Extension cord and fire hazard

[Stevey87]

Originally Posted by o.c.d.

This is very important,you can do this by adding up all the watts on each thing that is plugged in.Touch the cords to see if they are hot, that is a indicator of overload. Unless you test the draw on the plugs, it will be a guess. Have you popped the breaker?

What do you mean by popped the breaker?

Nothing is hot except the coralife timer only the part where the timer is. Both of the power bar I have are hot around the timer area. Not like MH hot but some heat. Packaging says up to 1875 watts 15 amp. So as for watts, I don't have to worry I guess? I'm assuming MH and T5HO are the high watts I have to worry about. Tell me if I'm wrong.

Assuming that part is taken care of, what if I have 4 of these plugged in the same room?

Holy ****!!! the room heater my dad told me not to plug into a power bar is rated at 1500W!!!

So worst case scenario 4 power bars rated for 1875 watts max in a room along with 1500W seperately. Is this safe?

I found this on google, http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...=584645&page=1

Scary............