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Hi all,

I've been trying to get some info about this on the web and am striking out. I suspect
some of you know about this so I thought I'd ask here.

I'm building a home studio in my basement and have read comments here and there that
it's important to have clean power. Examples are given about not having studio power be
on the same phase as the HVAC system, etc. Some say have the studio on it's own phase.
Now I may be stupid, but as far as I can tell, I only have two phases (typical residential 100
amp service). The best I can do I think, is try to group the "least dirty" (whatever that
means exactly) ckts on one phase and use that one for the studio also. I figure I'll probly
only need one 20 amp ckt to get enough juice (maybe 2?), but I've heard it's good to have
lights on a separate ckt, which I could do (on a 15A I guess). Is this right? Anything else I
should do/not do for clean power?

Then of course is the issue of power conditioning. I have a UPS with a little brownout
protection and the usual surge stuff - nothing fancy. Do I need something better? I want
to make good records and not have my power be the weak link in the audio quality chain.

Unless everyone is interested in this stuff, offline responses are probly best. Thanks for
reading.

Larry David (motmclergy)
ldavid777<delete>@...

p.s. I'm still building my modular; like so many, I've been fully occupied by the
necessaries of life for the last, ah, 2 years or so :)