Burgermeester
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Things are finally getting delivered and as I start doing some preliminary system setup, I'm running into an unexpected issue--power cables with female connectors that are too large for a given piece of gear.
I have 2 cable flavors, Decware DHC2 and Pangea. Each brand only fits about half the gear I have (US/Japanese/Chinese), and where they fit it is often not the pieces I need them to fit based on the cable length I ordered. I was surprised to find that the Decware DHC2 female connecter doesn't fit the Decware CSP325 very well. It's too big.
Where the connector is too big, I can seat the cable about halfway before it stops and sits there, pretty wobbly.
After measuring the problem in both cable brands, the scope of the oversize seems to be about 0.5mm of hard plastic, with the location differing by brand. Since the plastic is hard, 0.5mm is all it takes to keep the connector from seating in a stable way. I'm very hestant to use anything approaching force to seat these connecters.
Before I get out a file and start scraping away at hard-molded plastic, has anyone had experience with this form of frustration? I could reterminate, but it seems elaborate compared to scraping away less than a square inch of plastic by half a millimeter. I'd have to check a lot of replacement female connectors in advance to find one that didn't have the same issue. OTOH scraping away at a high-end fitting seems sort of crude.
Advice appreciated in advance for this very minor issue.
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