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Running supply voltage of 60/60 - Vs - 120/Neutral

With the power system im running now, it supplys power at 60 volts and 60 volts each leg, Versus the nominal 120 volt and neautral, im curious as to what the benifits and problems that this may cause for audio equipment, with running no neutral, i get this off of the isolation transformer, as part af a large power system with battery backup to insure than nothing frys in the event of surges and electrical storms, could this possibly cause a better "balance" and maybee increas audio quality? it's definatly a safer system as you would not get shocked unless you touched both legs at the same time.
archangelluke

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sean
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Some gear has polarity sensitive filtering in it and going to a balanced AC system may negate many of the specific design attributes of such a design. Contact the manufacturers of the gear that you are running and discuss it with them before going any further. Anything less could be experimenting at your cost. Sean
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sean
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Some of the Sunfire subs are notorious for being noisy. You should contact Sunfire about this problem and discuss it directly with them.

As to the isolation transformer pictured, it looks WAY too small to pass 2000 KVA with low distortion. Then again, it is hard to judge how big the core actually is going by that picture, as there are only the wires and heads of the bolts holding it together to gauge the physical features by. This wouldn't introduce hum into the sub at idle, but it could introduce other distortions at higher power demands. Sean
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sean
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The Sunfire amps are quite efficient by design, so they don't pull much current at idle or even during normal use. The only time that they really pull BIG power is when you're throttling the volume with heavy bass passages. As such, the small core Iso transformer wouldn't be causing the hum at idle, which is what Luke has alluded to. Sean
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