Home Tweakers' Asylum

Tweaks for systems, rooms and Do It Yourself (DIY) help. FAQ.

RE: Clean out those conduit boxes

Many homes have original wiring that is marginal. Multiple outlets are daisy chained, with downstream outlets subject to resistance from the upstream outlets. This can be avoided by having a dedicated circuit for the audio equipment or, at least, plugging the audio equipment into an upstream outlet. You can measure the resistance of the in house wiring by plugging in a hair dryer in various outlets and measuring the voltage drop at that and other outlets and comparing against outlets on different circuits.

There is also a quality of installation issue. Most outlets have two ways to attach the circuit wires: by wrapping around a screw and tightening for a low resistance connection or by pushing in a hole for a quick and dirty connection. Most homes are wired the cheap way.

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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