yep...thats about right.  Unless you have a specific application in mind
(and I did this in my home), you end up putting a bunch of lights and
sprinkle outlets for the convience.  Unless you end up with a couple of
really heavy loads, the breakers usually don't pop.  However, there is
NOTHING to prevent someone from putting in a dozen power strips and....well,
the results are obvious at times.


>From: Howard Winter <HDRW@H2ORG.DEMON.CO.UK>
>Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
>To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: [OT:]  good power distribution
>Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:05:47 +0100
>
>(OT tag added)
>
>On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 20:17:40 +1200, Hopkins wrote:
>
> > House just down the road had a fire in there lounge
>because a multibox got
> > over loads :-{
> > So be careful.
>
>This had never occurred to me before - the American
>wiring scheme, where the only fuses/breakers are at the
>distribution box, means that there's nothing to stop you
>adding dozens of multi-way socket-strips to each other,
>and plugging into a single wall socket.  So nothing
>technical stops an overload until you exceed the whole
>circuit's rating - have I go this right?
>
>(As a matter of interest, in Britain we have fuses in
>each plug, with a maximum of 13A - approximately 3kW -
>so you can't exceed this via any single socket because
>extension leads/multiway strips have a fuse in their
>plug too).
>
>Cheers,
>
>Howard Winter
>St.Albans, England.
>
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