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Dedicated power

After a lot of research and consideration, mostly between power conditioners and dedicated circuitry, I have decided to go with 3 dedicated lines. One for amp one for pre and a 3rd for CD or digital. What I'm thinking is that I can pull the wire myself and then hire a professional electrician to do the breaker work and wall terminations using hospital grade outlets. My question is what wire should I use? I have heard of people using 12-2 or 10-2 but don't have knowledge of wire specific details. Anybody up on this?
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That some outlets may not be rated for larger than 12ga would be the potential issue (connection points not large or secure enough). However, the often recommended Hubbells, PorterPorts and Jena Labs outlets will all handle 10ga wire with no trouble. And I would expect many others will do so as well.
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