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Old 12-26-2011, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by earlyfilm View Post
While on the subject, does anyone know where heavy duty power cords big enough to handle a 540 watt TV can be purchased?

All the modern power cords that I've seen look like they are for flea powered transistor sets.
A 540 watt TV would draw around 5 amps. Anything over 24 ga. would be adequate to handle the load and I can't imagine that even the chintziest power cords would be that small.

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