Help with Frykleaner hook-up

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cporada

Help with Frykleaner hook-up
« on: 31 Dec 2006, 02:50 pm »
I'm hoping someone can help me with a couple questions regarding the proper hook-up to burn in cables and components with the Frykleaner (sorry I'm not electrically inclined, my father-in-law built the Frykleaner for me).  To burn in a pair of directional stereo interconnects, should I hook up each single channel run to outputs J2 and J3 for the voltage burn and then connect the other ends to J4 or J5 for the current burn, or should I use J2/J3 as the "positive" terminals and hook up my "red" run to one of those and the "black" run to J4/J5, for the voltage burn and then connect the 2 runs with a female/female adaptor to do the current burn?  The same question applies to speaker cables; should both the black and red leads from one run of speaker cable attach to J2 and J3 for the voltage burn and then loop around to attach to J4/J5 for the current burn?  If I wish to burn-in my line amp, do I just hook my left and right channel ICs to J2/J3 and run these into the line inputs on my line amp?
Thanks for any help.
Chris

hagtech

Re: Help with Frykleaner hook-up
« Reply #1 on: 31 Dec 2006, 09:26 pm »
The FRYKLEANER is not designed for directional cables.  The outputs are the same, with one set inverted.  When a cable is looped, there is no voltage across the cable, only ac current.  Current flows in both directions.  Basically, both ends of the cable see a "source".

The FRY PRO is a little different, in that the top RCA (or binding post) is hot, the bottom is a short to ground (receiver).  So the top RCA is driven with both polarities, the bottom center pin is ground, shield open.  Thus, it does both voltage can current mode burns at the same time.  The center conductor gets current, but the shield has a voltage and exercises the dielectric.  This hookup method does not drive current through shield, but it seems to be very effective.

The new FRY GOLD is different still.  I decided I didn't want to make that compromise, but instead force the user to run two separate modes.  Rather than doing both at once, I specify to run voltage mode first, by only connecting to the top RCA.  After a time, then connect to the bottom RCA.  This then drives current through both center conductor and shield.

They all get the job done.  The FRY PRO is just a little more convenient.

Anyway, to answer your question, I would run it in voltage mode for awhile by only connecting to one RCA.  Then do a current mode by shorting both conductors at the far end to ground.

jh

cporada

Re: Help with Frykleaner hook-up
« Reply #2 on: 2 Jan 2007, 06:51 pm »
Thanks Jim! 
By "shorting both conductors to ground", do you mean connecting the center pin of each RCA to its corresponding shield/ground, i.e., the outer edge of the RCA plug?
Thanks
Chris

hagtech

Re: Help with Frykleaner hook-up
« Reply #3 on: 2 Jan 2007, 10:05 pm »
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connecting the center pin of each RCA to its corresponding shield/ground

Yup.

jh