Residential theoretical ? about "outlet"
- Thread starter Dweeber
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- Retired Electrical Contractor
A blank faced gfci is basically a switch. A switch is not an outlet
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- Chapel Hill, NC
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Technically, you're nuts. :grin: Unfortunately you are also right but I can't imagine someone hitting on that-- cept Ken.
No, I'm certifiably nuts.:roll:
Unfortunately you are also right but I can't imagine someone hitting on that-- cept Ken.
Bob would have, but he's elsewhere trying to boost his post count.
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.................bob would have, but he's elsewhere trying to boost his post count.
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- Illinois
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- retired electrician
I think it is a real stretch to say that the LED indicator is "utilization equipment".
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- Lockport, IL
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- Retired Electrical Engineer
I would say instead that the presence of the LED is what turns the outlet box into an outlet. The LED itself is just a load. Indeed, if I were to try to be technical, I would say that the point at which the wires (having entered the box from the conduit) are screwed onto the GFCI/LED device is the "outlet." :roll:
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Agreed. But I would be willing to grant that stretch, before I grant the notion that the switch itself comprises an "outlet."
Speedskater
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So a switch is not an outlet, but a lighted switch is?
It fits the NEC definition of an outlet.
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- Massachusetts
I agree with 480.
LarryFine
Master Electrician Electric Contractor Richmond VA
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Well, technically, the box becomes the outlet because of the device installed in it, not the device itself.
chris kennedy
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- retired electrician
I still don't see the indicator LED as making this anything more than a switch or a controller and do not see this point on the wiring system as an outlet.
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- Lockport, IL
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- Retired Electrical Engineer
You will get more of that than you bargain for, if you stay around here too long.
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