Dedicated Mains installed

You may like to think about a second cable, then the 272 and 250 can connect directly to the wall. You'd be well advised to remove all non Naim stuff from the block. Finally, get a separate consumer unit just for the hifi, which will lift the performance further. 

Those wires look really thin; we use 10mm2 steel wall armour cable, which really is a challenge. 

Congrats, I am also looking into installing adedicated line as well. 

I echo HH - get a second socked right away and at least plug the rest of the non-Naim components into that one.

Also do remember that Naim gear does not like any distribution blocks with filters, surge protection stuff etc etc.

Nice installation, looks very professional.

Glad you are enjoying it

S

Great Effort, enjoy!

Rikkieb,

Nice pics and congrats. Was there a particular reason you chose round, stranded cable versus a flat, solid wire configuration?

Great, but you've got nothing on this guy

Dedicated mains

Hungryhalibut posted:

You may like to think about a second cable, then the 272 and 250 can connect directly to the wall. You'd be well advised to remove all non Naim stuff from the block. Finally, get a separate consumer unit just for the hifi, which will lift the performance further. 

Those wires look really thin; we use 10mm2 steel wall armour cable, which really is a challenge. 

Thx for the tips HH. Going for a second socket today for the rest of the gear, so Naim gear has it's own network. The current socket for Naim is the same quality als the standard powerlines.

To me 10mm2 is huge. Is that the cable entering the house?

joerand posted:

Rikkieb,

Nice pics and congrats. Was there a particular reason you chose round, stranded cable versus a flat, solid wire configuration?

No, not really. This cable was adviced by a friend, he does not own Naim, but 2 big mono-blocks of Passlabs. 

Adam Zielinski posted:

I echo HH - get a second socked right away and at least plug the rest of the non-Naim components into that one.

Also do remember that Naim gear does not like any distribution blocks with filters, surge protection stuff etc etc.

Will take your advice in account. Thx!

Rikkie, you asked about the 10mm cable. This the the optimum size for dedicated mains, and was recommended to me by Naim. We use Steel Wall Armoured because it runs around the outside of the house, buried under the flowerbeds. I've put a picture below to help you. It shows the separate small consumer unit just for the stereo, which is the best way to go if you are able. Doing this is a job for a professional electrician, because you need to split the cable from the meter to the existing consumer unit, and cutting live mains is not a job for an amateur!

What's the diameter of each of the 3 individual conductors inside this 10mm cable?

Thanks

Each conductor is 10mm2 in cross sectional area, so the diameter would be about 3.6mm. 

Hungryhalibut posted:

Rikkie, you asked about the 10mm cable. This the the optimum size for dedicated mains, and was recommended to me by Naim. We use Steel Wall Armoured because it runs around the outside of the house, buried under the flowerbeds. I've put a picture below to help you. It shows the separate small consumer unit just for the stereo, which is the best way to go if you are able. Doing this is a job for a professional electrician, because you need to split the cable from the meter to the existing consumer unit, and cutting live mains is not a job for an amateur!

Hi HH,

Ah! Now I understand, but what diameter is coming out of this dedicated automatic Fuse box? I found a nice table stating the Amps allowed through a certain diameter of cable:

• 1,5mm² --> 16A 
• 2,5mm² --> 20A 
• 4mm²    --> 25A 
• 6mm²    --> 32A 
• 10mm²  --> 40A (Your incoming cable)

This holds for automatic fuses. In my case I have an old fashioned Fuse for HiFi, so 2,5 mm2 is sufficient as the fuse is 16A. You need to lower the Amps with 1 section when using the normal fuses. 

Nice installation by the way!

Regards,

Rik

The cable to the stereo is the fat one coming out of the top. This is the 10mm2 cable. We have a 50 amp circuit breaker. 

Hungryhalibut posted:

Each conductor is 10mm2 in cross sectional area, so the diameter would be about 3.6mm. 

My cable from fusebox to wall socket is 5,3 mm2 per wire and total diameter is 9,5 mm. It is shielded and Teflon isolated.

Hungryhalibut posted:

... and cutting live mains is not a job for an amateur!

 

Oh I don't know, I know someone who's done it three times in a very amateurish manner - once with a lawnmower, and twice with a hedge trimmer.    

Yikes!

They're not the only things...

His partner came home one day to see the tumble drier exiting the back door trailing smoke, rapidly followed by Pete.

In 10 years he's written off 7 tumble driers and 4 vacuum cleaners and in just 2 1/2 years of driving he's already written off 2 cars.

I thought you were talking about yourself!

THANKS a bunch!    

Where is this leading to? 

Hungryhalibut posted:

I thought you were talking about yourself!

So did I

Huge posted:

They're not the only things...

His partner came home one day to see the tumble drier exiting the back door trailing smoke, rapidly followed by Pete.

In 10 years he's written off 7 tumble driers and 4 vacuum cleaners and in just 2 1/2 years of driving he's already written off 2 cars.

I hope he doesn't have a Naim