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Pricey UPS Accessories

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Hi there,


Long-time reader here posting for the first time. I quite enjoyed the discussion about audiophile fuses and while this isn't anywhere as ridiculous something seems off about the price of UPS power accessories.


I have just purchased a UPS for my home office having suffered some hard-drive damage from frequent 'brownouts'. This is an APC 1400va - 700 Watt with 6 x IEC C13 outputs at the back, enough to get me over the brief outages unscathed. As some of the devices being attached have a transformer I need a short extension from an IEC C14 to a BS 1363 Socket. So far so good and some air between the UPS and transformer is helpful.


I found them online at about £40 each which seems excessive when the component parts are readily available at a fraction of that cost. For example: https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/power-distribution-accessories/7794159/ Other UPS power accessories have similarly questionable markup.


My question is, can you folks see any reason why such a simple accessory is so expensive? For the life of me, I can't, so for the price of one of these, I plan to buy the parts to make six.


Now, I'm off to use the saving to buy a gold-plated plug for my stereo!


Neil





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    The UPS maker will not enjoy the advantages of scale, the company that makes just the connectors do, and hand wiring anything is dominated by the labour costs. HAving something photographed, put in the catalogue, stocked posted out in small quantities is surprisingly expensive too,

    Quite a while ago I worked at a place where we reckoned that to book an empty cardboard box into stores, label it and keep it on inventory for a week, then wrap it up and post it out unaltered, would have been about £50.

    It's probably  gone up since.
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    The UPS maker will not enjoy the advantages of scale, the company that makes just the connectors do, and hand wiring anything is dominated by the labour costs. HAving something photographed, put in the catalogue, stocked posted out in small quantities is surprisingly expensive too,

    Quite a while ago I worked at a place where we reckoned that to book an empty cardboard box into stores, label it and keep it on inventory for a week, then wrap it up and post it out unaltered, would have been about £50.

    It's probably  gone up since.
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