Uncategorized – Neutrik PowerCon Cables

Powercon Ins And Outs

The description of a Powercon connector in Wikipedia includes this statement: It comes in two deliberately incompatible variants to prevent the user from connecting to mains supplies together.

What this means in simple terms is that the connectors are constructed in such a way that the power can flow in only one direction-from the power source to the device that needs power.

Powercons use blue to designate power output on cable mounts and gray to color code the inputs on cable mounts to designate power input.

That means that a blue male cable mount connector will always mate only with a blue chassis mount connector. The same holds true for the grey version of the connector.

Keying inside the connectors prevents you for ever plugging a blue line mount connector into a grey chassis mount connector and also prevents plugging a grey line mount connector into a blue chassis mount.

Dummy Plug? What’s That?

In addition to making a full line of power and audio connectors, Neutrik also offers something called a “dummy” plug, which is designed to occupy an opening in a wiring panel until an actual connector is installed.

Understanding that many connector panels are a “work in progress” even after they are actually in use, Neutrik makes it possible to pre-punch openings in a panel and then install and cable connectors on an as-needed basis.

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Powercon True1

As great as PowerCon connectors are, they have one potentially serious flaw. They can’t be connected “under load”. That means that the device or piece of equipment that is being hooked up with a regular PowerCon equipped cable can’t be “on” when it is plugged in.

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The True 1 series of connectors has been designed to address this problem.

The sequence in which the conductors in a PowerCon True 1 make contact with their mating contact mean that you can connect under load without concern of arcing between two energized contacts.

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PowerCon Power Handling Specs

Neutrik provides the following as specifications for their NAC3FC connectors

Max. Operating Voltage 250 V

Max. Operating Current 20 A

Temperature Rating 105 Degrees Celsius

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Why Chinese PowerCons Might Not Be What You Need

In the process of doing our research before starting PowerConCables.com, we looked a products from a lot of different manufacturers, mostly imports.

One of the strangest things we examined was a PowerCon coupler that had the same connector on both ends. Each end was equipped with a knockoff verison of a NAC3MPA-1 chassis mount connector (blue), which means it would only accept a NAC3FCA (blue) equipped cable.

We’re not sure what is supposed to be happening here, but an extended cable with a grey output cable on both ends is not going to be of much use to anybody.

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Breaking Capacity-What Does It Mean?

Neutrik PowerCon cables are designed to only be mated when the device to be powered is turned off. This is because this connector series does not have breaking capacity.

Breaking capacity is a design features that manages the mating of individual conductors in such a way that the device to which you are connecting can be in the “on” or “powered up” state and still plugged in safely.