This evening i decided to pull my desk out and tidy up the mass of wires that are lurking behind it. After about an hour of untangling it got me thinking. Ive got 10 different plugs in use just to power my pc and other hardware to do with my pc. I think this is quite excessive but maybe its the norm? i was curious to see how many other people have plugged in. Makes me feel a bit bad really not very green is it

Well, the thing is 10 plugs drawing say, 200 watts, is much more green than a couple drawing 500 watts each. I use two plugs - one for my modem router, and one for my laptop [s]. My eee PC [when I get it back from the retailer] just uses around 23 watts. Should I want to print something, I'll just have 2 plugs in. Of course, a regular desktop PC tends to use much more power.

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Remember when you are straightening wires... Run them parallel or cross them at 90 degrees (right angles). These two cause the least Electro magnetic interference. Crossing at other angles causes the wires to impede each other, and could cause them to overheat (even slightly) shortening their life at the least, causing a fire at the worst.

If you check your NFC-NEC (The National Electric Code, is a subset of the National Fire Code here in the U.S.), you will see it requires any wires which cross should do so at right-angles as well. many homes are poorly wired, because it saves on the wire that must be bought.

Also, if you roll your cables (coil), a 4-inch diameter is the rule of thumb, as that is not so tight as to ruin the insulation, or to have the wires act as a transformer.

Wow...10 plugs? I have only 3 (tower, monitor, and speakers)

I think im a bit to much into gadgets, and thats why there are so many plugs, i got external hardrives(3) Speakers, Internet Phone, External DVD RAM Drive, Printer, Scanner, Plus lots of other things. I think i must condense things down a bit. lol

my main desktop here has 17

wow! what an earth have you got plugged in?

here is a list

Monitor
monitor
speakers
light
modem
router
chassis
deskfan
printer
switch
server
server
server
telephone
light
network printer
computer

wow! nice setup. i dont feel so bad about my 10 plugs now. lol

I don't think I have that many plugs on the same breaker as my computer lol