earlydean,
AFCIs are required, not because of a nanny-government. They are required because we have a new technology that can save lives.
That might be true if there was an AFCI device on the marker that could do what the manufacture's said they could do in the original proposals for the AFCI...some 13 years ago. Unfortunately there is no such device on the market at this time. There isn't even a combination device on the market at this time and that type of AFCI is required to be used starting 1/1/08.
Don
