Is it safe to daisy chain surge protectors?

Basically, my house is old and his limited number of outlets around the room. Is it safe to daisy chain a surge protector so I can reach my other devices across the room?

Is it safe to daisy chain surge protectors?
NO!!! If you do that then you are pulling too much power through the first to get to the rest and last. It is best to use an outlet very close to your devices and there should be one, after all how do you use them if there is not an outlet near?Just be sure to leave one outlet on the surge protector unused. It is not even a good idea to use more than one surge protector on the same circuit.
Reply:With all those open outlets you will be tempted to fill as many as possable. This will draw too much current through the circuit, overloading the wires in the wall, catching them on fire, and then burning the house down.


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Reply:The primary concern is that you don't exceed the capacity of the 1st power strip. They usually have a load capacity of 15 amps and have a 16 guage wire feeding them. The biggest factor to consider is what you are plugging in. Any kind of appliance (particularly ones with heaters like coffeemakers, hotplates, toasters or toaster ovens) or microwaves, refrigerators and the like use a tremendous amount of power and should not be on a power strip at all, let alone a daisy chained one. If you are plugging in phone chargers and ipods, then the load will remain low and you will probably not have a problem. Make sure that the 1st one in the line has a mini breaker that will trip if it is overloaded. If it trips, remove some of the load.