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Old 12-10-08, 13:30
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Originally Posted by Saphire View Post
Does the amount of units coming off one socket cause problems, most of them are low power I know but I wondered whether there is just to many at any one time. I have about 10 items in use at the same time such as printer, modem monitors, usb hard disks.
It doesn't matter, as long as the total load being drawn from the single socket in the wall isn't drawing more than 13 Amps. On a home PC set up, this is highly unlikely. The kind of things you mention only draw a small fraction of this. I recently borrowed a power meter and found that the single socket I run all my PC stuff from is typically drawing about 150W, so that's just over half an Amp. If I had the printer printing, the scanner scanning, external HDD in use, etc., etc. I dare say I'd still not get above 1A. If you have a high-end gaming PC with a top end CPU and graphics card, then your load may well be a lot more than this, but it's still extremely unlikely that you'll get even close to overloading the socket.

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I may go for one of those single wall sockets if I can find something similar. Mario recently bought a belkin one for his electronic drums, they are not cheap.
If you get lots of surges, it may well be worth your while getting a really decent quality item. Get on the phone to Olson
http://www.olson.co.uk/left_right_filter.htm

Bowthorpe used to be a good brand for this kind of thing too. I found this product available
http://uk.farnell.com/580107/electri...-623gba-bow-hp
You can buy from Farnell even if you're not in the trade.

D.
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