Quote Originally Posted by complich8
No idea why the fuse lived and the box died. Maybe the electrician will be able to shed some light tomorrow...
Turns out, the box and the fuse were both fine. It was the power strip (also rated 20A) that died. And it died below 20A, because it's also got a 20A breaker built in that didn't trip.

Now I've got the power distributed a bit better (on two strips on two boxes, about evenly distributed). Had to install another box to make room, but no biggie there.

So yeah .... it was a mistake on my part to plug that much shit in to the same strip, but the strip was also poorly built and died before it should have. All very depressing.