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Offline Alex EisenhutTopic starter

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Various length color power cables
« on: September 24, 2017, 04:03:10 pm »
I'm a bit tired of the tangled mess 6ft power cords make.

I'm looking for color-coded 1-3ft AC power cords. Wow, these things are hard to find, and are expensive too.

3$ US for one power cord is OK, UPS shipping into Canada for 45$+customs is not. Neither is lots of 10000 pieces...

My simple goal is to have 5 or 6 colors, and short direct connections. I have more power cord than power on my desk right now.

Something like these guys

https://www.colorpowercables.com/Shop-by-length-s/2192.htm

Any other sources?
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Offline grifftech

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Re: Various length color power cables
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2017, 07:14:48 pm »
buy the 3ft cords in the colors you need and cut some shorter and replace the wall end plug.
 

Offline xani

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Re: Various length color power cables
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2017, 02:03:48 pm »
We've tried to do it for our data center (to differentiate between power circuits), it is suprisingly a royal pain in arse to find it.

We ended up just trying a color zip-tie on both ends of the standard cables
 

Offline jmoschetti45

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Re: Various length color power cables
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2017, 05:09:13 pm »
We ended up just trying a color zip-tie on both ends of the standard cables

That's why there's a 5 color pack of tape in the telcom closet at work. We do the same thing just with tape.
 


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