Attach outlet extender (2025 Update)

Jul 15, 2020 Last reply: 8 months ago 42 Replies

About 20 years ago where I worked we had to replace many of the power strips with surge power strips because of some inspection. Somewhat over

100 in the plant. One place that was really hit hard was a table that had about 15 pagers on charge. All of them together probably only took an amp or two. There were 3 of the power strips in series to power all the charging.

I worked for a while at a hospital. In one operating room was some old obsolete X-ray equipment that was never used. The requirements were for a lead lined door. The door for that room was in the way and was removed, but every time we were up for inspection that door was replced for a week or so and in everyones way.

Out here there are miles and miles and miles of farm distribution lines that aren't 3P to start with...so that's out.

Most use a rotary phase converter for large loads...the elevator leg here just has a (physically huge) single phase 10 hp motor. The grain dryer was only a 5500 bu bin so didn't have that large a fan. Commercially-sized and large farm bins are much more demanding but I don't know just how much HP they are pulling...

is it UL listed? If not it's not "legal" .Most of them are of "questionable" quality at best, even if they have approval stickers. My bigger issue is the extention cord cable used to connect to the box. What size/rating is the cable? Bet it's NOT a 14 gauge cable. Also, how did you connect the fine stranded wire to the outlet? I've seem too many that have not been done safely - and with 6 outlets you are likely to very quickly overload a 16 or 18 gauge wire.

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