Deaf Cat;190609 Wrote: > Not too sure if this may be detrimental (heat wise)to the cable though?
A properly-sized cable will not heat up to any appreciable degree, insulated with foil or not. An improperly-sized cable (too small for the current it's trying to pass) will heat up, and constitutes a fire hazard. In audio equipment, generally only amplifiers draw enough current to have the capability to heat up a power cord. Though theoretically if you tried to power the Squeezebox with 36 AWG magnet wire...but no one would do that, would they? (Only if it improved the sound! ;-)) Your fingers are the judge of what is "appreciable" here. If it feels warmer than ambient, it's heating up. There will be some heating as the cord isn't a superconductor, but it's probably fractions of a degree - smaller than you can perceive. And actually - the foil would act as a heatsink, not an insulator - dissipating the tiny amount of heat more effectively than the bare cable. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33956 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
