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Is this power strip defective? blondie69 01-30-2008
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Posted by Red Green on January 31, 2008, 7:17 pm

>
> I just bought a power strip at Home Depot. It has six outlets on it.
> The instructions said "plug the cord from the power strip into any
> outlet, turn on the switch, and when the switch lights red, the
> device is ready to use."
>
> Ok, so far so good. This sounded easy enough.
> I plugged the power strip's cord into the first outlet, flipped the
> switch and it did not light. I tried the second outlet and still no
> light. I finally plugged the cord into the last outlet, (the 6th
> one), and still no light. I decided that maybe I should try doing the
> same thing in reverse, so I unplugged it from the 6th outlet on the
> strip, plugged it back in, and flipped the switch. Still no light. I
> then went to the 5th, the 4th, and so on all the way back to the first
> outlet on the strip.
>
> What the heck is wrong with this thing? Is it defective? How will I
> know for sure?
>
> Blondie69
>
>
>
> ---------
> My man is a Fire Fighter. When his boss fired him, he started a fight
> with the boss.

Go into Home Depot and look for the bin with the duplex outlets. Try it
in all of them till it works. Buy that one use it at home.

Ya gotta think for yourself a little, man!

Posted by Harry on February 1, 2008, 12:15 pm
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:24:05 -0600, blondie69@u-guess.com wrote:

>
>I just bought a power strip at Home Depot. It has six outlets on it.
>The instructions said "plug the cord from the power strip into any
>outlet, turn on the switch, and when the switch lights red, the
>device is ready to use."
>
>Ok, so far so good. This sounded easy enough.
>I plugged the power strip's cord into the first outlet, flipped the
>switch and it did not light. I tried the second outlet and still no
>light. I finally plugged the cord into the last outlet, (the 6th
>one), and still no light. I decided that maybe I should try doing the
>same thing in reverse, so I unplugged it from the 6th outlet on the
>strip, plugged it back in, and flipped the switch. Still no light. I
>then went to the 5th, the 4th, and so on all the way back to the first
>outlet on the strip.
>
>What the heck is wrong with this thing? Is it defective? How will I
>know for sure?
>

You have gotten the Microsoft XP/Vista version. To use it, you will
need to contact the manufacturer to "activate" it.

>Blondie69
>

[snip sig with the WRONG sig separator line]

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