What does this cable go to? [closed]

It goes into the box of miscellaneous cables.

What's written on the cable actually describes only the cable but doesn't say anything about the connections that are put on it. Basically jt just says "this has the right wires for USB 2.0" – a cable like this could be used just about anywhere USB is used.

But in case you mean this kind of cable with a USB type A plug on one end and a wide "RJ45"-ish 10P4C connector on the other end – that's an "APC AP9827" cable used for UPS (uninterruptible power supply) devices made by APC, allowing the UPS to be connected to a computer to monitor its status.

(I'm not sure anybody knows why they didn't use a regular Type B on the other end.)


The description on the cable tells us nothing about what the cable actually is or actually for.

The description can be broken down into four parts.

  1. "USB shielded high speed cable 2.0 revision"
    • it's a USB cable of some description
  2. "28AWG/1p"
    • it has 1 pair of 28AWG cores for the USB data twisted pair
  3. "28AWG/2c"
    • it has two further 28AWG cores, individual rather than as a twisted pair. These will be the power cores.
  4. "E119932-1"
    • Is basically just the Manufacturer UL number. The cable was made or designed by "COPARTNER TECHNOLOGY CORP"

Without some information on what is on either end all we can say is that it is some kind of USB cable.