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Discovering I may have the cleanest AC power in USA

PS Audio Noise Harvesters are on sale. $50 each.. So naturally I had to buy a pair. 36 hours later in my home.Well I clean the prongs, Caig Gold them, and plug them in.
Nothing.
Nothing.
I am wondering broken? DOA?
I move them to other outlets not on my stereo in the kitchen, in the bathroom (the bathroom has a air cleaner plugged in the same outlet, motor running). OK a single blink.
I remember the dimmer thing. Plug the Noise Harvesters into the stereo again.. and turn on the only dimmer in the place (in the bedroom, on a different circuit) KABLAM!!! Now they are blinking pretty regular. OK they are NOT broken.They also blink when I put them on an Adcom AC box also on different circuit than stereo. Both the Cable internet box and the WiFi box are on it. And yes they blink every minute or so.I checked the Furman REF 20 outlets, no blink. The direct to the amp.. no blink.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
So I apparently have just naturally the cleanest AC line in America? (For my stereo equipment.)
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Part of it may be the fact I packed the duplex enclosure 20 amp single line I use for the stereo with small quartz crystals coated with Automotive dielectric grease, in small baggies, the duplex is also the Furutech GTX NCF type, and the wall plugs are also filled with the loose small quartz crystals, plus some flattened baggies of the crystals wrapped around the outside shell of the plugs at the wall
Good thing I only ordered two of the Noise Harvesters. More are not needed. (and I actually do not even need the two. but that is OK. I can keep them as a sentinel, to know if I ever get noise on the lines.
So I do not know if my home made anti noise crystals work magic? (along with the Furutech NCF which is basically a refined version of my own crystals) or if I really do have some of the cleanest AC around. (PS I live in a 90 unit apartment building, folks above below, around me. Things like my frig I have several ferrite cores with the AC zipcord wire wrapped in and around them, ditto air cleaners, lamps..
elizabeth
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geoffkait
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Germs are invisible, just like RFI/EMI. Doesn’t mean they’re not there. Too bad there’s not a spray that will illuminate the pesky little critters. Or RFI eating bacteria. 👾 👾 👾 👾
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spatialking
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RFI eating bacteria! Cool! I have a can of that!   I sprayed that stuff on my stereo but then my DAC at 196KHz quit working. Worse yet, my FM tuner went up in smoke.  Dang, I hate it when that happens!
elizabeth OP
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Germs are just what we call 'bad' (or unhealthy to Humans) bacteria, Just so we all remember bacteria are 100% required for Human life. Without them (several POUNDS of them) in your gut, you could not survive. Be grateful for bacteria. we need them, they are our friends. Despite what the germ-phobic think.
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geoffkait
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You’re probably confusing Germs with Germans, who were the real baddies. The first clue that German soldiers were the real baddies in the big one was the skull 💀 they wore prominently on their caps. Even though in every war each army wants to portray the enemy as the baddy many German soldiers eventually caught on that they were really the baddies.
elizabeth OP
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You are totally correct Geoff. All those Germans in my gut Woof!"The Battle of the Bulge" goes on every day in my belly.
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