Electric multi plugs.

[Everest]

Isn't there an Electricity Transfer Rumour forum anywhere?

 

[Everest]

Try this BG

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34905136

 

[1066familyman]

What colour cables are on the towers? There's a ranking of cable colours as to what carries the best current. I can't remember the correct order but I think black is best as it absorbs the most positives ions from the atmosphere and white is worse as it reflects them.
Not sure where those garish orange or blue cables fit into the equation.

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

Everyone is looking at this from the wrong angle. BG, what you need to do is take your electric reclining chair up to the bedroom and try it there. If it gets you from horizontal to vertical in half the time, then it's definitely the tower.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Sorry to ruin an excellent thread with a serious answer, but I bet there is some sort of power save feature in the tower thingy. The charger draws so little current that the tower is periodically deciding everything is off and is going into some sort of power save mode.

There are some ridiculous answers on here, but that is just taking the p***

 

[Dr Q]

Have you checked which way the water goes round when you flush the toilet?
If there is a difference (it is ok if you don't have two toilets, a sink will do (for all aspects) between downstairs and upstairs, there is probably a magnetic polarity reversal somewhere in your house.

This will then cause the electrons that make up the electricity to flow in different directions, in this case towards your plug socket upstairs, hence the faster charging, and away from the plug socket downstairs, hence the slower charging.

(note, this will only affect a DC power source, which you won't have)

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

I think we've all missed the obvious answer here; plug the charger in the top socket of the tower and then turn the whole unit upside down. This was cause the electricity to pool near the charger and trickle through the cable faster.

Simple science.


What?


Edit; As originally suggested in post 4 by the wise and noble Acker79.

 

[Acker79]

I think we've all missed the obvious answer here; plug the charger in the top socket of the tower and then turn the whole unit upside down. This was cause the electricity to pool near the charger and trickle through the cable faster.

Simple science.


What?

Ahem. Post 4.

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

Ahem. Post 4.

Ah. Well. Um...you see, I was merely trying to flatter you and I've been told that repetition is a good way to go...

 

[WATFORD zero]

Ahem. Post 4.

Does this mean we have now exhausted every possibility

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

What about getting a left handed tower on emergency loan?

 

[El Sid]

We have an electric 10 point tower near our tv to take tv dvd etc running off of a socket of which only 5 are used. I also have another one near my armchair to charge phones laptop tablet etc running off of another socket but on the same ring main as the other. We have noticed that charging a phone takes 3 times as long using my tower than putting the charger into a socket in the bedroom. Why should this be as the towers dont have less electric? It would be slightly inconvenient to use just 1 tower due to lengths of leads to various appliances and where they are situated.

There are 2 solutions to this problem.
A) Install lunar panels.
or
B) Get Bens Grandma to pedal faster.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

A) Install lunar panels.

We have these. It charges mobiles quicker that I can type this sentence.

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

Does this mean we have now exhausted every possibility

That depends on whether anyone has suggested using the microwave to charge the phone yet I would think.

I recall seeing numerous stories a year or two ago where some bright sparks (pun very much intended) had put the message out that a few seconds in a microwave could fully charge a battery due to some amazingly made up science. Some even tried it. Whoops.

 

[beorhthelm]

Does this mean we have now exhausted every possibility

i haven't ruled out the information "the same charger which took 7 hours to charge 17%" means that it was in fact turned off, not connected properly, or otherwise not charging at all.

 

[1066familyman]

What about getting a left handed tower on emergency loan?

One that could function as an inverted left hand tower might be able to do the job.

Might not even need to loan one in, as I suspect if BG has a good look around he might find he already has one.

 

[LlcoolJ]

Maybe he could get Ashley Cole to have a look at it. I've heard he's available.

 

[BensGrandad]

I have decided to replace the tower with a standard 4 plug extention lead for a month, if that works continue with it if not buy a new tower in the January sales.

 

[driller]

I have decided to replace the tower with a standard 4 plug extention lead for a month, if that works continue with it if not buy a new tower in the January sales.

It takes a month to charge your phone ?
Wow sounds like a problem there.

Can I just ask is it slower when it is raining or windy?