[Test-Equipment] OT: Good Ideas web page (was: tantalums)

davec davec2468 at aim.com
Fri Feb 20 03:06:43 EST 2009


On another test equipment list a member listed the URL to his web 
page of great tips and ideas:

<http://www.prc68.com/I/HaT.shtml#CF>

It got me thinking about an idea I want help with. I'd like to tap 
the collective brain power of this list.

How can I get most of the wall warts that litter my work bench and 
computer station into one place? I want to maximize the density of my 
"wall warts" onto one power strip / surge protector. Most of these 
WWs draw minuscule watts so overloading is not an issue.

Take a power strip. Any generic power strip (w/ or w/o surge 
protection -- your option):

<http://tinyurl.com/bt7x5o>

Plug in some version of this into each outlet:

<http://www.mattcutts.com/images/tripletap-ac-adaptor.jpg>

(it's the cube, on the right in this photo).

The idea is to plug a cube into each of the outlets in the PS such 
that outlets are now available on *the sides* of the PS. Into each of 
the side outlets (probably not the top one, if there is one), plug in 
a WW.

For example, with this 7 outlet PS and a cube plugged into most of 
the outlets (it's probably not practical to plug in WWs adjacent to 
each other -- physical limitation rules), potentially 14 WWs can live 
here. Practicably, less than that.

But you get the idea.

Improvements on the basic idea?

Thanks,
Dave


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