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In the Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity.
Post Subject: Double DipPosted by Paul S on: 8/3/2008
Looking around quickly, it appears that it takes about 2 hp to generate 1,000VAC. Around these parts, this probably means a 3-phase 220V electric driver motor, which would totally pollute the entire house electrical system that drives it, at least as it relates to hi-fi, H-T, etc. This in turn means that one is +/- forced to look at the practical maximum wattage generator on the in front and trying to isolate components on the back end, perhaps splitting the 220 and perhaps isolating 2 neutrals... Although I have run a record player off a generator a few times, and I know the effects of running large-ish motors off house lines, I know nothing about "feedback" from components back to the generator, and/or whether/how this sort of noise spreads, and/or what, if anything, viable can be done about it without turning the AC to mush.
I have no true hi-fi experience with gas/diesel generators, but in my experience a small portable system sounded even more tinny than usual driven by the gas generator (albeit there was no attempt to optimize it).
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