Making custom power cables (by alaric)
I take great pleasure in making custom power cables for things. It's very satisfying.
Lately, I've been having fun with this. Firstly, I was frustrated when visiting a datacentre that had only IEC power connectors, rather than UK standard 13A sockets - there was nowhere to plug my laptop in.
So, I've made a special adaptor cable:
Job done!
Nextly, at work, we have two 16A managed power distribution units, which have 24 outlets on them, each individually controllable via the network. They're lying around, surplus to requirements. We also have two 32A units in use in the racks - and more than 24 devices that need plugging into each.
Now, the outlets are mainly IEC C13 ten amp ones, but there's a small number of IEC C19 sixteen amp outlets, so we struck upon the crazy idea of attaching the 16A units to the 16A outlets on the 32A units. Thing is, the 16A units have 16A industrial plugs on them - not C20 plugs that go into C19 outlets.
So, once again, I made an adapter cable:
Well, two identical adapter cables, to be precise.
Lots of fun.
Sat 29th Dec 2007 10:17 pm 
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