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Leviton 5262 Hospital grade outlets

anyone have any experience with using Leviton's hospital grade outlets? I was looking at Virtual Dynamic's cryo'd Hubble 5262 reference grade outlets, but saw Leviton's green dot hospital grade units at Home Depot. They have the same model number of 5262 as VD's. Granted, they are not cryo'd, but are also available at 15.95 each. They are orange with hospital grade marking and the green dot.

I am about to have the electrician install two dedicated lines from the service panel into my main equipment closet.
Going to use 10 gauge ROMEX.

Anyone use these Leviton 5262's care to offer comments?
slipknot1
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dekay
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I tried one of these (think I paid close to $20) and it was a waste of time/money. The sound became worse and worse over a period of three months (I had forgotten about the new outlet and ended up checking everything else before figuring out what was going on).

Hubbel seems to be the preferred low cost stock outlet.

Some high end manufacturer either rebuilds Levitons or has them built to spec, but this is another matter.

The #5262 is used by various manufacturers.

Make sure to have the electrician leave some slack (extra Romex) @ the wall so that you can prepare clean ends, in the future, if you decide to play around with outlets again.
slipknot1 OP
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Dekay-
Thanks for the response. Those Levitons are outta here...
twl
3,251 posts
 
I have an Eagle 20 amp Hospital grade outlet, orange with green dot, non-cryoed, and it seems to work just fine for me. I only use one outlet, since everything but my preamp is battery powered.
marty9876
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Dekay,

Can give specifics about the sound getting worse?

Thanks
Marty
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