About 35 minutes on the outlets - thanks will check it out.
Posted a few pics in virtual systems for those interested. Again, still very much setting up the room as you can see. Thanks.
New Dedicated Line - Almost No improvement
Hello,
Newbie here and electrical idiot. Just moved to a new to us house in Tampa. Before we moved in I had an electrician put in a dedicated line (has it's own breaker switch) which is 10 gauge and two Furutech GTX-D outlets - Rhodium.
When I hooked up the EMI meter in my old house, which didn't have a dedicated line, the reading was usually around 26 or so IIRC. At the new house the outlets are 89 usually and the dedicated line is usually around 82 - so not much help for the cost of the "project" and pretty noisy.
Also, when the ac /hvac is running the meter reads about 100 points higher (!) for both the regular outlets and the dedicated Furutechs. Not good.
Thoughts? Does the dedicated line need it's own breaker box?
I'm also considering a line conditioner but wanted to see what could be done here. Thanks.
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Just to review; you have one dedicated 20A line to the service panel. The audio system used the last available breaker (if it's one line, the electrician would have used a standard breaker). Look at the panel, are there any breakers for high-current appliances close to the audio breaker? And are there any on the same Leg (phase) as your audio? Phase will usually be indicated as A or B. Breakers 1,3,5 would be phase A. Breakers 2,4,6 are phase B (in most situations). Heavy-duty appliances such as A/C, fridge, washer will introduce noise back onto the mains.
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Juice is juice. As long as you get the noise off the line. Seems to me that with rechargeable batteries abundant now from puny right up to car size, the way to go is to use battery power. Choose battery(ies) suitably rated to power your components, charge them in system downtime and disconnect charging while listening. A car-size battery easily has the capacity and punch to run my Krell KRs200s. Eureka. All noise gone, no need for dedicated power lines, fancy power conditioners $15,000 power cords. Why not? |
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