Power question

demogo

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OK, my power strip with individual buttons failed today while all 4 of my games were on and being aggressively played by a bunch of friends from work.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=914023&CatId=1284

The "protected" light went out and the sockets are no longer getting power.

The only things that I'm sure of are:

1) I did not overload my circuit (dedicated 20 amp circuit with only the games on it)

2) The games pull around 7-8 amps when they're all on. Perhaps they pull a bit more when they're all being played but I wouldn't think it would be that much more.

3) The power strip is rated at 15 amps, I was only at 50% capacity so I wasn't even close to straining it.

4) There was not a surge coming in from the power lines. The power strip was plugged into a kick-ass surge protector which would have stopped pretty much anything short of a lightning strike (and none of the UPSes in the house kicked in, the lights didn't flicker, etc). And the surge protectors in the house that go off and stay off after a surge or power dip were all still on.

5) The surge protector that the power strip was plugged into was still on, as was the lamp next to it.

6) I pressed the circuit breaker reset button on the power strip and that didn't change anything.

So any guesses as to what might have happened?
 
It broke?

OK. I guess one explanation is that it was cheap Chinese shit that couldn't handle a half-load w/o breaking.

I was thinking there might have been something more involved... there's no way that one game could have put something out that caused it to break, is there?
 
Dunno. Sometimes these things just happen. I'll bet there is a fusible resistor or something inside there that popped....
 
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