IEC 320 C14 3 pin adapter - availability in India?

[echo77]

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These are to be used for APC Smart UPS. Would anyone know if I can get these somewhere in India, or should I go the ebay hongkong route? Thanks in advance!

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

Sorry to answer a question with an alternative suggestion, but... I suggest that you chop the plugs off your cables and replace them with IEC plugs. Neat, tidy and permanent.

Where possible, try to match plug type to socket type, even if it means changing a plug, rather than using a universal adaptor. You'll get bigger surface contact, better grip and better contact. I'm not at all a cable evangelist (I don't care what kind of coper is in those cables of yours ) but I do believe this is basic electrical good sense and good practice. Even a specific adapter (from a specific socket to a specific plug) will be better than a universal.

Otherwise, the people who seem to do everything possible in electrical parts, in India, are MX and apparently they have a

Sale

on at the moment. Thanks to member utkarsh for that info!


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[echo77]

suggest that you chop the plugs off your cables and replace them with IEC plugs. Neat, tidy and permanent.

I was actually wondering whether to do that. You have given me the confidence

I had 2 adapters and one broke, so yes, those things are not durable and as you say, direct contact is better.

MX have IEC 320 C20 type plugs but not C14 type.

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

I was actually wondering whether to do that.

Oh, you can, you can!

But you'll need patience. I remember doing this a few times when I put computer equipment on people's desks for a living: they are the most fiddly plugs to wire I ever wired. You have to get the stripped cable and the cut cable exactly the right length before it will all screw back together again.

However, I still recommend that you do it, because it is the best solution

And ...just maybe they are designed a bit better than when I was doing this in about 1990.

MX have IEC 320 C20 type plugs but not C14 type.

It's been a long time... I'd need google on that

---Ah, ok... I've seen the C20s in pictures of some APC UPS backsides (equipment porn?) but not so far in real life.

---I hope the C14 is available... a lot of countries require these things molded on these days.