Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!comdesign!ivucsb!steve
From: steve@ivucsb.UUCP (Steve Lemke <steve>)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Power Strips for transformers
Message-ID: <337@ivucsb.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 88 01:39:40 GMT
References: <1364@neoucom.UUCP> <1988Oct11.165614.25645@utzoo.uucp> <30891@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Reply-To: steve@ivucsb.UUCP (Steve Lemke <steve>)
Organization: The Audio Club at UCSB, Isla Vista, California
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In article <30891@oliveb.olivetti.com> jerry@olivey.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) writes:
<In article <1988Oct11.165614.25645@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
<>manufacturer.  Inconvenient though they are for the customer -- after some
<>searching I've concluded that nobody makes a power bar with the outlets 
<>spaced far enough apart for even the smallest plug-in bricks -- they make
<
<Actually, as others have pointed out, strips with the outlets as far a
<one foot apart are available.  Of course locating one modem every foot
<tends to use up a little more space...
<...
<It is less convenient, but not significantly more difficult, for the
<outlet strip makers to mount them with the ground pin along one side.
<I could then plug in a power module at every location of a normally
<spaced outlet strip.

This is an interesting thought - people who make power strips for equipment
racks might take notice of this.  It's something I had never thought of, but
would probably solve a great deal of problems, and, like you said, wouldn't   
be all that hard to do.

<The other alternative is for the power module to have a short AC cord.
<I have several modems using this type and can make full use of
<conventional outlets.  One can duplicate this by buying a short
<extension cord to use between the module and the strip.  The problem
<with this is that it adds more wires to an already messy situation.

Actually, another alternative for a situation where there are lots of modems
is to replace them with a rack of modems.  I've seen a rack unit for VenTel
modems, and also for USR Courier 9600s - when you want to add more modems,
you just slide more cards in - power is all taken care of with one plug!
However, I guess many people have different kinds of modems that aren't easily
written off and replaced - also, I'm not sure if the Telebits are rack-
mountable or not.  But, if acceptable, this is a much nicer way to do things...
 
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