The reviews make this thing seem sketchy
1000% sketchy. Looks to be just another drop shipped piece of e-waste. Zero way I would ever plug this into my wall.
JouleLoom 17in1 6ft power strip
Woot! $13.99 (22% discount)
Mothership $17.99
ASIN B0DC7GJYW2
The surge protection rating of this power strip is 1250 Joules.
2-year warranty
Well, it has 11 outlets, but it’s only rated for 10 amps. You could easily overload this thing with a hair dryer and nothing else plugged in. Pass for me. 15 amps and UL listed or it’s a no-buy for me. Fire hazard, IMO.
It’s ETL certified. Some say far superior certification.
You gotta live dangerous, my friend, or are you really living? 
I didn’t look at the reviews on this, but… I can tell you from personal experience that a lot of negative reviews on products are sometimes (not always, but a lot of the time) cause by a loose connection between the keyboard and the chair.
Case in point. There were a handful of reviews on a electric, heat-on-demand water faucet that I bought for the shop. The vast majority of those were negative. They all said the same thing - that the faucet melted. Uh huh… Before I even got it, I knew the reason. Just to be sure, I took it apart as soon as I got it (what? you don’t take everything apart the minute you get it just to see how it works? guess that’s just me … anyway…) and… just as I suspected… there was nothing wring with or even REMOTELY dangerous about this thing. I’ve been using it for almost ten years with NO trouble whatsoever.
I can promise you that the ones that melted, all did so for the exact same reason. They turned the hot water side on without water going through it. SO of COURSE it’s going to melt! The instructions (you know, that sheet of paper that NOBODY ever reads?) - first line, big letters … “DO NOT OPERATE WITHOUT WATER FLOWING”
How much for a can of white spray paint?
Thanks… Went with the black one so I saved a few cents.
One of the one-star reviews claimed that an 1850W hair dryer killed it. Imagine that: a 15 amp draw killing a 10 amp power strip.
The complaints about the USB C ports could be legit. It may not provide enough current to charge newer phones.
I’m not sure if this can be mounted on the wall. I have a 12 plug power strip (4 feet long) mounted on the back base of my couch, the same mounted on the back of my entertainment center and the same on the back of my office desk. Keeps cords off the floor.
I have something like that screwed into the back of my desk at work. Works like a charm.
There’s a use case for these things… Not everyone will be plugging in a hairdryer and there are a ton of low voltage USB devices that this will power up just fine. If someone needs to power up something beefier, then there are obviously better ones out there.
Intertek, aka ETL, aka Edison Testing Laboratories, tests to UL standards, so they’re really just equal.
Anyways there were reviews that says this actually isn’t.
(For those who don’t know, UL, ETL, CSA, SGS, and TUV are valid nationally recognized testing laboratories. They are independent third party labs that actually test and evaluate the products for safety.
CE and UKCA are not; CE is Conformité Européenne, which is an EU directive that manufacturers can self-certify that they meet their standards. UKCA is UK Conformity Assessed, which is their equivalent.)
Woot can’t keep getting away with this!
NEVER, EVER plug heating type electric devices/appliances - eg : hair dryers, space heaters, kettles/coffee makers, heating pads, etc, etc into ANY type of extension cords or adapters! You are introducing resistance between the device plus its cord and the wall outlet that it was not designed for. This causes heating in every connection, the cord, and the device which can melt things leading to fire. I’ve had multiple family members pull this, leading to melted plugs, wall outlets, damaged house wiring, and destroyed devices/appliances. I had to sit the family members down for a serious discussion after finding a space heater plugged into a power strip, left running unattended, and discovered the plug melted, fused to the strip, and the wall plug melted, fused to the wall outlet.
- ALWAYS RTFM/INSTRUCTIONS
- If you have a question or don’t understand something, contact support Google it, or ask someone
Safely first!