On 6/27/2018 1:33 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote:
This would give a clue if further line conditioning would be advantageous.
I'm certain that some charlatan preying on high futility nuts would be quite happy to lighten his bank account by at least as much as he paid for the KPA500. These products provide no benefit to audio consumers, and they would provide no benefit in a ham station. Their only function is to transfer money from the buyer to the seller.
None of what's being discussed here should be a problem, and the easiest ways to minimize the symptoms are 1) to simply beef up the wiring between the power amp and the distro panel, or 2) shorten the wiring, or 3) provide a breaker dedicated to the shack. A single 15A circuit should run all the RADIO equipment in the shack where the power amp is a KPA500. Obviously, a 20A circuit provides more margin, bigger copper and shorter copper reduce IR drop.
For the printer, as others have noted, the IR drop between it and the breaker panel for the turn-on surge, so bigger copper for that part of the run would also have to be replaced.
And yes, a solar array syncing could easily be the cause of that 9AM-10AM event reported by NW6V.
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