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   💜 Dr. Blight ❤️ (rasp@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 00:46:43 JST 💜 Dr. Blight ❤️

   No. This is stupid. even if you did this would be a bad idea because you could EASILY pop a breaker anyway and that's if you're lucky

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     Paradox (paradox@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 01:03:53 JST Paradox

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     @Rasp Sounds like it'd be analogous to plugging a washing machine into a power strip.
     Except worse because only one of them is generating a lot of heat.

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     💜 Dr. Blight ❤️ (rasp@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 01:04:33 JST 💜 Dr. Blight ❤️

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     • Paradox

     @Paradox yeah its like why add more potential points of failure to a fire hazard?

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     💜 Dr. Blight ❤️ (rasp@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 02:04:56 JST 💜 Dr. Blight ❤️

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     • Paradox
     • doomgirl

     @booty @Paradox the problem if if you had almost anything else plugged into that circuit you'd likely pop the breaker or worse so its not worth doing

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     doomgirl (booty@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 02:04:57 JST doomgirl

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     • Paradox

     @Rasp Residential branch circuits are often 15A so 1800W would (ideally) open the circuit breaker fairly quickly. Which would make space heaters even more of a nuisance and make even more people do the dangerous shit they do when their OCPD's are working correctly.

     I agree, just plug it into the wall but if the power strip was listed for 125% of the load I wouldn't see an issue plugging a space heater into it. The only issue then would be the power strips would be more expensive lol

     @Paradox

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     💜 Dr. Blight ❤️ (rasp@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 02:15:56 JST 💜 Dr. Blight ❤️

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     • Paradox
     • doomgirl

     @booty @Paradox if you're plugging enough draw in for it to matter you're doing it wrong anyway.

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     doomgirl (booty@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 02:15:58 JST doomgirl

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     • Paradox

     @Rasp Sure, but that's on the person doing the foolish thing. That's got nothing to do with having a better built power strip lol

     @Paradox