[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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