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stickboy1375

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Okay, heres the deal, inspectors around here are saying I cant use a duplex receptacle for an alarm panel transformer, ( I always do because the transformer screws to the receptacle) anyway, I had one inspector tell me to just break out the tab so the top half was not energized...

But my real question is this... is it a code violation to use a duplex receptacle for a fire alarm panel in an unfinished basement of a residence?


And yes I read exception No. 3....
 
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Not as far as the nec is concerned. Maybe there is a local amendment to it in CT. Unless it is a separate circuit requirement it would make no sense.
 
stickboy1375 said:
Okay, heres the deal, inspectors around here are saying I cant use a duplex receptacle for an alarm panel transformer, ( I always do because the transformer screws to the receptacle) anyway, I had one inspector tell me to just break out the tab so the top half was not energized...

But my real question is this... is it a code violation to use a duplex receptacle for a fire alarm panel in an unfinished basement of a residence?


And yes I read exception No. 3....
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Assuming non-GFCI protected, in my opinion, yes. The exception to #5 allows a receptacle for your purpose, singular. A duplex is two receptacles. Break the tabs.
 
Volta said:
Assuming non-GFCI protected, in my opinion, yes. The exception to #5 allows a receptacle for your purpose, singular. A duplex is two receptacles. Break the tabs.
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Can you explain what a NPLFA system is . Are the systems installed in homes NPFLA? I have never run them on a separate circuit. In fact they use to make us put them on a lighting circuit so f the circuit went off someone would know about it.
 
Dennis Alwon said:
Can you explain what a NPLFA system is . Are the systems installed in homes NPFLA? I have never run them on a separate circuit. In fact they use to make us put them on a lighting circuit so f the circuit went off someone would know about it.
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I've only seen one once that I know of, not residential. It was a 120 volt system, very old-school. I knew even less then, so I don't know much about it, but there is no way you would see one in a house, AFAIK.

Fire Alarm is not my trade, but I think a full FA system is required by NFPA 72 to be on an individual circuit. Stand-alone smoke alarms, even as interconnected units, are not subject to that.
 
I assumed that Stickboy was talking about a burgular alarm system, but you're right, it could be dual with fire too. Strickly Power Limited, though.
 
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