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A/V Components and The Outlet Wall

06/30/2009 5:58 AM

Finally a way to plug in all those video & audio components. Have any of you seen this one yet? Check this out.

http://www.ironicsans.com/2009/06/idea_the_outlet_wall.html

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06/30/2009 6:13 AM

<Wipes coffee sprayed onto monitor.>

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06/30/2009 7:52 AM

This would be really neat when showing a house to sell. Imagine the look on the buyer's face. Te Hee!

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06/30/2009 8:12 AM

Especially if you don't tell them how to know which one are actually live outlets. Or if your really evil put some of these in your house.

http://www.decoflage.com/

I'm beginning to wonder if someone didn't do this at my house. I have a switch on the wall that I can't figure out what it goes to. It does have wires going to it so I know its not a decflage one.

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06/30/2009 8:32 AM

Easy. Send some electricity into it and see where it comes out!

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06/30/2009 8:32 AM

I would appreciate if you stop switching that switch off,I think it controls my back yard spotlight.I've tried every switch in the house and gotten nowhere with it. And it doesn't go directly to a breaker.

Have you considered that the switch in question is a local breaker? I have one in my front hall for the switch, receptacles and lights on my front porch. It perplexed me for months after I bought the house. I asked the previous owner and was told that they never knew what it was for either ( original owners from 1941) and "just left it alone". I finally figured it out when I replaced the light fixture and "accidentally" shorted the leads. At the time my house had 2 circuit breaker panels and a fuse box and no markings to indicate what was what.

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06/30/2009 9:01 AM

Oops sorry about that. If I'd had known I wouldn't have been flipping it on and off. I'm sure a flashing spot light/strobe light can be really annoying.

Yes I thought about the breaker thing too. I had one of these in my previous house. Took a while to figure that one out too. But this ones in the middle of the house. I doubt if it controls anything outside. And I've tried switching it off far long periods of time and nothing seems to go dead.

And my main panel hasn't got any of the breakers listed either.

The only ones I know are the master bed and master bed room. My wife's hair dryer draws 14 amps by its self and if anything else is operating on the same circuit when she uses it it trips the 15 amp breaker. Upgrading the Bath electric is on my list of things to do. But there are not enough hours in a day to get half of what I need to get done done. And the "to do" list seems to grow faster than I can accomplish any task.

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06/30/2009 9:33 AM

The CB switch in my house can be switched to the "off" position without dropping power. It only drops out if it's tripped. That's why it took me months to figure it out.

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Re: A/V Components and The Outlet Wall

07/02/2009 1:47 AM

How about a place to plug these in? The big one will fit in the Bothy or Bahrain.

The bottom one in Oz and NZ. The one next to it is for a lot of places like France, Germany and Russia.

Some places have strange plugs and are not usually in the kit.

All of my stuff that uses 115 Vac 60 Hz also uses 240Vac 50Hz.

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