Hello all, I am hosting a Halloween party and am looking for a power strip with 12+ outlets and a on/off switch for each outlet so that I can turn on one or two props at the same time. Does anyone know where something like this could be found? I have looked high and low and have has 0 luck! Please help, Thanks for reading
Look into outfits that supply power solutions for computer servers. Otherwise, DIY. I would extend it further, to instead of having manual witches, use a computer to control a bank of SSRs. That is done by Christmas lighting enthusiasts. They even have commercially made UL approved solutions.
Suppose you plug the strip into a 110V outlet with a 16A breaker. The maximum power you can draw is then 1760W (in reality, a bit lower like 1500 without tripping). All the outlets in the strip are in parallel, and are all rated 16A. You can draw 16A from one and nothing from the others, or 4A each from 4 of them. There is only 16A possible in total, for all the wall outlets on that breaker (probably 2 on the wall outlet, plus other wall outlets, plus maybe some lighting). The only way to get more power is to find an outlet on a different breaker, maybe in another room, and put half the load on that (In Canada, kitchen outlets are split on two breakers so you can draw 32A from one 2-outlet wall socket). But unless you are crazy with christmas lights, you won't come anywhere near 16A, particularly with LED ones.
as far as I know, you will have to make your own - which really is not that hard to do. get a 2x4 board about 6 feet long 12 duplex outlets (simpler cheaper than a single outlet) 12 light switches 24 covers (12 duplex 12 switch covers) 24 duplex boxes install the boxes on the board with 1 wood or (even easier), drywall screws use 14 ga wire - black, white, green (black is hot, white is neutral, green is ground
