But what happens if something shorts and it's traced down to the fact you removed the GFCI. I would not want to bet my business on it. I would have an outlet hardwired into a nema box. That should satisfy code, but I would check.
Justin From: "Marlon K. Schafer (509-982-2181)" <o...@odessaoffice.com> Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:00:39 -0700 To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Preventing stupid outages > Yeah. Drop the GFCI. > > If an inspector whines about it get his home phone and tell him he'll have to > meet you at the site every time it goes down because the GFCI technology is so > worthless. It won't take but 2 trips and he'll beg you to take them out! > > And if you think it's bad now. Just wait till you have to put in arc fault > breakers everywhere. The whole house has to have them nowadays. Can't even > run a shop vac in my house if it's in one of the rooms with an arc fault. > Half my skill saws won't work etc. > > Good ideas, both. Rotten overly sensitive implementation. > > The market for used arc faults will be huge sooner than later. Every > homeowner with a screw driver will pull them all out and put in normal > breakers :-). > > The NEC is getting to be worse than the dept. of ecology! > > marlon > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> From: Troy Settle <mailto:tset...@thewiredroad.net> >> >> To: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 6:04 AM >> >> Subject: [WISPA] Preventing stupid outages >> >> >> >> >> >> Ok, so to keep to code, we have a GFCI outlet for most of our towers. One >> of them tripped last night, causing me to have to put on some 80 miles just >> to push a button (yes, it could have been much worse). >> >> >> >> Is there anything to prevent stupid outages like this from happening without >> violating code? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Troy Settle, Network Administrator >> >> The Wired Road Authority >> >> 1117 E. Stuart Dr. >> >> Galax, VA 24333 >> >> (276) 238-0049 (office) >> >> (276) 237-3890 (cell) >> >> tset...@thewiredroad.net >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wireless mailing list >> Wireless@wispa.org >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
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