I am currently working on a school project (a high efficiency, low performance benchtop power supply) that requires a C7/C8 connector to be routed inside an enclosure. I know this is odd, but I don't really want to disassemble the power brick I'm using in order to bypass the connector.
The idea is to use a panel-mount C8 jack on the enclosure and wire that to the power brick on the inside. My problem is that the strain relief on commercial C7 cables is huge, and I'd like to use something more compact. I decided to try and find a C7 connector that I could assemble into a cable myself, but I can't find any.
Can someone explain why these connectors either don't exist or are so hard to find?
P.S. The internal cable I am planning to use has one other noteworthy feature. It's also a Y-adapter so that several of these devices can be daisy-chained together. I've already double checked that I'm within the current limits of the connector for any reasonable array of these devices. Each one will draw around 0.2 amps from the grid at most, and the design is based on chaining a maximum of 5 units together.