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Originally posted by ash_corsa
You cant do much damage mate, the circuit will be protected anyway so if you do draw too much current you'll trip the breaker/blow the fuse before any damage is done :thumbs:

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what fish tank you got? (got nothing to do with your question but im just interested sorry lol)

You cant do much damage mate, the circuit will be protected anyway so if you do draw too much current you'll trip the breaker/blow the fuse before any damage is done :thumbs:

its a piece of piss mate.

How hard would it be to change my single to a double

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You're not supposed to run a 4-gang off a 4-gang. You've got the current from 4 devices running through 1 socket of a device that in turn is only meant for 4. With a computer, TV, Xbox etc I'm surprised it's not gone up already.

change it for a double

Yeh i can understand what ur saying, i might fit an adaptor socet thing in the wall which has a surge breaker which is also fused etc to that should protect a bit more?

Any other ideas i mean other ppl must have 1 wall socket and find ways to cope?

:)

lets say each thing you have plugged in has a 3 amp fuse protecting it. and you have 7 things plugged in. if all the pieces of euipment had a fault at the same time you could potentially draw 21 amps through 1 13 amp socket. thats not good.

Why i only have 1 wall socket what am i suposed to do lol

All i have is one extension with 4 coming off it and then another with 4 in going into that one so in total i have 7 sockets being used.

As for the load a lot of things do not have this information.

Think ur lucky that ur house aint on fire already by doing it that way TBH :|

what sort of loads are you looking atr whith the fishtank equipment? heater? lamps? i reckon they will pull a fair bit of current.

Without working out the exact figures, that seems like too much load. I wouldn't risk it.

have a look at the info sticker on the equipment you are plugging in. write down the current draw for each one and add them up.

No i have no idea how to do this?

have you added up all your loads?

Bit of a weird one here lol

In my room i only have 1 wall socket yes 1 :(

So atm ive got one extension cord coming out of that and another out of that one as ive got like tv,dvd,xbox,comp,monitor,speekers.

And now ive just got hold of a fish tank which requires another 3-4 sockets which would mean putting a few of those extension block things in the extensions ive already got (make sense?)

So is it safe to have all these running off one wall socket?