@yakkoTDI Agree to disagree.
I pulled the plug on this deal.

@mike808 @yakkoTDI My pun meter is needling at 11.

@mike808 @yakkoTDI, I agree to not disagree! After all, wouldn’t the fn Tower get rather Hot with all 9 outlets being simultaneously used, e.g. a space heater blowing away at 1500 Watts & other 8 outlets with small appliances or other devicrap hooked up like 2 dogs screwing in broad daylight, OR would a, say, 20 Amp breaker likely trip with that much fn fresh fertilizer running on it,…it Can & Does happen,…just think, 3 female college students with a hand full of extension chords!!

@shahnm You’re now legally obligated to come up with a better one (or at least you will be if my petition for a 29th Constitutional amendment goes through)

@dave @shahnm, it has about as much a chance of being ratified as the other, more than 11,000 others that were proposed!

@thechinglish sold

@thechinglish
I’d still pass. 2.4A @ 5V is three generations back from current best-case USB power delivery, and that will only sag further, so the USB feature is not much of a frill. And $15 per block is high for a multiplier, in my opinion.

@thechinglish @werehatrack That USB is enough for my 1st generation Raspberry Pi that I use for a media center which is why I bought a pair of these.

@thechinglish @werehatrack @yakkoTDI, Well, Dumb Ass me,…& I assumed you bought a ‘pair’ because you couldn’t buy just One!! LOL!!

@awk

If you buy 1, you can turn 1 AC outlet into 9 outlets.
If you buy 10, you can turn 1 AC outlet into a house fire.

FTFY

@awk @shawn_mitch yup, do the math. Can easily overload and light those dust bunnies. Reminds me, I need to vacuum

@awk
Not quite. The head of the plug is too wide to fit three of them across the three ports on each side. So you end up only being able to multiply one of the nine outlet devices into six, and some of those sockets are so close together that you’re really going to have a big problem hooking up to the inward facing ones. Siameseing more on after that is even more problematic.

@awk @werehatrack I think they would attach at right angles and corkscrew outwards as they stack.

Effectively, you could bootstrap any number of units.

@awk If you keep going with this, you can turn the whole world into an infinite number of AC outlets.

@awk But has anyone ever connected the 256 devices that USB claims to support?

@awk @werehatrack, but then again, nobody ever said the Chinese use Common Sense when making a darn product!! Their #1 Goal is to Sell One, or rather, One Pair to 5 million people & who cares if they even work,…dat is still 5,000,000 X n, so if n= $29, etc, etc, they Were able to master the main fn principle of Capitalism,… Greed!!

@craigcush I’m shocked!

@craigcush yeah, i was about to buy a bunch of these but worried they’d burn my house down or at least fry whatever I had plugged in… sounds like these are borderline illegal giving the potential hazards

@craigcush @robson People are shocked when the find out I’m not a licensed electrician.

@blaineg

@craigcush @robson, you Will get shocked screwing with these babies, or maybe just get your house burnt to thou ground!!🏘

@hchavers I think that was a miscopy of a statement from a different Aduro outlet multiplier, the one that has the little shelf on top. And as others have pointed out, the feature on those assumes that your wall socket isn’t sideways.

I blame Frank Lloyd Wright for the sideways wall sockets.

@Ambiverbal An electrical fire?

@craigcush Thanx! I went to I-Am-A-Zon (Amazon on my iPhone) and read the scary reviews, so decided to cancel.

@mehgrl surge protection without a rating is definitely worrisome

@mike808 …here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

@mike808
That’s obviously the version for the US embassy in London, where they drive on the wrong side of the road.

@mike808 And you’re the only girl in town?

/giphy parrot-head

@clarinetbob Eggs Zachary.

@mike808 Could be what they mean by using the word “swivel” in the name.

@thevorlon
Except that the long and short blade slots swap sides, too; that’s the clue that the image was swapped right-to-left. I.e., Photoshop shenanigans.

@Kerig3 And to keep the flow of oxygen going to support combustion, if things get frisky. If you’re going to have a fire, do it right.

@Kerig3 @werehatrack
Looks like you need some power strips to sort that out. I think I have an extra one behind my entertainment console.

@Kerig3 @mike808
Three strips for the server blades,
Seven for the switches,
Nine for shared hosting boxen doomed to die,
One for the Firewall router in its dark lair
In the Server Farm where the Shadows lie.
One Admin to rule them all, One route to find them,
One dhcp to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Server Farm where the Shadows lie.

@Pufferfishy
Once upon a time, virtually nothing that you were going to plug into the wall drew less than 60 watts except an alarm clock. And if you had more than three electrically operated devices in any given room except the kitchen, you were very unusual. Now, you might have a dozen devices that each draw between two and thirty watts, but each have their own bloody AC cord. It’s nuts, but it’s modern life. So we need more sockets.

@blaineg If the surge suppression fails, they needs new shinies, Precious, yesss!

@blaineg Nice captions, must have been a transparent background.

@blaineg
Software dependent. I do stuff like that in CorelDRAW all the time, and the background is pretty much irrelevant. Adobe Photoshop is more obsessive about it. That’s one of the many reasons I don’t use Photoshop.

@detailer
Most outlets are always on, period. Outlets that are split between an always-on and a switched socket are actually pretty rare in my experience, I have never owned a house that had one. That said, damned near all of the socket multipliers like and including this one will plug into one socket and obscure the other one in the bargain. I don’t trust the photos that show them doing otherwise.

@detailer @werehatrack I’ve encountered them in two scenarios: behind the bed and under the kitchen sink.

