chetter
Wondering if anyone has put in a separate outlet for their audio setup with a separate ground that is not associated with the regular ground for the rest of the home ...That would be potentially hazardous and a major NEC violation. All grounds must be bonded together along with the neutral at the main service panel. |
Yea, be careful there, you can add all the grounds you want, AS long as they are tied back to the main ground. You get between the two different grounds, like I said you gotta be careful. They can bite.. A ground is a DRAIN, the difference between the two is YOU.. One hand in the pocket.. LOL No noise, no problem, you're going to be getting out of trouble, instead of staying out of trouble... If it's not broke don't fix it... Hospitals do it for bonding because of O2. That stuff will blow up.. They want you to unplug FIRST, then release the bond...or ground. NO SPARK.. ok... Second if they go into backup, that switching point and grounds EVERYWHERE are an Apollo 11 safeguard... Hindsight is 20/20 O2 and sparks don't mix... Enjoy Thanksgiving... YUM! Regards |
Am just thinking that if the setup is separately grounded (ie what they do in hospitals for special equipment) that the power would be cleaner & no need for a conditioner. Doesn't work that way. Sorry. I know this is what everyone thinks. But it just does not work that way. The short answer is, if you want to improve your system using a power conditioner there are power conditioners that will indeed improve your sound. Nothing you can do up to and including putting your whole house inside a Faraday cage and running everything off batteries will change this. You can have the cleanest power in the world, add a good conditioner, gets even better. So forget about clean power having anything to do with it. The noise people talk about by the way, it almost never is anything even remotely close to being audible. Its not even noise in the normal sense of the word. Its just that when you do improve something like with a power cord or conditioner (or fuse), the improvement inevitably sounds as if some noise has been removed. Even though there never was any noise identifiable as such there in the first place. Like I said, this stuff does not work like people think it does. |
I’m assuming you mean an isolated ground, where the grounding back to the panel is separate for each outlet where two or more circuits share the same equipment (metal outlet boxes) grounds. Yes, if you run a separate ground from the outlet to the panel, it will help things as far as stray voltage on the common grounds not affecting your equipment — which is the reason you find them on hospital equipment and computer servers.. For that to work, you will also have to buy an isolated ground receptacle that has insulators on the ears to decouple the outlet from the grounded box. If you use romex with plastic boxes, then the romex ground and the non-conductive box acts like an isolated ground. |
The single biggest mistake you can make chetter is to listen to people with zero experience. Many, many people here eagerly post stuff they heard or read somewhere as if they know what they're talking about. You should always, always ask, "What is their actual experience?" And assign weight accordingly: zero experience? 100% blather. Like that. |
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I had a thread about this a while back where it was advised that I run a separate, dedicated line with surge suppression at the panel. Of course, I'm just repeating what people here with experience said, so take it for what it's worth! But not one thought a separate ground was remotely necessary. FWIW: https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/line-fault-at-the-outlet-do-i-need-an-electrician?sort_order=... |
