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In Reply to: LOL! Someone wrote here: posted by Victor Khomenko on July 2, 2010 at 10:23:45:
"That third pin doesn't have any relevance at all to the proper functioning of the amplifier."
You must have read all night, as today you changed your song to proving the importance of that wire. Not much of a progress, but any bit is welcome.
Turns out - the third pin DOES have relevance to proper functioning.
Y'ever hear of a thing called context, Victor?
You're being quite dishonest here.
First let's take a look at the question I was responding to.
What I would like to know is if there's any damage that can be caused by powering the amps without a ground connected.
Now let's look at what I said with the benefit of the words that preceded what you quoted but conveniently left out.
No damage to the amps. That third pin doesn't have any relevance at all to the proper functioning of the amplifier.
"Proper functioning" meaning functioning in such a way as to not cause any damage to the amplifier.
And as for a transformer's electrostatic shield is concerned, we'd already been over that. As I said, it being tied to the safety ground is purely a safety issue as direct connection of neutral is not allowed.
And that can actually create other problems because the safety ground must also be tied to the equipment chassis, so you end up defeating much of the isolation the transformer would otherwise provide.
That's why I don't care much for toroid power transformers and much prefer split bobbin laminated core transformers which provide extremely low interwinding capacitance without the need for an electrostatic shield.
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