Socket converters (Screwfix)

I had a double socket go pop last week in the kitchen. It wasca double, but one of the two still work. It’s strange. I just took it off and isolated it, until I swap it for new one.

I’m not sure what happened as all it had plugged in was a Google mini, and that survived the socket pop, which scorched my nice tiles. But cleaned off nice.

It is a place that could often do with a 3rd socket. So I may have a look into that. Probably on a months time, I get round to things at a slow pace. Can’t be finishing the whole house, she won’t have a reason to keep me aroud. Lol.

I recently fitted one of those two become three units in the kitchen. One socket is used for the kettle and another for the DECT phone charger leaving nowhere to plug in the rice cooker or the slow cooker, both are low power devices. The three way socket looks neat, has a 13 amp fuse and does the job admirably. Happily the wiring was just as it should have been so it only took a few moments to effect the change. It did allow for a test of the UPS I put in the support the DECT master socket. It works fine, but I wonder what it would be like if I put in another for the server and one for the modem. The sound of three or more telling me about a mains fail might be a bit much… unless I can silence the buzzer.

Changing a three gang two way switch was much more challenging as the new switch was very different to the old one, even though they were the same make; the way it had all been wired up was ‘odd’. Copious photographs from the mobile allowed a fair pass at the correct way to install the new item vice the broken one that was as likely to turn something off whenever you wanted to turn something else on. It was a relief when it all came back to life without a hitch when it was powered up again.

I thought about the USB inclusive socket but on balance I will stick with the plug in chargers as there is only one room where mobiles are charged and everything is set up for them. A couple of largely forgotten readers and tablets are not exactly main stream activities. The mobiles get charged in the office, where they are often out of sight, out of mind until needed. Mind you, my wife’s mobile Bluetooth connects to the house DECT system and that has been a huge bonus for her phone use. She can answer a call in any room without dashing to the mobile that is an oxymoron as her reduced mobility makes dashing anywhere unlikely; due to ongoing mobile reception issues, the landline is the preferred option.

Richard, I’ve seen a few tech channels strip down the sockets with usb sockets integrated, and alot, have not had good things to say about them. (I’ve Neot seen a positive review), most say terrible build quality, fire hazard. These was from proper ligit outlets, like screfix and B&Q, plus generics. Its kept me away form them.

Bob, last night had been a few weeks in the coming. We have been getting worse game by game. We are suffering losses in the midfield. And their replacements that come in on the summer, just aren’t up to speed. Fabinho looks 2 years to slow, and seems tattically unaware, (see arsenal) and kiata seems to of brought an lower back injury with him, which has slowed his integration.

US rejecting fikir is biting us on the arse now.

The backs mostly fine, as is the front, now our midfield that was brilliant last season, seems to be gone.

I started to go to a Shed Group to see if they were interested in starting up a ‘Makers’ group. Unfortunately if I bring any electrical kit (e.g. solder station, hot-air guns etc) they required each and everyone one of these to be PAT certified even if it was unmodified and carried a CE label. I thought this was a ludicrous requirement as each item was being fed through it own (certified) earth leakage/overload trip switch, but I was told that this was an insurance requirement.

As PAT certification is stupidly expensive, I had to leave the group.

When I built my office I put 6 tripple gang sockets in.  They look very similar to your pics (MK sockets)
They are fused in series through a single 13A fuse in the little plate under the left switch so the can only handle the same power as a single socket.  This isn’t a problem because it is in my office and as you can see, this one has a USB hub, screen and Hive unit plugged into it.  It also means that my office essentially only has the same as 3 double gang sockets so doesn’t risk overloading the house even though I can plug in 18 devices.