Cascading/Stacking Tapo P110 / P115

Cascading/Stacking Tapo P110 / P115

Cascading/Stacking Tapo P110 / P115
Cascading/Stacking Tapo P110 / P115
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Model: Tapo P115   Tapo P110  
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Hello together,
in the manual of the smart plugs TP-Links states:

"For passthrough devices, plug the power strips into the integrated electrical sockets of the devices, but devices of the same or another type not be stacked in normal use."

Does anybody know, if this is valid only for mechanical stacking (mechanically plug on P115 and/or P110 into the other), or also for electrical.

My use case would be:
Plug one P115 into the wall socket. Plug a multiple socket outlet into that P115 and on the multiple socket outlet plug in another P115.
So for example Everything on my desk could be plugged into the multiple socket outlet and the total consumption of all devices on the desk could be measured. Additionally with the second one, only the consumption of the PC could be measured. So I would have total power consumption and additionally PC consumption.

As the plugs seem to use relays for switching in principal this should not be a problem, or do I overlook something?

Thanks and br,

Juergen

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Re:Cascading/Stacking Tapo P110 / P115
16 hours ago

  @MeJu 

 

The smart plug can be plugged into a power strip, but its load device can not be a power strip or another smart plug.

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Re:Cascading/Stacking Tapo P110 / P115
15 hours ago

  @Wayne-TP : Thanks for the answer. Is there any reasoning, why a smart plug cannot be the load of another smart plug (even if there is a cable in between)? As the smart plugs seems to switch with relays, I do not understand, why one maynot be the load of another.

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