Luke Siemaszko wrote:

A pro amplifier designer of my acquaintance told me that he hated IEC
power inlets for amplifiers because he had measured up to 7V drop across
them in test.

Anyone else agree / disagree ?

I disagree. Let's take a 2kW pro amp as an example. That will be drawing
peaks of close to 13A when run at full power. With a voltage drop of 7V
it will therefore be dissipating 91W. This would make such a small
volume heat up so much that you would get severe burns trying to unplug it.

Of course, you could put hundreds of amps through it to get it to drop
the claimed 7V, but that's not a realistic test for mains use.

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Mark.
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