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Lighweight AC line cords?
tooki:
--- Quote from: IDEngineer on January 31, 2024, 03:32:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: Siwastaja on January 31, 2024, 08:53:39 am ---Those should not be available in the first place; they should be illegal. Something being dangerous and still being allowed is not a good reason to allow more dangerous crap into market. It's harder to ban something once it's widespread.
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Where does it end? Should we ban motorcycles? Bicycles? What about drunk driving... which should we ban, cars or liquor? Kitchen knives cut a lot of people. Hand tools. Soldering irons. Most sports have risk. Medicines taken at home instead of professionally administered at a doctor's office.
There are a lot of "dangerous" things. It's a big scary world out there. Lightweight line cords aren't even near the top of the list.
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The problem is that the average consumer knows nothing whatsoever about electricity and thus has absolutely no way of judging when such a cord would be safe to use and when it would be dangerous. With many things, the risks are obvious and known to the average consumer. But when it comes to pairing electrical loads to parts… sorry, nope, most people know nothing at all.
Someone:
Dont like C13 cables? Replace the power adaptors with those having integrated mains plugs, or .....
AVGresponding:
--- Quote from: IDEngineer on January 31, 2024, 05:29:02 pm ---
The requirement that you not be intoxicated while driving has actual legal penalties for its violation - yet cars don't have breathalyzers. Apparently we trust the typical individual to assess their ability to safely control a multi-ton piece of equipment with no oversight, just reactions after the accident/fatality.
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Funnily enough, all new cars in the UK & EU are required to have the facility to fit a breathalyser-immobiliser, since 2022. Not sure about the septics, but it'll probably just be a matter of time.
jonpaul:
The ChiComs vendors VERY stiff thick IEC mains cables with poorly made connectors and thin copper or copper plated steel wires .
The BEST thin and flexibvle IECcables are vintage from HP, GenRad, Belden and other USA firms.
Some are right angel IEC.
Often can recognize as they are gray not black.
We have 100s
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IDEngineer:
--- Quote from: rcjoy on January 31, 2024, 08:13:52 pm ---The flat cable style can be more flexible.
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Agreed, but I haven't found any C13's like the one in your photo.
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