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

[davec]

>Classical power strips have the socket blades parallel to the 
>centerline of the
>power strip.  This means that a wall wart will have it's output wire 
>also along
>the center line of the strip and also the body my partially cover up the
>adjacent outlet so it can't be used.

Yeah. Putting only 3 (maybe 4) WW's in one strip is a real waste of space.

>There are newer outlet strips where each socket is turned 90 degrees and the
>spacing between sockets is a little more than on conventional strips.  This
>allows cheek to jowl wall warts to be installed on them.

These power strips are physically larger than the traditional 
(narrower) ones which kinda defeats the original purpose.

>See:  http://www.prc68.com/I/KPC350.shtml#DC

While the newer switching WW's are smaller, of all the WW's only one 
looks like that (a Nokia cell phone charger).

This is something like what I'm going for:

<http://members.cruzio.com/~jeffl/pics/wall-wart/slides/wall-wart-01.html>

This is a 6-outlet power strip. With a 7-outlet ps, another cube tap 
can be used (plugged into every other outlet) and the total WW's 
could be 8. Now that's great utilization of space.

Thanks,
Dave