Power Handling Capability Of RS Phone Plug Coupler- Also, Radio Shack SUCKS!

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Just another guy, really.
These little phone plug couplers
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2103722&tab=techSpecs

are pretty handy to have- I keep a half-dozen of them handy. If a TS or TRS cable run is longer than I have cable to go that distance, it does the job. But I find the time I need them most is speaker cables, AFTER the amplifier. But I wonder if they can handle much power (my biggest power amp is 1500 watts.) Nothing in Radio Shack's website to address this question, and it took me no less than THREE different calls to Radio Shack's pathetic (actually, by their own admission, non-existant) support to find out that they have no further info, either.

I figure I have three options:
1. Hook one up and pay very close attention- does it get hot?
2. Cut one in half and take a look at it's innards, to see if there is enough metal to probably handle the power, or
3. Ask here if anyone has done either of those things, has experience with these little POS's, or has a suggestion on other ways to evaluate them.

Anyone? Anyone? Bueler?
 
I'm the guy who has used instrument cables for speakers and vice versa without noticing a lot of problem; I don't tend to run at extremely high wattages.

Having said that, the prisons we go into run higher wattages and use similar couplers all the time (as they're not supposed to have any cable over 10 foot...as if a 10 foot cable wouldn't be just as deadly in the wrong hands. :P ).

I'd invest the extra and get the gold-plated Crate ones. They run about 4 or 5 apiece, IIRC.
 
Rat Shack stopped being usefull 15 years ago when they went from 'hobbist' to 'consumer'.

That said, if you put 1500watts (what 10-15amps) through ANY kind of connector that doesn't have solid bars of metal, you're just asking for a fire.... safety FIRST, dude!!
 
Well, Tim, I am sure that is true- but I dunno if these do or do NOT have solid metal connectors inside them...

Might have to cut one open...
 
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