Dedicated power


After a lot of research and consideration, mostly between power conditioners and dedicated circuitry, I have decided to go with 3 dedicated lines. One for amp one for pre and a 3rd for CD or digital. What I'm thinking is that I can pull the wire myself and then hire a professional electrician to do the breaker work and wall terminations using hospital grade outlets. My question is what wire should I use? I have heard of people using 12-2 or 10-2 but don't have knowledge of wire specific details. Anybody up on this?
markus1299
If you're going to install dedicated lines, use 20 amp circuits rather than 15. You would use 12/2 wire for a 20 amp circuit, unless you do a split duplex, in which case you could use 12/3.
Some people may suggest you use 10/2 wire. I would be careful about doing that. More likely than not, the receptacles you use will not be rated for use with 10 gauge wire. It would be a fire hazard and code violation.
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I had my electrician run me a sub panel(8 breakersX15a) for my system.
All eight of my outlets are wired with 10 gauge.Then I had him give me 2X240v for my 20a and 15 Balanced TorusX2.I've
heard 10 gauge was the way to go.I couldn't be happier.
You can get most of the benefit of dedicated lines, especially for lo-current equipment by use of a large isolation transformer.