What is a dead front GFCI?
Where is the GFCI located in a spa tub?
What is considered dead front?
Per the Article 100 definition, electrical equipment is considered to be “dead front” when there are no live parts exposed to a person on the operating side of the equipment. In your case, there were exposed energized parts as you installed conductors. It is important to understand that—without the complete dead front installed over an energized ...
What is GFCI 590.6?
The GFCI requirements that you are referring to are located in second-level subdivisions: 590.6 (A) (1) for devices permitted in addition to GFCI protected receptacle outlets and 590.6 (A) (3), which permits GFCI devices identified as portable to provide protection on older portable generators. These devices must be listed cord sets or devices that incorporate listed GFCI protection for personnel, and they must be identified for portable use, which means they are marked as such.
What is GFCI cord?
A listed GFCI cord set or device that is identified for portable use will open immediately upon the loss of a neutral connection, providing open neutral protection. The NEC requires the same level of GFCI protection in carnivals, circuses, fairs and similar events for all receptacles supplied by portable cords.
What is the purpose of NEC 90.1?
Section 90.1 clearly states that the NEC is not intended as a design specification; its purpose is the practical safeguarding of people and property from hazards arising from the use of electricity. This new requirement recognizes serious hazards that are found in meeting rooms where participants bring electronic equipment, creating the need for extension cords running all over the meeting room.
What is 210.71 B?
The parent text in 210.71 (B) clearly states that the designer or building owner can locate the receptacle outlets as needed. Sections 210.71 (B) (1) for receptacle outlets in fixed walls and 210.71 (B) (2) for floor receptacles are only used to determine the total number of required receptacles.
How many volts does a GFCI need?
A standard GFCI needs line voltage at 120 volts to sense current flow to ground and open. This means that when a standard GFCI loses the neutral connection to the device, it loses the ability to sense a fault, and it will allow current flow to ground without opening.
What does it mean when a panelboard is exposed?
The NEC definition for “exposed (as applied to live parts)” means that a person is capable of inadvertently touching live parts or approaching nearer than a safe distance.
How many amps are in a hydromassage tub?
All 125-volt, single-phase receptacles not exceed ing 30 amperes and located within 1.83 m (6 ft) measured horizontally of the inside walls of a hydromassage tub shall be protected by a ground-fault circuit interrupter.
What is a dead front GFCI?
GFCI Dead Front Devices are used to convert a standard branch circuit into a locally controlled GFCI circuit.
Where to place GFCI cb?
The other option is to place the GFCI cb in the Load Center, which is not local, not handy, more expensive, etc. And I have seen situations where a GFCI cb was not made to fit an older Load Center. It is more cost effective to use a GFCI Dead Front Device. That sells the job more often.
What is mm in service access?
mm (1 ft) of a service access opening.
What does "ready access" mean?
Accessible, Readily (Readily Accessible). Capable of being reached quickly for operation, renewal, or inspections without requiring those to whom ready access is requisite to climb over or remove obstacles or to resort to portable ladders, and so forth.
Where to use dead front GFI?
RC - another handy use of the dead-front gfi is in locations like garages where receptacles are all now req'd to be gfi. A dead-front gfi is useful where reseting one would be incovenient, like up on the ceiling for the UH and GDO. For the UH/GDO circuit, I put one up about 60 in. high on the wall - out of the way, but easily reset if needed.
Can you remove a tub surround?
Some of those tub surrounds are not very easily removed , esp. by homeowners. With the definition of readily accessible I would say that under the tub is not readily accessible.
Why is a GFCI breaker not a breaker?
The GFCI blank face receptacle (not a breaker) may have been put there because its location may be too close to the sink, taps, or shower. In the US I believe the 5' rule applies, which means the receptacle cannot be less than 5' from the tub. Check your local code requirements before installing a receptacle instead of a blank.
Can you have a GFCI on a different circuit?
Based on the receptacle requirement, it's not uncommon to have the lights on a different circuit. Actually not uncommon from the days where GFCIs were expensive and they'd put all the bathroom receptacles (across multiple bathrooms) on a single GFCI.
Do all bathroom receptacles have to be on the 20A circuit?
All receptacles in the bathroom (with very small exception) have to be on the 20A circuit (s) that are either local to this bathroom alone or serve only other receptacles in other bathrooms. Just because you have one receptacle on this circuit doesn't give you free reign to have additional receptacles that don't meet these requirements.
Can you use a 15 amp GFI?
You can use a 15 amp GFI as long as it's a duplex type (accepts two plugs).
Is the light switch in the master bath on a separate circuit?
This is interesting because that light switch controls the nightlight inside the overhead light/nightlight/fan unit (there is a total of three switches for that unit), so I don't know why it's on a different circuit from the other things in the fan unit (and everything else in the bathroom). The fan's nightlight is on the same circuit as the smoke detectors. Hmmm.
What is a dead front GFCI?
Tuesday, October 15, 2019. It looks like a push-button wall switch to some people, but is actually a Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) device that provides shock protection for a remote appliance or receptacles, and is called “dead front GFCI” or sometimes “blank face GFCI.”.
Where is the GFCI located in a spa tub?
We most often see them used for protection of a bathroom spa tub pump and they are usually located on the wall next to the main electric panel or in the bathroom that has the spa tub, as in the photo above. Because the receptacle for the pump is in a small compartment that is not easily accessed, this device provides a more convenient location to reset the GFCI if it trips.