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On 1/23/2015 3:21 PM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:

But does it have to be a *dedicated* circuit? Only one appliance per
GFCI breaker? IF (big "if", as I haven't seen the Code itself, and IAC I
am not one of the priesthood authorized to interpret it) it merely says
that a refrigerator has to be on a GFCI-protected circuit, can the
kitchen refrigerator, the bar refrigerator, and the freezer in the
garage all be on that same GFCI-protected circuit?

Perce



That does not sound like a smart combination. I hope you just used that
as an example. Garage circuits are on a GFCI anyway. Refrigerators and
freezers should be as isolated as possible from a practical point, but
if I had them on a circuit easily tripped, I'd want a night lite or
something that would let me know the circuit is out.

I cannot imagine having to pull out a fridge to reset the GFCI tripped
by some other source such as a power surge.