DWEames
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- Location
- New Orleans, LA
I'm an electrical contractor (almost licensed I hope) working in New Orleans, LA. We have lots of rain in case you didn't know. Today a customer called me about her ARC fault breaker tripping. I told her that the ARC fault breaker is prone to that. But I didn't have a lot of good answers about why. I told her they suck in water. But I was hoping to alleviate her concern on the issues of standard breakers as well as her meter, etc...This is a house with no eves, or gutter (which I've run into more times than you would imagine), and that leads to the question of the code, and how/when to properly install outdoor rated panels in situations with extreme water issues due to building types, and if and when water is a persistent problem, how to more adequately protect these panels from the intrusion of water...Any practical or scientific input much appreciated.