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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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  • Sparking Chip,

    Yes before Calcard became famous I made my own calibration box, close tolerance hi stab resistors and some 4mm banana sockets mounted in a plywood box . 20 sockets giving hopefully sensible spread of 9 continuity and 10 ins res type resistances . First use I labeled all the figures I actually got from my meter and checked regularly. Pretty cheap but at around 250mm sq x 45mm deep It does not fit in my wallet like a calcard does though. Similarly two RCD sockets too It seems to work though by giving a little "confidence" between official calibrations.

    Like you I spoke to all of the Part P schemes of the day prior to my final decision before launch day Jan 1st 2005.
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  • Sparking Chip,

    Yes before Calcard became famous I made my own calibration box, close tolerance hi stab resistors and some 4mm banana sockets mounted in a plywood box . 20 sockets giving hopefully sensible spread of 9 continuity and 10 ins res type resistances . First use I labeled all the figures I actually got from my meter and checked regularly. Pretty cheap but at around 250mm sq x 45mm deep It does not fit in my wallet like a calcard does though. Similarly two RCD sockets too It seems to work though by giving a little "confidence" between official calibrations.

    Like you I spoke to all of the Part P schemes of the day prior to my final decision before launch day Jan 1st 2005.
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