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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
1,834 posts
 
Yes Queg that is a fact. There are a number of archived threads about this; please try using the forum search engine. If you come up empty then post back here again; I can find some of them for you from my personal archives.
Here's a recent one: there was a fair amount of contention & argument from those who refuse to believe this, but have a read-through, try it for yourself, & post back with your own experiences.
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?htech&1012281942&read&keyw&zzceramic=fuse
jphilips OP
27 posts
 
Bob,

Yes, mine have the spring in them and are slow blow. I'm going to remove them and go with regular fuses. I will search for ceramic 20 amp fuses (my 84 year old dad may have some as he has a fuse panel). Anybody else got a source?
jphilips OP
27 posts
 
Found regular, slow-blow, ceramic fuses at Home Depot today! Bought a box, but the guy said they stocked them all the time.
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