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Details on wiring my house for sound

Thanks for the responses to my previous thread. More questions, however. I have a Square D fuse box with six sockets. Some are fitted with the Fusestat devices. I presume these are NOT best, as they involve another layer of contacts. Anyone with experience with these. Also, the box says to use only copper wire, but the contacts in the sockets look to be aluminum and are raised. Should I look at other boxes? I know Sq D is high quality and the box is quite heavy. Thanks for any thoughts.
jphilips
bob_bundus
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Jp that box should do you fine; congrat's on picking fuses over breakers. Those Fusestat's are actually resettable screw-in breakers; notice the small pop-out in the center for resetting when they trip. There are OK for non-audio loads but use real fuses (not glass body) for the sound system.
Those socket contacts are apparently plated with something; not to be concerned (whatever it is) they built the box & specify copper wire only so they know what they're all about.
jphilips OP
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Bob,

Thanks for your post. My fusestats are actually fuses and not breakers, but I won't use them anyway.
queg
55 posts
 
Umm.. just happened to browse this post, and could use some info. I have a dedicated circuit for my audio recepticles, in my Square D breaker box.. and was going to go further and create a dedicated subpanel for audio.. are you saying breakers are noticeable worse then fuses for audio?
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