Switch-per-outlet outlet strip

[Norm Dresner]

Before I drive myself crazy designing and building a one-off outlet strip
with a switch-per-outlet, I'd like to ask if anyone knows of any such
products that are commercially available. I've looked at the so-called
"power controllers" or "power-centers" that are made for computer systems
and every one I've found is designed to be placed under a monitor and
therefore takes up a square foot or more of table space. Since the intended
application isn't a computer room but a workshop with limited wall and table
space, I can't really use one of these.

TIA
Norm

 

[Kalman Rubinson]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 00:13:56 GMT, "Norm Dresner" <ndrez@att.net>
wrote:

Before I drive myself crazy designing and building a one-off outlet strip
with a switch-per-outlet, I'd like to ask if anyone knows of any such
products that are commercially available. I've looked at the so-called
"power controllers" or "power-centers" that are made for computer systems
and every one I've found is designed to be placed under a monitor and
therefore takes up a square foot or more of table space. Since the intended
application isn't a computer room but a workshop with limited wall and table
space, I can't really use one of these.

Sure. We have some old(er) strips with 6 outlets and switches. No
filtering or protection but solid and reliable. See the SL Waber
model UL25PCB, Shape model UL208 or UL209, etc.

Kal

 

[Richard Crowley]

"Kalman Rubinson" <kr4@nyu.edu> wrote in message
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On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 00:13:56 GMT, "Norm Dresner" <ndrez@att.net
wrote:

Before I drive myself crazy designing and building a one-off outlet strip
with a switch-per-outlet, I'd like to ask if anyone knows of any such
products that are commercially available. I've looked at the so-called
"power controllers" or "power-centers" that are made for computer systems
and every one I've found is designed to be placed under a monitor and
therefore takes up a square foot or more of table space. Since the
intended
application isn't a computer room but a workshop with limited wall and
table
space, I can't really use one of these.

Sure. We have some old(er) strips with 6 outlets and switches. No
filtering or protection but solid and reliable. See the SL Waber
model UL25PCB, Shape model UL208 or UL209, etc.

Or, if you are into DIY, you can make out out of parts
from any well-stocked vendor of electrical parts.

A duplex unit with one outlet and one switch has been
available for decades. And you can mount in conventional
enclosure(s) of whatver size (1, 2, 3, 6) you can find back-
boxes and trim panels for.

 

[Norm Dresner]

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"Kalman Rubinson" <kr4@nyu.edu> wrote in message
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On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 00:13:56 GMT, "Norm Dresner" <ndrez@att.net
wrote:

Before I drive myself crazy designing and building a one-off outlet
strip
with a switch-per-outlet, I'd like to ask if anyone knows of any such
products that are commercially available. I've looked at the so-called
"power controllers" or "power-centers" that are made for computer
systems
and every one I've found is designed to be placed under a monitor and
therefore takes up a square foot or more of table space. Since the
intended
application isn't a computer room but a workshop with limited wall and
table
space, I can't really use one of these.

Sure. We have some old(er) strips with 6 outlets and switches. No
filtering or protection but solid and reliable. See the SL Waber
model UL25PCB, Shape model UL208 or UL209, etc.

Or, if you are into DIY, you can make out out of parts
from any well-stocked vendor of electrical parts.

A duplex unit with one outlet and one switch has been
available for decades. And you can mount in conventional
enclosure(s) of whatver size (1, 2, 3, 6) you can find back-
boxes and trim panels for.

I was hoping to find something more compact that that.

Considering the cost of the Waber strips (~$75) I may hack up a $15
power center by cutting the middle out of it and bringing the two ends
closer together.

Norm

 

[Michael]

Norm Dresner wrote:

Considering the cost of the Waber strips (~$75) I may hack up a $15
power center by cutting the middle out of it and bringing the two ends
closer together.

Norm

Sounds like you'll be plugging and unplugging stuff quite a lot. In
that case you'll want quality sockets, not ones with contacts made out
of puny, weak tin-can strips such as many cheap power strips use. Back
in 1969 I built a switch-per-outlet power strip using quality round
sockets that dropped into holes I cut with a Greenlee punch. The
sockets cost more than everything else. This strip with its original
sockets is still in use today.

 

[N. Thornton]

"Norm Dresner" <ndrez@att.net> wrote in message news:<32VXb.27661$hR.718180@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>...

"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley7@xprt.net> wrote in message
"Kalman Rubinson" <kr4@nyu.edu> wrote in message

Before I drive myself crazy designing and building a one-off outlet
strip
with a switch-per-outlet, I'd like to ask if anyone knows of any such
products that are commercially available. I've looked at the so-called
"power controllers" or "power-centers" that are made for computer
systems
and every one I've found is designed to be placed under a monitor and
therefore takes up a square foot or more of table space. Since the
intended
application isn't a computer room but a workshop with limited wall and
table
space, I can't really use one of these.

A duplex unit with one outlet and one switch has been
available for decades. And you can mount in conventional
enclosure(s) of whatver size (1, 2, 3, 6) you can find back-
boxes and trim panels for.

I was hoping to find something more compact that that.

Considering the cost of the Waber strips (~$75) I may hack up a $15
power center by cutting the middle out of it and bringing the two ends
closer together.

See Argos, Ł10. Of course that depends what country youre in.


Regards, NT