On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:03:19 -0700, aaronfude wrote:

I think that GFCI outlet look smarter than the regular outlets. Is
there a reason, other than cost) not to use them everywhere in the
house?

Thanks!

Aaron Fude


More parts = lower reliability. Most outlets seem to have a huge
lifetime, but GFCI is nowhere near the life of a standard outlet.

But when opportunity presented itself, I did install GFCI and some AFCI
breakers in my panel eventhough they were not strictly required.