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Originally posted by dave-G
I just don't get it.. When you consider that you've got miles of ancient wire carrying the stuff to your house, and hundreds of feet of romex or knob-and-tube wire getting to the plug.... i dunno. Sure, there's the wider pipe, deeper river analogies... and somehow those final 3 feet matter? They can "correct" all the capacitance and all the resistance that came before? How?
Putting a 3' piece of excellent wire between all that lousy electrical service conductor and your gear... seems like opening a window for someone who's choking.
-dave  |
Well, in a nice and perfect world (etc.,etc., blah, blah, blah) the cabling running all the way from your local substation then to your house then to your wall socket (I'm greatly simplifying things here) would be more than capable of delivering the current (Amperage) that your equipment is likely to desire. Most household breakers can deliver somewhere near 15/20Amps per breaker and your power amp is not likely to draw that much. Not even all the rest of your gear combined. I'm talking about home studios/SMALL project studios here. It is a different thing altogether in studios with Megaconsoles and 40 Brystons amps in parallelrollz
This is all greatly simplified as I'm trying to make a point. Sure if you have enough gear you will exceed 15/20A in current draw and then you will have to use another breaker and then you invite the potential for ground loops, and all that, but that's not the point of this thread.
Now, if your studio is a converted barn out in the boondocks, and you are running power to it from 6 daisy-chained 150 foot extension cords, then yup, you may have a point there...
Not to mention a good chance of starting a fire should the extension cord be laying across a bale of hay and it gets too warmdfegad
