to people who have had there own circuit for hifi

[smuggs]

i have been planning the best way to do this. I rent a 2 bed apartment so i cant do to much.

i am putting a 100amp henley block on the supply to the main consumer unit and running 1m of 16mm T&E to one of the below

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/46968/Electrical-Supplies/Consumer-Units/Wylex-Consumer-Units/Wylex-2W-Consumer-Unit

and then putting in a 6amp breaker with get to confirm, but i think that im going use meta-flex(flexy-swa) around 4m 2.5 3core to a couple of twin sockets and they will do by end of april my cdplayer/amp/dac/laptop. i am also keen to use some russ andrews hifi fuses at £17 for 5 they seem worth a punt. has anyone used them?

this then will give me a clean supply and off the rcd and on its own board.

so do you guys use normal twin sockets or is there hifi sockets. and i know i might only have budget to low mid range stuff but for about £50 and a few hours of tinkering its seems harmless.

If anyone can pick holes then i would like to hear anything i can do better.

many regards simon

 

[PJPro]

smuggs:
this then will give me a clean supply and off the rcd and on its own board.

The supply to your house/flat i.e. before the consumer unit, may already contain noise form the surrounding premises.
smuggs:
....a few hours of tinkering its seems harmless......

Of course a few hours of tinkering with the mains supply can be far from harmless. I assume you are competent with electrics.

 

[Lost Angeles]

smuggs:

i have been planning the best way to do this. I rent a 2 bed apartment so i cant do to much.

i am putting a 100amp henley block on the supply to the main consumer unit and running 1m of 16mm T&E to one of the below

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/46968/Electrical-Supplies/Consumer-Units/Wylex-Consumer-Units/Wylex-2W-Consumer-Unit

and then putting in a 6amp breaker with get to confirm, but i think that im going use meta-flex(flexy-swa) around 4m 2.5 3core to a couple of twin sockets and they will do by end of april my cdplayer/amp/dac/laptop. i am also keen to use some russ andrews hifi fuses at £17 for 5 they seem worth a punt. has anyone used them?

this then will give me a clean supply and off the rcd and on its own board.

so do you guys use normal twin sockets or is there hifi sockets. and i know i might only have budget to low mid range stuff but for about £50 and a few hours of tinkering its seems harmless.

If anyone can pick holes then i would like to hear anything i can do better.

many regards simon

Are we now on Plan B then?

 

[idc]

smuggs:

i have been planning the best way to do this. I rent a 2 bed apartment so i cant do to much.

i am putting a 100amp henley block on the supply to the main consumer unit and running 1m of 16mm T&E to one of the below

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/46968/Electrical-Supplies/Consumer-Units/Wylex-Consumer-Units/Wylex-2W-Consumer-Unit

and then putting in a 6amp breaker with get to confirm, but i think that im going use meta-flex(flexy-swa) around 4m 2.5 3core to a couple of twin sockets and they will do by end of april my cdplayer/amp/dac/laptop. i am also keen to use some russ andrews hifi fuses at £17 for 5 they seem worth a punt. has anyone used them?

this then will give me a clean supply and off the rcd and on its own board.

so do you guys use normal twin sockets or is there hifi sockets. and i know i might only have budget to low mid range stuff but for about £50 and a few hours of tinkering its seems harmless.

If anyone can pick holes then i would like to hear anything i can do better.

many regards simon

Simon, don't do it. If you rent and mess with the electricity, unless you have permission and its been checked, you risk a whole world of misery. That includes once you have moved out and the landlord finds out what you have been up to, or a future tennant does something silly and fault could be traced back to you.

If you do get permission, as for sockets I would MK switchless ones. That is pretty much what the designer ones are, with a bit of deoxit on the contacts to keep them clean.

 

[smuggs]

im lucky in that electrics is my trade and i wired the block of flats that i live in. plus my boss is the landlord and i would remove it, before i leave. The next bonus is that the wall in which my hifi/av stuff is merged into the stairs and the consumer board is under the stairs so the sub-board and sockets will be surface and at the end it will leave one hole in the plaster board wall.

I am guessing that this rcd thing then only hinders high end stuff so i might leave it.

not plan b try plan c, my board is a bit tight cause i have 4 2kw heaters on there own 16amp mcb so i dont fancy reshaping the board this way i could reove my tails from the henley blocks and lose all the work in about 20 mins when i move out which is likely to be 2 years minuim.

 

[idc]

Well thats OK then! A relative is a lardlord and if he found out someone had been up to stuff they would be out minus their deposit.

 

[smuggs]

i guess it did sound bad at first.

its daft cause for 9 years ive been doing electrics but dont need to worry about how clean the mains is. And the problem now is that everything has to be rcd.

 

[The_Lhc]

idc:A relative is a lardlord

WHAT? I AM THE LARDLORD!!!

There can be only one... Pielander, defend yourself!