Power Question

[The Dong]

> Just make sure you keep signal cables away from power cables, keep all 
> your equipment on the same earth potential to avoid ground hum, and 
> you're done. Everything else is fine for those who believe in fairy dust...


...what this means is use one 4-bar/power strip thing into one 
electrical outlet and plug everything into it. It's easy to spend lots 
of money on surge protection, isolation, gizmo madness, but in my real 
experience it can cause as much problems as it is supposed to solve (one 
particular surge protector would spuriously trigger the fuse box MCB 
when used on an amp that only used about 20W of power. Took ages to 
track that down)

http://green.yahoo.co.uk/blog/ecogeek/477/power-strip-makes-you-feel-guilty.html

That's not a recommendation! :)
But the small ($15 or so) plug in testers that tell Amps, Watts, Cost, 
mains voltage and frequency etc. of things can be useful.

If you have need for more sockets, it's better to string another one on 
serially or buy a bigger one than to plug another into another mains 
socket as this creates another path to earth. A condition avoided in 
much audio circuitry. It may be a little fairy dusty..

I believe in the fairy dust when I'm on the fairy dust...
And only when the fairy dust was free, otherwise I just feel dirty.

;)