Anthony,
You can get those short extensions from several sources. I first got
them from www.cyberguys.com. You may find that there are a couple of
different varieties out there.
Steve
On Monday 2/20/06 15:19 Anthony Vece wrote:
>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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