ErikG wrote:Pro tip sought: Pretend a kindly German expresses interest in putting one of your freely downloadable Bandcamp songs on his/her cheap-but-not-free Bandcamp compilation. You know, for exposure. They only collect a few Euros and it's not like you've got any use for those anyway.On one hand...

I have the mother of all white elephants up for grabs. A player piano from the early to mid 20's based on serial number. Beautiful woodwork (figured walnut) and a box of piano rolls including (and I'm not making this up) Gonna Fly Now, Born Free and The Morning After. Must remove it by Sunday Novemb...

I don't know about annoying callbacks. I get a call about when an order will ship and if there is a question about an order. That's about it. Maybe it's just the guy I got. Like he called me to tell me that the mic I ordered might be there before Christmas. I didn't really care if it was or not, but...

It's in a box already. You pay for shipping and it's yours. Just picked it up and it feels like about 5 pounds. I'd love for this to go to a good home.

A term to describe the patina given to wood via years of tobacco smoke for a band name. Co credit to Kerble: NicoSheen

OK, I see what you're saying now. The lights dimming from a motor start is caused by the inrush current, causing a momentary voltage drop. You're saying that there is something in the smp or board circuit that sustains that drop. I wire up a lot of stuff in my line of work, but amps really don't acc...

ktone wrote:Return current becomes an issue is if there is a neutral that is shared by more than one outlet. This is where the resistance of the neutral wire creates a voltage drop that is reflected as difference in potential between the neutral connections of different outlets on the same neutral. ...

^^^^agree it has nothing to do with sharing neutrals.

I would agree that it's an interesting idea. The neutral and ground is not your only source of noise. Your hots will carry noise just as well.I'm not sure what you mean by portable transformers. But to my knowledge, aside from autotransformers, line and load windings are not electrically connected. ...

Pure L wrote:Lots of food for thought up in here. Thanks for the replies.So my detached garage (~25 from my house) has its own power box (containing six 20 amp circuits) running from the service panel in my house.Just make sure that the neutral is not bonded to ground in the garage panel. I'm wonder...