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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.

laynes
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lowrider57
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If you say you have a dedicated line and are getting noise from the AC then you dont have a true dedicated line. A true dedicated has to be brought in independent from the street. At the very least you are sharing a ground on your dedicated line.

That’s true, but it has to meet code. It would be so nice to have an extra drop from the power company.

jea48
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 @lowrider57 

If I provided misleading information, I apologize, it was very late. 

 I didn't read anything in your post that was misleading.

Best regards,

Jim

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lowrider57
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@jea48 

Oh, ok. I thought I got my legs mixed up. (electrician's joke??)

Thanks Jim.

richopp
760 posts
 

I suggest you spend another several million and put up your own mini nuclear reactor for YOUR house.  That way, you can run a single line for EACH outlet--if you still use outlets...I would connect DIRECTLY to the reactor, myself, but that's just me--and that way you will have NO NOISE and be sitting center front at every mix-down studio where your recordings are "created" from whatever the musicians play that day from wherever they are playing.

Oh, spend another million or so on patch cords.  They really matter as well.

Cheers!

sns
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Well, yes these not true dedicated line in the sense of providing your own independent ac line, even a line run from pole wouldn't be truly dedicated as sharing with everyone else on that trunk line.

 

@richopp takes this thing to extreme, funny! But yeah, we'd have to go to extremes to eliminate all noise on ac lines. Some, I included,  have tried batteries for provision of audio power, but even this has limitations in the sense of noisy inverters.

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