When we bought The Homestead, we split the cost of an electrical upgrade with the seller. The house had an old 60 amp system that was somewhat inadequate. We got it upgraded to 200 amps, which was a good choice since most of the home's appliances are powered by electricity. We did not, however, pay to "rewire" the house, so we are stuck with the existing outlets. The home pre-dates electric service so the outlets have been added in ones and twos on an ad-hoc basis over the years. The living room has one outlet, the studio/office has two, the kitchen has three, etc. This isn't really a problem except in the studio/office. For nineteenth century homesteaders, we have a suprising number of electronic devices: two modems, three printers, two scanners, two computers, two cameras, and a phone. Dear Fire Marshall, does this look like a problem to you? Rural Ways has no training in energy engineering, but is available for consulting on the construction of power-strip daisy-chains such as the one pictured.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Electrical Outlets
When we bought The Homestead, we split the cost of an electrical upgrade with the seller. The house had an old 60 amp system that was somewhat inadequate. We got it upgraded to 200 amps, which was a good choice since most of the home's appliances are powered by electricity. We did not, however, pay to "rewire" the house, so we are stuck with the existing outlets. The home pre-dates electric service so the outlets have been added in ones and twos on an ad-hoc basis over the years. The living room has one outlet, the studio/office has two, the kitchen has three, etc. This isn't really a problem except in the studio/office. For nineteenth century homesteaders, we have a suprising number of electronic devices: two modems, three printers, two scanners, two computers, two cameras, and a phone. Dear Fire Marshall, does this look like a problem to you? Rural Ways has no training in energy engineering, but is available for consulting on the construction of power-strip daisy-chains such as the one pictured.
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ReplyDeleteThe Iraqis ain't got nothing on you. 80 times an hour the Armored Forces Radio Network uses the picture on your blog for a "don't daisy chain your pwoer strips oryou will die" TV ad.
Is the house still wired with cloth clad two strand? I lived in a house in Bozeman like that, we had to ground plug adapters to take grounded plugs. It would be safer to wall mount some conduit and give yourself more outlets from the existing but you probably already got that figured out.
Chris