cheaper if you get it from the same seller via this link http://cpc.farnell.com/pro-elec/2818sp/extension-lead-8g-surgeswitched/dp/PL1049669 (£7.67 inc VAT).

I use this site http://www.****.co.uk/cpc/ - replace the asterisks with check now with no space between the 2 words, not sure why HUKD has blocked it.
You just enter the catalogue number and it tells you if there's a cheaper option.

I use one of these myself, very handy to cut off power from the myriad of vintage devices I own, instead of having to unplug each one individually... Surge protection is surely a good thing, if you want to protect your electronics from sudden power spikes?

Yes known as Farnell, a long time reliable dealer in electronic components uk based

.How strong/thick is the plastic?Because i see many rubbish Extensions - plastic is fragile,you canot use properly if you press,it breaking....

Bought 2 and back for sout else

Anybody else receive theirs?

Just received mine today, invoice reads 2m 8G extension lead.........cheapy little 2 way extension lead in the box......I'll be ringing them Monday then :neutral_face:

cheers buddy :smiley:

thanks op just ordered one just what I needed!!

Glad it helped! :smirk:

Thanks OP ordered th non neon version. Great timing.

​ha ha ha ... the timing of this post was just to perfect not to do so ... was looking to buy a multi-gang extension and lo-n-behold *this* pops by :-)

Received an email reply this morning saying I'd apparently used the "pay on account" option when I know I entered all my card details and double checked them as correct. Website account area didnt give any reason like that. Asked why no one had emailed me that info instead of me having to chase it up and told they sent me an email on Monday. I'm in the IT industry so I knew I'd not received anything from them but triple checked spam, inbox and deleted folders but still nothing. Had to give them my card details over the phone. Anyone else had similar issues with these guys?

Thanks for this. Ordered mine a couple of days a go to replace a Maplins tower version- I received it today. I essentially bought it because of the individual switches which are handy. I read that some people think it maybe quite flimsy, but it doesn't feel that way at all.

I ordered 4 at the cheaper price and got them next day. They're excellent quality and the LEDs are bright. Thanks OP.

Hahahahahahahahaha thats amazing. Imagine if you saw something genuinely exciting! :smile::wink:

Anyone else's order still showing as "on hold" that ordered on Saturday or Sunday? I've ordered from them before so shouldn't be an issue. 3-5 day delivery so would have expected it to have been despatched or here by now.
Just emailed them so will see what they say.

Got mine today only downside is the LED's they are preety much useless, so dim it's untrue, and yes i am referring to the LED's and not myself.

All1

Made an account just to add heat to this!
Thanks OP.

Does 775 seem a bit high for a clamping voltage? Most things would fry before you get to that!!!

Ordered 2 through the link. Happy days no more plugging and unplugging :smile:

Thanks OP ordered a couple.

ordered 4 and a couple of other items, other items turned up but for some reason the extension leads are showing as cancelled on the order FFS!

Who said the price was acceptable! If it is cheaper from the same seller then it's (to me) basically fraud. You don't buy from CPC because you like them, you buy because they sell cheap sh1t...

3400 still left!

Thanks Op....... cant decide on White or Black,,,,,,

Yeah, its a couple of inches bigger :confused:

I am sure I emailed straight away when I realised he had ordered from a newer catalogue when the same item was cheaper in an earlier catalogue which was still in date. This happens a lot with their products. They usually have at least 3 catalogues going at any one time. Worth a try, good luck!

Thank you so much for the advice, should i email them now or wait till it arrives? Thanks

stupid moderate millicat not thinking this is a dealer

Try emailing them and say you will be returning it and re-ordering at the other price. They will probably refund the difference to save the inconvenience. It worked for me when my husband ordered something which I had seen in one of their many in date catalogues at a lower price. They refunded the difference.

Ended up buying for £9.61 using the stupid original picture link, is there any way I can cancel the order? I didn't make an account

The Site selling 'Surge', had a 'surge'?.

The irony ..... hehehehehe. :-)

That's true enough. :-)

Over 4000 still in stock and they haven't changed the price either..Win win!

Ordered one sure! Heat & Thanks.

Site's working OK again now. Just ordered a couple. Thanks OP. :smiley:

Website down or is it just me?

Looks like they've removed it. You snooze you lose! grr.

Edit: Site working again. Ordered.

for safeguarding your PC i would highly recommend getting one of these, great price and worth it for the insurance gained

My old one needs replacing.

I like these kind of Surge Device things, they're goooooood!, lol.

