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In Reply to: RE: Hold on there... posted by Ugly on September 09, 2015 at 19:09:42
Ugly is correct, in that Al always pulled for safety and he calculated everything.
Duster is correct in that he is recommending a safer alternative right off the bat.
I'm trying to recall what I did use, but it certainly wasn't Cat 5 wire for sure! It was thicker gauge. And somewhere I have Al's originals, and I don't recall them being Cat 5 either, as he and I both used teflon sleeves on our wiring in those filters over copper wire. In fact, Al did not use any kind of housing, so his wires were very exposed. And one of Al's favorite things to tell me was not to "burn your house down".
I know the OP said that Al had suggested Cat 5 to me in a post somewhere, but I simply cannot recall that.
Follow Ups:
OK. Sorry about being rude.18 AWG is probably too small to run unprotected. Though it's probably marginal, to the point it might not have a catastrophic failure under many of the more common fault conditions. That depends largely on the insulation temp rating and thermal insulating properties.
The thing is, this device could conceivably be plugged into a 20A circuit. It's not when the stereo is running that worries me. It's when some downstream device has a sustained, say 18A, fault. Is that silicone gel the OP is embedding in UL 94V0? Does it put out deadly gasses?? who knows this stuff? ORRR better yet.... That insulation gets gooey enough for the line voltage carrying conductors to migrate through the liquidy stuff and make a hard short to each other, or to the chassis. Is the chassis metallic and earthed? Looks metallic. Many questions.
Again. Please forgive my blunt rudeness. But do it once and do it right in a way that is unquestionably safe.
Edits: 09/09/15
To think a plug-in noise suppression filter with a few AC rated safety caps should require internal wiring greater than 18 AWG is perfectly silly.
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