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Re: Want to move to all 208V for server racks


From: mikea <mikea () mikea ath cx>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 16:32:17 -0600

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 12:17:37PM -1000, Antonio Querubin wrote:
On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Ricky Beam wrote:

I think they are now a violation of the NEC.  And they were delisted by UL 
years ago.  They pose a hazard as they will not react fast enough to 
prevent a fatal shock. (and the only one's I've ever seen were outlawed as 
the breaker itself was a fire hazard.)

You sure about that?  GFCI breakers as well as their close cousins AFCIs 
are still being sold and bought at hardware stores.

A quick browse of www.homedepot.com and www.lowes.com shows that both of
them sell GFCI breakers online and in the stores local to me. Moreover,
the UL website (www.ul.com) doesn't say anything about GFCI breakers
being delisted, and _does_ mention GFCI breakers as one of three types of 
GFCI devices. 

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Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea () mikea ath cx
Tired old sysadmin 


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