Hello. I am a newbie to this forum and if I wrote in the wrong place please correct me. If necessary, I will delete the post and paste it in the right place, if possible.
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In our apartments, we often find so-called power beams or strips or anti-interference filters. For a layman like me, it looks like an extension cord with a splitter, on-off switch and a diode. Once I was convinced that they consume a symbolic amount of "electricity". I once bought an inexpensive (about PLN 30-40) device to check, among other things, how much "electricity" is consumed by a given device. The results made quite sense. What was my surprise when it turned out that the so-called power beam when it is turned on consumes about 7W. I conducted a few tests and on a few "beams" I had and the results were about 5-10 W. Interestingly, it depended whether any, even off , device. I tested it on the simplest device that I could find, i.e. a lamp consisting of a cable (without grounding), an on-off switch, a light bulb holder and light bulbs (because I tested how much current the light bulbs consume
). It turned out that the "lamp" (as well as other devices) connected via the beam consumes about 5-10W more. What's more, the beam itself also takes about 5-10 W. Just plug in the plug switched off lamps for the beam socket.
I am a layman when it comes to electrics. I pogooglała a little and I could not find out if this is normal. My guess is that if the diode is lit on the beam, it must take some current. However, on any of the devices available to me I have not found any markings on how many and what it depends on. 5-10W is a lot. Currently, I have a lot of so-called "power beams" at home and I am a bit concerned about the fact that each of them can use up to 10W additionally. Especially since I do not disable them all, just as needed. Could someone explain this topic a bit, or point to a page with such information?
To the point:
In our apartments, we often find so-called power beams or strips or anti-interference filters. For a layman like me, it looks like an extension cord with a splitter, on-off switch and a diode. Once I was convinced that they consume a symbolic amount of "electricity". I once bought an inexpensive (about PLN 30-40) device to check, among other things, how much "electricity" is consumed by a given device. The results made quite sense. What was my surprise when it turned out that the so-called power beam when it is turned on consumes about 7W. I conducted a few tests and on a few "beams" I had and the results were about 5-10 W. Interestingly, it depended whether any, even off , device. I tested it on the simplest device that I could find, i.e. a lamp consisting of a cable (without grounding), an on-off switch, a light bulb holder and light bulbs (because I tested how much current the light bulbs consume
). It turned out that the "lamp" (as well as other devices) connected via the beam consumes about 5-10W more. What's more, the beam itself also takes about 5-10 W. Just plug in the plug switched off lamps for the beam socket.I am a layman when it comes to electrics. I pogooglała a little and I could not find out if this is normal. My guess is that if the diode is lit on the beam, it must take some current. However, on any of the devices available to me I have not found any markings on how many and what it depends on. 5-10W is a lot. Currently, I have a lot of so-called "power beams" at home and I am a bit concerned about the fact that each of them can use up to 10W additionally. Especially since I do not disable them all, just as needed. Could someone explain this topic a bit, or point to a page with such information?
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