The cable in detail
The 16AWG cables used are astonishing and are of the very highest quality. You have to search for a total of 115 small wires, each with a nominal cross-section of 0.12 mm. I later combed the cable smooth again for the measurement and simply had the AI of the VHX counted. Here is the picture after stripping and before the measurement. I don’t want to disclose my brush method at this point, but it works perfectly.
The wires are made of pure copper with a wafer-thin, galvanic tin coating of around 1 µm. The microscopic scratch marks and damage on individual wires are the result of my stripping.
The insulation is fire-retardant according to UL94-V0 (Update), but it was not possible to find more detailed information about the variant in which the flame was tested with a directed flame. My vertical lighter test caused the small flame of the melting material to extinguish on its own after around 9 seconds. But it stinks infernally.
The connector in detail
The fire-retardant nylon housing of the connector consists of two parts, of which the top cover can also be removed (see photo with clip on the first page), which I simply did. The embossed H stands for the iteration as a real 12V-2×6 according to CEM 5.1, i.e. the improved version with the four shorter sideband contacts and the 12 extended power and ground pins. The side view also clearly shows the bending radii and the position of the individual wires in the connector.
The fact that the contacts are not all centered is due to the design and therefore not a defect. As these contacts are not firmly soldered and fixed, but are pressed in with a clean crimp, they are very flexible and adapt almost willy-nilly to even poor headers with crooked pins. On the left and right of the housing we see the plug connection to the top shell.
The spring contacts are also made of pure electrolytic copper and are sufficiently tin-plated, but not too thickly (< 5 µm]. The gaps in the opening and the spring behavior are good. The distances between the contacts and the front are also correct.
Finally, we come to the dimensions of the closed connector, which is important for installation. With an average installation height of less than 2 cm (from the top edge of the graphics card header), the angled cable easily beats all adapters and manually bent radii of normal cables. Less than 1.3 cm of space is required between the top edge of the graphics card housing and the highest point of the connector.
In the worst case, the length of the connector is around 2 cm, which can also be left as it is. You certainly won’t be able to make it any better and, above all, smaller.
That concludes the theoretical part and we now come to the practical part of the test. And yes, it will be exciting and unexciting, let me spoil it for you…
be quiet! 12V-2x6 / 12VHPWR 90° Cable PCI-E (BC073)
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