Water bubbler gfci

[wireday]

We are required to install gfci protection, is it just that one receptacle or is there a distance around the unit? Like sinks with a 6 foot rule. The ones I have to install have other receptacles nearby.

 

[tom baker]

Water bubbler is not the term the NEC uses, see 422.5(A) which also answers your question on distance.

 

[Kathlee5n]

This new requirement was brought about without documentation of an electrical accident or incident.

 

[ActionDave]

We are required to install gfci protection, is it just that one receptacle or is there a distance around the unit? Like sinks with a 6 foot rule. The ones I have to install have other receptacles nearby.

Assuming you are talking about a drinking fountain it is just the one that it plugs into that requires protection.

 

[wireday]

This is the bottle on top filling cup version, Inspector says yes GFCI on that receptacle

 

[kwired]

This is the bottle on top filling cup version, Inspector says yes GFCI on that receptacle

Apparently it has cooling unit as a part of it? Otherwise why would it even need plugged in?

Real strict enforcement of what code says, probably yes it needs GFCI protection. I question the reasoning why other typical drinking fountains ever needed GFCI in the first place? If the EGC is intact there isn't much risk of shock to the user. How often does one encounter one of these with a missing EGC pin on the cord? I bet it is not that often at all.

They have gone on a binge past few codes in getting closer to "lets just GFCI everything" IMO. I am not opposed to GFCI's, and thought about 2008 they had the GFCI requirements about where they still should be, but don't see the need for it on some things they have added to the requirements.

 

[Knuckle Dragger]

I believe wata bubbla is in the Massachusetts amendments