Hearing other appliances in dedicated line


Hello

Recently I started hearing clicks through my speakers when I power off my tv or change speeds on my fan. My system has a dedicated 10 gauge line running from the circuit breaker panel. Never had anything like that happen before. No changes were made to the system. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

pyrolator

My guess would be arcing. Those appliances may be on one circuit and there is a loose wire connection at either a receptacle or the branch circuit breaker. Call an electrician and describe the problem.

Is your audio system breaker on the opposite leg (phase) as these appliances? That could help.

So big a deal was my discovery years ago that some of the ground wires were not tight inside my 200 amp breaker box Stereophile published my letter to them about it. Taking proper precautions,I hand tightened every wire inside that breaker box. My issue wasn’t clicks but rather, hum. Never heard any anomalies again.  

I have a 4 wire dedicated line one common ground the other a insulated isolated  ground on its on buzz bar and grounding all wires awg 10 Copper

as well as outlets gold over Copper , very quality .

My guess is the noise is not coming through the power line but electromagnetic.  Like I say, that is a guess.  

A dedicated line becomes common with all other circuits at the breaker box so it could be coming through the power line.

If you said you hear only 1 electrical device making noise, I might think it was that component with a problem.  but since it is multiple components, your system is very sensitive to noise.  

Jerry

I wonder if you aren’t just hearing it because you aren’t playing music. :)

I don’t have a dedicated line, but I have a separate line to the stereo but the ceiling fan noises sometimes still comes through, even when it’s being turned off in another room.

I am curious that the TV is affecting you however, those tend to be relatively low power devices so hard to imagine it causing as much AC noise as a motor. Perhaps as another has mentioned, this is an EM induced coupling with your dedicated line caused by the wires getting too close.

It could also be unavoidable. The house panel is just not a perfect AC reference that many think it is. Internal surges can cause voltage spikes across the entire home due to resistance/inductance in the wiring from outside transformer to the home. A very fast spike on another circuit can elevate the AC at the panel which takes a few milliseconds to clear. A perfect, dedicated line to the panel will just help to transmit that to your gear. In this case, a little R and a little L on the circuit to your gear can actually be good.

Check your neutral to ground and make sure it’s 2V or less when your gear is on. Any higher and you may have a loose neutral. If you are going to get into your panel, check that your neutral wires don’t share a screw and are tight AFTER you turn off the main panel breaker.

Just having a dedicated line back to the box doesn’t guarantee much of anything. The only real way to have the line totally isolated is with a plug/receptacle that accommodates an Isolated ground tied to a separate bus bar within the panel and then to actual Earth. If your dedicated line shares a ground bus inside the breaker panel, then it has a chance to pickup the same noise as the rest of the lines.