Electrical and Grounding Needs


Hello,

I have an electrician coming to my house this week. I have two outlets in my basement dedicated to my home theater setup -- but they are both on the same breaker. I ran the wire using 12/2 rather than the usual 14/2 thickness, thinking it would be better. Any thoughts on this? Also, he will be hooking a new sub-panel as I have run out of breaker slots, does anyone know of any special grounding considerations I should have the electrician take into account.

Also I will be using a Richard Gray 400s Power Plant on this line.

Thanks for any help in this matter!
jplenhart

Showing 1 response by gbeard

I agree that the suggestions by Rives are good. The isolation transformer may be a tad expensive though.

If you do not use a transformer, the only way to get a true Isolated(in contrast to Dedicated ground)ground, is to have the electrician put an isolated ground bar in your new sub-panel, and run a separate ground wire that is not grounded to any thing else until it reaches your main house grounding point, where it will need to be connected per the National Electrical Code.

Then your electrician can install true isolated and dedicated grounds to each Isolated ground type receptacle you install. This will ensure a separate grounding path back to your main gounding point with no other grounds tied to it in-between to create noise.