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electrician for hire does not want to know anything ; ) and as far as question about how many watts should be used on one power strip there should be a rating right on it somewhere as far as wattage the comment about #12 gauge wire is only partially corect the size wire of the power strip is only half the equation if your house is wired with #14 wire it doesnt matter what size wire your power strip uses if larger then #14 thats your bottleneck most residential only use #14 for most recepticles AND this is a big and the recepticle (outlet) you are plugging into is most likely part of a circuit that spans several outlets possibly upto 8 in one or 2 or possibly more bedrooms hallways etc so the outlet your plugging into may already be at 25, 50, 75% capacity the only real way to know short of looking thru your walls is to have a ampmeter on the wire where it first leaves the circuit breaker and I would not suggest this to anyone who does not know what they are doing. So back to the question we will assume you use #14 wire in a 15 amp circuit with no additional load E= IxR 15amps x 120volts = 1800 watts but you can only use 80% of that which even still would be high and I under no circumstances recomend using a power strip for any serious power usage they are meant for small appliances tvs vcrs which use minimal power so in short DO NOT USE POWERSTRIPS as they are only a good way to start a fire. located in ny long island if anyone needs any work done -sean
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