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| Spade vs bare wire Issues with oxidation, if they exist at all, can be dealt with a periodic clean once or twice a year.Pray tell, how do you clean multi-strand 12ga 7x24x34Besides, concerns with any oxidation of speaker cable pale into insignificance compared to ox... | |
| Spade vs bare wire Tinning is probably not the best idea: - Solder is soft and malleable, so connections tend to loosen over time and are thus not gas tight. - Tinning should be done in a solder pot - There are 2 dissimilar junction instead of one - Unless you are e... | |
| Headroom Loss for 1600w on 14ga/120v I did not say ANY. I said most.Confirms that most systems do not require 20A14ga vs 10ga results in a -0.22db power loss @ 14A draw for a 50' run. That 0.22db may not occur during a musical peak, in which case the power line is out of the picture.... | |
| Headroom Loss for 1600w on 14ga/120v It's about ac line wiring. Or did I miss the humor?Sorry if it was beyond comprehension. | |
| High quality in-wall UL-C2 rated 10-gauge A/C wiring ? ieLogical is my domain.I used an espresso machine precisely because it is a resistor and a near constant load. I wasn't testing the dynamic headroom of an amp. That is a property of the amplifier and not the line. I could run the identical test on... | |
| High quality in-wall UL-C2 rated 10-gauge A/C wiring ? Other than Class A, HiFi is not a continuous load. A ’typical’ tube amp is about 1A per 70W sum of both channels.Peak power can be a numbers game. The 1974 FTC rule mandated an amplifier provide 1/3 rated power for 1 hour @ rated distortion withou... | |
| High quality in-wall UL-C2 rated 10-gauge A/C wiring ? Headroom loss for 14ga vs 10ga is less than ¼db @ ≈14A / ≈1600WSee http://ielogical.com/Audio/CableSnakeOil.php#ACWiring | |
| High quality in-wall UL-C2 rated 10-gauge A/C wiring ? This is the same thing that happens inside larger power cords. No it's not.Even if R were the same, L&C are vastly different.In the 'test' did you also have the heavier ga single wire connected to the same side of the transformer and routed ... | |
| High quality in-wall UL-C2 rated 10-gauge A/C wiring ? I did testing with a double-run of 14awg romex (that's 2x14awg which makes an 11awg totalPlease describe the 'test' in detail from start to finishUnless you were able to compare the original to the new, in real time, any perceived change is pure f... | |
| High quality in-wall UL-C2 rated 10-gauge A/C wiring ? We're getting lost in the weeds. 14ga wire will power most any HiFi without any problems providing the wiring is up to snuff.Most modern houses have ’sh.tty’ daisy chain ’quick-connects’ and a fancy power cable at the end of a series of ’sh.tty’ ... | |
| High quality in-wall UL-C2 rated 10-gauge A/C wiring ? Table 310.15(B)(16): 60°C 75°C 90°C TW THWN THHN14ga 15A 20A 25AEncore Wire NM-B : Color-coded Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) compound meeting the required thickness of Type THHN or THWN-2 with a heat-... | |
| High quality in-wall UL-C2 rated 10-gauge A/C wiring ? @jea48 The breaker limits the current below the wire ampacity. A 15A circuit has 5A current reserve capacity in the wire according to the NEC.From Pass:Typically, a Class AB stereo amplifier rated at 200 watts per channel continuously should be ca... | |
| High quality in-wall UL-C2 rated 10-gauge A/C wiring ? Under the electrical code https://www.usawire-cable.com/pdf/nec-ampacities.pdf 14ga wire is good for 20A, 8 for 40A. Continuous.Other than large Class A amplifiers, 4 nines of HiFi systems don't ever come anywhere near even 20A. With a linear sup... | |
| High quality in-wall UL-C2 rated 10-gauge A/C wiring ? Each transformer in the line adds some distortion. The neighborhood transformer couples the grunge from the neighbors on to mile line.Filtering I understand.What is the filtering capacity of a 2m 14ga cable?One of the claims is better transmission... | |
| High quality in-wall UL-C2 rated 10-gauge A/C wiring ? Romex style with two parallel conductors and the earth between them is only bested by twisted LNE in aluminum and twisted LN.The worst is random wire in steel conduit.see https://centralindianaaes.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/indy-aes-2012-seminar-... |