AFCI Switch

[Jraef]

Good God! An AFCI switch. Never knew there was such a thing, anything to make more money off the suckers.

-Hal

Same here. Today I learned…

As a side note: say what you want about the NEC, but a permit and inspections would have prevented that unholy abomination of a crawl space panel installation. So I totally agree with not wanting anything to do with that under the “You touch it, you own it” doctrine. So assuming that you (OP) will not be pulling a permit for your little lighting job either, do you care about complying with AFCI requirements?

If so, then personally I would just drop in an AFCI receptacle on the feed to the new lights. More commonly available.

 

[hbiss]

As I recall, the original "idea" behind AFCI was protecting against frayed semi-permanently plugged-in cords.

Right. Don't you remember their Frankenstein test set-up with a razor blade that cuts into a piece of zip cord? After it was charred with a neon sign transformer?

-Hal

 

[kwired]

Right. Don't you remember their Frankenstein test set-up with a razor blade that cuts into a piece of zip cord? After it was charred with a neon sign transformer?

-Hal

The lower magnetic trip setting of a standard QO or Homeline breaker likely trips in this test as well. But there is no extra $$$ to be made if we just lower that setting in all our existing 115 and 120 breakers