- Virtual CIO
How to Create an IT Budget That Actually Works
11 Mar, 2026

£83.66 inc. VAT
AI-generated summary
If you need a **lockable C19-to-UK plug cable** that won’t work loose, this is the kind of thing you buy once and stop thinking about. The **3m length** is a practical sweet spot for racks/PDUs where you want tidy routing without it becoming a spaghetti problem, and the **locking C19** is genuinely useful in environments with frequent moves, maintenance, or slightly-vulnerable cable management. At **£69.42 ex-VAT**, it’s not “cheap,” but it’s not outrageous either if you’re doing proper cabinet wiring rather than bodging with generic leads.
That said, I wouldn’t buy this unless it matches your use case exactly. If your equipment doesn’t actually take a **C19 inlet** (or you don’t benefit from a lock), you’ll just be paying extra for features you can’t use. Also, if you mostly need short patching around the office rather than rack stability, there are typically better-value non-locking options.
**Who it suits:** anyone deploying or maintaining **server racks, UPS-to-PDU/PDUs-to-rack** cabling in the UK who cares about reliability and cable retention. **Who should skip it:** general-purpose office power setups, or if you’re not already standardised on C19 locking cabling in your infrastructure.

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