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| tooki:
--- Quote from: EPAIII on December 17, 2022, 08:39:07 am ---If you buy your power strips at WalMart, yes they well be inferior. Every professional shop I have built has been equiped with the Wiremold, Plugmold strips. I also specified them for professional rack installations. They are better than all but the best, high end, most expensive outlets. I never had a single problem with them. I always got the ones with an outlet every six inches. If you don't specify that, the electrician will go cheap with the ones with them only every ten or twelve inches. Then they curse like hell when you make them take them back out and install the right ones. --- End quote --- Those are a great solution, and as hard-wired items, fall under the “real outlets” I meant. But yeah, when someone says “power strip”, they generally mean the wal-mart kind… :( |
| Monkeh:
--- Quote from: Sherlock Holmes on December 17, 2022, 11:24:43 am ---Shame you can't get switched power outlets in US. --- End quote --- https://www.lowes.com/pd/Legrand-White-15-Amp-Duplex-Tamper-Resistant-Switch-Outlet-Residential-Switch-Outlet/3586610 A shame indeed. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: EPAIII on December 17, 2022, 08:28:36 am ---As for anti-static mats, I have worked with and without them. I saw ZERO difference. Perhaps if you find that static discharge is a problem for you, then get one. But I see no reason otherwise. Not having a carpet on the floor is probably a better anti-static protection than those mats ever will be. --- End quote --- The big problem with the “I’ve never had ESD damage before” is that you don’t actually know that; a lot of ESD damage is not such that it causes immediate, complete failure, and the discharges sufficient to damage sensitive electronics are far smaller than anything we can see or feel. Often, a discharge just degrades a part, such that it no longer performs to spec, or damages it in a way that it fails down the line (and then we attribute the failure to random failure or age, and not the causative ESD event). ESD mats are cheap, and a great way to protect the workbench anyway, so IMHO there’s no excuse to not have one. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: nctnico on December 17, 2022, 12:48:54 am ---That is impossible. --- End quote --- Oh? Why can’t you have an electrician install as many as you need? --- Quote from: nctnico on December 17, 2022, 12:48:54 am ---You need about 20 outlets per meter of bench space. --- End quote --- Says who? --- Quote from: nctnico on December 17, 2022, 12:48:54 am ---Good quality power strips (fixed to the underside of the desk for example) will do that. --- End quote --- Sure, but why do that when you could have real, hard-wired outlets? --- Quote from: nctnico on December 17, 2022, 12:48:54 am ---Regular outlets not so much; they physically won't fit --- End quote --- A 10-gang US electrical box is about 22” (around 60cm) wide, and that would fit 20 outlets. --- Quote from: nctnico on December 17, 2022, 12:48:54 am ---and you need excessive daisy-chaining. --- End quote --- American outlets are designed for daisy-chaining, and hard-wired daisy chains are certainly preferable to plugged ones. |
| Brianf:
I use power strips designed for use in server racks. |
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