Tamper Proof IG Receptacles

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I am looking for a 20 amp, tamperproof isolated ground receptacle for classrooms in a kindergarten type school. I know they make the tamperproof with dirty ground. I feel sure they do not make an isolated ground receptacle with a tamperproof face.

Does anyone know if they make a stainless steel tamperproof coverplate that will go over the IG receptacle? This is going in a school where the engineer specified Leviton 8300SGW receptacles which are tamperproof but not IG. On the other hand the engineer shows alot of the classrooms to be on IG circuits.

I am trying to figure out the best way to have IG circuits where they are needed yet need some tamperproof protection for the children. Any help would be great here.
 
I went through this is March, trying to locate two tamper resistant IG recs for a day care center. I found that none existed. What we did was to install two metal lockable metal bubble covers on both of those receptacle locations. They (the day care operators) used some sort of plastic child proof padlock thing on the lock part, so that an adult could hold in two tabs to easily remove that plastic padlock thing-a-ma-jig they employed on my bubble cover.
 
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My only problem is I have 122 IG receptacles along with 150 tamperproof receptacles. Do you have a part # that I can look at? What was the price?
 
dduffee260 said:
Do you have a part # that I can look at? What was the price?
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Part number for what... a bubble cover? Everybody makes those. I think we used a RedDot one. http://www.tnb.com/ps/fulltilt/index.cgi?part=CKMDV
I think they're 10 or 12 bucks.

For your installation, 122 of them is going to look super goofy. I did a search of the major manufacturers myself just now, and it still looks like nobody is making a tamper resistant IG receptacle. Since the recent WAC code requiring tamper resistant recs in areas that children are normally in, there seem to be a number of manufacturers making tamper resistant cover plates now. Such as, the Leviton 89000-w
 
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don_resqcapt19 said:
Why are they using IG recps?
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I was wondering the same thing. People are IG crazy nowadays. Folks the make prints think, for some reason, that anything expensive must be on an IG circuit. They most often don't realize that they're adding unnecessary cost to the installation for minimal (or no) benefit. I don't care, anyhow. I'll sell them whatever they want, whether I think it is of any value or not.
 
The engineer used IG receptacles because the engineer did not do his job and let a pee-on draw the plans while he went golfing I guess. I suppose he wanted IG for the computers in the classrooms. This along with things such as an 80 amp 3 phase 208 circuit for the small kitchen ranges show he did not do his job. So far I have done what I could not to hit anyone with extra costs, but now I think I am going to have to so we don't spend our own money fixing screw ups.
 
Even if someone did manufacture an IG tamper resistant receptacle I can't imagine what it would cost. Sounds like someone is really wasting somebody's money.
 
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