As I see it snake oil sales men neesed a new product to peddle. So they took a good idea, did maybe 1/3/to1/2 the work needed to truly make a good product. Then went to work forcing us to buy thier unperfected produt. The want the profits and commisions. I have nothig against a fair profit or a sales man getting a fair comission. But when they shove something down our throuts with a bunch of HYPE and abuse a good system of code making to do it- they have a lot to hide. What it is and how well thse latest pieces of snake oil will work remains to be seen.
BTW every time I have thrown away an AFCI that was continually tripping, I spent -and was paid for- a least 2 hours of troubleshooting time. If a circuit will pass a megger test and has nothing miswired and still trips an AFGI but not a GFI breaker, then it the breaker. Good by to it. [Linked Image]

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