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Environmental Potentials whole house surge protection, can I get your opinions?
gdnrbob,Here  is a pretty good one. http://www.homedepot.com/p/Eaton-Whole-House-Surge-Protector-CHSPT2ULTRA-1/204761136Are you planning on installing it yourself or hiring an electrician to install it?. 
Environmental Potentials whole house surge protection, can I get your opinions?
gdnrbob ,Here is an excellent white paper on SPDs for you to read. http://www.p3-inc.com/images/surge_protection_device_systems.pdfHere is another one on the importance of earth grounding.http://www.p3-inc.com/images/grounding_for_pq_wp2016_p3.pdf. 
Grounding Metal Outlet Boxes and Isolated Ground Receptacles
bimmer528,A GFCI breaker cannot be used on multi wire branch circuits. ( The neutral is shared on multi wire branch circuits) The GFCI breaker will just trip open the second any load is connected to the other hot circuit wire of the multi wire bra... 
Grounding Metal Outlet Boxes and Isolated Ground Receptacles
EDIT:jea48 said: The city Electrical Department is still following some of the electrical standards of the 1993 NEC, (National Electrical Code). I find that incredible they have not kept up with NEC since 1993. LOL, NEC is updated every 3 years. ... 
Grounding Metal Outlet Boxes and Isolated Ground Receptacles
bimmer528 said: i am in Chicago, very strict here on what can and can’t be acccepted. That’s an understatement. I assume this is current electrical code for Chicago.Chicago IL Residential Electrical Code. RESIDENTIAL WIRING: A. All wiring cha... 
Grounding Metal Outlet Boxes and Isolated Ground Receptacles
bimmer528 6 posts 12-18-2016 10:34pmAlways follow code first. The use of plastic boxes are not legal in many areas. Nor is armored cable and romex Given what you posted I’m assuming 1900 4 by 4 deep boxes were used and emt is the conduit. Runnin... 
Grounding Metal Outlet Boxes and Isolated Ground Receptacles
EDIT:* For 120V audio equipment that is connected together by wire interconnects all audio equipment should be fed from the same Line, leg, in the electrical panel. ALL from L1 or all from L2. NOT from both.This may not be practical, electrically ... 
Grounding Metal Outlet Boxes and Isolated Ground Receptacles
First, I assume cdrc’s comments are directed at stickman451.Second I believe the electrician stickman451 hired is a licensed electrician. I determined that to be the case by the posts of the OP when describing the wiring methods and materials used... 
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slight hum in turntable...A little advice please.
You might try connecting a ground wire from the metal platter bearing support to the phono preamp ground terminal/lug. 
Grounding Metal Outlet Boxes and Isolated Ground Receptacles
bflowers said, In metal conduits. Single run of 12G braided wire in each conduit. Run from subpanel is <8 ft in all cases. Probably 20 or so lines coming of the subpanel. Don't know about the interconnects. There are 2 legs, but all m... 
Interconnects, some have directional indicators, why?
Al, (almarg),Thanks for your response. I missed the line voltage for the amp is 240V. I went back and reread the post and sure enough the OP said it was 240V for the new amp as well.Here is the thread. scroll down to bflowers first post on the thr... 
Interconnects, some have directional indicators, why?
Kijanki,Thanks for the response.I had already read about the Poynting vector  after you posted about it on another thread last week. I supplied the link for others reading your previous post.Jim   
Interconnects, some have directional indicators, why?
kijanki said:                                                                  2-05-2016 8:37pmCurrent in the wire is a flow of electric charge. Wire creates magnetic field but transports charges and not the energy. Energy is transferred thru mag... 
Interconnects, some have directional indicators, why?
mihorn said: I wrote that here to show it can be tested and see the truth while you are guessing negatively. Please show me one post of mine where I said fuses could not be directional. I do not have any opinion on fuse directionality, one way or...