Master/Slave power strip

Life Technology
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Back in Germany I’m using a master/slave power strip - sometimes also called a smart power strip. The way it works is, if you turn on the device on the master socket (e.g. a computer) the current through that socket increases and triggers a switch which activates the power on the slave sockets (where you may have connected the printer, monitor, loudspeaker power supply etc).

I found some sources in the US, I think this would be suitable:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812606004&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle--Surge+Suppressors--Bits+Ltd.-_-12606004

However so far I haven’t been able to find a source in Taiwan, and asking in Guanghua was a bit frustrating, nobody had even heard of such a beast. Any ideas where I could find it? Online stores would be interesting, too.

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Most 3C stores carry them afaik, or try the Orange store (B&Q) or Homebox.

Here’s one, but it’s only got three plugs shopping.pchome.com.tw/?mod=item … A&ROWNO=40
This company makes 'em and tend to sell them at all the local consumer IT shows (not Computex though) tcstar.com.tw/tcstar/ch/htm/ … /strip.htm
Try googling for the model you’d want, such as this one for example store.pchome.com.tw/jeyo/M02966162.htm

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Thanks a lot for the help. :notworthy: I tried B&Q initially, but they don’t have it - so I decided to order from pchome, and found a number of other things I “needed” as well. :wink:

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I guess I wasn’t looking at it right, it actually has five plugs, as there are three on the sides… doh!
Glad it worked out for you.

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Good, so if that weak-supply-feeding-a-big-cap idea works, then the rest of the circuit ought to continue working as intended.

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[quote=“TheLostSwede”]I guess I wasn’t looking at it right, it actually has five plugs, as there are three on the sides… doh!
Glad it worked out for you.[/quote]

It has got 6 sockets altogether, that is 1 master with three slave sockets plus two independent sockets.