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Electrical question re dedicated line

In my home situation(new house) the electrician who came by to install a dedicated line said it would be too difficult and very expensive. Another electrician said that I could have a dedicated line but it would be external and would travel accross the outside of my walls(insulated of course) and would have a little box for the receptacle outside of the wall on the wall. My question is that the fact that my system is on a circuit with it's own breaker, is that kind of like a dedicated line? The breaker my system is on has 4 seperate receptacles on it in my room but only my power regenerator(PS P500) is conected to one of those receptacles.In other words, all that is on the circuit that goes to the 4 receptacles in my listening room is my P500. The other receptacles are not in use. Is that kind of like a dedicated line? Would there be much advantage to doing what one electrician said was possible and have an externaly run dedicated line?
My system is :
Pass X250 amp
Pass X1 preamp
Talk Electronics Thunder3.1b CDP
Hales Transcenence 5's speakers
PS Audio P500 power plant
Shunyata Aries and Lyra interconnects and speaker cable
Prototype power cords which were not given a name but are good as I've compared them against Shunyata King Cobra V2 and Synergistic Designers Reference and much prefered the cords I have.
Any help would be valued. Thanks

Mitchb (System | Reviews | Threads | Answers | This Thread)

10-30-03

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10-30-03 Your set up is essentially what i set up in my music room, e ... Newbee

10-30-03: Muralman1
Hi Mitch

I am a fellow Pass X owner. The fact you use your conditioner as an electrical outlet for all your components, the circuit it is feeding off of is not a dedicated line. You need to have one component on one circuit breaker to constitute a dedicated line.

I have three dedicated lines, two for my monoblocks, and one for my source. The monos are hooked to 20 amp circuits. for my amps, I think such a set up is crucial, but for an X250 a 15 amp circuit will do.

Is your house on a slab, crawl space, or other? It is not pleasent moling about a crawl space, but electricians are use to that. From what the electricians are telling you, I would guess you're on a slab. Other wise, they are lying to you, to get a bigger tab.
Muralman1 (System | Threads | Answers | This Thread)

10-30-03 Mitch.i think that it involves running a main line upstream ... Peterd

10-30-03 Run a dual phase line. run 1 phase to the amp/amps. the othe ... Hiend2

10-30-03 Newbee, i'm running my amp through the ultimate outlet secti ... Mitchb

10-30-03 Hiend2 if you have 2 dedicated lines. aren't you supposed to ... Blptwp

10-30-03 In n. america, the incoming 220 volts are split into (2) 110 ... Blptwp

10-30-03 Further. if you have dedicated lines feeding your gears and ... Blptwp

10-30-03 Mitchb, a dedicated line is one with no other devices on it ... Alrau1

10-30-03 I would recommend the following regardless of internal or ex ... Stehno

10-31-03 Sean maybe the best person to ask regarding dedicated lines, ... Dsiggia

11-03-03 Alraul,oh sorry i did make a mistake in my description. both ... Peterd

11-04-03 Peterd, you're on safe ground! :-) i almost mentioned the ... Alrau1

11-14-03 Again deathgrip oulets. all amps on single phase preamps ect ... Hiend2