GFI receptacles
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Re: GFI receptacles
As long as they are wired correctly this shouldn't be a problem! Your just sharing a circuit to more than one place. This would just be branch circuit wiring, pretty common. Never heard of any requirement for places of assemble that would disallow this.
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Someone may be getting the requirement for dwelling unit bathroom, that require an individual branch circuit that shall have no other outlets, mixed up with your situation. I assume your are talking about a commercial building.
[ June 06, 2005, 01:36 PM: Message edited by: guesseral ]
As long as they are wired correctly this shouldn't be a problem! Your just sharing a circuit to more than one place. This would just be branch circuit wiring, pretty common. Never heard of any requirement for places of assemble that would disallow this.
Edited to add:
Someone may be getting the requirement for dwelling unit bathroom, that require an individual branch circuit that shall have no other outlets, mixed up with your situation. I assume your are talking about a commercial building.
[ June 06, 2005, 01:36 PM: Message edited by: guesseral ]
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Re: GFI receptacles
Just off the top of my head, it's not a great idea in restrooms, because then the men will keep tripping the GFI with a tester to go into the ladies bathroom. But other than that...
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Re: GFI receptacles
Sleepy this is not an NEC rule.
Sleepy this is not an NEC rule.
LarryFine
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Re: GFI receptacles
In other words, there is a GFCI downstream from another, cascaded. I don't know it to be illegal, but there's no good reason to do so, and a couple of reasons not to: cost, and troubleshooting.
Re: GFI receptacles
If you have 2 or more GFCIs in the same box they do need to be TAPED particularly when using stranded wire. Learned that the hard way during spring break in 1987 when doing a panel change.
Unlike rich kids I had to do things such as hot panel changes curing spring breaks back in college. Of course, I have always wondered how the rich kids get high buck summer jobs or otherwise get their wallet.
If you have 2 or more GFCIs in the same box they do need to be TAPED particularly when using stranded wire. Learned that the hard way during spring break in 1987 when doing a panel change.
Unlike rich kids I had to do things such as hot panel changes curing spring breaks back in college. Of course, I have always wondered how the rich kids get high buck summer jobs or otherwise get their wallet.
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