A better lamp cord for my stereo equipment?

The reason repair pros don’t like to be involved in changing out power cords for larger diameter units or adding in iec connectors to do power cord swaps..is that this entails messing with the AC power input to the given system.

And THAT is a legal issue, big time.

Any changes to power input requires, by law, a complete re-certification of the given equipment.

Otherwise the legal aspects lie solely on the shoulders of the person who changed it. It is a giant snail trail of ever enlarging legal liability for anyone who does it repeatedly.

The same holds true for doing custom parts modifications that have different values or specs from the originals. Liability. Big time.

Having been introduced to the laws of the land during my electronics training, and taking courses on such, I’d have to say with about as much authority as I can muster, that you are dangerously misleading people.

changing hard wiring or receptacles on equipment is flat our contrary to the law regarding AC power that comes into your abode or domicile.

This is doubly, triply, quadruply, exponentially true -- when it comes to commercial installs of any kind. ’Don’t ever go there’ in a commercial or professional environment.


an electronics tech who is professionally papered and has business insurance, can change out a captured power cord with one that is identical in spec and sizing and legally specified and certified qualities, and has to be identical in how it mounts to the chassis. The end.

Otherwise the gear requires, re-certification by UL or in Canada, CSA.

If one want to dick around and do it all on their own, go ahead, but consider that the full weight of the law and courts might come down on your head if ever a problem erupts during the entire potential lifespan of the given equipment, post change.

think of it as a gasoline kind of issue. We have become inured to playing with gasoline all day, every day. Gasoline is ~unbelievably dangerous~. This is why there are strict laws about containers for gasoline, which are taken very seriously by all involved. Or, taken seriously by those who have seen the catastrophic results for being careless and complacent.

Electricity is the same - AC power is the same. We handle it, we are near by it, it surrounds us..all day long..but...We have strict laws about how it is handled, when you actually go looking at the fine details. And that’s what is actually keeping more of us safe from when things go wrong.