Oh, I think now that I know what you are all talking about.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: battery charger questions
> The kind of strip you want has the plugs arranged in parallel with a wide
> spacing.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Vece" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 3:19 PM
> 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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