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I've come upon a bunch of cryo'ed outlets and was contemplating making a 4 or 6 outlet power box similar to the VH Audio Hot Box?
Anyone got a recipe for them? I am especially interested in what wire to use.
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Allen Wright in his cable cookbook had a recipe to braid the 3 wires and to use 12g solidcore wire. I made some power cords and rewired my PS audio Ultimate outlet using some 12g and then 10g THHN solidcore wire. That stuff was a pain to work with but sounded great.
From his book:
Theory:
So far we have been doing all sorts of extreme things to maximize bandwith and minimize loss-but now we are going to do all sorts of extreme things to MIMINMIZE bandwidth and increase losses, at least for energies we dont want- without introducing any power sucking components like chokes and capacitors and non linear things like varistors!
Theory, maybe:
The very large diameter solid core makes a major differentation between the required low frequencies (50/60hz) and the fast pulse/hash signals that exist on our AC lines- and this when coupled with the patern of the suggest cables has the effect of acting as a surprisingly effective filter to the unwanted junk.
The recipe is to basically braid it like a kimber PBJ cable and do be careful with AC wiring. Check it and check it and check it to make sure its all correct before plugging in
Cut to razor sounding violins
Best 6 outlet milled aluminum power distributor enclosure for the price:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1988610194.html
Wire it with VH Audio AirLok 12 AWG Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) cable and VH Audio 12 AWG Ground Wire:
https://www.vhaudio.com/wire.html
VH Audio website states as follows in re: this wire:
" This wire is NOT designed to be used as external AC MAINS power cable, because the soft AirLok insulation is not designed to withstand the strain relief clamping pressure on most AC connectors. Insulation is rated for use up to 300VAC (power limited)."
Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed. - Albert Einstein
That is correct, Mike K. The VH Audio AirLok 12 AWG Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) cable and other AirLok cables are not intended to build external AC power cords with, however they are intended for use as internal AC wiring to hookup AC outlets within a DIY power line distributor, as I recommended. ChrisVH also indicates they are suitable to build external DC umbilicals with, and I've done such with the 4 x 18 AWG Star Quad w / AirLoK Insulation cable.
Edits: 06/24/20
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