Power Strip Bunnings

[Octavis Uberstine]

Iam just not sure how the strip lighting is connected to power. I would think that the cord from the strip lighting would need to run to a power point. However, the cord would then need to run down the wall and into the stairs (the stairs double as storage space and have power points in them).

Like you've said, there are battery operated options such as Lytworx 1m Warm White Battery Operated Or USB Powered Neonflex Light or Click 1m White LED Battery Operated Strip Light which could be used but you would need to find a way of concealing the battery pack in a way that it can still be accessible to change batteries. For this reason, I'm not sure that it's a great option in your situation.

A hardwired option would be much better but would require the assistance of a suitably licenced electrician. They would be able to route the cabling to a switch or integrate it with a smart home system allowing for much easier operation.

You can get sensor activated ones but what you are going to have an issue with is the battery housing you will want to mount on the back side of the hand rail and then the thin LED underneath and If it is a sensor type the sensor will be on the battery pack.

I would suggest going into to store and having a look there are 3 section one where all the outdoor fairy lights and that are then there is another where the night lights are situated and finally where the kitchen and cupboard lights are situated.

Else if the hand rail is to hard then look to run a long 20m led either side up the stairs on the top side against the wall that way you will get an up light effect on the wall and running the cable down into the cupboard cavity would be more discreet.

Second option is you could install triangular light strips along the bottom corner of the steps. I just had a look online and there are a few suppliers you could have a look at, the wiring could be then placed within the steps and to your closest power point.

What do you take on your cruise to solve the one outlet issue in your cabin? My husband uses a CPAP and I want to make sure we have enough outlet space to charge the camera battery and our phones as well as run the CPAP. From reading on the Carnival site I see it can't have a surge protector as part of the strip.

Correct. No surge protector. If the power strip has one, it will be indicated somewhere, usually on the bottom of the strip. For our last cruise, I bought a power strip with a short cord (24"). Since I have it laying on top of the vanity, I didn't want to have a long cord to deal with.

You'll want an extension cord too as the 1 outlet in the cabin is likely very far away from the bed. - Well, 2 out of 2 cruises for us have been that way. We got an extension cord where the end has three plugs. One for cpap and 1 for our 5-port USB charging hub. It lets you plug in 5 things that charge via USB - camera, phones, tablets - we filled it up.

I recently found, and bought a power strip, with a short cord, and no surge protection at Wal Mart for 98 cents! Bought two of 'em,,,one for the lovely, and talented Mrs. Jones, and one for me. How can you beat that?

Bringing my 6 outlet strip w/4 ft cord--got lotsa devices that need charging pretty much daily. This is a necessity for us when we cruise....dunno how most folks get along with the single outlet these days. :)

I brought a 6 foot extension chord with 3 plugs on it that I bought off Amazon. Worked fine. 15 foot sounds like it might be a little over-kill; couldn't that wrap all the way around a cabin 3 times? :) You must be staying in a grand suite to need one that long!

lol, I admittedly have only experienced 2 Carnival cabins and both were conquest-class balconies but 6 foot would never reach from outlet to bedside for cpap purposes. I assume different ships and cabin cabin categories will have different dimensions but our 15 footer should work for all of them.

We got lucky on our first cruise in that we didn't know we needed the extension cord so we didn't bring one but guest services lent us one with the 3 outlet deal at the end. So that's what we looked for when we went to get one of our own - they said they don't always have them.

I would ask that you don't use the surge protector onboard the ship. If you search my posts, you will find hundreds where I discuss the dangers of using consumer surge protectors in shipboard wiring systems. I know you are worried about protecting the vital medical device, but just know that absolutely none of the ship's vital systems and electronics are protected with surge protectors, because the unique characteristics of marine wiring that makes surge protectors dangerous also makes them redundant.

Any other specs like :

number of GPo sockets?

color?

cable length?

with switches or not?

How many joules for the surge?

Usb changer included? What type?

LED for power on?

Warranty period?

