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Electrical advice please

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  • Jamie_Carter
    Jamie_Carter Posts: 5,282 Forumite
    edited 22 May 2013 at 6:49PM
    Fifer wrote: »
    I'm a qualified electrical/electronic engineer and I've never broken a plug in the 30+ years since qualifying.

    You don't have to be qualified to break one. Anyone can do that. ;)

    The construction of the plug or adaptor isn't the issue. What was being discussed was the fact that block adaptors are strongly advised against, in favour of the strip type.
  • securityguy
    securityguy Posts: 2,464 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    You don't have to be qualified to break one. Anyone can do that. ;)

    The construction of the plug or adaptor isn't the issue. What was being discussed was the fact that block adaptors are strongly advised against, in favour of the strip type.

    Except where this whole thing started was when I said that daisy chaining strips together was safe, people invented non-explanations for the alleged danger of those, too.
  • Jamie_Carter
    Jamie_Carter Posts: 5,282 Forumite
    Except where this whole thing started was when I said that daisy chaining strips together was safe, people invented non-explanations for the alleged danger of those, too.

    But I didn't argue with that. I just repeated the advice given by many organisations that advises against adaptor blocks
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