Burning in the ELrod power cord on the Nordost Vidar
We have to jury rig the Vidar in order to burn in power cords.
The Vidar passes a very complex sequence of low power signals over cables when it is burning them in. We have run two full cycles, about 8 – 9 days, s far.
How this works for power cords, which one might think would like to be broken in with, say, a monstrous 10 amp signal, we’ll see in the upcoming shootout between this and the exact same powercord that has just been sitting in the system on a transport.
We will probably have to do two shootouts, because it takes about 3 days for an Elrod power cable to full charge up, because they have a large amount of capacitance.
So two shootouts, unless the Vidar’d powercord is obviously better: one with the Vidar’d power cord straight off the burner,. and one with the Vidar’d power cord sitting in the system somewhere charging up for 3 days so that both it and the UN-Vidar’d powercord are BOTH charged up.
Hard work these shootouts…. or maybe just hard work sometimes explaining them 🙂
hi folks,
nice equipment to burn in, fine plugs, but i am very surprised about open cables on the power supply, does not really match…, take care!
best regards
gerd
Hey gerd,
I think you are referring to the wires Neli is using to connect the power cord to the Vidar? Yeah, she is kind of pissed for me photographing them – but until we verify that the Vidar can really burn in in power cords [which we will find out in our shootout any day now] there seems no need to solder the ends to those wall outlets the power cords are plugged into and to make some banana plugs for the other ends.
And, just so you know we ain’t crazy, there is max, say, 5 volts [and at a low current] at those exposed wires – nothing dangerous [if we want to commit suicide, we’ll go to Circuit City and turn up the volume :-)]. But this low voltage is why we are wondering if this is even going to work – and if it does, how well will it work.
Take care,
Mike.
hey mike,
fully understand the technical side of the installation, but from a esthetical point of view…, anyhow hope it works to burn in power cables with an 5v signal.
interesting experimnent but this is high end, lets see the results
best
gerd