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| Clean AC power vgizzi OP7 posts 07-05-2021 12:59pmjea48: My panel is a Challenger SB40. The buss material is hard to determine; it is clearly not raw copper, but has a shiny metallic finish. The contacts in the breaker are copper. @ vgizzi Approximately what ... | |
| Clean AC power vgizzi OP6 posts 07-05-2021 10:31am 4krowme, The grunge I cleaned off wasn’t greasy, or oily like the de-oxit spray. It was the sort of powdery oxidation that’s so common. Are you referring to the line side of the breaker contact to the Hot bus... | |
| Clean AC power @ vgizzi The majority of "dirty power" in the home is created by electrical usage items found in the home.Examples; LED lighting. Electronic ballasts/florescent lighting. Light dimmers. Switched mode power supplies. Appliance/equipment micro proce... | |
| Cheap grounding solution By chance I happened on a good use for disused power cords: Disconnect live and neutral leads at the power plug and connect them all to ground. Take off the IEC connector and terminate all to a single spade connector. On your DAC or preamp connec... | |
| Can an unused cable break in? rodman999995,056 posts 06-13-2021 12:12pm "When you hold the tester in your hand your body is ground." Been using those for decades and always believed that was the case. Thanks for the confirmation/insight/link (filling in the blanks)! I would... | |
| Cheap grounding solution Alternatively terminate with RCA plug not connecting the centre pin and use spare RCA input on Pre or DAC The UK has a different method of grounding an electrical service in a residential dwelling unit than the USA as I understand from what I hav... | |
| Can an unused cable break in? rodman999995,038 posts 06-13-2021 10:25am @jea48 - "You don’t need a closed circuit to have a difference of potential, voltage.If you connect a pair of wires to a source at the end or anywhere along the pair of wires the difference of potential... | |
| Can an unused cable break in? Voltage is a differential. It is in other words measured between two things. Across a circuit. Without which (a complete circuit) there is no voltage, no amperage, no capacitance, no nothing. (Try buying a meter that can read voltage, resistance,... | |
| Can an unused cable break in? It is considered that some of the long time period it takes for some particular cables to burn in is the 'burn in' of Teflon dielectrics. Some cables might be 100 hrs and some might be 500 hrs. the 500hr burn in ones , when looked at closely... | |
| Can an unused cable break in? rvpiano OP1,748 posts06-12-2021 12:17amJea48,There is definitely an on/off push switch on the front panel of the CD t accessible by the remote controlIt could be that I have an older model. @ rvpiano What does the switch control? AC Mains power? ... | |
| Can an unused cable break in? Connecting to the AC Mains Supply Connect the socket on the AC Power cable to the AC Power inlet d on the rear panel of the CD t. Now connect the cable to a suitable AC power point. There is no mains power switch on the CD t. To switch off the ... | |
| What happened here? Kind of looks like maybe some type of contact treatment/enhancer was sprayed into the contact body. Maybe the stuff has gone bad, deteriorated . What piece of equipment was the IEC connector used on? Maybe a power amp? Poor contact pressure will c... | |
| Main vs. sub panel for dedicated lines MC,I was looking at your system thread and read this: Stewart Marcantoni taught me it all begins at the wall. The System begins with 4 ga wire at the panel. This 4 ga brings 240v power to a step-down transformer located just beneath the system. N... | |
| Main vs. sub panel for dedicated lines millercarbon9,434 posts 06-03-2021 11:27pm I would also recommend grounding the ground to ground, and then grounding the Earth to ground. You never can be too sure, so I would ground all the grounds to all the pipes as well. Because, like, they g... | |
| Main vs. sub panel for dedicated lines Can each rod individually be connected to ground in the main panel? Sure. Especially for your situation. Both rods ground wires would connect to the service entrance neutral conductor neutral bar.. |