Electrical fields


I am thinking of moving my equipment rack to a different side of my listening room (which is in my basement). Just when I find the perfect spot, I realize it is only a couple feet from my house electrical breaker box (150amp service-power company meter in the basement next to the box). How far would I need to be, or what could I use to shield the box, to prevent any electrical field from it affecting my component rack/cable runs?

Thanks.
Art
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Showing 3 responses by jeff_jones

You should be good to go at 2', particularly if the cabinent of your breaker box is made from steel. If you want more shielding, any steel that a magnet sticks to will work.
With industrial equipment, you sometimes see conductors or busswork carrying hundreds or thousands of amps located within your 2' of computer equipment and/or very sensitive low level input signal terminations. Stay away from running stereo cables in parallel with current carrying conductors & you should be fine.
Hmmm, I wonder if it would be possible to build a steam powered stereo & move to a remote part of Montana?
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