Commercial wire for AC dedicated lines


I need some input on which type of wire to use for my 2 dedicated circuits with Wattgate outlets on the end.
I will be using commercial grade AC wire. does that make sense? What can I do for wire? I dont have the no how or anything to twist wires together. I just want to leave my system grounded to the same thing as everything in my house is grounded to and I just want to run wire as-is from my breaker box directly to my Wattgate outlets. What gauge of wire should I use? Should I use solid-core or stranded wire? Should I use copper, silver ect.? What brand and type of wire? My run is going to be about 50 feet. I dont know anything about this stuff and just want it to be easy. I will be doing this soon! So if anyone has any input on this I am wanting to know. I want the type of wire that makes stereo systems sound best.
Thanks!
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Showing 2 responses by marty9876

Check local electrical codes... Buy a book...

Installing a dedicated islotated ground circuit is pretty easy thou. I just used regular commercial wire, its called Romex. I used solid core copper wire 10/2. Its 10 gauge with 2 plastic shielded wires and one bare wire, the ground is bare. These wires need to go directly from the outlet to the breaker panel. Belden does make interesting shielded wire, but the wire is stranded, I am not sure how good of an idea it is to run stranded wire to the main panel, it probely is a bad idea. New circuit breakers, why not. The 10g wire is an over kill, but this is one of the few diy things I can do for this expensive hobby. You can (by code) run 30amps over 10g wire, but if I were you I would use 20amp breakers. Plus the Wattgate is probley rated at only 20amps.

Run one wire to Hot rail, and both the netural and ground to the groung rail. KILL the power before toughing the power rails. Check with a volt meter before working in breaker box.

I noticed a big reduction in the noise floor of my system, the whole system as sounded -2 db quieter. Good luck
Forgot the most important part, if you think you need 50ft of wire, buy 75ft or more.....