Review on 🔌 ETL Listed USB Wall Charger Surge Protector with 5 Outlet Extender, 4 USB Charging Ports, and 1 USB C Outlet - Ideal for Home, Travel, Office by Jacob Schmidt

This Addtam socket extension brings order to our bathroom. We're not going to let 15 amps through, but it looks like it's built well for that. To ensure the Addtam could handle electricity and moisture, I used a triangular screwdriver to pry it open and peek inside. It's all brass (?) metal in plastic cases soldered to printed circuit boards, except for a pair of ferrite core inductors with a couple of thick wire loops (part of the line filter). It looks like it can safely handle 15 amps, maybe a single hair dryer, and can filter in and out RFI, which helps protect USB charging ports and devices connected to them. I would trust him with expensive wearable devices, as opposed to the One Impact Device detailed below. I would NOT connect a heater to it. We have different sockets for the hair dryer, hair curler and heater, all powered by a GFCI switch. It should be a 15 amp switch. It doesn't appear to be fusible. So if you somehow manage to get 50 amps through, it will probably "blow smoke". In such devices, heating is proportional to the square of the current. Minus a small fraction of the star: I wish Addtam had a mounting screw instead of a surge protection indicator; I'll probably add poster foam mounting tape to attach it to the wall around the outlet it's plugged into. ------- For comparison, I also bought a One Beat power strip with 6 sockets for 30% less. What is the difference in $6; One Beat internal construction yields 60% fewer stars. Outputs on One Beat are wired to #14; ruffled but not complete. The wire was hastily routed and came fairly close to the bipolar junctions. The One Beat's socket "hooks" are poorly constructed and improperly bent, particularly the (horrible) sockets for the ground pins. One Beat also claims 15 amps, but I wouldn't risk it. It has a mounting screw; On the other hand, it's very narrow and the jacks are too narrow to fit two full-size plugs side by side. In comparison, very wide flat forks fit the Addtam. We can use One Beat with a 700W microwave and a chopper, but NOT at the same time and when there is moisture. So if you're deciding whether to spend $14 on One Beat or $20 on Addtam (April 2021 price), spend the extra $6 and protect your $600 smartphone. Both your home and your life. While "ETL" is probably good enough, I'm hoping Addtam will also be UL certified. Good quality deserves professional recognition.