UPS cable to normal female plug

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Hi all,

So after the fourth time the modem has gone down due to crappy eskom power. I would like to put the modem onto the UPS, where can I find the following cable, male UPS cable to female RSA cable, power cable.jpg

Any help would be awesome
 
You don't say where you are, but I got some replacement batteries from PSS a week or two ago, and noticed that they had something like that (more of a multiplug than single RSA plug, but hey!).

I don't see them on their website, but they may just have them in stock.

Alternatively, as HavocXphere says, just wire your own. You can get a C13 to C14 cable (monitor power cable or UPS power cable), clip the male end off, and wire a Janus plug to the other end. Or, you can also get "screw together" female ends, and just clip the plug end off a multiplug and wire it that way.
 
Just get a male ups cord and wire it up to your own plug outlet/strip. It's not rocket science ;)
 
RoganDawes said:
You don't say where you are, but I got some replacement batteries from PSS a week or two ago, and noticed that they had something like that (more of a multiplug than single RSA plug, but hey!).

I don't see them on their website, but they may just have them in stock.

Alternatively, as HavocXphere says, just wire your own. You can get a C13 to C14 cable (monitor power cable or UPS power cable), clip the male end off, and wire a Janus plug to the other end. Or, you can also get "screw together" female ends, and just clip the plug end off a multiplug and wire it that way.
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Thnx, ill give them a call.
 
Builders/Chamberlains/any hardware store. If you can turn a screw driver you can do this your self
 
ponder said:
Just get a male ups cord and wire it up to your own plug outlet/strip. It's not rocket science ;)
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Yeah, depending on how neat you want it.

I prefer not to have cable joins, and have also not had great experience with the screw together-style female plugs.

If you only need 1 or two plugs, a Janus plug might be easiest, but if you want more, or want euro plugs, or want to mount it against something, opening up a multiplug is the way to go. But they are often screwed closed with one way screws, which can be a pain in the butt to drill out, and you then have to find suitable replacements to screw it back together.

All of which probably reinforced the OP's desire to buy rather than make :-)
 
RoganDawes said:
Yeah, depending on how neat you want it.

I prefer not to have cable joins, and have also not had great experience with the screw together-style female plugs.
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You buy the cable, strip a piece of the end insulation off exposing the insulated wires stripping those. Next you open up the plug outlet/strip and terminate the wires from the cable. There are no joints, sigh...
 
ponder said:
You buy the cable, strip a piece of the end insulation off exposing the insulated wires stripping those. Next you open up the plug outlet/strip and terminate the wires from the cable. There are no joints, sigh...
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Agreed. As Ron Swanson rightly pointed out, people who buy things are suckers :D

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ponder said:
You buy the cable, strip a piece of the end insulation off exposing the insulated wires stripping those. Next you open up the plug outlet/strip and terminate the wires from the cable. There are no joints, sigh...
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Sigh, indeed.

If you had read the second paragraph of my post, you would have seen me describing the difficulties of getting into some multiplugs. I have done this several times, to the point that I now have a supply of replacement screws to replace those I had to drill out. Been there, done that, you are preaching to the choir.
 
Just prepared two today. On a second ups, replaced the batteries and we are back to 400w for 5 min :-).

BTW, mine goes to a power strip for a small switch, wireless access point and adsl router. Much more flexibility when you do it yourself.
 
Mecer UPSes now come with a 3 pin plug point. But making an RSA to 3 pin is easy, just buy the cable and the double sided 3 pin socket then cut the cable and wire it up. Its a 5 min job.
 
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