Re: Workstation Power Cord

It looks like Geeks.com is a good company to deal with. They don't have
the part you need and they gave you back what it will cost you to buy
one elsewhere.

On 01/08/2013 03:23 PM, Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. wrote:
> I appreciate all the responses.
>
> I ended up ordering one from Amazon for $20.... Called 10 different
> places in town with no success. I did not want to mess with replacing
> parts. This cable is for a dual processor Quad Core Xeon workstation
> that I picked up from Geeks.com. The power supply is 1000 watts. While
> 1000 watts is a little overkill, it still needs a beefy power supply
> that would probably put me in the $150 range. Besides, Geeks gave me
> $25 back for sending the wrong power cord (they do not have the
> correct one).
>
> Gilbert
>
> On 1/8/2013 3:02 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
>> C19's are usually used for data center pdu connectivity, with 20A
>> connections or larger. Quite literally we needed some for bigger
>> cat4k cisco switches last week with a last minute customer change,
>> and couldn't find one outside of going to anixter and paying
>> ~$40/cable + overnight ship. If you can find a c20 cable, you can cut
>> off the end if not 5-15p and replace with one from home depot, but
>> either way it's gonna be a pain as these aren't common outside of
>> infrastructure hardware.
>>
>> I'd second the recommendation to replace the psu with a "normal"
>> c13-style connector, if it fits and isn't an oddball unit.
>
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