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Cable Asylum Interconnects, speaker wire, power cords. Ask the Cable Guys. |
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Cable Asylum Interconnects, speaker wire, power cords. Ask the Cable Guys. |
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In Reply to: Relevance of UL listing with power cords posted by Asrale on April 29, 2009 at 21:53:00:
OEM power cords are quite good in one respect, the conductors are spot welded to the prongs/connectors and that is best. On the negative side, the conductors are always just big enough to serve the load rating of the equipment they come with; and the really cheap ones don't have twisted conductors.
The real disaster(s) (meaning don't use under any circumstances) are the shielded OEM cords (usually supplied with digital gear) because UL requires the shield be connected to the ground pin of the plug at each end -- hum city!! NOTE: If you want to tinker, you can "re-manufacture" the IEC end of a shielded cord so the shield isn't connected (floating shield) and wind up with a pretty good power cord for your digital stuff.
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Follow Ups
- it's not all bad news - nsgarch 05/2/0912:20:37 05/2/09 (6)
- The Volex 17604 has shield grounded at plug end only. - Al Sekela 13:56:57 05/4/09 (2)
- Al, can you tell me how you know that, because . . . - nsgarch 14:46:43 05/4/09 (1)
- I know because I did tear them apart. - Al Sekela 14:55:38 05/5/09 (0)
- RE: it's not all bad news - jea48 08:09:41 05/4/09 (2)
- RE: it's not all bad news - nsgarch 08:59:08 05/4/09 (1)
- I did a test.... - jea48 08:36:03 05/7/09 (0)
- Sorry the test was invalid....... - jea48 10:48:42 07/7/09 (0)
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