I use high quality outlets for their obvious grabbiness as that's sort of comforting. Note that none of the "premium" AC cables I use display that sort of grabbiness on the component end...weird...
Power conditioner vs use of a audio grade outlet?
If I have a $7000 Power conditioner and really nice power cables is there a need for audio grade outlet? Maybe it's a dumb question but if I didn't have this other good stuff maybe I should get an audio grade outlet.
Pangea seems to offer a good outlet for about 100 bucks.
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Right. This is why they sometimes connecte the chassis to the neutral. Over time they realized the 0 R expectations didn’t hold often enough to prevent life safety issues.
kind of. The issue isn’t that a good N has R on it, it’s that wiring goes bad. My home audio system has about 2V on the neutral right now. I could touch that, no problem. In a year, who knows?? :) So yes, wiring is not perfect, but a GOOD conductor has around 0.5 Ohms or less, never perfectly 0 though. Room temperature superconductors don’t exist yet. The safety issues occur when the conductor is no longer a good one. When it goes bad however is when the voltage rises to unsafe levels. There are of course also issues where N and hot are reversed. This is why those $5 3 prong testers alert for this situation as well.
That’s more like a real-world failure example. Not a real-world good circuit.
You need to understand that the 2 hots and neutral are coming from a center tapped transformer. Bonding the neutral to ground there forces the neutral to be 0V relative to ground, and the two hots are at 120V relative to it. Assuming you are at ground too, there’s 0V between you and neutral and therefore no current flow. Now, assume you take a white wire from there, and run it 100’ away. There’s no current, so it’s still at 0 V. |
Thank you, @erik_squires . |
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