Looking for the name of a thing
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I'm looking for an adapter or power cord that will allow me to plug a regular North American plug into a PDU powerstrip in our APC cages. I'm not even sure what to call it, but my googlefu has given me many things I do not want (luckily nothing that would get me fired).
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@Kelly said in Looking for the name of a thing:
I'm looking for an adapter or power cord that will allow me to plug a regular North American plug into a PDU powerstrip in our APC cages. I'm not even sure what to call it, but my googlefu has given me many things I do not want (luckily nothing that would get me fired).
Something like this?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/171991433879?lpid=82&chn=ps&ul_noapp=true
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@dafyre said in Looking for the name of a thing:
@Kelly said in Looking for the name of a thing:
I'm looking for an adapter or power cord that will allow me to plug a regular North American plug into a PDU powerstrip in our APC cages. I'm not even sure what to call it, but my googlefu has given me many things I do not want (luckily nothing that would get me fired).
Something like this?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/171991433879?lpid=82&chn=ps&ul_noapp=trueYes, that is exactly what I need. Thanks!
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You're welcome! I got lucky, lol.
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You probably need to be sure of the voltage coming into whatever it is you need that for... Don't want to hook it up to a PDU putting out 208V if you only have a 110V device.
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@dafyre said in Looking for the name of a thing:
You probably need to be sure of the voltage coming into whatever it is you need that for... Don't want to hook it up to a PDU putting out 208V if you only have a 110V device.
Can confirm, have let the magic smoke out of a desktop doing that.
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@MattSpeller said
Can confirm, have let the magic smoke out of a desktop doing that.
How magic was it?
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@BRRABill said in Looking for the name of a thing:
@MattSpeller said
Can confirm, have let the magic smoke out of a desktop doing that.
How magic was it?
Not especially, I even found some replacement smoke
http://www3.telus.net/bc_triumph_registry/images/Smokekit2.jpg
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@dafyre said in Looking for the name of a thing:
You probably need to be sure of the voltage coming into whatever it is you need that for... Don't want to hook it up to a PDU putting out 208V if you only have a 110V device.
Bahaha yeah really. Ours is 208v. 240v is more common than 220v though.
Hoeveer most devices are ranging from 100-250v on Switch mode power supplies.
