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Is it possible to obtain one of these now? I don't see them in the
stores. Actually there is nothing wrong with the one that I have, it's
just that I'd like to add one or two receptacles to mine, but I was
just wondering why I don't see them in the stores now.


GFIC protection is required in bathrooms. These things are not considered
safe. To sell them would entail a lot of potential product liability issues.


So you feed the whole thing off the load side of a GFCI outlet,
or (if you're going on to too many other outlets*) a GFCI breaker.
BFD.

But I can't think of any particular reason why you'd want to add recepticals
to an existing vanity-fixture, rather than just adding a normal duplex box
at each end of the counter. The latter way, all the electric crap that you
leave
plugged in all the time can be shoved off to the ends of the counter,
rather than cluttering up the middle.

--Goedjn

* What's the point of limiting the load-side of a GFCI outlet to
4 additional devices, anyway? It's not like you can't suck the
whole 20 amps out of one plug down the line with a hair-dryer..
Is it just so that you don't have to hunt back through 12 boxes
to find the problem when it blows?