GFI's on AFCI circuits

[Bill_From_GA]

Arc Fault breakers also have some ground fault protection for equipment built in which is what causes them to trip whenever the neutral is shorted to an equipment ground. This protection is not GFCI protection which trips the outlet whenever there is a difference of 4-6 milliamps of current between the hot conductor and the neutral conductor. The ground fault protection in an arc fault breaker trips whenever the difference in current is over 30 milliamps which is known as GFP or ground fault protection of equipment. If GFP can work on the circuit, then GFCI will also work.

 

[mivey]

Well I didn't realize I was being called out on semantics.

Kind of beating up on you aren't they? :grin: "Feed through" bushings on a transformer are not for "feeding through" the transformer windings either.

But don't worry, other folks know what you meant. From "Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth IEEE Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts", 1993

In the United States, branch circuit convenience receptacles are generally wired in "daisy-chain" fashion, in which both source and downstream feed conductors are attached to the receptacle's wire terminals. Wired this way, the current drawn by an appliance plugged into the last receptacle in a circuit is passing through the wire connections of all of the receptacles upstream in that same circuit. Each receptacle wired in this common "feed-through" mode has four wire terminals utilized, two on each side (line and neutral) of the circuit.