A fan takes about 30 watts. It will not overload any power strip.

@jeron9272

5 жыл бұрын

depends how big the fan is

@jhndk7915

4 жыл бұрын

@@jeron9272 ain't no fan takes 1.800 watts

@Aranimda

2 жыл бұрын

@@jhndk7915 Maybe a wind tunnel fan. But otherwise. No. The most powerful consumer level fan I could find takes 130 watts.

@teddyruxspin8480

Жыл бұрын

@@jeron9272 duh

What's sad is that they had the bars to not be murdered in their homes. Instead the bars just made it a tomb for them. :(

this is BS! If your "power strip" is not equipped with overload protection ("kill switch") it doesn't mean its unsafe or hazardous! it just means you shouldn't be dumb and overload it!

@kevinisawake

4 жыл бұрын

Problem is - the majority of people are dumb. Welcome to planet earth.

WHO THE HECK WOULD PLUG HIGH POWER APPLIENCE IN A POWER STRIP?!

Most cheap power bars have no separate power testing switch and have a surge wire inside with epoxy coated surge lugs. The LED power switch gives you a false sense of security because it's power surge protection has already been gone. I have taken apart a few old power bars and noticed some of those epoxy coated surge lugs discolored or cracked. That means you have no protection. Good power strips have separate power monitoring curcuit with fail detection indicator lights. Really good ones even have a power fail test switch designed to pop back off after a few seconds. Look at your power bars every month for a red fail light or no light. If it has a red or no light you toss it.

The breaker should’ve tripped. If it doesn’t trip, then there’s a huge problem with that damn breaker. My breaker trips when I had plugged in two air conditioners at once. I watched to see what happened and it just safely tripped before the power strip attempts to overheat. The power strip was not even warm because the breaker tripped. I am guessing 280 house fires per year was mostly faulty breakers.

it should be against code to have bars on your windows

@justinpeck2217

8 ай бұрын

They should be installed on the inside , with quick release latches.

Never overload power outlets in walls and never overload power strips by piggybacking multiple plugs one on top of each other.

@charlessmith263

8 ай бұрын

The reason - with electricity comes HEAT! Overload a power strip way too much and the heat generated from that too much electricity can be almost as hot like a kiln--it will melt through the strip insulation, eat away the hole inserts, and cause arc flashes or shorts - and BOOM - you end up with an electrical fire!!!!

@liamwatson5125

8 ай бұрын

@@charlessmith263 An electrical fire is absolutely no joke. It can ruin everything!

are the circuits and the entire electrical system not protected by circuit breakers and ground fault interrupters over there?? this shouldn't happen

@jhndk7915

4 жыл бұрын

@fleetfootedtexan that's what I meant: you guys must have some sort of protection for your entire house, right? Here in Europe, you have a 'ground leak detector' that trips when a leak is detected. For your entire house it's usually 30 mA, for wet circuits and outside circuits 10 mA, but depends on where you are in Europe and how old your house is as well. If we have this, I can't imagine Americans wouldn't have it? In case of an open neutral, nothing returns so your leak detector would trip the second a dangerous situation could be happening. Even if you are about to get electrocuted, those few miliseconds and 30 mA can't kill you, and probably won't even hurt you because it switches off so fast before you realize it

Oh... I got cheap power bars

@larrythecat4296

6 жыл бұрын

Taylor and Jackson same

@escaflowne33055

6 жыл бұрын

nothing to worry about if you don't have 20 things running. this is because, as was stated they were running big appliances or splicing a wire into one (which is pretty dumb). both the electrician and reporters are misleading the viewers. follow the AMP rating, its listed on nearly all your electronics. if your power strip has a 15 amp rating, and your cell phone charger is 1 amp, you COULD have 15 (really 14) plugged. SHOULD you? no. but that is how it works.

@jeffclark5206

6 жыл бұрын

Lets not forget that those outlets are protected by a 15-20A breaker and each outlet is rated for 15A or 20A. So more than just power strips are at fault here. Breakers are designed to trip when overloaded to protect the wiring and outlets from overheating. So why weren't they tripping? To me that burnt outlet looks to be one that was loose causing an unstable connection which causes arcs and localized heating from high resistance due to not making enough contact with the prongs.

@elevator1tom

5 жыл бұрын

@@jeffclark5206 Agreed, just fixed an outlet in my attic yesterday that was wired backwards and not wrapped around the screw well that was powering an attic fan.