Patent ID: 8605395

Claim:
An electrical apparatus comprising: a set of power input connectors having one hot and one neutral wire per pair whereby one hot conductor of each pair is wired in series to an over current protective device and the other neutral conductor of each said hot and neutral pair is wired to the common side of a two pole electrically actuated switch; two pairs of said electrically actuated switches selected from the group containing mechanical relays, solid state relays and contactors, said electrical switches having two poles each, in the normally open position, with each pair wired to the hot and neutral input leads of said hot overcurrent protective devices and neutral input connection points and are also transversely wired across each others respective control inputs; a set of said overcurrent and overvoltage protective devices selected from the group containing circuit breakers and fuses, said devices are wired in series between one conductor of each input connector and one pole of each electrical switch, whereby power can be drawn from an alternating current source at or near it's maximum rated current capacity using an input of two electrical connector pairs instead of one before combining the output into a single pair of conductors for use by an electrical apparatus that is attached as a load to said output pair of conductors; a single output connection point selected from the group containing receptacles, sockets, plugs and power connectors made ready for connection to the appliance or device inducing the load.