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| How Do I Build a Faraday Cage? Three posts here speak of the Faraday cage needing to be earth grounded. I searched and searched the net a few months back to prove the case that the cage had to be grounded to reject RFI. The only thing I could find was that it did not... Example... | |
| Terminating Power cord. Providing the power cord has a third wire, equipment grounding conductor, connect the shield to the ground pin of the plug at the wall receptacle end only. The equipment ground wire will connect at both ends.What is the nominal wall receptacle vol... | |
| Jonny Cash "The Essential Johnny Cash" sold at "Target" stores only, a two CD disc set of his early recordings. $19.95....Jim | |
| Dedicated circuit = dedicated line? Turn off the the above mentioned circuit at the electrical panel. Plug a lamp or something into each of the outlets to verify they are dead.Pull each of the receptacles out from their wall boxes. Are the wire connections made on the receptacles or... | |
| preamp tube hiss from my SF Line 1 Snipes, just buy two matched pairs of the EH tubes and try them. Be careful who you buy them from. Quality control in Russia ain't the best. A good dealer will throw away tubes that don't meet their specs. Some will pass marginal tubes and sell th... | |
| Which to turn on first...Amp or preamp? Tony, Just a thought, try disconnecting the ics from the Power Amp's inputs. Power up the Amp just by itself, with just the speakers connected to it. If the Amp still makes the noise, "push/pull effect", through the speakers then that would indica... | |
| preamp tube hiss from my SF Line 1 Snipes, sounds great. Glad to hear you are back in business.Just to clarify your tube placement in order of importance.(1) Middle row, LV2 -- V2(2) Back row, LV1 -- V1(3) Front row, LV3 -- V3Where do you have the Herbies HAL O dampers positioned?I... | |
| Which to turn on first...Amp or preamp? If your tube preamp has a mute switch make sure to switch it to mute before turning the preamp off.====Turn on any input equipment you will be using, CDP, ect. When you turn on the preamp leave the switch in mute, then turn on the power amp. Wait ... | |
| Small gauge ground wire, is it OK? Where`d you get this 1/2 brained idea?[Porziob] http://www.audio-magic.com/Prod-Sorcerer4D.html You would be surprised how many cable companies out there are selling home made power cords, cables, that are not UL listed. Making your own is one t... | |
| Surge in Electric Bill Take a look at your power bill and see what your total khw (kilowatt hour) useage was for the month with the Cary SLI-80 used. Compare the bill with the month before, or a couple of months before. Also check the number of days in the billing cycle... | |
| Soldering cable ends for AC terminations >>"and unaffected by nearby nuclear explosions, where solder would be melted by X-rays."<<[Eldartford]>>>>>>>Eldartford, is it true that the Russians used vacuum tubes in their military equipment instead of transis... | |
| Soldering cable ends for AC terminations Eldartford, I agree with your post 100%. The method you describe was used in TVs for years, and found in some audio equipment as well.As you know the old tube audio gear of the pre circuit board, the wire was held securely around a post or through... | |
| Soldering cable ends for AC terminations >>"Solder is bad period"<< [Mapleleafs3]>>>>>>>>>>>>Name me an electronic component out there that is not full of it! Solder that is.....Solder is the electrical bonding agent that holds all the elec... | |
| preamp tube hiss from my SF Line 1 Snipes, curiosity killed the cat!! How about an update.....Jim | |
| preamp tube hiss from my SF Line 1 >>"Jea48: You wrote: "If you put back in the three tubes you had pulled before the hiss, and you still have it, then I think that eliminates the tubes from the equations." I'm not following you. If I put the same tubes back in and the hiss i... |