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Dick Dickinson

OT - Outlet Strips

Wall warts are like Tribbles.

Has someone found the near perfect, readily available, budget outlet strip
for wall warts?

73,

Dick - KA5KKT

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K2QI

Re: OT - Outlet Strips

I bought a long power strip from Home Depot; it's black and yellow and the
spacing between outlets was wide enough to allow a multitude of wall warts
to be attached. I cannot remember the brand, but I do remember the price;
about 50 dollars. It wasn't cheap, at least compared to most power strips.
It's fused and uses heavy gauge main wiring; heavy enough to run an SB-220
from.

73 de James K2QI

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Edward Dickinson, III <
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> Wall warts are like Tribbles.
>
> Has someone found the near perfect, readily available, budget outlet strip
> for wall warts?
>
>
> 73,
>
> Dick - KA5KKT
>
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Mike Reublin

Re: OT - Outlet Strips

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I got a nice one from Harbor Freight for about 25 bux. 12 outlets and an
on/off switch. If you don't have a store locally, they're on the web.

73, Mike NF4L
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Kevin Luxford

Re: OT - Outlet Strips

w7aqk

Re: OT - Outlet Strips

In reply to this post by Dick Dickinson

Dick and All,

Buy.com has frequently run specials on a pigtail type power
strip. In fact, they had one just in the last day or so,
but they sold out fast. They were Phillips brand, and I
bought a couple a while back. The recent ad had them for
only $7, and they had 5 pigtails. Guess that's why they
sold out so fast. Anyway, I like this kind of power strip
precisely for the reason you indicate--trying to accomodate
wall warts! I suspect they will have them on sale again.

Dave W7AQK

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Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 2:40 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] OT - Outlet Strips

> Wall warts are like Tribbles.
>
> Has someone found the near perfect, readily available,
> budget outlet strip
> for wall warts?
>
>
> 73,
>
> Dick - KA5KKT
>
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Mike Reublin

Re: OT - Outlet Strips

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Good points.

Mike

elelist984 wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> Please be careful about selecting "budget" outlet strips. I know our
> conditions are not identical with those in the U.S., but there have
> been a number of fires down here caused by cheap outlet strips.
> Insufficiently heavy wiring on cheap items imported from you know
> where was one cause, I believe, and the other was a build up of dust
> which got into the strip via the outlets. In time the dust conducted
> and started a fire.
>
> Our better (but more expensive) strips have automatic shutters which
> close off the outlet openings when the outlet is vacant, and so help
> prevent the ingress of dust. Our fire chief has also recommended that
> they not be installed with the outlet side facing upwards. Often the
> ugly things get installed our of sight behind furniture and that's
> where the problem build up begins.
>
> Mike wrote:
>> I got a nice one from Harbor Freight for about 25 bux. 12 outlets and an
>> on/off switch. If you don't have a store locally, they're on the web.
>>
>> 73, Mike NF4L
>> Edward Dickinson, III wrote:
>>
>>> Wall warts are like Tribbles.
>>>
>>> Has someone found the near perfect, readily available, budget outlet strip
>>> for wall warts?
>>>
>>>
>>> 73,
>>>
>>> Dick - KA5KKT
>>>
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daleputnam

Re: OT - Outlet Strips

In reply to this post by Mike Reublin

I may be missing something here... but what would be the problem with taking the

nice 25 buck outlet strip, and adding a hefty MOV... and making it a surge arresting strip too?

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Dale - WC7S in Wy

> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 18:17:32 -0500
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> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT - Outlet Strips
>
> I got a nice one from Harbor Freight for about 25 bux. 12 outlets and an
> on/off switch. If you don't have a store locally, they're on the web.
>
> 73, Mike NF4L
> Edward Dickinson, III wrote:

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Dick Dickinson

Re: OT - Outlet Strips

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Thanks for the replies. More are welcome.

I've been searching on the internet some and found a strip designed for wall
warts. The Furman Pluglock comes from a power conditioning company geared
towards musicians. ~$50 list/$30 Amazon. It has 5 outlets, each with a
device to clamp the wall wart. While it doesn't appear to have a switch it
does have a circuit breaker. The spacing scales to about 2 1/4" o.c. for
the outlets. My large, 2 amp wall warts are about 2 1/4" wide. It might
even handle my universal wart at 2 5/8" with smaller warts aside. I'd like
to mount on a vertical surface. This unit with warts a-hangin' might be a
little deep. See video.

http://www.furmansound.com/product.php?div=01&id=PlugLock-PFP

Also in searching around, I came across an idea for 'chargers' on a outlet
strip. Put the strip on a timer-outlet so the chargers run occasionally.

Strictly 'amateur' interest here.

