I had two power boards daisy changed in my living room for my multiple devices etc., is it safer to have each power board plugged into a socket of the PowerPoint? (it’s a double socket) rather than daisy chaining from one to the other? or is it much of a muchness?
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Safer to use both sockets with a board on each. If you have four sockets on a board then, if you daisy chain them, you could have 7 appliances pulling power off a single wall socket. Whereas as separate boards each with their own wall socket you would only have 4 on each.
If they all pulled maximum power you could have a lot of power in the cable to the first daisy chained board. The more power you draw the hotter the wires get. The cable is designed to cope with the heat from the sockets it has on the board – not from multiple boards daisy chained. It probably won’t burst into flames before the fuse blows – but it might if it was a cheap board designed to minimum tolerances with no margin of safety.
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