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Author Topic: Modern and creative electrical outlets, power strips, sockets and switches  (Read 2787 times)

Giampy

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"A refrigerator without beer is like a body without soul"

ewemoa

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Some nifty-looking things there :up:

40hz

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I'd like to see that "plug with a hole" concept become more popular. :Thmbsup:

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Lot's of cool-looking stuff there, but the only thing that strikes me as genuinely useful is the "plug with a hole" :)

The donut power strip does alleviate the "wall-wart problem", but situations where that would be normally be a problem, it would add cable management hell instead. Could be useful in open-room offices or at LAN parties, though.

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The baseboard "picket fence" idea was also pretty clever. Relatively easy to implement as a homebrew project too. But I'd skip the pointed tops and just go with a rounded or flat shape and put the wire slots more like 6"-8" (or 150-200 mm) apart.
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The modular (E-Rope) powerstrips would be great for eliminating the 2nd strip with one thing plugged into it that always seems to arise with either warts or lots of peripherals. I may look into getting some of those.


I can't figure out where to buy these things :(
« Last Edit: September 12, 2012, 11:23 AM by Stoic Joker »