Yeah you can use splitters or just daisy chain a cheap little power strip in there for the extras. It's still going through the power conditioner so it's still well protected. Just remember those extra sockets will not be isolated from each other so ground loops could possibly show up.
Assuming your conditioner already provides surge protection you would want a power strip and not surge protector. It's my understanding daisy chaining surge protectors actually defeats some of the protection.
Unless this is an emergency or you're totally broke, you might want to rethink your rack and power plan. Might be time to upgrade. The term is "stuffing three pounds of sh!t into a one pound bag".
I'm confused. An axefx rig only requires two plugs: AxeFX, Power amp, what are you plugging into that thing? lamps and sh*t?Guys,
I'm running out of power plugs on my power conditioner, and I need just 2 or 3 more for my rack.
I'm confused. An axefx rig only requires two plugs: AxeFX, Power amp, what are you plugging into that thing? lamps and sh*t?
A bigger rack if you need the space and a second rack power conditioner. I'm not talking about building a rocket ship here.Thanks, but this is a home rack with all the extras. Upgrade to what? I'm using a Furman PL-8 II.
Outlets on a power conditionner are not isolated between each other. For galvanic isolation you'd need additional power transformers. The power conditionner would become too big, too heavy and too expensive and would not provide additional surge protection BTW.
A surge protection is "almost "nothing more than a metal oxide varistor that will shortcircuit in case of overvoltage/transients (cf http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/resistor/varistor.html). Use a simple cheapo power strip as suggested hereabove, with a connection cable as short as possible.