ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area AFCI Issues Thread

reno:

Thanks for the information on the GFCI's. I wasn't aware of the time line involved, but my limited reading on the subject seemed to make it less time that I had thought.

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Now if someone can convince the CMP to wait on the use of AFCI's on ALL circuits untill the things are proven to work safely and properly, we'll all be better off.

Steve,
They don't trip for switching because they don't look at that type of arc. They only look at parallel arcing faults...faults from hot to neutral. They will trip on a ground fault because of the GFP protection. They may trip on a poor connection (series fault) if the fault progresses to a parallel arcing fault or to a ground fault...but will they do this before or after the fire starts.
Don