jea48
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| Environmental Potentials whole house surge protection, can I get your opinions? westom said:Impedance is taught to engineers; but not to electricians. Electricians are taught code - for human safety. Transistor (appliance) safety means doing things that both meet and exceed code. Connection to (ie impedance) and quality of s... | |
| Environmental Potentials whole house surge protection, can I get your opinions? The only thing that would totally protect a home from a direct lightning strike would be to totally enclose it inside of an earth grounded Faraday Cage. Though that could prove to be quite expensive..... Or maybe hang a really big sign on the outs... | |
| Environmental Potentials whole house surge protection, can I get your opinions? cleeds,My references are for type 2 SPDsExample:http://www.homedepot.com/p/Eaton-Whole-House-Surge-Protector-CHSPT2ULTRA-1/204761136http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/pdfImages/d9/d9817dee-4558-4b87-877e-946eee1c6f80.pdf | |
| Environmental Potentials whole house surge protection, can I get your opinions? gdnrbob,You won’t find any SPD that will protect your home from a direct lightning strike.If you find a manufacture that claims it will you best read the fine print.Like westom said in his post the earth connection is the most important part for p... | |
| 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... |