We used similar “homemade” outlets on extension cords – we must’ve had more than a hundred around campus. But the fire inspectors wrote us up for using them in permanent locations under desks. We had to change them to commercial power strips. But I set up a temporary registration and add\/drop classes area every semester, so it wasn’t permanent and I had a dozen or more of these “do-it-yourself” extension cords under fold-up tables for a month or more.
Our 8 or more mainframe terminals each drew an amp or 2 current, so it was okay. But then the bozos set up a refreshments table next door with a kilowatt coffee urn, and tripped the breaker. And there were like a hundred students lined up around the building in the hot sun, waiting for us to get an electrician to come over and find the breaker and reset it. 🤬🤬<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We used similar “homemade” outlets on extension cords – we must’ve had more than a hundred around campus. But the fire inspectors wrote us up for using them in permanent locations under desks. We had to change them to commercial power strips. But I set up a temporary registration and add\/drop classes area every semester, <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1601,338,349,1258,899,1226,2781,2864,348],"tags":[2865,2866,2868,2867],"class_list":["post-19275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-building-projects-and-kits","category-cabling","category-college","category-computer-history-history","category-education","category-mainframe","category-terminals","category-websites","tag-do-it-yourself-2","tag-extension-cord","tag-registration","tag-temporary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19277,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19275\/revisions\/19277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}