Comment on British plugs
SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 1 week agoTwo words: Extension cords
Us extension cords (or power strips or whatever you want to call them) practically catch fire if you look at them wrong. Over here, there’s much more leeway for plugging multiple loads into a single socket.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 1 week ago
… How is that the case? You’re multiple loads end up with a cubic foot of plugs and receptacles. Like imagine I want to plug in a computer, two monitors, a printer, a desk lamp, a cell phone charger, and a laptop plug. None of these devices use more than 100 watts. In UK you need seven of those ridiculous giant plugs for all this. Even with a power strip it would be physically huge.
In the US the power strip that would run all that stuff is barely a foot long.
I have used power strips all my life and never once has one caught fire.