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| How Electricity Actually Works @deludedaudiophile , and @czarivey Your thoughts... Understanding Electricity and Circuits: What the Text Books ... . | |
| How to tell if your AC wiring needs an upgrade @ozzy It's easy to check. Just use your multimeter and measure the voltage from either of the power contacts on a receptacle on the Niagara to the ground contact. If balanced power you will measure 60V nominal. | |
| How to tell if your AC wiring needs an upgrade @ozzy Is the AC voltage output of the Niagara 7000 Balanced power? 60V - 0V - 60V? If yes that would create problems for the "(Receptacle Tester)". It’s not designed to be connected to a balanced power system. L to N Voltage it will measure... | |
| How Electricity Actually Works czarivey 4,837 posts 05-02-2022 at 11:37am @jea48 In all of the books of electronics and electrical engineering, the electric signal through the conductor is the ordered motion of electrons @czarivey This guy wrote a f... | |
| How Electricity Actually Works @deludedaudiophile said: Good reason to use coaxial cable Glad you mentioned coaxial cables. Great example for the discussion of this thread. Here is how an AC signal travels in a coax cable. Note the signal does not flow in the center conduc... | |
| How Electricity Actually Works deludedaudiophile 169 posts 05-01-2022 at 07:29am This does have implications for our audio cabling... What implication would that be? Most obvious is why the dielectric, insulation, used to cover the bare conductor ... | |
| How Electricity Actually Works electric signal travels through the conductor approximately 5c i.e. 5 speeds of light. @czarivey What is the carrier through the conductor at such a high speed? Not electrons... Not electric charge... b | |
| Whole House Surge Arrester @whart , I also installed an Eaton SPD. I installed the Eaton CHSPT2ULTRA. CHSPT2ULTRA | Eaton CHSPT2 surge protection device / / / / Whole House Surge Protector - The Home Depot Note the reviews. / / / / Note: I don’t believe Amazon.com i... | |
| Whole House Surge Arrester SPD WARRANTY COVERAGE: During the time period (the “Warranty Term”) stated below and subject to all Conditions and Limitations stated below, Siemens Industry warrants to the original purchaser who purchases a new Siemens Surge Protective Device (... | |
| Any Downside To Installing A Whole Home Surge Protector? I’m wondering if there is any downside to installing a whole home surge protector at the mains. @analogj No... What manufacture is the electrician going to install? If the SPD (Surge Protection Device) will be mounted on the outside of the ... | |
| Audiophile Grade Wall Receptacle For those of you that maybe considering buying a spec grade or better Hubbell duplex receptacle you need to do your homework before buying. About 10 to 15 years or so ago Hubbell starting changing and adding a cheaper line to their product. Exampl... | |
| Power Cables and Wall Sockets If the OP’s power amplifier’s power supply was not heavily over regulated, and maybe even then, the circuit that feeds the amp is staving the amp of power when playing high dynamic music material. The dimming lights is proof of that. The AC mains ... | |
| Power Cables and Wall Sockets holmz 1,029 posts 04-01-2022 at 06:36am If you amp is causing lights to dim you have an extreme power problem. If the lights are dimming significantly, the circuit is overloaded, the breaker should be tripping. The circuit is ... | |
| Burning in question Burning in question I bought an NAD M33 for a system in a 2nd home. I want to run it in before installing and these amps are notorious for needing a lot of time before sounding as designed. For burn-in you need current traveling through ... | |
| Squeaking/Paper Crinkling Noise Coming from Lamm LL2.1 Could be a cold solder joint. Could be a dirty corroded tube socket female contact(s). Coupled with poor contact pressure between tube socket female contact(s) to male tube pin(s). |