Isolated ground in dedicated room/new construction?


Am building a custom house from the ground up with a dedicated listening room. Room will have have 3 dedicated 20 amp home runs for the system using 10 gauge 10/2 romex with ground, terminating with PS audio IG 120v outlets. Romex NM wire with plastic boxes, no metal boxes or conduit. House will have 400 amp service utilizing two 200 amp panels. With this set up is there any point in setting up an isolated ground and how do I go about it? Is it even feasible?

frym

Showing 1 response by erik_squires

All of the electrical grounds in a home must be bonded to the same ground point.  You’ll be violating all sorts of safety codes if you attempt to do otherwise and they are there for good reason. 

What you can do is dedicate grounds for your outlets (even running insulated ground wires) from the panel.

If you got an isolated service (independent meter) you could then use a truly isolated ground for things fed from that meter.

There are some in-panel ground isolators, which have a major downside. They are basically large inductors, that meet the NEC requirements for adequate ground current, BUT !!! They degrade the performance of most surge protectors.