problems yourself swiftly..

Problem solved if you ask me.

At the moment i have a 20m extention running about 5 meters! LOL and i have a 4 way coming out of that running my tv xbox and sound sys..

I turn it off when im not in, runs up to a cube where i can then plug in my laptop, when i go to bed its off, when i get up its off until i need it.

My router runs off a seperate port altogether as need 24/7 connection on that.
 
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