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Safe using adapter on tumble dryer socket to power router?

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  • 02-04-2023 11:14am
    #1
    batman1
    Registered Users Posts: 599 ✭✭✭


    Recently had fibre installed and the router etc is nicely hidden away on top of the utility cupboards. However, the router and fibre box are powered using a socket which is halfway round the room meaning an extension cable pinned to the wall.

    Is it safe/advisable to use the single socket that the heat pump dryer is using , put a double adapter into it and then plug the 3way extension into this ? The only items that can be plugged into this are the router, fibre box and 1 homeplug.

    The dryer is a heat pump, 950w 13A.

    The utility is the standard undercounter appliances with single sockets and isolator switches above the countertop.



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    #2
    10-10-20
    Registered Users Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭10-10-20


    Even though the dryer is a HP type at ~4A (950w / 235v = 4.04A), I'd recommend that you swap over the single socket for a double and connect the dryer in directly. Then use a 4-way extension for the low power devices on the remaining socket.



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    jumbone
    Registered Users Posts: 609 ✭✭✭jumbone


    If they are going as far as chasing out the wall to swap a single to a double, I'd sooner recommend just adding a socket for the router. It's a bit bodgy to have the dryer isolator also know off whatever else is plugged into the other side of the double.

    Could spur off the feed side of the dryer switch and a countertop socket - double) fairly easily. Only a couple of inches to make good after, potentially none of its a stud wall and you don't hit wood.

    Homeplugs are better better when not used on an extension lead, can use a double adapter for the router and modem



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    kirk.
    Registered Users Posts: 4,958 ✭✭✭kirk.


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120434194#Comment_120434194
    https://www.screwfix.ie/p/schneider-electric-lisse-13a-1g-to-2g-switched-converter-socket-white/108ft

    No need to chase to convert a single to double

    If the OP is saying that the heat pump socket is switched from a countertop isolator

    Then ya you don't branch off that socket for anything else



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