73,

Dick - KA5KKT

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k0wa@swbell.net

Re: OT - Outlet Strips

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Check out

www.cyberguys.com

Then....I do not have any interest in the above company....just use them for a lot of stuff

Lee - K0Wa

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Subject: [Elecraft] OT - Outlet Strips
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Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 3:40 PM

Wall warts are like Tribbles.

Has someone found the near perfect, readily available, budget outlet strip
for wall warts?

73,

Dick - KA5KKT

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Phil Hystad

Re: OT - Outlet Strips

Even though it is OT, outlet strips are really boring. Anyone up for a discussion on whether Einstein even knew of the concept of 1-forms or 2-forms when he developed his general theory of relativity. Anything but outlet strips.

On Dec 8, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Lee Buller wrote:

> Check out
>
> www.cyberguys.com
>
> Then....I do not have any interest in the above company....just use them for a lot of stuff
>
> Lee - K0Wa
>
>
> In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short supply. If you don't have any Common Sense - get some Common Sense and use it. If you can't find any Common Sense, ask for help from somebody who has some Common Sense. Is Common Sense divine?
>
> Common Sense is the image of the Creator expressing revealed truth in my mind. - J. Wolf
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 12/8/09, Edward Dickinson, III <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> From: Edward Dickinson, III <[hidden email]>
> Subject: [Elecraft] OT - Outlet Strips
> To: [hidden email]
> Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 3:40 PM
>
> Wall warts are like Tribbles.
>
> Has someone found the near perfect, readily available, budget outlet strip
> for wall warts?
>
>
> 73,
>
> Dick - KA5KKT
>
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W6ODJ

Re: OT - Outlet Strips

Bet he did, one-forms at least.

Oliver
W6ODJ

On 8 Dec 2009, at 6:32 PM, Phil Hystad wrote:

> Even though it is OT, outlet strips are really boring. Anyone up for a discussion on whether Einstein even knew of the concept of 1-forms or 2-forms when he developed his general theory of relativity. Anything but outlet strips.
>
> On Dec 8, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Lee Buller wrote:
>
>> Check out
>>
>> www.cyberguys.com
>>
>> Then....I do not have any interest in the above company....just use them for a lot of stuff
>>
>> Lee - K0Wa
>>
>>
>> In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short supply. If you don't have any Common Sense - get some Common Sense and use it. If you can't find any Common Sense, ask for help from somebody who has some Common Sense. Is Common Sense divine?
>>
>> Common Sense is the image of the Creator expressing revealed truth in my mind. - J. Wolf
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On Tue, 12/8/09, Edward Dickinson, III <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> From: Edward Dickinson, III <[hidden email]>
>> Subject: [Elecraft] OT - Outlet Strips
>> To: [hidden email]
>> Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 3:40 PM
>>
>> Wall warts are like Tribbles.
>>
>> Has someone found the near perfect, readily available, budget outlet strip
>> for wall warts?
>>
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Dick - KA5KKT
>>
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Joe Subich, W4TV-4

Re: OT - Outlet Strips

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An alternative for use with almost any power strip and wall
warts are 6" extension cords. They will allow mounting the
wall wart away from the strip where they don't block the
other outlets.

A couple years ago I picked up a half-dozen such short extension
cords at Radio Shack (p/n 61-2755). I still use them when I need
to connect a wall wart, etc. They'll handle two wall warts per
cord (one on each side) so it doesn't take more than one or two
per outlet strip. Even with the "big" 5A wall warts, the
current at 110V is certainly not a safety/fire hazard.

73,

... Joe, W4TV

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [hidden email]
> [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Edward
> Dickinson, III
> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 9:04 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT - Outlet Strips
>
>
> Thanks for the replies. More are welcome.
>
> I've been searching on the internet some and found a strip
> designed for wall warts. The Furman Pluglock comes from a
> power conditioning company geared towards musicians. ~$50
> list/$30 Amazon. It has 5 outlets, each with a device to
> clamp the wall wart. While it doesn't appear to have a
> switch it does have a circuit breaker. The spacing scales to
> about 2 1/4" o.c. for the outlets. My large, 2 amp wall
> warts are about 2 1/4" wide. It might even handle my
> universal wart at 2 5/8" with smaller warts aside. I'd like
> to mount on a vertical surface. This unit with warts
> a-hangin' might be a little deep. See video.
>
> http://www.furmansound.com/product.php?div=01&id=PlugLock-PFP
>
> Also in searching around, I came across an idea for
> 'chargers' on a outlet strip. Put the strip on a
> timer-outlet so the chargers run occasionally.
>
> Strictly 'amateur' interest here.
>
>
> 73,
>
> Dick - KA5KKT
>
>
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