Consider the living room of your home. It is not possible to plug all the technological devices you use into the sockets in your home. Because the sockets with triple, quintuple or even more inputs serve as a life saver for all of us at this point.
If you are too busy with technological tools and need more sockets; At some point in your life, you have plugged in and used two multi-plugs on top of each other. Of course, many of us feel uneasy about this issue when we think of the news that we often see “The flame from the socket burned the house”.
So how dangerous is it to put another triple socket on top of a triple socket? What should we pay attention to? The answers to these questions are given to us; We asked Murat Can, who has completed his specialization in electricity and electronics and has been in this business for 30 years.
First of all, it should not be forgotten that sockets have a limit.
Let’s take triple sockets for example. Each input of these sockets draws an average of 16 amps and can withstand up to approximately 3500W. It is also stated by the vendors that it should not be loaded into the socket with higher power.
When you add a new socket on top of a socket, we exceed the maximum ampere limit that it can draw from a single input. In this case, there are some difficulties that we may encounter.
First of all, you need to look at how many watts and amps the technological devices you want to use by plugging the sockets in this way.
As important as how much power the sockets you buy are drawing, the power consumption of the technological devices you plug in is just as important. Because, as we just mentioned, every socket has a limit and you need to make sure that you do not exceed this limit. Otherwise, it is quite natural for us to encounter the images we see on social media.
As you know, electric heaters are one of the items that consume the most electricity in our homes. As you can see from your bills, especially if you use a powerful electric heater; they consume a lot of power.
Now imagine connecting two electric heaters to the same outlet. A single electric heater consumes an average of 2500W of electricity. When you plug two electric heaters into the same outlet, this makes it inevitable for the outlet to burn out.
The extension cord of your outlet should also be capable of transferring this power.
Extension cables can have different thicknesses such as 1.5mm, 2.5mm. Depending on their thickness, the carrying capacity of the cables and therefore the sockets changes. Thicker cables are more resistant to the current they encounter.
To find out the thickness of the cables inside your socket, you can look at the cable section of your socket. As you can see in the image above, most of the electrical cables contain information such as how many cables are in them and how many millimeters thick these cables are. It is useful to look at this information and to know your socket.
However, there is another important point: Your sockets should be loosened.
Especially in long-term use, loosening of the sockets may occur. However, these loosenings can cause problems for you in the future, because the plug is not fully inserted into the socket, causing the current not to be fully transferred. For this reason, the plugs you plug in must not be loose, but must fit into the socket.
Likewise, the resistance that may occur in the cables, which is another transmission organ, can also damage your electrical installation; for this, we recommend that you make sure that you do not experience any breakage in the cables.
So, can our technological tools that we use in sockets that we plug on top of each other get damaged?
Today, this is the main reason why ‘surge protected sockets’ are recommended for technological devices such as computers and televisions; Current protected sockets prevent your device from being damaged by turning itself off when it encounters a current that is too high to handle.
When you use an outlet without surge protection, your outlet may burn out if you experience interruptions in the power supply to the outlet. In such cases, not only your outlet; your device’s cables may also be burned, and depending on your device, you may encounter bigger problems.
Problems that may occur in your electrical installation or fuse, even any non-contact that may occur in your cables or socket may cause your socket to burn out and damage your device. For this reason, we recommend that you pay attention to how many ‘watts’ of power your devices, socket and socket multiplier draw, in order to avoid further damage when trying to duplicate your socket input.
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