Work Shop Receptacles

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In a stand alone work shop. The work shop will be bare walls with just stud walls and siding and completely unfinished. I’m thinking all receptacles will require gfi protection and no afci protection. Do I have this right?
 
mkgrady said:
In a stand alone work shop. The work shop will be bare walls with just stud walls and siding and completely unfinished. I’m thinking all receptacles will require gfi protection and no afci protection. Do I have this right?
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How is the shop being fed?
By stand alone do you mean it will have its own service?
 
mkgrady said:
In a stand alone work shop. The work shop will be bare walls with just stud walls and siding and completely unfinished. I’m thinking all receptacles will require gfi protection and no afci protection. Do I have this right?
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Stand alone, not attached to another structure. Accessory building.
For a dwelling, GFCI protection is required. 210.8(A)(2)
Other than a dwelling unit, new to the 2020 NEC, accessory buildings, GFCI protection is required. 210.8(B)(8)

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Also note that the requirement has expanded to include 240V receptacles and amps up to 50, so circuits for larger tools that are cord and plug connected will need GFCI too, including 30A and 50A 240V receptacles. This adds quite a bit of cost if you have a number of circuits like that.
 
Dwelling unit accessory buildings have required GFCI protection for 15/20 amp 120 volt receptacles since maybe 2008 or 2011? More recently will require GFCI for all receptacles I believe 50 amp or less and 120 volt to ground - which is normally everything you may encounter in dwelling applications anyway.
 
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