xformer
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- Dallas, Tx
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- Master Electrician
is a 120 Volt receptacle installed in a garage for a washing required to be GFCI protected? I have looked at 210.8 but it doesn't address individual branch circuits.
Washer receptacle GFCI
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I see no exemption for this. 210.8 is for branch circuits.
210.8
(A) Dwelling Units. All 125-volt, single-phase, 15- and 20-
ampere receptacles installed in the locations specified in
210.8(A)(1) through (8) shall have ground-fault circuitinterrupter
protection for personnel.
(1) Bathrooms
(2) Garages, and also accessory buildings that have a floor
located at or below grade level not intended as habitable
rooms and limited to storage areas, work areas,
and areas of similar use
(3) Outdoors
210.8
(A) Dwelling Units. All 125-volt, single-phase, 15- and 20-
ampere receptacles installed in the locations specified in
210.8(A)(1) through (8) shall have ground-fault circuitinterrupter
protection for personnel.
(1) Bathrooms
(2) Garages, and also accessory buildings that have a floor
located at or below grade level not intended as habitable
rooms and limited to storage areas, work areas,
and areas of similar use
(3) Outdoors
- Location
- Massachusetts
They took away any exceptions for garage GFCIs a couple of code cycles ago.
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- Chapel Hill, NC
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- Retired Electrical Contractor
In other words it must be gfci unless you have a local amendment and you are not on the newer code cycles.
That is new to me. It looks like they changed it in the 2008 code. That kind of stinks because now the receptacle for the garage door opener has to be a GFCI (Hopefully, you would install the reset at the breaker or a receptacle in the wall so it is easily reset).
Good info in this forum.
Good info in this forum.
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- Chapel Hill, NC
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- Retired Electrical Contractor
If you are on the 2011 you must install the gfci in a readily accessible location. We use a dead front GFCI by the door to the house, for the garage door opener.
hurk27
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- Portage, Indiana NEC: 2008
Also make a great vacation switch to turn off the GDO when going on vacation, although not needed with most of todays GDO digital electronic remotes.
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