RE: [A/S] Re: GFI Breaker

Circuit breakers (in a box) and the receptacle are different things. Are
you saying you need both to be GFI protected? Or if the Circuit is gfi
protected by a GFI breaker, then the receptacle doesn't need to be a GFI
receptacle? Or if the Circuit breaker is not GFI protected, then you need
the receptable to be? I am confused. Thanks, p

Paula

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On Behalf Of Oliver Filippi
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 8:16 PM
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Subject: RE: [A/S] Re: GFI Breaker

Hunter,

Charlie is right, you DO NEED GFI protection.

Standard circuit breakers (and fuses) are over current protection devices
which will interrupt (open) a circuit if it is drawing too much current
(which could fry the appliance, the power cord, or the wiring in the trailer
or building).

If an appliance has an internal short (or current leak) that is not
sufficient to trip a circuit breaker the current could go thru a person to
ground (possibly electrocuting the person). The ground fault circuitry
detect this condition and opens the circuit, shutting off the power. You do
not want to be the conductor to ground. Thus the building codes require
ground fault protection wherever the person using the appliance could become
the ground path (at a sink, in a garage or outdoors standing on wet soil,
etc.

Oliver Filippi

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