APC Power Cord Kit (6 ea), Locking, C13 to C14, 1.8m, Blue

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At £128 ex-VAT for a set of six, this is one of those “it’s not cheap, but it saves headaches” cable kits. The locking C13-to-C14 matters in the real world: in server rooms, AV racks, or any environment where cables get jostled, a non-locking lead is the kind of thing that slowly turns into intermittent faults, downtime, or “why did it reset?” tickets. At 1.8m you also get a sensible working length for typical rack layouts without ending up with a coil of slack.

Who should buy it: anyone reselling, supporting, or deploying racks where reliability and repeatability matter—SMBs with lean admin teams, managed service providers, education/health estates, or firms doing frequent installs. It’s especially good if your hardware is in less-than-perfect access areas and you’d rather spend a bit more than play cable-roulette later. Who shouldn’t: if these are just spares for a quiet office run and you don’t care about securing connections, you’ll probably be overpaying versus standard (non-locking) leads. Also sanity-check your colour/UX expectations—“blue” is fine, but if you’re trying to enforce strict cabling standards, you may want consistency across the whole kit.