Hi Jim;
Thank you for the link.
I will check it.
73 De Anthony W2AJV
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Kutsch" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 5:17 PM
Subject: [BLIND-HAMS] Power Strips for Wall Warts; was Re: battery charger
questions
> Anthony,
> I just bought several power strips from Tiger Direct. They are 10 outlet
> surge suppressors. There are four outlets on the top spaced such that all
> four can accommodate wall warts. Then there are two rows of three on the
> side for other plugs. hen I bought them, they were on a two-for-one sale
> so
> I got two for the $20 rather than only one. here's the link. Watch out
> for
> email line wrap. It's a long URL.
>
> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1213255&Sku=ULT315722
>
> 73, KY2D
> Jim Kutsch
> Morristown, NJ
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Vece" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 15:19
> Subject: Re: battery charger questions
>
>
> 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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