On Wednesday 25 April 2007 14:19, Ted Harding wrote:
Presumably the UPS has the same sort of power output sockets as mine, namely the same sort of closely-grouped 3-pin as you have for power input into a desktop (I don't know what these are officially called).
They were referred to as kettle sockets by the people who supplied the UPS, and seeing them they look, just like the ones in plastic jug kettles in hotels, (we've got a gas stove and a stainless steel whistling kettle).
What I did was hijack an old spare desktop-to-CRT-monitor power cable, cut off one end (leaving the end that will plug into a UPS socket), then wire the cut end into a 4-gang extension socket block.
With that arrangement, I have 4 standard 3-pin "mains" sockets hanging off the UPS. Useful for thingies with 3-pin transformer units, such as the TFT monitor, network switch, cordless phone; and even for my radio ...
(And there's nothing against going up to a 6-gang socket, provided you don't plan to plug things in which would overload the UPS).
Best wishes, Ted.
Having got the transformer for my monitor out from the dust bunnies and wires between the wall and the six gang surge protected socket it was plugged into, (how do electrical leads manage to plait themselves), I did find that the the lead into the transformer is not integral with the transformer, and there was a lead in the box of leads that came with UPS that went from the UPS to the transformer. That's snag one solved. Now I just need to do what you've described above, and I can then plug in the transformer for my router into the UPS.