Power Strips on NCL

[smithop]

3 hours ago, boxall said:

Looks like power boards/strips are now banned!

 

https://www.ncl.com/au/en/about/additional-terms-conditions-au

 

Banned items

You must not pack in any luggage or bring onboard any item specified as dangerous or illegal (e.g. guns, explosives, drugs, animals, flammable items, etc.). Power boards, irons, candles, electrical transformers and drones cannot be brought onboard. 

 

 

Power boards are those 2 wheeled electric things the kids ride that catch fire.  You added “strips”, not the same thing.

 

[Two Wheels Only]

43 minutes ago, smithop said:

 

Power boards are those 2 wheeled electric things the kids ride that catch fire.  You added “strips”, not the same thing.

 

 

"Boxall" is in Australia and (I believe) that powerboards are what we in the US call powerstrips...

 

https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/c/technology/batteries-power-supplies/powerboards-and-surge-protectors

 

 

Edited June 11, 2019 by Two Wheels Only

[boxall]

Sure are. Hence the confusion.

[Love my butler]

Pro tip.  If you bring a power strip with you, pack it in your carry on.  I have had power strips taken out of my checked baggage, but they pass right thru security in your carry on bags.

[Hotspring]

Interesting,  we have always bought power strips with breakers on our cruises.     Depending on the cabin steward we may have to unplug it  (not just turn it off) when we are out of the room.    Thought that was strange since no power should be flowing to it when the room power is off.  Maybe it has to with with the cabin, we generally stay in at least a balcony or above, maybe new cabin stewards that worked at other cruise lines are assigned to inside cabins.

[chengkp75]

4 hours ago, Hotspring said:

Interesting,  we have always bought power strips with breakers on our cruises.     Depending on the cabin steward we may have to unplug it  (not just turn it off) when we are out of the room.    Thought that was strange since no power should be flowing to it when the room power is off.  Maybe it has to with with the cabin, we generally stay in at least a balcony or above, maybe new cabin stewards that worked at other cruise lines are assigned to inside cabins.

Whether your power strip has a breaker or not has nothing to do with its safety onboard.  Surge protection is the danger, and can cause a fire even at low current levels (below your power strip's circuit breaker rating), or due to an electrical problem at the other end of the ship.

 

Not all ships turn the power off when you leave the cabin.  And the circuitry in a surge protector can fail even when the power is off in the cabin, since the problem comes from the ground connection, not the power lines.

[alexgtp]

Avoid a power strip to big and cumbersome,

Use one of these.

I have used this on all of my NCL trips, just as recent as May on the Joy to Alaska.

[chengkp75]

1 hour ago, alexgtp said:

Avoid a power strip to big and cumbersome,

Use one of these.

I have used this on all of my NCL trips, just as recent as May on the Joy to Alaska.

That device is surge protected, and should never be used on a ship.  It may be brand new, or it may be working perfectly fine, when a ground fault somewhere else on the ship, sends reverse voltage to the surge protector, and it goes into thermal runaway, and catches fire.  Further, the more times a surge protector like this is subjected to possible reverse voltage on a ship, the more likely the semi-conductors are to failure.

[elwood_98034]

On 6/10/2019 at 8:06 PM, boxall said:

Looks like power boards/strips are now banned!

 

https://www.ncl.com/au/en/about/additional-terms-conditions-au

 

Banned items

You must not pack in any luggage or bring onboard any item specified as dangerous or illegal (e.g. guns, explosives, drugs, animals, flammable items, etc.). Power boards, irons, candles, electrical transformers and drones cannot be brought onboard. 

 

Note the 'au' in the link. That is Straya, mate. Might be different elsewhere.

[elwood_98034]

They don't mention arc welders. 

 

Asking for a friend...

[finny2]

I have read the list of prohibited items

https://www.ncl.com/prohibited-items

and neither power strips or extension cords are on it. Nor, for that matter, surge protectors.

 

If you have other information, please post a link.

[finny2]

27 minutes ago, elwood_98034 said:

They don't mention arc welders. 

 

Asking for a friend...

"Items brought on board the vessel and not supplied by the Company containing any kind of heating element" I expect that would include arc welders. Your friend is out of luck.