@williewonka Wrote:
@mintakax to start with, a cable with a 20 amp IEC and 15 amp plug is not conforming to north american electrical codes and should not be used
Not true! See here
Mike
confused about 20 amp power cables
I've recently acquired a pre-owned T+A PA 3100 HV integrated and this is my first exposure to a 20 amp power cable. The supplied cable has what I think is a C19 IEC connector (20 A) on the amp end, but the connector on the wall side has parallel hot and neutral blades as opposed to the 20 amp T blades. Is that end really rated at 20A?
I have a dedicated 110V 20 amp circuit with 20 A receptacles, but is about 10 ft from my equipment. I am currently plugging the amp's supplied cable into an Oyaide OCB-1 SX V2 power conditioner which is plugged into the 20A wall receptical. The wall plug on the Oyaide appears to be a 15A plug and the 4 distributed receptacles are not 20A and I assume they are rated for 15A. Is this dangerous to have this 15A section between wall and amp?
Would I be better off, or safer to find a 20A extension cable so I could plug the amp directly into the wall? I've recently started building my own PCs and could make a 10 ft one with C19 on one end and 20A wall plug on the wall side ( ouch for wire cost for 10ft). I know that its unlikely the amp will ever draw more than 15A.
Any suggestions would be helpful!
@williewonka Wrote:
Not true! See here Mike |