Online or bricks and mortar store?

size? WxLxDxH

how many ports? The main player is really belkin in this space, the idea being in the event your stuff does get damaged at least they are so big they have a good chance of not stooging you on a claim (though they probably will still try).

Powerguard, which is now owned by Cellnet in Qld, were the 1st I know of that introduced the indemnity warranty (and still do),@20 years ago, however their specs are lousy, compared to what some units claim they can absorb these days.

In brief - Schneider Electric recommends against the use of any surge protector, power strip or extension cord being plugged into the output of any APC Back-UPS and Smart-UPS products. This document will explain why.

Meets Australian standards, flat plug, no switches unless specifically required (just another component to go wrong), no surge protection (unless happy to pay big bucks for one that actually protects). Arlec, HPM etc.

Has anyone had experience with Aldi's "Power Force" 5-in-1 pool test strips? I never used strips previously so haven't paid attention as to whether they've had them before; they are in this coming weekend's pool stuff sale.

I've read a few recommendations here for the Aquacheck 4-in-1 strips from Bunnings for OK levels of testing, mainly chlorine, they're a 50 pack for $19, the Aldi ones are a 60 pack for $10, any thoughts on whether they are any good? I don't need complete accuracy, just a ballpark for primarily keeping an eye on chlorine production in our new pool to see if I can dial the settings and runtime down, without pestering our local pool shop every week.

Another option is to go to Bunnings, grab a couple of the free little water bottles they have in the pool testing section, take them home, fill one up and test it on the Bunnings pool testing machine. It has some.of the Aquacheck strips attached to it, you enter some pool details into it (which you can save for later use) and then use the strip to cpare to colours on the screen. It will give you results as well as a calculation of what if any chemicals you need to add. You can even do a separate salt test if you have a salt water pool.

I have a drop test kit as well when I need accurate levels, so checked the levels, but the colours on the test strips were nothing like the colours on the bottle.

There is no BigW nearby so now I only use the drop tests.

After my kit of drops and tablets ran out I decided to try the strips from Aldi, figuring that if doctors use test strips then they must be OK, (despite warnings on web sites that test strips aren't as good as the old fashioned kits).

I have been using the Aldi 5 in 1 Powerforce strips for over a year now, along with a monthly test by my pool shop as a comparison and whilst the numbers on the Aldi test strip results have little in common with the numbers from the pool shop (apart from alkalinity), the colours and positioning of where my pool should be are spot on, such that the pool shop can each time, only recommend very small adjustments to my acid or PH buffer.

I keep the pool shop printouts, write in my test strip results next to his and keep a running comparison.

Recently I discovered the Bunnings test station, tried it on two occasions and found it most confusing. First there are two tests to choose from, one for the usual (albeit only 3) chemicals, the other separate test is for salt. (Well that is how I read the instructions... I may have got it wrong). You fill a little bottle with your sample, dip the strips then compare against the colours on the screen

You must first enter specs of your pool, like size etc and you can save that against your email for next time.

You then compare the strip results against the screen, touch the colours that best match then hit print and that's when the confusion really starts as the long printout shows a string of products, with confusing recommendations next to each of them. The experience I had on those two occasions at the Bunnings machine was like having a pushy pool shop owner trying to get you to buy stuff, but at least there you can ask questions and get explanations. so all in all very disappointing, and I wont bother with the Bunnings system again.

I must warn that the Aldi strips have a manufacture date stamped on them (I can see why now) and mine are now 15 months old and the Total Chlorine and the Free Chlorine are now one colour too low (when compared to the pool shop test so I keep that in mind) so I wished now I hadn't bought 4 sets from Aldi, (each with 80 strips) which I thought would last a couple of years, so I think that just like beer, that fresh is best.

The experience I had on those two occasions at the Bunnings machine was like having a pushy pool shop owner trying to get you to buy stuff, but at least there you can ask questions and get explanations. so all in all very disappointing, and I wont bother with the Bunnings system again.

i have tried the aldi and both bunnings test kit and aqua check test strips. the local pool store showed cyanuric acid at 89 whereas both aqua check and the test kit and my cyanuric acid tester from amazon showed 40-50, which would you believe ?

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