How many times have you had to fight with your power cord when working on your base station or other device that has a hard-wired power cord? How many times has it wrapped around your feet or knocked stuff off your bench? Not to mention how the hard-wired cords can get twisted up and sometimes break.
After flipping my Cobra 2000 over about a thousand times during the re-cap job, I was just about ready to go to war and take my chainsaw to the power cord. So here's my solution:
I had extra parts and power supplies laying around from my computer-building projects so I decided to use them.
I removed the back of the radio and chucked it up in my mill. Easy-peazy to buzz the original hole out to fit the new 'Mickey Mouse' power cord socket. This style is a little more heavy duty than a standard PC power cord.
No more fuss! And these cords are readily available in many different lengths. You can even get adapters to convert them to a standard PC plug if you wanted. Most of them are rated for 10 amps which is plenty. The Mickey Mouse cord I'm using is a little higher rated I think. It has 16 gauge wire vs. the PC standard 18.
After flipping my Cobra 2000 over about a thousand times during the re-cap job, I was just about ready to go to war and take my chainsaw to the power cord. So here's my solution:
I had extra parts and power supplies laying around from my computer-building projects so I decided to use them.
I removed the back of the radio and chucked it up in my mill. Easy-peazy to buzz the original hole out to fit the new 'Mickey Mouse' power cord socket. This style is a little more heavy duty than a standard PC power cord.
No more fuss! And these cords are readily available in many different lengths. You can even get adapters to convert them to a standard PC plug if you wanted. Most of them are rated for 10 amps which is plenty. The Mickey Mouse cord I'm using is a little higher rated I think. It has 16 gauge wire vs. the PC standard 18.
