AFI breakers [RE-wrenches]

Drake Chamberlin - Electrical Energy solar at eagle-access.net
Tue Aug 14 17:18:22 PDT 2001


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The NEC has them become a requirement as of Jan. 1, 2002.

Drake

At 06:42 PM 08/14/2001 -0400, you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I was working at a job site today with a licensed electrician. He showed
>me a few SQD AFI (arc fault interrupt) breakers he was installing in the
>load center. They will trip if an arc is detected, such when plugging an
>appliance (w/ its on board power switch on) into a live outlet. He said
>they are now required for any cicuit in a "habitable" room. Comments,
>please?
>
>Kirk
>
>
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