hmmm

Grammatical whiplash.

The only label I can see just says "Scart" (oh, and wifi I guess)

Hah! It's a rats nest that I basically dumped back there the last time I moved and the labels are from a long time ago before I had most of the stuff. It's not like you get a new retro console every day so I'm almost never back there. That's kind of the whole point. I plug everything in one time and then I don't touch it until I move.

Okay, I'm actually onboard with those things. It's usually a cable with a single wall plug on one end and four C13 plugs at the other. So you could plug in two monitors, a desktop PC and a printer, say, with just one socket. They're a lot neater than having a whole power strip and four cables. I've also seen ones that split one C14 into four C13s but I'm not as sure how I feel about those.

Unfortunately these high capacity power strips always have surge protector functionality in them, and it's a very bad idea to daisy-chain surge protectors because they can interrupt each other trying to stop the current and all of your stuff will get fried.

Power strips are fine as long as you aren't exceeding the maximum load, but they never come with as many plugs so that's how I ended up with four different power strips and some 1 foot extension cords for all those damn wall warts.

All of that is going into the handful of battery backup plugs on the uninterruptible power supply so if I'm ever playing a retro game and the power goes out, I don't lose my progress! You know how evil games used to be; half the time you can't even save the damn game lol

I love how the cord is only 6" long, so you've either got to bolt this monstrosity to the wall immediately beside the outlet, or plug it into another extension...

It also has 71 outlets instead of 66 lol

I’m guessing it varies based on whatever components they had available when they ran that batch on the assembly line?

Space heater 1500W, PC 500W, 3 laptops 360W, 2 monitors 100W = 2460W

With our superior european 230V outlets you can in fact easily plug all that into one power bar :D

Yeah, this is a solver for the oodles and oodles of devices that all insist on using their own dedicated 5v wall wart.

You can't plug in a computer, three laptops, two monitors, and a space heater.

👀

What about a desktop, two laptops, speakers, a printer, four monitors, and some networking equipment? Asking for... Myself. I'm asking for myself.

He’s like regular Danny, only more super.

2100 Joules? does it self destruct after 1.12 seconds at rated capacity?

Yeah, they all say that. And then when you try to claim it they have a million clauses in their fine print that allows them to weasel out of it.

Did you register to your equipment with them when you plugged it in? Do you still have your receipts? Did you use an extension cord anywhere in your power path at all? Did you know they only provide "current pro rata market value" for everything, which means their math makes all your computers worthless after they're a week old? Can you prove it was actually a power surge and not some other occurrence that took out your device? Etc., etc., etc.

Never trust your equipment to one of those guarantees.

Thanks :)