Talk:Power strip
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[edit] Universal Power Strips
http://images.google.com/images?q=wonpro
http://www.110220volts.ca/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/WES41s.jpg
show a "universal" power strip that did just cross my desk ... anybody got an encyclopaedic opinion?
-- Pelavarre (talk) 00:28, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
"seems to be designed to allow anything with any plug to plug into a 110V feed ... Thats probably safe as in a 220V device would probably just not work if plugged into a 110V feed if it didnt have a universal power supply. Or it'll blwo the fuse trying to draw too many amps. But generally fail-safe conditions.
"The reverse is *not* safe. 110V devices will explode and burn if they dont have an appropriate power supply."
is what I see at the no-robots site https://www.nlzero.com/cgi-bin/browse.cgi?conference=hardware&topic=general
Perhaps we could rest that conclusion on some encylopaedic sources ...
-- Pelavarre (talk) 16:28, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] images
my ideal for this page would be to get at least one relavent image for each section and have them all showing different types of socket
trying to represent every type of socket would just be image overload unless we had a lot more text (and i think the subject is covered pretty comprehensively) but representing one country twice would show national bias. Plugwash 16:59, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
[edit] power strip vs powerstrip
user:GreatWhiteNorthener unilaterally changed power strip to powerstrip furthermore he broke an image link (two if you coun't one that was commented out) in the process and he was making corrections to text in html comments suggesting hasty use of an automated tool.
google gives about twice as many results for powerstrip than power strip BUT the first page for powerstrip has no mention at all of the electrical item.
also our article is called power strip so using powerstrip in the text would be inconsistant (unless we move the article)
finally power strip seems more correct to me (in the same way do not seems more correct than don't)
comments please Plugwash 11:43, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Queued image
Chamaeleon im not sure what you mean by putting this here on the talk page. Its a nice pic sure but two pictures of the same contrys powerstrip, particularlly an extremely basic unit with nothing special about it seems a little excessive to me.
[edit] "Flex"
The term "flex" is not very common, and is somewhat colloquial. I would use power cable. A more technical term. Adam850 06:45, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
- Afaict general useage (including in diy books and among electricians) in the UK is that cable means fixed wiring cable and flex means flexible cable used to connect appliances. So using the word cable is actually a bit misleading to brits imo. Plugwash 16:08, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
- The correct term in the UK is flexible cable, although this is almost always shortened to flex in practice. It would be unusual in the UK to refer to an appliance cord as simply a cable. --Ali@gwc.org.uk 22:38, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] PowerSquid
I've added a mention of the PowerSquid, because it is an alternate power strip design that hadn't been mentioned in the article. I'm concerned, though, that what I wrote reads too much like an advert for ThinkGeek; I'd mention some other products of a similar design, but I haven't been able to find any. ~ Booyabazooka 20:31, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] PowerStrip - MultiMon/Display hardware utility
PowerStrip is also a very powerfull MultiMon/Display hardware utility, I couldn't find a page for that? I think this awesome utility deserves a page-- RadicalSatDude 21:53, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
