Well, here's the difference:
- Left: Inlet on the IP-P410Q3-2, which has worldwide approvals. Center: Inlet on the Top Silent ATX-400 (made by Sun Pro), which has only Chinese approval (visible from the PSU interior). On the right is the related IEC 60320-2-2 type E cord-end plug. (A valid alternative construction for the inlet pins is to form a sheet of rigid metal into an approximation of the shape of the solid pins shown.)
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I suppose the inlet shown in photo #2 wouldn't be nearly as bad as non-safety-rated capacitors on the mains (although they usually appear in tandem…) — or counterfeit cords for that matter. Nonetheless, I don't find the lack of approvals (other than the apparently lax Chinese one) encouraging. If you see one of those
not in tandem with non-mains-rated caps, I guess half a point off would be fair enough.
(As far as I'm concerned, the C13 [and all other odd C-numbered "connectors"] qualifies as a socket — as its contacts are female, mating with the male pins of the C14 inlet [or E-type plug]. The "gender" of the connector body is cosmetic, so doesn't matter to me — unlike the contact gender, which is a matter of life and death — so I find references to the C13 [or any other odd C-number] as a "plug", or an inlet as a "socket",
quite awkward. The IEC itself goes neither way when referring to the cord-end connectors with female contacts, but are clear about the naming of the other three categories.)
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