Copper Sleeve over IEC

Nasaman,
Yeah you could probably get away with steel or aluminum too, but copper is pretty easy to get.. Brass would be really heavy and pull on your connection a lot depending on the thickness.. Standard Wattgate connections you will need exactly 1.25" or in otherwords 1-1/4" INNER diameter couplers if you want the perfect fit. 1.5" will be larger than your wattgate and you would need to put some type of spacer, either wrapping a thick line of electrical tape, or some thick double sided tape if you just want to hold it in place.

Ozzy or anybody,
Did you try the Pex Supply couplers you mentioned on above link? It appears to be thin compared to some of the ones mentioned from Lowes and HD. I wonder if they are as effective as some of the thicker ones.

Thanks in advance,

Kenobi

Kenk168, in this case it really should not matter much in the gauge of metal used, its going to block the same for the most part, only reason I could see thicker being better would be with a really strong inductive/magnetic field, but I think this would be far more power than what we are able to run in the house. Essentially this might work even just using Aluminum duct tape, or copper tape wrapped around the connector a few times, problem is that a roll of that tape is probably a lot more expensive than a few of the 3 dollar plumbing pipes we are talking about here!

For example there are many hi end manufactures that wrap just the transformer in the component with a simple foil thickness type metal with good shielding results. The only other advantage to thicker being possibly better would be simply the mass adding more mechanical damping, but for the shield properties if that’s what your going for I really doubt you would find much of a difference.

Who knows maybe just balling up a strip of the aluminum foil in your kitchen right now might be just as effective! But it would not look as cool :-)

Kenk168, I think they are the same thickness, standard wall.
There is a standard wall, a X-hvy and a XX-heavy wall thickness.
Almost all domestic copper is standard wall.
The thicker walls are used for Industrial use.

The copper couplers are working extremely well in all locations.

My crappier recordings are sounding very listenable, and at loud levels.

This is the most effective, cheapest tweak ever applied to my rig, and I've done many over the years, installing my own IEC inlets, various fuses, damping of chassis, footers and materials etc, etc.