I recall Posting similar to this some years back, and from the same Company too. :-)

I dealt with Farnell regularly when I was a trade buyer many years ago. Their service is excellent and I'm quite happy to use them as a mere punter!

Don't like them don't buy from them. If the price you see is acceptable what is the issue?

Thanks. Bought this one instead..

They do them in B&M - £9.99
http://www.bmstores.co.uk/products/eveready-10-socket-surge-protected-extension-tower-294661

One thing is for sure, I bet you can get it cheaper at..............CPC . Always the same - but they never tell you. Also use an ancient returns policy re restocking fee.

Im glad you mentioned this.
Ammendment 1 also introduces the requirment of a risk assesment on new installations to determine if protection is required.

Personally if I had a few thousand pound worth of computer or AV equipment and needed a trailing socket I'd choose the surge protected one.
Its only a few pound extra and offers extra protection just incase.

No its not, as callum84 says if your home suffers from the risk of surges (unlikely in most of the UK) get an electrician to fit a surge protection device on your distribution board in compliance with the 17th edition regulations ammendment 3 sections 534 and 443

Thanks OP, will order a couple! :smiley:

this is a good purchase

Modern or old consumer units dont protect against transient surges and never have.

If the property is in a high risk area, risk to life (hospitals etc) or has been subject to transient over voltages in the past a type 1,2 or 3 SPD can be fitted to consumer unit or mains incomer.
Ammendment 1 of 17th edition requires a risk assesment carried out on new installations to determine if surge protection is required.

Biggest cause of domestic surges is lightening strikes in proximity of buried cables. We are quite lucky in the UK and dont see many strikes compared to other countries. Surge protection is inadequate not designed against a lightening strike anyway.

Other causes can be switching of transformers, large motors and other inductive loads.

Its not that we dont need SPD's in the UK, its just the risk is really low.

In a factory or industrial site surge protection may be installed to offices and communal area as equipment used raises the risk of transient over voltages damaging sensitive equipment.

In your home that risk is low.

If your spending £1000s on computer or AV equipment, theres no harm in adding some extra surge protection as it costs very little, wether its ever used is another matter.

If you have experienced transient over voltages in the past for whatever reason, get an electrician in and have a suitable SPD fitted to your consumer unit.

Wow what a deal for £7.67
Been looking for months for a deal like this on an 8 gang switched with neons

Scorching hot

The one you link to is actually more expensive than the one advertised here, probably because it is a 3 metre lead and not a 2
Great if you need a slightly longer cable!

Your link takes me to a more expensive item, but it is 3m vs 2m for the cable. Note for OPs item you want to follow the link in the blurb rather than the HUKD link.

Can someone help? Why would you buy this one over this other (seemingly identical but slightly cheaper) one?

http://cpc.farnell.com/pro-elec/2818ns-1n-3m/extension-lead-surge-switched/dp/PL15339

Thanks, ordered one too. Never too many of those!

Also you will get daily emails showing offers. You will need to unsubscribe from that too if you are not interested.They used to send catalogues almost weekly but stop eventually if you don't order from them.

I like bigclive videos, they are great

Most houses don't really need surge protecting sockets, having them is not bad but a modern fusebox does the trip
With older houses and old fashion wire and ceramic fuse boxes, surge protection, I would say is essential for modern equipment. Although it is better to just upgrade your fusebox or fuses if that is not possible

You can opt out of their mail. I get lots of catalogues from them which i dont mind as i buy quite regularly.

​You could always stick a piece of gaffer tape over each LED
That would do the trick, someone else mentioned that in the thread

​Thanks zagaz, your a star :smiley:

awe have some from me... only wish there weren't 8 LEDs on it or I'd order 2

Oh well its off the front page now, don't suppose it will get a lot more heat now its not in the public eye anymore :disappointed:

1.5mm flex is good for 16A.

If your cable is getting warm your probably drawing more than 13A.

Still loads of these in stock
Surprised more haven't been bought!

Its a bummer in't it!

Handy when you got a dad who loves to come in and switch everything off at the wall! Shuts him up when I say I've individually switched off anything I don't need and I can leave the internet on its own switch.

Yea cutbacks

Ordered, Thanks.

Only the 3 electric fires! :stuck_out_tongue:

I wanted a 10 way NON tower but this 8 way will do, should run the 3 electric fires i have :confused:

I think at the end of the day guys, its better to have some protection against surges and spikes than none at all!

Not always. Your wrong - it is.

