georgestolz said:
Do you ever feel that this is unintentional?
No.
I did when Don first pointed out 250.114 to me, I had felt like you do.
Than I put some thought into it and decided I was looking at it wrong.
I do not believe the NEC wants users of electricity to receive a shock even for a short duration.
You do realize that even a GFCI protected circuit will provide a full circuit voltage shock to the victim and may provide the victim with more than 5 ma of current.
Your getting a shock, the current rises above the trip threshold, the sensor 'tells' the relay to open, in the mean time the victim is doing a jig.
Many people are injured from falls or hitting objects when they recoil away from what is giving them a shock. A GFCI does not prevent these type of injuries.
The trip level on a GFCI is designed around health adults. Picture a baby crawling on the floor touching a 'hot' refrigerator, do we want to count on a GFCI to trip or should the unit be grounded?
What I think is a joke is the allowance to use 3 wire outlets on two wire circuits as long as we GFCI and 'tag' it. :roll:
The folks that gave us that option are not the same folks that write 250.