This thing will NEVER pass safety regulations. There's nothing to stop some dolt from overloading the circuit and causing a fire. Granted, you can do the same thing by daisy-chaining extension cords, bu that's you abusing a product. The ability for abuse is built right into this.
There could be a fuse or breaker in the plug that connects to the normal wiring. We will never know because they haven't designed that part yet.
And no, its not possible to overload an outlet with normal multi plugs because they have a breaker in them to you cant pull more then a wall outlet can provide.
This to me looks like something that was not designed from the right end of the process. Who needs it, where is there a situation that would need one or 2 or 3 outlets then a long cable that you can adjust then another outlet? Every place I have a multi plug is because I have a need for lots of plugs in one location. further along the wall, I plug another one into the power outlet there. If you live in some prehistoric house with few outlets then put the cash towards rewiring it since the wiring is probably so old its about to fall to pieces and short out.
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This thing will NEVER pass safety regulations. There's nothing to stop some dolt from overloading the circuit and causing a fire. Granted, you can do the same thing by daisy-chaining extension cords, bu that's you abusing a product. The ability for abuse is built right into this.
There could be a fuse or breaker in the plug that connects to the normal wiring. We will never know because they haven't designed that part yet.
And no, its not possible to overload an outlet with normal multi plugs because they have a breaker in them to you cant pull more then a wall outlet can provide.
This to me looks like something that was not designed from the right end of the process. Who needs it, where is there a situation that would need one or 2 or 3 outlets then a long cable that you can adjust then another outlet? Every place I have a multi plug is because I have a need for lots of plugs in one location. further along the wall, I plug another one into the power outlet there. If you live in some prehistoric house with few outlets then put the cash towards rewiring it since the wiring is probably so old its about to fall to pieces and short out.