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A Little Box That Stops Electric Shock
 

 

Topic - History
Subject - A Little Box That Stops Electric Shock

August 12, 2008
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A Little Box That Stops Electric Shock

 

ImageA Reader’s Digest report to consumers published in 1968 introduces an ingenious little box called a ground fault circuit interrupter or GFI. The article closes by saying: The handwriting is on the wall. Quite possibly, GFI’s will soon be required protection in homes, factories or anywhere else electricity is used. Click here to read this little piece of GFCI history.

 

 

 

 

 

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  • I find it amazing that the Consumer Product Safety Commission has the data to show that GFCIs have saved more lives (from electrocution) in the last 30 years than any other piece of electrical equipment. Yet, when proposals are made to Code Making Panel 2 to require them throughout the house, CMP-2 refuses, despite the huge technical substantiation to accept the proposal(s). Then, AFCIs come into the game, have ZERO track record (the combination type had NO track record until January of 2008) and are required to be on nearly every circuit.

    It makes me, and many others in the electrical industry, wonder who is getting rich in this process, and why consumers aren't being protected by a proven technology (such as GFCIs).

    Ryan Jackson

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