Quick Question

[weejen]

i am setting up a new shrimp tank this weekend. cloning filter from one of my other tanks. but my question is this. i want to set the tank up next to my sofa but there is no power suply there and i was wondering if its safe to plug an extension cable into another extension cable to run the tank off?

 

[SimoUK]

Thats what my coldwater tank is doing right now I've had no problems, I got the filter, heater and lights plugges into it, that extension then goes into another one which has computer and what plugges into it, then into the wall.

 

[-Craig-]

Should be fine, i don't do it as i have never had to.

 

[kiriyama]

Been doing that for a while , seems ok

 

[ZoddyZod]

extension to extension should be fine (you are just basically extending the cable) it's when you start plugging in 4-way plugs to other multi plugs that you can make things dodgy!

 

[frogmarch1987]

I've got a similar problem to this.

However I have 2 4-way extension leads.

If I make sure that I only use the 4 sockets on the second lead for my appliances (filter, heater etc.) and only use the one socket of the first lead to plug in the second lead, can I plug the second extension into the first?

As far as I can see, as long as the total number of appliances ovr both leads doesn't exceed 4 then I should be ok. Is this correct?