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Use At
Your Own Risk
The single
plug adapter WA-7 is designed to support
ONE
appliance. Having
FIVE
appliances going through the universal power strip to draw power
from the WA-7 can be a serious safety hazard -
“the
weakest part of the ring
will break”
... i.e., When drawing too much electricity out of WA-7 for too long
can cause the WA-7 to fail or even melt ... and potentially cause
serious damages to your much more expensive appliances. In
other words, you are free to choose this configuration, but
“Do
It
At Your Own Risk”
- We are not responsible for any damage this configuration may
cause!
As far as
SAFETY
is concerned, the right solution is to go with
Detachable
Power Cords
- just look at how thick and heavy duty the detachable power cords
are and how small and light weight a WA-7 is.
As
Reported By A Customer:
I
purchased one WA-18 and one WA-5 ivory adapter for use at either
end of a
heavy duty
extension cord. While the cord was plugged in to a
standard outlet strip, something happened that caused both
adapters to short out, char, and partially melt. The adapter in
turn shorted out the power strip. The extension cord sustained
no damage. Not other harm came to anything else on the
circuit. The electrical device (an air conditioner) sustained no
damage... What might have caused this?
Our Answer ...
We don't
know enough about your application to give you a definite answer
on what had happened. But, this part we are very sure - Your
setup exceeded the Spec's of our plug adapters:
When one
part of your setup burned and shorted out, the power surge will
propagate to whatever is connected to it inside your entire
system ... until it hits "the ground" - and take out whatever
are in the way, In this case, since your
expensive air conditioner was not damaged – Consider yourself
very very lucky!
Do It
At Your Own Risk:
On the
other hand, if
you know what you are doing, a simple plug adapter at the end of
a 250V
power
strip
may be a good solution to meet your travel needs. Wonpro
universal plug adapters are small, easy to carry, and only half
the price of a country-specific power cord. As a simple
rule of thumb, this setup is okay if the total electric load on
the power strip is
less than 2,000 watts.
Please note that most of Wonpro universal plug adapters support
10A 250V.
Some models support 15A
250V.
For specific details, please refer to our Universal Plug Adapter
web pages for details:
http://www.europlugs.com/Wonpro_catalog/WA_Plug_Adapter_Ivory.htm
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