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Default replacing normal breaker with AFCI breaker



"Smitty Two" wrote in message
news | In article 5WX9k.38916$kx.20961@pd7urf3no, "Calab"
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| Breaks the circuit if it notices a
| differencial between hot and live
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| I wouldn't be much good as a GFCI, then.

Isn't that the point of a GFCI? If the power isn't passing from hot to
neutral it must be grounded someplace, hence the GFCI trips?