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Switch-per-outlet outlet strip

Before I drive myself crazy designing and building a one-off outlet strip with a switch-per-outlet, I'd like to ask if anyone knows of any such products that are commercially available. I've looked at the so-called "power controllers" or "power-centers" that are made for computer systems and every one I've found is designed to be placed under a monitor and therefore takes up a square foot or more of table space. Since the intended application isn't a computer room but a workshop with limited wall and table space, I can't really use one of these.

TIA Norm

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Norm Dresner
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Sure. We have some old(er) strips with 6 outlets and switches. No filtering or protection but solid and reliable. See the SL Waber model UL25PCB, Shape model UL208 or UL209, etc.

Kal

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Kalman Rubinson

intended

table

Or, if you are into DIY, you can make out out of parts from any well-stocked vendor of electrical parts.

A duplex unit with one outlet and one switch has been available for decades. And you can mount in conventional enclosure(s) of whatver size (1, 2, 3, 6) you can find back- boxes and trim panels for.

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Richard Crowley

strip

systems

I was hoping to find something more compact that that.

Considering the cost of the Waber strips (~$75) I may hack up a $15 power center by cutting the middle out of it and bringing the two ends closer together.

Norm

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Norm Dresner

Sounds like you'll be plugging and unplugging stuff quite a lot. In that case you'll want quality sockets, not ones with contacts made out of puny, weak tin-can strips such as many cheap power strips use. Back in 1969 I built a switch-per-outlet power strip using quality round sockets that dropped into holes I cut with a Greenlee punch. The sockets cost more than everything else. This strip with its original sockets is still in use today.

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Michael

See Argos, £10. Of course that depends what country youre in.

Regards, NT

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N. Thornton

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