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dedicated line: 10AWG stranded or 2 solid cores?

I'm in the process of installing 2 dedicated power lines. From what I've been reading 10 AWG solid core, like VH Audio's cryoed Romex, would be optimal. However, in this part of the World we don't manufacture that kind of wire and I only found 10 AWG copper solid core monoconductor insulated in PVC, unshielded.

Hence my question: would I be better off by installing 10 AWG stranded cable, or taking 2 10 AWG solid core monoconductors putting them side by side + a stranded cable for ground and use them as if they were one line?

Thank you!
lewinskih01

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babybear
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The conduit is again useful for helping to reduce the effects of RFI/EMF. Check my system page for a little more info on what I did.
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Lewinskih01,

I agree with Lak that twisting the wire (I used 10 gauge solid core for ground, neutral and positive) is a good thing to do. In my case, the twists are 1" apart and then the wire is run through flexible steel conduit to the outlets. The other thing to try and do is to keep each of the dedicated runs less than 50 feet in length - shorter is better as this also helps with reducing effects of RFI/EMF.
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Lewinskih01,

Thanks very much.

I am not an electrician, so I couldn't tell you if the conduit is connected to ground or not - I do know that the conduit runs to metal outlet boxes (not the plastic type) and I do use isolated ground outlets.
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