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RE: Amperage available at an outlet?

J

Having the outlet blades parallel to each other with a 20 amp breaker will cause you no problems, my 100 year old house has several. Any electrician who would replace said outlets for free is probably now bankrupt or has been institutionalized. If you did replace the outlets with the specialty "one blade horizontal" type, you would then have to replace the plugs on all your equiptment with matching ones. The outlets themselves will have an amp rating printed on them, the cheap bulk-pack ones being lower, about 10 amps if memory serves me well. It's highly unlikely that you will even get near stressing a 20 amp breaker with any home audio rig (baring a short circuit), unless you are running big transmiting tube amps. You can get orange hospital grade outlets at the big box stores like Home Depot, and have them installed. I would'nt worry about it though. Life must be sheer hell to someone who can hear whether or not the circuit breaker is a 15 or 20 amp feeding their stereo. The only answer to their torment would be to convert the house to solar power, and wire it up with audiophile speaker wire. And then there's the nagging feeling that certain storage batteries and solar panels might sound better than others. Thank God for my normal hearing!

Paul


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