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Robert Bonomi

In article ,
zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:55:30 -0500, (Robert
Bonomi) wrote:

In article ,
Bill wrote:

"Puckdropper" puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote in message
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(Robert Bonomi) wrote in
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*snip*

Lastly, I'd put in GFI _outlets_, and use regular breakers, where I
could. _IF_ something trips, it will kill that outlet only, and -not-
take out 'something else' that might be running on the same circuit.

Robert,

That sounds (to me) inconsistent with the "you one need one GFI outlet at
the beginning of a (circuit) run for each hot" advise that I've heard.
What am I missing?

Nothing. that's _all_ you *NEED*. *IF* you series-wired the downstream
outlets.

I parallel-wire, and use a GFI each place.

Why would you do that?

"because". grin See my self-follow-up article where I clarified everything.

BTW, bad choice of terminology. All loads are wired
in parallel.

You demonstrate you don't know what you don't know.

'protected' outlets downstream from a GFI outlet are wired in _series_ with
the GFI device. (This doesn't mean that the loads are in series, they're not,
but current-sensing _requires_ a sensor in series with the load.) Even a
'clamp-on' ammeter uses a sensor in series with the load. *grin*

You have a pair (hot/neutral) of 'line' terminals for the feed from the panel,
and an _isolated_ pair of terminals for feeding the protected outlets. If you
use _either_ the hot or neutral from the panel to the downstream outlets rather
than the isolated ones from the GFI, there is *no* protection.