Arc fault breaker life span

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viclibo

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I had an inspector tell me he could not use the Ideal AFCI tester to trip the breaker because after 3 tests the breaker becomes useless or non functioning. Has anyone heard about this ? The inspectors just press the reset button on the breaker.
 
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jim dungar said:
The TEST button is the only "official" way to test these breakers, per UL.
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So could it be that they say that because if other "unoffical testers" are used they wear out :cool:


I have tripped a SQ-D AFCI over 50 times in a number of tests I was performing and it continued to work fine.
 
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