Ground Cable for turntable

[balddor]

I hope someone can help me on this one. My ground cable from my turntable cannot connect to the ground post of my intergrated amp because the screw is missing. There is a slight hum, not bad but annoying. Its a short cable and can't be attached to any other area of my amp. Is it possible for me to attach something metal to the ground cable and let it hang loose ? Thanks .....

 

[Adam]

The important thing is to have a metal connection between the grounding cable for the turntable and the ground used by the amp. You can always extend the grounding cable by using another copper wire. A couple of thoughts:

1. Can you find a screw that is the correct size to screw into your receiver's grounding section?

2. Can you secure the end of the grounding cable (or another copper extension cable) into the hole in the receiver where the screw would have gone?

3. You could get a power console that contains a grounding connection (very similar to what your amp has). So, you could use that connection for the turntable grounding cable. As long as you plugged your amp into the power console, you'd be set.

4. Here's one to be verified by the more electrically savvy people here. You could use an extension copper cable (I'm assuming that you'll need the length for this), connecting one end to the grounding cable from the turntable, and placing the other end on the grounding prong on the amp's power cord (the cylindrical prong). When you insert the amp's power cord into the outlet, the amp ground and the turntable ground would then be the same.

Just some thoughts.

Adam

 

[chadnliz]

You can hook it up to a frame wire on back of unit by just backing the screw out of the outer case a bit and insert wire.......you will know if it will work by simply touching wire to see if hums goes away before bothering with a screw driver.