25 Feb
2007
25 Feb
'07
12:47 p.m.
I am wondering how anyone on this list can exist
without assort
colours/sizes of wire, and standard 'loose' cable around them. You
shouldn't have to cut up an IEC lead to get some wire...
No, but it might be the easiest and cheapest way to go about getting
a bare-leads power cord. I've got tons and tons of IEC cables; they just keep accumulating. On the other hand, I have
relatively few
high-quality (e.g. neoprene jacket) leaded power cables and I reserve
those for permanent installations.
But whacking the end off of an iEC cable for a jury rig? Sure,
I am not sure of the construction of the Pro PSU (I've not dug out one of
my Pros to check). You want to bypass the mains filter (taking that out
of the circuit altogether), but uyou want to keep the breaker in circuit.
If the fiter is a can with a built-in IEC plug (so the normal power cable
plugs into the filter can), then I'd disconnect the output side of the
filter and, as you say, jury-rig a mains lead to the approriate
connections. But if the filter can has wire connections on both the input
and output sides, I'd probably disconnect it and then use wires to
connect whatever was on the input side (IEC connector, breaker?) to
whatever's on the otuput side (PSU PCB?). In which case I'd just grab
some suitable wire off the reels.
-tony