Product Overview
Short 1 ft Shielded USB 2.0 A to B Cable - New Surplus, Deep Stock
Condition
New, unused surplus stock. The photographed sample is a black molded cable with the USB trident embossed on both overmolds, a bright nickel-plated A plug shell and a matching B plug shell, both with clean, unmarked contact blades and no bent or oxidized pins. The jacket printing is legible in the close-up photo and reads 28AWG/2C+24AWG/2C SHIELDED USB V2.0, continuing past the frame with a maker legend beginning LON. No kinks, no strain-relief cracking, no adhesive or label residue. Stock is deep, so the cable you receive will not be the exact one photographed; the photographed sample is representative, and jacket printing or markings may vary across stock.
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Product Overview
This is a 1 foot USB 2.0 interface cable terminated USB Type A male on one end and USB Type B male on the other - the standard host-to-device pairing used by printers, scanners, USB audio interfaces, benchtop instruments, programmers and dev boards. The jacket legend printed on the cable itself confirms the build: 28AWG/2C+24AWG/2C construction, meaning a heavier gauge pair for bus power and a lighter pair for data, inside an overall shield. USB 2.0 signalling supports up to 480 Mbps. The one-foot length is the point of the part: it reaches from a rack shelf to the chassis below, from a panel jack to a board, or from a hub to a device sitting right next to it, without three feet of slack looped behind the bench. E174089 is a UL file reference rather than a catalogue part number, so match this cable by connector type, length and jacket construction rather than by hunting that number in a manufacturer index.
Key Features
- Connectors: USB Type A male to USB Type B male
- Standard: USB 2.0, data rates to 480 Mbps
- Length: 1 ft (approximately 12 inches end to end)
- Conductors: 28AWG/2C + 24AWG/2C, printed on the jacket
- Shielded jacket, printed USB V2.0 legend
- Molded strain relief at both ends, nickel-plated connector shells
- Brand: Longwell, UL file reference E174089
- Condition: new unused surplus, sold each
Applications
- Bench technician tying a USB label printer to the PC sitting directly beneath it, without a loop of slack cable on the desk
- Test engineer connecting a benchtop meter, function generator or data logger to a nearby controller in a rolling instrument cart
- Firmware developer feeding a JTAG programmer or dev board from a hub mounted an inch away on the same rail
- Panel builder running a short jumper from a chassis-mount USB B bulkhead jack to the single-board computer inside the enclosure
Frequently Asked Questions
Is one foot really the full end-to-end length?
It is sold and marked as a 1 ft cable, and the full-cable photo shows a short jumper with both connectors close together. Treat 12 inches as the nominal figure including the connector bodies. If your run needs every inch, measure your path first - this cable is meant for gear stacked or mounted right next to each other.
Will this work with my printer or my USB audio interface?
If the device has the square USB Type B socket, yes - that is exactly the pairing this cable was built for. USB 2.0 is backward compatible with USB 1.1 devices and plugs into USB 3.x Type A host ports at USB 2.0 speed. Devices using Type B Mini, Micro or USB 3.0 Type B (the taller shell with the extra bump) need a different cable.
What does E174089 actually tell me?
It is a UL file reference tied to the cable, not a manufacturer catalogue number, and the photographs do not show it printed on this sample. The identifying facts you can verify from the photos are the connector types, the shielded jacket and the 28AWG/2C+24AWG/2C legend. Match on those.
Has it been tested for data throughput?
No. These are new unused surplus cables, not bench-tested units. What we confirm is what the photos show: unused connectors with clean contacts and undamaged jacket and strain relief. If your application is timing-critical, verify against your own setup before committing it to a permanent install.
Why buy three or five here instead of a bagged lot of fifty?
Because a 1 ft A to B cable is the kind of part you need in a specific number - one for the printer, two for the instrument cart, five to wire up a rack - and a forced lot of fifty just moves the clutter from your bench to your shelf. Stock here is deep enough to cover a whole cabinet, and you pick the count. Shipping is a flat $8, free once your order passes $28, and orders leave our Idaho warehouse the same or next business day.
Every bench eventually collects a drawer of six-foot cables and not one short enough for the printer sitting eight inches away. This is the one that ends that particular argument with your workspace.
