Power strip liberators are one of the best ideas in the last 20 years, period. Unless you live in a house (or work in an office) designed by computer geeks and built in the last 10 minutes, you simply do not have enough power outlets for all of the devices you use. This means that you have to use power strips. It also means that the transformers necessary to run most of your portable devices take up 2 or 3 outlets on the powerstrip so now you are running a strip or 2 off of your first strip. Enter the liberator.
This simple little extension cord plugs into the power strip and has a plug on the other end for your transformer. Now, you have 6 devices plugged into a 6 outlet power strip, not 2 or 3. Simple idea. One that works. Get these. Your significant other will appreciate the neater workspace. Ziotek ZT1212542 Power Strip Liberator 14-Inch Extension, 5-Pack
All those large plugs can now fit ever so nicely on one surge protector. I use about 8 of these for my salt water reef aquarium, and they save me running extra outlets to that area. And definetly safer of a risk than daisy chaining two surge protectors together - firemarshall says that's bad news. Please all the other ones I've ordered help with all my computer equipment upstairs too. Oh, and our entertainment center with the TV, Cable, DVD, etc. I recommend everyone order a box of 20 of these as they will find they have a lot more use for them than they thought. Just take a look around your house and count up where you could use these.
Ryan
"This particular product uses 16AWG wire and meets UL 817 specifications for power supply cords. That specification allows for 1625W, or roughly 13 amps at 120 volts."
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Most homes have 15 amp breakers so don't plug a hair dryer into it and leave it on. Otherwise wall transformers for electronic gadgets draw little power. My Dell notebook charger only draws 1.6 amps.
Kill-a-Watt Caution. I checked with the shipper and this cord has a lower power rating than the Kill-a-Watt you may be using it with. To avoid over-heating this cord be sure not to use with refrigerator, washer, dryer, air conditioner or other large power using appliance. Kill-a-Watt is rated 15 amps (1875 VA) and this cord is smaller, about 1/2 the amount of the Kill-a-Watt. We want you to be safe and avoid the classic "extension cord fire" from over-heating a cord.
These are useful for most small electronics that use transformers. 18 guage wire is used. Max amps for 18 guage wire is 2.3 amps. 120 volts (U.S. house voltage) x 2.3 amps = 276 watts. That's less that 3 100 watt light bulbs. After I bought these, I found them cheaper at a local big box store.
I ordered two packs of 5, and as soon as they came through the door I used 9 of them immediately.
If you have a lot of peripherals like I do, you know some of those adapters have huge butts.
These things kick those butts.
5 Stars.
These liberator entension cords have helped clean up quite a bit of mess behind my two computers. I will probably buy more for my entertainment center. I will probably check out other products like the "octopus" powerstrip that does basically similar functions.
These power strips are great. We use them at christmas -- we have a rather large snow village to set up and each item has a big clunky plug in. By using these little cords, we can plug them all into 2 power strips! What a great idea.'
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