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Here there are too many of those power supplies that you plug into an outlet and then into an electronic device. They're ugly and I don't have enough outlets for them, so I wonder if there is some kind of power supply unit that you can use to power several devices at once? Like those for stomp boxes.
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Here there are too many of those power supplies that you plug into an outlet and then into an electronic device. They're ugly and I don't have enough outlets for them, so I wonder if there is some kind of power supply unit that you can use to power several devices at once? Like those for stomp boxes.

i'm probably not following this right but do you mean something like a power bar
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Yeah I don't understand. You shouldn't be plugging your computer devices directly into the wall, you should be using at LEAST a surge protector.
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i think he means like, adaptors and chargers and stuff. there's a few out there but they're fairly expensive iirc!
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I don't mean a surge protector, I mean something like this

http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/page/shop/flypage/product_id/30979

But for regular devices
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I don't know if such a thing exists, but I know it shouldn't be hard for a company to make one. Many devices use the same kinds of charger. All you have to do is provide the right volts/amps. Even the ports on the device are often the same size and shape as on other devices that take the same kind of adapter.
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The computer equivalent to this would be a UPS, I would assume?
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Noo, like, it's not for powering the monitor or the PC itself but small things that use 9-12V and around 1.25 A, like a cable modem, scanner, router etc

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As you can see most of them require one of those ugly PSUs that take a lot of space, if there is something that is like 10 of them into one single unit this is what I mean
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I had one a few years ago. It was a long white box with like 10 of these cables (with individual sliders to set the voltage for each of them) that had interchangeable heads. It sucked though because the wires where often too short and the heads would pop right off for seemingly no reason... so we stuck to using a good ol fashioned strip.

I don't know where we got it from (it was a white box with blue lettering)... but it sucked.