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17th September 2007
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| Gear interested Join Date: Apr 2007
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Thread Starter |  No Ground : Does it cause hum, etc... ? Hi! I live in Paris and there is no ground in my flat. Will it cause problems of hum with the monitors, guitar amp, asymmetrical connections, inserts, etc.... ?  What kind of other problems could it make? (computer, etc....) Thanks for your help!!! Alex |
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17th September 2007
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| Gear maniac  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Taiwan
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I'm in the same situation here in Taiwan. I'm using Furman PL-Plus voltage regulators (ground pin bypassed with "3 prong into 2 prong" adaptors). I'm quite happy with this. I'm running 2 Apple G5's, 11 synths, Granite Digital External HDD's, TC POCO FireWires, Duende, Tannoy Ellipse 8's etc. of 4 PL-Plusses, each connected to it's own wall socket, and feeding of two separate relays on my breaker board. No problems so far. But, YMMV... Anyone who can shed more light on this, I'd like to know as well. (Sorry Alex, don't mean to hijack!) Anton | |
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17th September 2007
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| Gear nut Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 78
| I'd advise routing a low gauge copper wire to a six foot ground rod outside of the flat... ground all of your equipment to this... Absence of a common ground doesn't necessarily create hum... it would be unequal paths to ground creating "ground loops" that does this... You could common ground just between the equipment itself... but god help you if you ever need a legitimate path to a real ground... |
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17th September 2007
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Birmingham, AL USA
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 | What kind of power do you have in Paris? 240V Also does newer electrical have a ground? Just curious... |
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17th September 2007
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| Gear interested Join Date: Apr 2007
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About Paris, we have 220V, and yes newer electrical have ground, Fortunately!!!!!!!  | |
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18th September 2007
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Birmingham, AL USA
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| That's what I thought. An isolated ground will not accomplish anything, and for it to trip a breaker in the event of a short the ground fault current HAS to be able to return to ITS zero volt reference, ground/neutral point. |
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