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Hello Wayne - 

CA>> It's occurred to me when looking at home computer desks
CA>> covered in pages of printouts that the combination of all
CA>> those loose sheets of paper in an area with multiple
CA>> electrical outlets and appliances is a bad thing waiting
CA>> to happen. 

CA>> Not a firemarshal nor fireman and have no statistics on
CA>> the frequency of home fires caused this way but it just
CA>> looks like a bad thing when you think about it for awhile? 

WC> I've got a 4 outlet surge protector and a 6 outlet power
WC> strip pluged into a regular two outlet box. All ten power
WC> access points are in use by the computer, monitor, printer,
WC> tape backup, external modem, small stereo for the sound
WC> card, VCR, T.V., clock and active T.V. antenna. Thing is
WC> all the load is distributed and unlikely to exceed 5 1/2
WC> amps in total at any given time at the outlet. The surge
WC> protector is clear of debris as is the power strip. You do
WC> however raise a valid point for some who may have poor
WC> connections thus a heat generating voltage drop somewhere
WC> in that tangle. 

Your surge protector and powerstrip _should_ be on separate
'grids' from your main electrical supply. This sounds bad to me. 

WC> Right about now it's the space heaters going on that is
WC> running the fire department around these parts. Personally
WC> heating only the bedroom with a fairly conservative
WC> electrical space heater is my biggest risk and I'd rate
WC> that one way down the line as it's not a little one drawing
WC> 1,500 watts with glowing nichrome strips but about five
WC> feet of finned heat strip at something like 875 watts. Hey
WC> it's doesn't heat quick or all that much but living in
WC> Florida I don't need much, heat last month added 10 dollars
WC> to my electric bill. 

We live lives of many parallels. I too have an electric space
heater for my bedroom but in Michigan it's not unusual. 

Since my daughter #2 moved to Florida and daughter #1 to Texas
I have been monitoring their temps compared to here in
Michigan. Surprisingly the night time temps in Texas have
occassionally been lower than in Michigan and Florida _does_
have some low temps for several days in a row. Not as 'warm' as
I had been lead to believe it was in those states. 

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