They have special codes in the catalogues that link to secret prices, for example I wanted a pack of 100 nitrile gloves, £7.XX + vat on their website, but with a magic code in that week's bulk bargains catalogue it suddenly presented me with the identical product but £5.XX! Cheaper product not showing up in search.
A bit cheeky but I guess that's the CPC way of doing things.

Ideally need a tower one

Any sub £10?

Education is based on facts, googling isn't

Good find, just ordered one for my home/study

Great deal, thanks for sharing. Picked a couple up

Thank you OP, I was just looking for one of these.

Nah, some old random lead, possibly Masterplug. You need some fancy and credibly-calibrated kit to accurately record such miniscule consumption.

Nice spot OP' bargain and ordered - thanks :smiley:

Got 2 thanks, need more skts for Alexa and my Nvidia.
Here's some more. http://cpc.farnell.com/surge-protected-extension-leads/no-of-outlets/8outlets/pg/113162822:smiley:

:smiley: Page after dingy page of bits that really no one needs (although I guess a lot of businesses do - their target audience!). I just buy from them when someone on HUKD highlights a good deal.

Reckon you should get a cheap calculator to help you work out the VAT. :laughing:

Your very welcome, glad to post a genuine Hot deal!

Cheers

Excellent find. Been after something like this for ages,a large extension but individually switched. Will be perfect near the telly box. A tower would have been better but this is still very very good. One the rare genuinely hot deals found here these days. Thanks OP.

Top bombing Nemesis :wink:

12cm x 33 cm - bought same one from here 2 years ago (HUKDeal &7.50) used daily still working perfectly

Bloody racists ....

here you go ...:smile:

Or here cheaper - not sure why - seems to be same spec

Ordered thanks ive been after one of these excellent price !!!

Thanks, this exact model? Some don't fully switch off the LEDs, they are dimmer but not off. A similar (but not same) I had consumed around 4W with all switches off, costing a fiver a year which was annoying and more than half the price of the item.

Same ones on eBay are £13-£20 each , so great bargain

Education - the advantage is it illuminates what you can't see ...bit like the neons :wink:

Great ... Ordered ... Thanks OP ... Heat from me.:laughing:

Been looking for an extension. Thank you for the link for the cheaper price. Ordered 2

Suggestions?

Thank you :smiley:

Hot.... Hunted all last week for a deal on one of these!

Yes there certainly are! - if this was free they'd complain they'd have to pay for postage.

Its £7.67 delivered http://cpc.farnell.com/pro-elec/2818sp/extension-lead-8g-surgeswitched/dp/PL1049669

Thanks for the link... and good spot. :smirk:

Wow there are some real miserable moaners on this site!

that's a big one . don't show hot on home page either UK deals site bugged up or not top hot spot

No problems here. I bought this from CPC when it was £6 odd delivered on offer. I've been waiting for it to come back down to that price before I grab another! GOOD PRODUCT!

Oh sod that, just seen it's almost a tenner with vat. :confused:
Seems I got a real bargain at just over 6 quid in total and free delivery, although it was around about a year ago.

Thank you for that. Perfect for me as I need a longer cable. 3m should be good.

I guess if you don't like the neon lights, just cover them up using thick tape such as gorilla tape.

Great price delivered. Ordered and heat added

I happen to enjoy my weekly "COMPUTER WORLD" :confused:

Pay a bit more for something of better quality. I bought one of these and within two days one of the switches is stuck on the on position.

Yeah - the odd problem highlighted by bigclive on youtube with surge protectors is that they break down and (if I recall correctly) overheat after a small number of years (like 5-10 or something). Ever since I heard him explain that I went off surge protection plugs, I can only remember one occasion when I had anything blown by a surge and that was lightning down the virgin cable wire so no surge protection would have worked anyway!
End of the day I don't think it's worth paying for at all, ever, but, in this case it's a cheap extension lead anyway - I paid £8 in wilko today for a 4 way switched one!

The other thing to be careful of with cheapo extensions is they don't always use 2.5mm^2 conductor cross sectional area, so if you did load it to 13A it would actually be over the spec, and could melt before blowing the fuse, main signs being a hot wire, so really best to use them on <10A. preferably much <10A. which any computer stuff is going to be anyway.

Agreed, I have a 6 way version and it's a pain in the backside.

Jeeze just trying to be helpful.

Funnily enough nothing in the technical data sheet on the dimensions of the ext lead!

Does anyone know the size of the socket block?.

Just be wary about these back to back extension adapters, although these are more sensible than sockets that are all facing the same way, you can still run into problems plugging in bulky adapters and finding you are blocking one of the other sockets.

Show us an aluminium all singing all dancing non flexing 8 gang surge protected individually switched ext lead for £7.67 and we'll be all in on that deal too!

