Keeping Your Home Running Through Sufficient Power Cords
Today’s home needs many power cords and power cord sets. With so many electrical and electronic appliances and gadgets, there are just never sufficient receptacles to plug them all in. In some places, you need an electric cord with a lot of openings. In other places, you need a longer cord because the appliance to the power outlet. Sometimes you need both. For example, the entertainment center in a corner of the family room probably has many gadgets that need to be plugged in. There’s the wide screen television, the game box, the cable box, the digital recorder, the I-Pod station, and maybe a decorative clock. At the computer desk, you have to plug in the computer, the monitor, the printer, the scanner, the lamp, the coffee pot, and the shredder. In the kitchen, we have the toaster oven, the can opener, the blender, the food processor, the microwave, and the coffee pot. In the bedroom, there’s the clock radio, the phone, the lamp, the weather radio, and the I-Pod station. Whew! That’s four outlets and twenty-four things to plug in!
Then there’s the matter of safety. In years past, we plugged a little device with three openings into the outlet. Two such devices would accommodate six appliances. But we were always warned by the fire department against overloading the sockets. Today’s power cords and power cord sets are more sturdy and accommodating than the old three-way sockets. Today, a good power cord also provides a surge protector plus an off/on switch. These devices make it less likely that an overloaded circuit can pose a danger.
Today’s power cords also allow you to be just a bit more environmentally friendly. Have you noticed that all these new appliances leak electricity? I don’t mean that you will be shocked if you touch them. What I mean is that they are always ON. What I want to know is, what is the use of having a little red light on my DVD player when it’s off? It doesn’t store channels. It doesn’t have a clock. Why does it have to be running when I’m away? The same is true of the new television and the digital converter and many of the other electronics. You can have a greener house if you plug these devices into the type of power cord that has an on/off switch. Just flip the Off switch when you go to bed and don’t flip it on until it’s time to relax in the evening. Certainly, if you have the type of television that loses its channel settings when there’s no electricity, you need to put it into a separate power cord that you leave on, letting that amount of electricity to be used constantly.
One of the more innovative power cords is the squid. Unlike the old surge protectors, each outlet is attached to a short cord. This setup allows you to plug in numerous devices that have that annoying transformer at the end of the plug.
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