Electrician: this must feel exhausting, providing energy over my capacity to so many things.
Sluts: yeah I have more holes, I wish they were all filled, that would feel great
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Hum, 6 ~20W (probably less) power supplies...
Yeah some of those things can catch fire if you plug them in an outlet, but the outlet will barely notice it.
Newer QC ports can go to like a 100W if phobe supports it
While true…two of those things are very clearly 5w iPhone chargers from years ago. I’d be pretty shocked if this is more than like 100w in total. The thing giving me pause is the much larger wall wort on the bottom left. Even so, a typical 15A circuit(US) is rated for 1800w and following the continuous use rules of 80% that’s still 1440w. So this is practically nothing even at 100w each it’s less than half capacity.
Obviously not an ideal setup and a single 10 outlet power strip would be much preferred. I’d kind of doubt anything in this image is actually overloaded. Assuming all the plugs are fully seated as well.
This is the 21st century equivalent of the outlet in A Christmas Story.
Why is this considered a fire risk? Isn't the circuit, and outlet all protected by an amp-limited breaker? Is it the splitter that can't handle the loads?
Pretty much, especially when you chain together splitters that don't have their own protection built in. Also in older or unmaintained places you can't always rely on the breaker. Used to be a joke that you could just replace a breaker fuse with a stack of pennies and be good to go, and electricians have found tons of places where idiot cheapskates took it at face value.
Basically, when setting a whole lot of the inside of your walls on fire all at once is the ultimate risk, you don't want to ever rely on only one (or even two) failsafe(s). Especially if you don't know what the failsafes actually are and when they were last tested between your shit and where power enters the building.
Yeah, pretty much. Generally the breaker will trip before the romex in the walls overheats, but if you plug in an electrical bottleneck that isn't rated to what the breaker is it can fail and start a fire without the breaker ever being the wiser. An example is those ass multi-outlet extension cables made with lamp wire, some of those only do 10 amps or less before the wire starts glowing red hot.