On another subject, is their a good power strip that will accommodate wall 
warts?

I would think that you could maybe rotate the outlets or maybe they would be 
spaced further apart.

I also heard that someone sells three prong extensions that are maybe six 
inches or a foot long so you could plug those adapters into a regular power 
strip.

Just a thought.

73 De Anthony W2AJV
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [BLIND-HAMS] battery charger questions


> Well, I have a lot of things, and with power supplies, and the kinds of
> plugs with the chargers i have you can't fit all of them on one supply,
> but I'm not worrying about it.  My mother has been on me to get organized,
> so here I am.  She just wonders why I ave so many radios,but that is part
> of being a ham, and after all the hard work in studying.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Colin McDonald wrote:
>
>> Your mother sounds like mine used to be when i was at home...a little
>> paranoid about all the wires and things plugged in...i guess if i had 
>> snap
>> tied all wires together in a neat bundle, plugged everything into power 
>> bars
>> and created a true fire hazard, she probably wouldn't have 
>> complained...but,
>> having all wires separated, and wall warts plugged in as many different
>> circuits as possible, it looked, to someone who doesn't know better, like 
>> it
>> could be potential for explosion hi hi.
>> I think those chargers when not plugged in take such a minuscule amount 
>> of
>> power that you would have to have literally hundreds plugged in to even
>> register anything on the power bill, and even then, the amount would be
>> pennies.  Even if they were all in use, the actual drain is pretty low.
>> This kind of thinking goes hand in hand with the idea that keeping the 
>> heat
>> off in the winter in your car saves on gas....totally unrelated, but can
>> make sense to someone who doesn't know better.
>> If she puts up a big fuss, ask her to unplug all her appliances when not 
>> in
>> use, all household consumer electronics have a transformer of some kind 
>> in
>> them, and are doing the same as your chargers when not actually turned 
>> on.
>> I found this to be "different" somehow when i was at home lol.
>> 73
>> Colin, V A6BKX
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 7:39 AM
>> Subject: battery charger questions
>>
>>
>> > Hi  everyone, over the weekend my mother asked me to unplug the various
>> > battery chargers I have when they are not charging anything because of 
>> > the
>> > fact that it would waste electricity.  The ones I have in use mainly 
>> > are
>> > for the THF6A, and my Trekker GPS and a couple of scanners, and I just
>> > keep them plugged into the various power  supplies so I know where they
>> are
>> > all the time, but I didn't think they'd be wasting electricity when not 
>> > in
>> > use?  I'm not to worried about it, for now, but if anyone knows for 
>> > sure
>> > let me know, and thanks in advance.
>> >
>>
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