The Electrical Code

215.9 Ground-Fault Circuit-Interrupter Protection for Personnel. Normally I would start my blogs with “so” but today I wanted to change it up. Normally when you see a GFI in the bathroom this is for your own protection(just in case). When you see this anywhere else there is a higher chance of getting hurt there for the person in charge puts a GFI in between you and the electrical equipment or device. I will be publishing a blog just about how a GFI works and the different types of GFI there are available to you as a consumer and the GFI available to contractors as well. But for this article what is important to know is that the user of the device plugged into the GFI is protected and there should be feel secure about using what ever he or she is doing with the device. When GFI stop working they will not allow electrical current to flow past. Even if you try to reset the GFI that is broken for what ever reason and the GFI has a problem protecting the flow down stream or better said what ever is plugged into it it will not allow the user to reset it. It’s an incredible little device that will safe guard your family and for such a small amount of money too. It’s crazy to me that I see people with out this device in there bathroom even today because they did not want to spend the time to change the old outlet that is normally in then bathroom or kitchen. (This is a joke so please don’t get offended) even when the user is your wife I can understand but it could be your child or anyone else you allow in your home. So as of this writing a GFI in Home Depot(or any other home improvement store) is $15.00 for a 15 amp version. And it take at the most 15 minutes with the power off. Your not a smart person if you don’t take the time to turn the power off to work on anything electrical. Not even professionals work on electrical equipment because it takes less then a mill of a second to cause death from this. Sorry to worn you about the dangers of working on something that has power but it’s not worth a human life when it could be avoided.

“Feeders supplying 15- and 20-ampere receptacle branch circuits shall be permitted to be protected by a ground-fault circuit interrupter installed in a readily accessible location in lieu of the provisions for such interrupters as specified in 210.8 and 590.6(A).”