I'm away at work during the day, only in the evening do I have time to make a cable or two, then route them in the Rack. The pictures I take are in real time, that is, this is how the cables look now. Until I finish this whole project, I'll be listening in the car all day and at home to whatever comes to mind, good thing I have alternatives and don't depend on the audio system in the home theater.
I've bought a bunch of these (from various manufacturers) to enable use of all the outlets on my power strips/UPS units and get some breathing room around the little buggers.
Why not use a dedicated PDU? It will save you from having to deal with multiple triple plugs and reduce the chance of a short circuit...
Did we have the same father or something?OMG, but what can you do? Mine looks about the same.
If my father was alive he'd be screaming at me "your gonna burn the friekin house down"
I live in Germany and I got them here after a simple google search.
If only old rental apartments in Germany were equipped with 400V/16A CEE wall sockets in the living room I'd long be using one of those.
Nobody forces you to use three-phase in the living room, for this reason in the first picture you can also see a PDU with 18 single-phase outlets.
Competition is fierce in this sector.
There are many available, maybe not from remodeling stores. I have a few, usually from work when they redid the lab or ordered from sites like Digikey or other distributors, but Amazon has a selection:
Thanks Don, I see a number of them with 12 - 16 outlets that I wasn't aware of ?
Many Euro homes have a larger variety of voltage and current levels available than normally seen in the US.
Yah you have to be careful not to exceed the outlet's capability. On a bench they provide a convenient place to plug in a bunch of relatively low-power equipment; at home, all the low-level stuff can go on them, but my power amps plug into (dedicated 20-A, now) wall outlets. That said, somewhere around here I have a heavy-duty one the tech at work gave me, and neither of us realized until I got it home and tried to plug it in that it had a 30 A plug. Ooops.
Exactly, to a single-phase PDU with 18 outlets, usually devices with low current consumption are connected, anyway the PDU is protected with 16A automatic fuses, I mean those in the EU. Since I have 50A available three-phase at home, I decided to go with one phase on the power amplifiers, one phase on the subwoofers and one phase on the processors.
We may have a tie, maybe even first place. Mines on page 2. Things work great, no issues other than when I need to change a bad cable, especially a long term one where it takes 20 minutes to fish it out carefully so you don't pull out a different cable and hunt that down next. Perhaps a 6 month to a year issue.
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Image on your TV looks great, what make & model?
