GFCI Receptacle Protection, Dwelling Units [210.8(A), 2020 NEC Changes]

With all due respect, people have gone crazy with all the new changes to the NEC. You can say what you like, but the Main reason for most of the changes are to increase profits for the manufacturers and to appease insurance companies. A GFCI breaker is 3 to 4 times the cost of a standard breaker. Arc fault breakers are 9 to 10 times as expensive.

Just as you were talking about RV parks, the marina that I was in had similar issues. Because the requirements they have for galvanic isolation requirements in boats, the automatic testing systems to make sure that they are still working and functional would directly introduce a ground fault on the electrical system to make sure that the system was working. When our marina upgraded the docks and switched out to all GFCI's on the 30A and 50A shore power plugs this caused havoc throughout the marina. It would immediately trip any GFCI outlet because of the boat builder requirements. I then had ELCI breakers on my boat and anytime I would use RF (Radar / VHF) this would cause things to trip from time to time. Was a big mess. I can't imagine what this will do with all the larger 30-50A plugs for all sorts of larger equipment in the garage. I am glad I have an older home without all these changes. 😎 Keep up the good work Mike and team.

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Thank you Mike for your content. It's crazy how stuff changes. Then, that in turn flows downstream to the customer, resulting in additional costs.

Not surprising that this is the first of the 2020 video drop; thanks guys!

I'm getting ready to build a house this year. At this point, I've just thrown up my hands and just plan to put afci/gfci on everything so I don't have to deal with this.

Long Live Mr. Mike........

I just watched this, but as far as damp location. I wired a sunroom built on the back of the house, not climate controlled, and primarily made of steel and glass. The floor, and especially the glass was covered in condesation from the outdoor temp, almost like a car window. And I would consider that room a damp location. We ended up installing a humidi-stat and fan.

In Iowa during the winter you have frozen ground up to 42 inches deep for 3-4 months. Also there are days that are damp and just barely above freezing. When you open an overhead garage door you can watch the condensation form on the cold concrete floor and on any metal surface i.e. jointer table, table saw, ungalvanized nails. During winter months people in Iowa will use kerosene space heaters to work in non-insulated garage space. Kerosene gives off excess moisture during combustion. You will have raindrops falling from the excess length of galvanized roofing nails, caused by condensation. Any time you have humidity, and a dewpoint you have damp. Winter or summer damp is condensation. Kudos to the lady for the "don't get creative" comment. Just follow the rules. GREAT ADVICE!!!

Example of damp location is shower ceiling. Instructions for installation of a "damp location" exhaust fan requires GFCI protection.

It's simple, if you have a sump pump in the basement, install an alarm outlet that will let you know when there's a problem with the power. They are not that cheap but still better than a clean up of the basement.

Min 7 . I set a GFCI breaker or a face less GFCI accessible to control a rec behind refrigerator . It work .

Basically Surge Protect, GFCI and ARC Fault everything everywhere, and then anything that trips those you should just use a standby generator with a cord through the window to operate. The new code should just have people attest to wearing rubber suits and shoes at all times within 100ft of a dwelling. 😂 The code is at the point where it should just tell you where you cannot have these protections.

They are saying now range or other appliances within 6 ft must be GFCI protected because you're getting shocked from the appliance not from outlet

33:42 210.8(A)(11) could easily be applied to floor box receptacles located in a mud room or anywhere they are set in a hard surface that is likely to be mopped.

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Robertson County in Tennessee (per 2017) is now requiring dual function AFCI/GFCI breakers on ALL 15 and 20 amp 120v circuits. With the 2020 NEC interpretation, I'm sure they will adopt this code and require ALL 120v and 240 volt breakers to be included without exception.

All GFCIs better be accessible so the owner can find it to check why he has dead outlets.

If they are in a basement, kitchen, sinks, laundry, garage, outside, crawl space and all wet or damp locations should cover it all for GFCI protection.

About the big RV garage that Ryan was talking about, we rough a lot of those here in Jacksonville area, and some times the owners want three dedicated 240v 40 amps circuits.