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In the Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity.

Post Subject: Risky businessPosted by N-set on: 2/4/2014

Thanks all for the replies! Looks like a very risky business.
Given the work involved and highly unsure effect, I'll happily skip
the shielding. Your comments suggest that the high capacitance line to ground (which the shield would happily provide) is undesireable.
I can speculate that this capacitance together with the input RCA-to-case capacitance may povide a path
for the line garbage into the amps input, but that's just my fantassies...
As for the implementation of the hypothetical shield,
instead of the steel tubbing, I was thinking of putting the power cable into a copper mesh of a large enough diameter.

Cheers,
N-set

PS Paul, very clever idea with a floating on one end drain wire in the AC cord!

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