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RE: Nah

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unclestu

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In Reply to: RE: Nah posted by rick_m on April 04, 2011 at 21:54:02

The power strip was rewired with 10 gauge romex TX series, which is a soft annealed wire with better conductivity. All connections were hard soldered.

Typical home wiring is set up so that your heaviest draw components are placed closes to the the input wiring. Normally your 50 amp breakers are located there, those for your dryer, , etc. I simply moved the breakers down and placed my audio breaker in the first position.

Stu

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RE: Nah - rick_m 16:49:59 04/05/11 (2)
I'll try it Stu.

Here we have a large breaker that feeds all the 110V breakers so the busses in the box are split into two sections. I'm a gonna try the stove outlet which is handy and the only 110 outlet on the "main" section.

You do realize that I was just kidding about the strip don't you?

Regards, R.
- Well, yeah - unclestu 14:53:14 04/06/11 (1)
  especially when you made reference to that $6 price tag. It may be rather anal on my part, but I did go through many power strips, ripping them apart to "study" their construction. I added that just in case other readers may have been taken in by your humor.
  
  It is rather appalling how cheaply made some power strips are.
  
  I peered into some very high end audiophile power strips, too, BTW. Some simply doubled up the wire from duplex to duplex. One actually used a silver bus bar.
  
  My favorite reasonably priced duplex, the NEMA 5362, uses mechanical clamp on fittings but like other duplexes built to US standards, has only that thin jumper plate linking each half of the duplex. I double up that jumper with a piece of 10/12 gauge wire and stagger the inputs to different receptacles to get more even power distribution. This all helps a bit, not staggering better, but every little bit starts to accumulate.
  
  Of course YMMV
  
  Stu
  - RE: Well, yeah - rick_m 14:38:44 04/07/11 (0)
    Hi Stu,
    
    What I was kidding about was your strip being unaudiophileish...
    
    The construction of mine actually did have some appeal to me because I was concerned that having everything plugged willy-nilly into the line filter might not be a good thing and wanted to see how it worked to have all the sources plugged into a single point. The strip I used with the broad, continuous conductor should look like that over a fairly wide bandwidth but probably won't hold up for very many insertions. I think it sounds at least as good, maybe better than before but I haven't done any more tinkering yet. Trying the whole Mary-Ann plugged into the stove is gonna be next...
    
    Regards, Rick

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