GFI near sink

[rholt]

What is the code for a duplex installed on a wall near a sink, the sink is installed in a office space. The recepticle is near (within 6ft) of the sink but is not on the countertop.Please help....

 

[480sparky]

210.8.

 

[raider1]

Welcome to the forum.

210.8(B)(5)

This is new to the 2008 NEC.

Chris

 

[Hameedulla-Ekhlas]

210.8.

sometimes I heard GFCI, sometimes GFI and sometimes AFCI. I know GFCI, AFCI a little bit too but what is GFI?

 

[mcclary's electrical]

What is the code for a duplex installed on a wall near a sink, the sink is installed in a office space. The recepticle is near (within 6ft) of the sink but is not on the countertop.Please help....

Welcome to the forum, it depends on the code cycle, on 05' the 6 ft' rule in 210.8 is for residential apps. In "other than residential" the 6' rule does not apply,but I believe in 08' the 6' rule is applied to "other than dwelling units"

 

[DetroitEE]

sometimes I heard GFCI, sometimes GFI and sometimes AFCI. I know GFCI, AFCI a little bit too but what is GFI?

GFI is just an older term for GFCI. Same thing.

 

[Hameedulla-Ekhlas]

GFI is just an older term for GFCI. Same thing.

thank you for information i was really confused between GFCI and GFI

 

[480sparky]

sometimes I heard GFCI, sometimes GFI and sometimes AFCI. I know GFCI, AFCI a little bit too but what is GFI?

Shorted GFCI slang.

 

[LawnGuyLandSparky]

Also known as GFP

 

[charlie b]

Also known as GFP

I am not so sure about that one. There is a difference between protecting a human against a leakage current (and you only need a fraction of an amp to be fatal) and protecting a switchgear or other service equipment against a ground fault (and that may be able to handle hundreds of amps without failing). I am accustomed to using GFCI or GFI to describe the first situation, and using GFP to describe the later situation. But in our business, there is a lot of ways to say the same thing, so you always have to be careful that the person you are talking to is using the same words in the same way.

 

[Volta]

Also known as GFP

I think Charlie is right on that.

GFCI for people protection, 4-6 ma, GFP, 30 ma and up for protection of equipment.

 

[K8MHZ]

I think Charlie is right on that.

GFCI for people protection, 4-6 ma, GFP, 30 ma and up for protection of equipment.

I got 20 mA in my search for GFP levels.

Point still taken.

As far as GFI vs. GFCI, why not all agree to the use shortest one and go on with our lives?

 

[Volta]

I got 20 mA in my search for GFP levels.

Point still taken.

As far as GFI vs. GFCI, why not all agree to the use shortest one and go on with our lives?

Sure, we can try that, but it is a Ground-Fault Circuit-Interrupter, ya know . . . GFI :grin:.