Fake power cord, WHY? It came with a hard drive reader kit.

[M4trix]

Look at the label. Do not buy me is written all over it ! What are Chinese using ? Google translator ? 

Hazardousarea, Servilceable, Zonedangeruse, Personal.

Mother of God ! 

[richnormand]

Words won't kill you... but look at the strain relief broken from the case exposing the wires.... extrapolate the rest for quality.

[SilverSolder]

There will always be buyers, if the price is cheap enough!

I recall taking apart a Chinese USB charger and finding a single transistor handling everything...  -  it didn't meet its 500mA spec,  but the fact that it actually worked at all (it delivered 100mA at 5V reasonably competently) was nothing short of amazing!

[soldar]

Words won't kill you... but look at the strain relief broken from the case exposing the wires.... extrapolate the rest for quality.

Extrapolate nothing. There are no strain reliefs in the world which will hold up to some people and that includes my wife and her family. They just say the cables are bad quality and break in no time while the same cables will last me for years. Some people just need military grade, bombproof devices.

I see people carrying a PSU like that hanging from the cord and then say it is bad quality when the cord breaks. I spend a lot of time repairing cords and the fact that they were bought or even made in America has little to do with how easily or often they break.

I recently replaced my wife's USB mouse cord with a heavy duty USB cable because the nice, thin cables just couldn't stand up to the rough treatment.

[Red Squirrel]

Look at the label. Do not buy me is written all over it ! What are Chinese using ? Google translator ? 

Hazardousarea, Servilceable, Zonedangeruse, Personal.

Mother of God ! 

I always lol at this stuff.  I remember when CFL lights inside your computer was a big thing and I bought some lamps to put in there.   There was a small inverter to power the lamps and it said "Caution this device is working correctly"    And a bunch of other chinglish.
 

[edy]

Wouldn't a 2-prong IEC C7/C8 coupler cord or even IEC C1/C2 (even with the same miniscule amount of copper) have been cheaper than to produce a 3-prong "faked" C13/C14 type cord? Not to mention the use of a 3-prong C13/14 type coupler on the power supply itself (that doesn't even hook up to the ground on the PCB)?

Seems like the C13/C14 solution used in my cheap fake would cost more to make simply because of the ends... use the same cord with almost no copper in it... just tack on a cheaper connector. I would think the cheapest option would have been to use a C1/C2 or C7/C8 if cost is an issue.... save the cost of an extra pin on the power cord, and less rubber/plastic. Have a look here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60320


C1/C2:




C7/C8:



Also with the above cord couplers (especially C1/C2) may be less likely to be used on something with higher current draw capability. Seems C1/C2 are typically used for charging up rechargeable shavers which likely do not draw too much current when charging.

Whereas I would be able to plug in the C13/C14 in so many more high-current draw devices (computers, servers) and expect ground as well:



It's obvious that this product I bought is cheap and I don't expect a high quality cord. I am just curious as to why use a C13/C14 when it is completely unexpected and unnecessary, only to fake the label on it, when a cheaper cord like a C1/C2 or C7/C8 would have sufficed, even with as tiny piss-ant amount of copper in it also.

Why bother to fake something that is not relevant at all to me buying the product? Was it to try to show that there is more "quality" because people assume a C13/C14 cord-powered device is more legit compared to a C1/C2 or C7/C8? Who thinks that?

[wraper]

It's obvious that this product I bought is cheap and I don't expect a high quality cord. I am just curious as to why use a C13/C14 when it is completely unexpected and unnecessary, only to fake the label on it, when a cheaper cord like a C1/C2 or C7/C8 would have sufficed, even with as tiny piss-ant amount of copper in it also.

Cord you received most likely was included by seller because China uses different plug. Just as most of other stuff which was originally made for Chinese but is sold worldwide by ebay and aliexpress sellers.

[amyk]

Look at the label. Do not buy me is written all over it ! What are Chinese using ? Google translator ? 

Hazardousarea, Servilceable, Zonedangeruse, Personal.

Mother of God ! 

I always lol at this stuff.  I remember when CFL lights inside your computer was a big thing and I bought some lamps to put in there.   There was a small inverter to power the lamps and it said "Caution this device is working correctly"    And a bunch of other chinglish.

That's not Google Translate, it's someone who doesn't know a single word of English trying to copy the forms of the characters and getting it (mostly) right... I wonder if the German on that label is just as broken.

[Kleinstein]

The German part is a little better but not much:  under should be unter and Umstanden should be Umständen. However not getting the ä right is not so rare as it's a special letter. The use of upper case is correct.

It could still be something like a web translation and than do a manual typing, missing some spaces.

For me the odd thing is: why add a crap cable if one could sell the unit without a cable nearly as well. The plug at the power supply looks pretty standard - the input side differs between countries.

AFAIK the smaller C7/C8 plug could get away with a little thinner cable, but at least in Europe still 0.75 mm² minimum.