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Ok. Ignorant person here...
So, I purchased a simple power conditioner for kicks. Wanted to see if I could hear a difference. The piece I bought has a limit of 300 watts for my plugged in items. Thing is, I can't find in the specs of my pre, amp, and TT the number of watts. How do I calculate watts?
I appreciate your help.
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No need to get real technical here. Think of a watt as an amount of electricity being consumed for some purpose, like a light bulb. Your house wiring can support about 1500 watt load before the breaker trips. The power capability coming into your house is about 44,000 watts. What power a particular device consumes depends upon what it is.
The power conditioner is being inserted between a 1500 watt capacity source and your equipment which is the load. The transformer in the conditioner is built to have a certain capacity, limited by both its wire size and iron core size. Since both of these commodities are costly, they are built in different sizes for different applications and budgets. If you overload the transformer, you simply run the risk of overheating it, perhaps with some fire danger.
Every piece of equipment, by law, must have noted on it somewhere its power consumption. Small signal solid state devices, such as players, preamps, turntables use typically less than 50 watts each. Power devices, like amps, tape decks, tube equipment use considerably more. Amp power consumption is linked to the loudness of the music and nature of the load. But one thing always is true: a watt of sound translates into a watt required to run the amp. Actually, due to power circuit inefficiencies, you can at least double that number.
Hope this helps.
Robert
Without specs on the electronics you are left with the option of measuring. What equipment are you running? I would think 300W would be plenty for the combo of a typical preamp plus turntable. Of course throwing a power amp on there may be pushing it if it is a powerful one.BTW 1Watt = 1Joule / 1Second and is the measure of energy taken from a given charge over time.
Thanks for the reply.
Currently I have an Adcom GFP-565 preamp and GFA-545 (100 wpc) power amp and a Music Hall TT. Would also like to plug in my Oppo CD/DVD player. Soon, I will be replacing my Adcom amps with the 55 wpc Rogue Audio Cronus integrated amp.
TT ~15W max
GFP565 ~10W max
GFP545 ~200W plus overhead 20W (?) is it peak or continuous (?)
Oppo DVD player 20W (?)
265W total if estimates for amp are reasonable. This says 300W will work, however more overhead is always better when speccing power conditioning. Also if my assumptions of amp power being peak draw could also mean too little overhead and cause compression/distortion during loud spots.
Pre and TT OK- not the power amp. When you get the Oppo and Rogue only the Oppo and turntable.
ET
Volts X Amps = Watts A piece of gear will list its maximum consumption of AC power in watts, usually right next to where the AC line goes into the component -
There we go! Thanks for the information.
v x I = watt is true if it is true resistive load (power factor =1), most equipment these day will be rated in VA instead because of non linear load that will be seen by your AC power because the power supply in your machine may have switching power supply pr highly iductive or capacitive loads.
You're welcome. I love this place.....
ET
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