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Discovering I may have the cleanest AC power in USA

PS Audio Noise Harvesters are on sale. $50 each.. So naturally I had to buy a pair. 36 hours later in my home.Well I clean the prongs, Caig Gold them, and plug them in.
Nothing.
Nothing.
I am wondering broken? DOA?
I move them to other outlets not on my stereo in the kitchen, in the bathroom (the bathroom has a air cleaner plugged in the same outlet, motor running). OK a single blink.
I remember the dimmer thing. Plug the Noise Harvesters into the stereo again.. and turn on the only dimmer in the place (in the bedroom, on a different circuit) KABLAM!!! Now they are blinking pretty regular. OK they are NOT broken.They also blink when I put them on an Adcom AC box also on different circuit than stereo. Both the Cable internet box and the WiFi box are on it. And yes they blink every minute or so.I checked the Furman REF 20 outlets, no blink. The direct to the amp.. no blink.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
So I apparently have just naturally the cleanest AC line in America? (For my stereo equipment.)
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Part of it may be the fact I packed the duplex enclosure 20 amp single line I use for the stereo with small quartz crystals coated with Automotive dielectric grease, in small baggies, the duplex is also the Furutech GTX NCF type, and the wall plugs are also filled with the loose small quartz crystals, plus some flattened baggies of the crystals wrapped around the outside shell of the plugs at the wall
Good thing I only ordered two of the Noise Harvesters. More are not needed. (and I actually do not even need the two. but that is OK. I can keep them as a sentinel, to know if I ever get noise on the lines.
So I do not know if my home made anti noise crystals work magic? (along with the Furutech NCF which is basically a refined version of my own crystals) or if I really do have some of the cleanest AC around. (PS I live in a 90 unit apartment building, folks above below, around me. Things like my frig I have several ferrite cores with the AC zipcord wire wrapped in and around them, ditto air cleaners, lamps..
elizabeth

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12blistn
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I got two of those harvesters, also.  My HT/2ch is in the living room on a shared 20A circuit.  When I plugged 1 into the shared wall circuit, it blinked a little and then went out,  When I plug the other one into the front outlet of my Furman Elite 20-PFI, it blinks constantly.  It will stop if I turn my power amps off.  The other one  still doesn't blink either way.  I did switch the harvesters to make sure they were both working.  Most of my components are plugged into the back of the Furman that is plugged into the same shared line.  I really can't say I notice a difference in the sound quality either way.

Anyone have an explanation as to what might be going on?
12blistn
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Since I use the front Furman outlet to connect my TT motor when in use, I had moved the harvesters to other shared wall outlets and very rarely.saw them blink.  After seeing your post, I tried moving them back.  My SS class A/B amps are plugged into the back of the Furman along with most of my other A/V equipment.  I recently moved another similar SS amp I use for surrounds and plugged it directly into the wall, same shared circuit.  Now when everything is on, the harvester blinks bright like a constant strobe while the one in the wall doesn't light.  Now when everything is shut down, the Furman front one still blinks a little and the one in the wall is still dark.
My conclusion is that the Furman surge and noise suppressor is adding noise at least to it's front outlet, but not to the wall line.  The next time I have my rack out I will try plugging one of the harvesters into the back of the Furman to see what happens.  My power amp manufacture suggest plugging them all directly into the wall.  I haven't tried that yet, because I would need more outlets.
12blistn
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Update:  in case you're interested.
I found my JC 1s plugged into  F Elite 20 cause the blue light to blink on front and rear outlets when powered on.  Also, my Cox contour cable box adds noise even when off, but no noise added to the main line.  My next test will be to plug the amps into the wall, like Parasound suggests, and see if noise is added to the main line and if the Furman removes it.  I'll have to add some more outlets to do this, so it'll be a while.  I'm thinking about using 12 Ga. Romex inside flexible metal conduit with metal boxes attached to a custom rack instead of more outlets in the wall.. 
12blistn
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I was wondering about Romex inside conduit and didn't think it was used that way.  I want to keep the same form of solid conductors like inside the wall instead of using stranded wire.  I do like the idea of some type of shielding, also.  I think the type of conduit I'm thinking of is called armored cable and is semi-flexible. I'm not sure about connecting a plug on the end.   It won't be moved much.  I know Pangea makes a quad box, but I was thinking of a little cheaper experiment. 
12blistn
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@spatialking - Thanks for the info.  I'll let you know how it all comes out.
12blistn
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FYI update and the blinking blue lights.
When I moved my cable box from my Furman Power Conditioner to the wall, the noise harvester on the front of my FPC stopped blinking.  It would start blinking when I turned on my power amps.  The one in the wall didn't start blinking either way.  I made additional outlets connected to the same circuit on the wall.  When I plugged my amps into the new outlets, the NH on the front of the FPC and the one on the wall both don't flash now.  I believe the sound is better with my amps not into the FPC and running off straight wall current, but I didn't do a lot of A/B testing with my rack pulled out from the wall.
I took spatialking's advice on wiring into consideration, well almost.
I used 3 orange 20A outlets with isolated grounds into 3 steel boxes.  I connected the boxes using aluminum flexible conduit.  I separated the solid green insulated 12AWG ground wire and ran it into it's own flexible conduit.  I also didn't connect it directly to the steel boxes, just to the outlets.  I twisted the solid black and white 12AWG wires and ran them into their own conduit between the boxes.  I used the outlets themselves to connect the wires using the holes in the back tightened with the screws.  Now I had 2 conduits going into a Sonar Quest alloy male plug.  Well only one conduit fit.  I stopped the ground conduit a little short.  I connected another ground wire to the plug and rapped an exposed end around the conduit to ground it and the steel boxes.  I connected the two conduits with a zip tie and electrical tape.  The plug went into a Pangea 20A outlet(the cheap one) in the wall(20A circuit) with the FPC plugged in next to it.
The house hasn't burned down, yet. :)  
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