In Reply to: Re: Power Wraps with Wadia 861 posted by Roland N on December 17, 2003 at 20:42:06:
I tried this with solid core 10AWG wire on my captive power cords to no appreciable effect at all. Oddly, I DID get an improvement on my coaxial FM antenna feed! That suggests that it acts in an antenna or RFI capacity somehow.Was disappointed that I couldn't do a cheapy fix on the AC lines, however. At the time and with some suggestion from other inmates and some further reading, it appeared that standard copper solid core was no more an attractant for RFI than the copper stranded AC cords; reading suggested something like nickel could be 10 - 100 times as attractive to RFI. I did not have any source of that metal to test it out, however.
Knowing Leisure7's setup, I am encouraged to try the commercial Power Wraps in my system. Sometimes you just gotta pay to play...
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Follow Ups
- solid core DIY wraps - bartc 13:52:24 12/18/03 (8)
- Solid or stranded but needs connection to ground. - Roland N 20:25:49 12/19/03 (1)
- That 4.7 MFD cap needs to be film ie polyester is OK. nt - Roland N 20:33:25 12/19/03 (0)
- Which effect? - S 06:14:43 12/19/03 (5)
- Re: Which effect? - bartc 06:44:56 12/19/03 (4)
- You need the proper materials. - Leisure7 09:55:33 12/19/03 (3)
- Re: You need the proper materials. - S 11:50:10 12/19/03 (1)
- Disagree. - Leisure7 15:53:09 12/20/03 (0)
- Yea, verily! nt - bartc 10:35:40 12/19/03 (0)