afci versus gfci

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pnilsson2000

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I have an older house that has 2 wire outlets thru-out and want to upgrade to 3 wire outlets.
my understanding is that this can be done using a gfci breaker or outlet and labeling the out outlets as gfci protected. well a couple of the rooms are bedrooms and I understand the new code requires afci's in the bedrooms. my question is should I stay with gfci plan or make the bedrooms afci. and if I changed the bedrooms to afci would i still be able to upgrade to 3 wire outlets even if I only two wires at the outlet. it would be very diffucult to add grounds to these outlets. any help would be appericiated
 
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it is actually my mom's house and yes I am a licensed electrician for the state of oregon.

now that that is out of the way, what do you think?
 
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If you want to change from two wire to three wire receptacles, you will have to use either GFCI breakers or receptacles and label the receptacles 'GFCI Protected/ No Equipment Ground' as found in 406.3(D)(3)(c).

There is no requirement to make the existing bedroom receptacles AFCI protected. But if you choose to do so, you could:
-use a AFCI breaker and a GFCI receptacle, or
-if your loadcenter is Cutler Hammer, use an AFCI/GFCI breaker.
 
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GFCI is the best way to allow a 3 wire receptacle to be used on a 2 wire circuit. As far as the AFCI's it may be up to your AHJ. If you had a cb panel there are combo AFCI's GFCI Cb's from one mfg. The 2002 nec requires AFCI's for the entire branch circuit for all dwelling unit bedroom outlets, ie switches, smokes, receptacles
 
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