I bought a PRO ELEC switched extension from Amazon and it is the cheapest piece of junk I've ever seen. The switches feel like they will break and the casing is flexible. Absolute garbage.

Have ammended the deal with the new price :smirk:

Just bought the 3m switched 8-gang without the neons for £8.94, thanks OP.
http://cpc.farnell.com/pro-elec/2818ns-1n-3m/extension-lead-surge-switched/dp/PL15339

Problem with having sockets in two rows like that is you inevitably need to plug a large adapter into one, meaning that you can't use the socket behind it as its blocked. I have one of these but wouldn't get another.

Surge protect is rubbish on these. Only worked for a week, returned, new one - same again and again. Good otherwise with individual switches.

Can someone please recommend uk to eu adaptor for this.

thanks op, was gonna buy one today from amazon, glad I checked on here 1st :smile:

thank you

£7.67 I paid. Handy to tidy up my TV, PS4, Wii, stereo, record player, chargers etc

Agreed. Useful for me too as I like to shut certain things down when I leave the office, but leave Wi-Fi/Network on. Neon lights are great to quickly show you what's on and off, so heat from me.

Built-in USB sockets are just one more thing to go wrong.

Personally, I can't see the advantage of having switches (and neons). How often do you need to switch individual sockets on or off? And surge protection is a nonsense

Why? I know what I know

Shame that it doesn't support USB devices but great price at £7.67 nevertheless. Have some heat.

Could do with a 5 meter lead

CPC any good?

Individually switched can be very useful but I have found these draw power even when all switches are off. Looking at the manual this one seems to be of this type as well, even when all are it will draw power as indicated by the green light. Can anyone who has this confirm? How much power does it draw?

Having red neons on in the bedroom during the night is my idea of a nightmare. Much hotter if it was plain. Still - it's cheap. Heat added.

Not convinced about the whole power surge argument to be honest, although appreciate there may be rare and specific instances where it happens in the odd household. Still a good del none the less, for 8 sockets, looks decent and CPC are a good retailer.

Ordered thanks.

Is there a black version?

Bought something similar last year from CPC - be prepared for junk mail through the door though.

Of course, but out of interest, where do you live? I used to have minor 'brown outs' here, caused by a sewage pump switching on but after complaints and some time, eventually the pump was replaced by another more modern one. The only surges we have occur after a power failure at switch on when I think the power is brought back on and momentarily exceeds the normal voltages, but this doesn't effect modern equipment.

The "69" suffix indicates it's in the current month's sale section (the numbers change with every catalogue issue).

When purchasing from CPC/Farnell it's always worth seeing if the same item(s) are in the sales catalogue - the hard part is knowing what the 2-digit sale code is, though you can sometimes view that catalogue on their website.

I use this site http://www.****.co.uk/cpc/ - replace the asterisks with check now with no space between the 2 words, not sure why HUKD has blocked it.
You just enter the catalogue number and it tells you if there's a cheaper option.

The only difference is price, it seems the cheaper version is referenced in there monthly catalogue and has a different part number.

Nice spot - ordered. Thanks! :smiley:

Hi.
Out of curiosity, the link to extension lead from cpc, the one which is cheaper, how did you get it ? I compared both and the only difference is two extra digits in order code, if you go back to general section it will show the more expensive one. I buy from farnell from time to time and knowing how to shed few % off would be great use! Greetings from south coast.
Regards
Sam

Nice one. Switches very useful, excellent price. Bought and Hot!

Thanks op, heat added

I don't know what these sudden power surges are, but my neighbours and I get them... Light bulbs blowing, everything switching off due to these surges...
Yes, some do have power buttons, but I don't want those said surges or anything else for that matter affecting the equipment...
It's not up for negotiation, it's just a couple of quid more for a bit more peace of mind...
But it's whatever suits you I guess!

Thanks, just ordered.

dw199 thanx for saving me a couple of quid :wink: Op thanx for sharing the deal! Heat Added

What are these sudden power spikes that this thing will protect your equipment from?
I suppose I should switch of all for example the wall warts when I'm not actually drawing power from them, but in reality there are far too many and the extensions are not easy to get at etc etc and talking of vintage equipment, don't they have proper physical switches to switch them off at the equipment itself rather than triac based switches which actually don't phyically remove power from devices, just put them in standby?

cheaper if you get it from the same seller via this link http://cpc.farnell.com/pro-elec/2818sp/extension-lead-8g-surgeswitched/dp/PL1049669 (£7.67 inc VAT).