Does anyone have a recommendation for the amount of grounding rods length you should have at your home for an audiophile system for no ground loops? I’m getting ready to have to rewire my entire house due to the age. My home is 103 years old and has original knob and tube wiring and I want to plan…

I think two about 1.5 meter (5ft) long copper coated rods in series, separated by at least their length should nearly always be sufficient. Connected with 16sqmm (5AWG) grounding copper. You probably don’t need a separate subpanel. Just run a 6sqmm (9AWG) dedicated line for ALL your audio equipment…

You may want to read the Michael Fremer’s adventure with generator/electrical issues thread. It answers your questions albeit with many posts.

More is better. I have a total of six, including the two original. [image] Do you water your ground rod? Power Components I had to stick to the original plan for now, running four 1" diameter 10ft long ground rods offset 18" deep into the front yard. We placed the initial…

My feed is aerial at the moment but when I rewire I’m going to feed it into the ground so I don’t have to worry as much when trimming the trees along my fence line to the house. But it will always have a short aerial run to the box for underground wiring from the transformer pole. So if I’m unders…

I watched it. I’ll watch it again and read all the comments. Thanks

[image] guthrie_m: So if I’m understanding you right the feed I have to my equipment should be twisted with hot and natural and then the ground just run along it parallel. There was a rigorous study about this indicating quite notable benefits. Yes, why not do it if you have a means of either…

Hire a qualified and experienced (with Audio and home Generation) Electrical Engineer or Technologist. Tell him/her what you want/need, and have a proper site visit done including ground resistance testing. If you go with free internet advice instead, I suspect much can go wrong, including spendin…

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More is better. I have a total of six, including the two original.

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Recommend amount of grounding rod for audiophile system

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