dsm1212
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- Lunenburg, Massachusetts, USA
I am an EE, but honestly I'm not an electrical power engineer nor an electrician. I basically know what to do but I wanted to hear the best practice so I hope you don't mind my asking for that advice.
I need to install two outdoor lampposts and two outdoor outlets. Physically it is Post-outlet-outlet-Post. There is about 6 feet between each. I understand how to trench it and what cable and tubing to use. There are multiple options for ground fault protection. I'm inclined to use ground fault breakers, but I like the visible assurance of having ground fault outlets. I believe it would at best be a race condition having GFCI twice on one circuit. So I'm thinking of adding one breaker, non-gfci, which I run to the two GFCI outlets. These are daisy chained (with pigtails, not through the first outlet). A second GFCI breaker is used to run to the two lamps through a new switch inside my house and then daisy chained through pigtails at the first lamp. I don't see an easy way to use one breaker.
1. Am I right about not putting GFCI outlets on a GFCI breaker?
2. Is there a way to use one breaker?
3. There is no issue with running the outlet and lamp cables through the same tubing is there? I can't think of a technical issue, but you never know...
Sorry for such simple questions
. Comments?
steve
I need to install two outdoor lampposts and two outdoor outlets. Physically it is Post-outlet-outlet-Post. There is about 6 feet between each. I understand how to trench it and what cable and tubing to use. There are multiple options for ground fault protection. I'm inclined to use ground fault breakers, but I like the visible assurance of having ground fault outlets. I believe it would at best be a race condition having GFCI twice on one circuit. So I'm thinking of adding one breaker, non-gfci, which I run to the two GFCI outlets. These are daisy chained (with pigtails, not through the first outlet). A second GFCI breaker is used to run to the two lamps through a new switch inside my house and then daisy chained through pigtails at the first lamp. I don't see an easy way to use one breaker.
1. Am I right about not putting GFCI outlets on a GFCI breaker?
2. Is there a way to use one breaker?
3. There is no issue with running the outlet and lamp cables through the same tubing is there? I can't think of a technical issue, but you never know...
Sorry for such simple questions
. Comments?steve
