jea48
Responses from jea48
| Bias adjustment @ richfrank I assume you still have the Cary SLI-80See page 12. It appears all you need is a plug and of course a multimeter. https://caryaudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/SLI-80_manual.pdf . | |
| Power Conditioners---old electrics in my house. danvignau357 posts 04-03-2020 5:28am If, and only if, you have an old house with crappy wiring, or a non-dedicated circuit with other things cycl9ing on and off, AND have amps without something in the design to gradually fill the big filter caps... | |
| Anyone try the new Synergistic Research Orange UEF Duplex? ’They’ can say anything ’They’ want.. That doesn’t mean ’They’ know what ’They’ are talking about. It is obvious the guy that wrote up the ad hasn’t a clue about building electrical grounding systems. georgehifi said: That’s great isn’t it, the ... | |
| Anyone try the new Synergistic Research Orange UEF Duplex? georgehifi6,926 posts 04-01-2020 12:23am I checked and their website said floating ground as tul32ley posted, The Orange Duplex starts with a new floating ground With a floating ground on all your audio equipment if something goes wrong, all ... | |
| Anyone try the new Synergistic Research Orange UEF Duplex? georgehifi6,923 posts 03-30-2020 3:08amThe Orange Duplex starts with a new floating ground Highly dangerous and illegal if in Australia.Can a US Electrical Engineer comment on the laws in the USA? georgehifi It’s just an IG (Isolated Ground) d... | |
| Line fault at the outlet -- do I need an electrician? @ hilde45 OP (If the plug on the power conditioner cord is a molded plug.)All you need to do is cut the plug off the cord that feeds the power conditioner and install a new plug. You will reverse the Hot and neutral wires of the cord on the new pl... | |
| Line fault at the outlet -- do I need an electrician? hilde45 OP303 posts 03-26-2020 11:12am The 4v issue is weird, because the multimeter does not read 4v on a properly wired outlet on a different circuit. Apple to oranges, imo. What is the wire gauge size of the other branch circuit? What is th... | |
| Line fault at the outlet -- do I need an electrician? @ hilde45 OP Yeah, you got a lot going on there. And all that on #14awg wire to boot. It’s been like that, I imagine, for many years and you didn’t know it. That is, unless the 15 amp breaker was tripping occasionally from being overloaded.You did... | |
| Line fault at the outlet -- do I need an electrician? hilde45 OP299 posts 03-25-2020 12:26pm OP again:I’m pretty sure I unplugged everything on the chain of outlets.I have not thrown the breaker yet.All outlets on chain read as reversed:* the negative plug input reads as 120v, more or less* the pos... | |
| Line fault at the outlet -- do I need an electrician? @ cissado cissado19 posts 03-23-2020 11:26am 2 tips. Be conscious of any switches outlets when testing, so there are no surprises.When trying to find the first receptacle box, you can disconnect one pair of wires from the receptacle. THEN reap... | |
| Line fault at the outlet -- do I need an electrician? Al, (almarg),I drew 3 vertical parallel lines on a piece of paper. One representing the Hot, one for the neutral and the other the equipment ground. At the top of the drawing I drew a horizontal line connecting both the neutral line and equipment ... | |
| Line fault at the outlet -- do I need an electrician? almarg9,459 posts 03-23-2020 2:59pm Hilde45, when you measured the 4 volts while the system was plugged in, were the components in the system turned on, or were they turned off or at least in standby? And as far as you know was anything else tha... | |
| Line fault at the outlet -- do I need an electrician? @ hilde45 Would you please tell us what make and model your multimeter is? Please!Does it have an auto scale? Is that what you used when you read/measured the 4 volts AC? Are you sure it was 4 Volts or was it possibly 4mv ( 4 millivolts) Or did yo... | |
| Line fault at the outlet -- do I need an electrician? hilde45 OP288 posts 03-23-2020 11:44am The reason I’m curious now, as I think I mentioned, is that I’m trying out my audio gear and have been shoved to an inconvenient side of my room because of this polarity problem; so, a fix would be helpful... | |
| Line fault at the outlet -- do I need an electrician? @ cissadoGood post except in the case of where the duplex receptacle device may have been used as a junction for the make up of neutral and Hot conductors coming in and going out of the outlet box. We don’t know what type of wiring materials/metho... |