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Could put this in general but this looks about as good a place for it...
Assuming I was building a desk that will have sockets as you'd normally use for the wall built into the side of a centre cabinet at monitor height (about... 6 inch from the desk surface). They'll be properly earthed with plastic box on the back to electrically insulate them and the cables on the back of each (probably 3 pairs total) wired back to a UK plug. The idea being the desks would have sockets available at a comfortable location.
The 3 plugs will go into a... cube/box adapter with surge protection. This will plug into a mains socket I've fitted an RCD equipped socket plate to.
Would anyone have any remaining doubts as to the safety of the setup?
The wall socket is providing RCD so any mishaps will trip the whole desk, the cube is providing surge protection. There will likely still be a bog standard power strip (with surge protection, we nearly all use something like) under the desk somewhere for computers etc to run off (plugged into the other RCD socket as it's a standard double plate). These desk cabinet mounted sockets will just be for things like printer, big external drives, laptop power supplies etc.
Assuming I was building a desk that will have sockets as you'd normally use for the wall built into the side of a centre cabinet at monitor height (about... 6 inch from the desk surface). They'll be properly earthed with plastic box on the back to electrically insulate them and the cables on the back of each (probably 3 pairs total) wired back to a UK plug. The idea being the desks would have sockets available at a comfortable location.
The 3 plugs will go into a... cube/box adapter with surge protection. This will plug into a mains socket I've fitted an RCD equipped socket plate to.
Would anyone have any remaining doubts as to the safety of the setup?
The wall socket is providing RCD so any mishaps will trip the whole desk, the cube is providing surge protection. There will likely still be a bog standard power strip (with surge protection, we nearly all use something like) under the desk somewhere for computers etc to run off (plugged into the other RCD socket as it's a standard double plate). These desk cabinet mounted sockets will just be for things like printer, big external drives, laptop power supplies etc.
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