The bedroom socket allows you to control your bedside lamp from the switch by the door, but to always have power for your alarm clock/electric blanket/phone charger/etc.

In the kitchen, the switched outlet has its switch next to the sink, and is used for your garbage disposal. The always on socket is used for your dishwasher.

Unless its my kitchen, where the idiots connected both sockets to the switch, meaning that I’d be running the disposal continuously for over two hours while I did a load of dishes . . .

[Fortunately, I ripped the disposal out when I bought the house - I have a septic tank, and I try to give it every break that I can.]

@detailer @werehatrack Can’t they just plug into the lower socket?

@detailer @lisagd
Unless you mount it in the sideways position that they cleverly chose for the photos, the end of the widget will cover the ground lug and possibly part of the blade slots of the upper socket. But because it swivels, anything plugged into it while it’s in the sideways orientation will tend to make it want to rotate back to vertical; gravity’s a bitch that way. Basically, this is a so-so idea that’s been subjected to a subpar execution. Power strips with a cord may be bulkier, but for this many outlets, they’re almost always going to be a better solution. And a good one, like a Belkin with a fat surge rating, is also going to provide reliable protection for your devices, which I fear this one would fall short in attempting.

@detailer @rpstrong

I’ve encountered them in two scenarios: behind the bed and under the kitchen sink.

I see them in motel rooms really often, but my houses never had them for living spaces; wall switches routinely controlled ceiling lights or a wall sconce over the bathroom mirror. In the kitchen, the boxes for the dishwasher and disposer connections had blank plates over them when I moved in, and I wired straight to them with BX. (Neither the dishwasher nor the disposer came with a cord that had a plug.) And for all that I use the disposer, I’d be better served to rip it out and gain back the storage space under the sink. The run to the other side of the house, to join up with the main wastewater pipe, is way too long; food particles and grease residue clog it every decade or so, even without using the disposer. (Rental powered snakes are tha shizz.)

@detailer @werehatrack OK, that all makes sense. I didn’t look at the picture too closely; my interest in electronic stuff is about equal to my interest in higher mathematics.

@werehatrack Wow,really? I wonder if this is a regional thing.I’m in good ole Jersey,worked for an electrician,my brother is a builder,and this is SOP in residential wiring for living and bedroom areas.And for rpstrong,God how I miss the days of ceiling lights installed in a new build! That died here in the 60’s.Which is why the split duplex outlet came into play… to plug your lamps into the switched port (always the bottom one is code here) This was a step to lower building costs,and lets face it…how many people are going to be happy with the ceiling fixture the builder or electrician chose for the room???

@detailer That would piss me off so much that I’d spend whatever amount of time it took to undo it. NFW am I going to put up with that. Particularly now that I can get 6000K LED ceiling fixtures that will light the room properly.

@detailer Just out of curiosity, did that change to “no ceiling lights” also happen about five or six years after the start of that idiotic craze for can lights all over everywhere? Down in Florida, it caused a number of structure fires when frustrated homeowners (and renters) swapped in 100W or 150W bulbs into cans that were labeled for a max of 60W - and the rating assumed that the installation wasn’t in an insulated space. But damn near everything in Florida housing back then was one story, and insulated ceilings were on the way in as people started adding central AC. Can lights pretty much vanished except as accents after that; the insurers were merciless about going after builders that installed them when a structure fire resulted later.

I can easily imagine that up your way, they’d have just banned all ceiling fixtures as an overreaction. That would truly suck.

@werehatrack No.Just left them out of bedrooms and the living room for the most part.Basic ceiling fixtures went in bathrooms (exhaust fan builder’s choice),laundry room,sometimes hallway(s),and garage.Fluorescent overhead in kitchens.This was a design trend and cost saver.Here,the 80’s ushered in the can and track lighting era.TL went to now larger kitchens and a row facing the fireplace in the living or rec. area.Not many of those in Fla. Keep in mind 98% of new builds are 2 story with interior garages.Can lights find there place in what is now the “great room”…a living room on steroids if you will.It will vault to the rafters,be adorned with fireplace,and usually stone or brick work all the way up.Can lighting cascading downward from both sides of the room.Watch Mr. homeowner try to replace on of those when needed Fire hazard from these was never an issue up here…just bitch’n about lack of brightness and replacement.If you want brighter from one of these now dinosaurs,you have to go with a floodlight style bulb (all light and most heat beaming outward) I suspect the problem you mention was caused by use of the traditional globe shape incandescent bulb above the 60 watt max rating.Throw in a 100 watt,and a small fan from the back of your PC,and you have a convection oven Love to ramble on,but gotta go.Cheers!!

@detailer People in Florida are notoriously cheap. Nobody’s going to use a PAR lamp when they can stick in a regular one instead, and think they’ll get away with it.

@foreverrestless
I’d still rather spend a bit more and get real surge suppression.

@amehzinggrace There was an announcement about VMP back in July, it’s in the forum archives if I’m not mistaken. VMP memberships are NLA, so unless you can get the attention of the CS gods to intervene, that status may be gone for good, for you. (And if it’s been a bunch of months that you haven’t been billed for, do you really want it back?)

@amehzinggrace @werehatrack
You can join as a regular Mehmber.

As I am a bit of a VMP and goat emeritus myself, I asked for my badge to be downgraded from dead goat to VMP just to make sure it didn’t mask losing VMP due to unforseen circumstances before it was too late to be reinstated.

@amehzinggrace @mike808 @werehatrack
Oooo, oooo - does that mean we can re-nominate you for goat?!!

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