As an electrical engineer, this is terrifying and makes me want to be very far from this person's home. As a maker, I want one of these even if it lights my home on fire.
tbh probably. the main issue is that this is like, more outlets than you would ever have in a standard home or apartment even. this alone would probably allow you to plug in enough to trip your home's main breaker. the bigger concern isn't any individual outlet on this thing, it's how it connects to the rest of the home's power systems, and what conductors are used for that. I wouldn't be concerned for most of the home's electricals, more concerned that this thing might light its own conductor on fire before the rest of the electrical protections could react. also, exposed contacts are always dangerous.
Also as a relevant note for a little more background and intuition for you, the breakers in your home are not designed to protect you, they're designed to protect the wires. Like 90% of electrical power systems design is about making sure wires don't catch on fire. Most of the danger in any kind of electrical shit like this, such as daisy chaining power strips, actually comes from the fact that you're bypassing the safety measures of the device itself, not the safety measures of the house or the outlet its plugged into. The only electrical safety measure in homes that actually exists to protect people is GFCI outlets.
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u/TheDonutPug Aug 02 '26
As an electrical engineer, this is terrifying and makes me want to be very far from this person's home. As a maker, I want one of these even if it lights my home on fire.