Re: Power Strips for Home Networks

Jun 21, 2005 0 Replies


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.

Really? Wall warts are pretty low power. The big one for my laptop is 150W, the little ones for the phone TA and the ethernet switch are more like 20W. Plug in 10 of them and you're unlikely to draw more than 500W. Every power strip I've seen is fused for at least 1000W. Where's the overload?

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