Dedicated Lines & Power Conditioners

"micro arcing at that connection. This introduces distortion spikes on the line and these spikes can have an impact".

Micro arcing??? How do you guys come up with this stuff?

I hope you understand that arcing is the breakdown of the dielectric which in this case is air. If you experience any kind of arcing in your circuit breakers or receptacles you need to fix the problem at once. This is not normal. If you have a tight mechanical connection, arcing should NEVER occur.
Anything with a make break connection like switches, circuit breakers and solenoids will have a momentary arc when the electrical connection is first made or broken, but they should never arc once the connection is fully made or fully broken.

Rushton,

You can’t compare an industrial setting to your home. Plants and factories have big motors, compressors, switching power supplies and other very noisy things. This is very different from the home environment. Don’t get me wrong, there still is noise but its several orders of magnitude lower.
You mentioned being educated on noise by control system engineers. Please understand that control systems are just feedback loops. They monitor the output and correct the input. In a feedback loop, speed (bandwidth) is very important. You can eliminate noise in a feedback loop, but you will severely limit its bandwidth [which is not desired]. So in other words, noise as it relates to a control system and noise on your power line are two very different things.

“My poorly stated observation is that anywhere there is a connection, distortion can and likely will be introduced on the circuit”.

I totally disagree and I challenge you to find a published technical article that shows distortion caused by an AC receptacle junction.

Rushton,

My feathers are just fine thank you. This is the Tech Talk forum so I thought technical discussion was the purpose of this forum. What do you find in my posts that constitutes a contest? Is it because I challenged your statements? In my opinion, all I’ve done is offer technical input.

Jea48,

Thanks for the link. That marketing crap from Oyaide sure answers my original question of "how do you guys come up with this stuff". Too funny! It reminded me of one of those infomercials that sells expensive skin products to gullible women.