That's what breakers are for - shorts. GFCIs are for quick blows for things like.... dropping something in water. I still don't understand why it would be required in a tower building.
On 3/16/12 11:11 AM, Justin Wilson wrote: > But what happens if something shorts and it's traced down to the fact > you removed the GFCI. I would not want to bet my business on it. I would > have an outlet hardwired into a nema box. That should satisfy code, but > I would check. > > Justin > > From: "Marlon K. Schafer (509-982-2181)" <o...@odessaoffice.com > <mailto:o...@odessaoffice.com>> > Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org > <mailto:wireless@wispa.org>> > Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:00:39 -0700 > To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org <mailto:wireless@wispa.org>> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Preventing stupid outages > > Yeah. Drop the GFCI. > If an inspector whines about it get his home phone and tell him > he'll have to meet you at the site every time it goes down because > the GFCI technology is so worthless. It won't take but 2 trips and > he'll beg you to take them out! > And if you think it's bad now. Just wait till you have to put in arc > fault breakers everywhere. The whole house has to have them > nowadays. Can't even run a shop vac in my house if it's in one of > the rooms with an arc fault. Half my skill saws won't work etc. > Good ideas, both. Rotten overly sensitive implementation. > The market for used arc faults will be huge sooner than later. Every > homeowner with a screw driver will pull them all out and put in > normal breakers :-). > The NEC is getting to be worse than the dept. of ecology! > marlon > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Troy Settle <mailto:tset...@thewiredroad.net> > *To:* wireless@wispa.org <mailto:wireless@wispa.org> > *Sent:* Friday, March 16, 2012 6:04 AM > *Subject:* [WISPA] Preventing stupid outages > > Ok, so to keep to code, we have a GFCI outlet for most of our > towers. One of them tripped last night, causing me to have to > put on some 80 miles just to push a button (yes, it could have > been much worse). > > Is there anything to prevent stupid outages like this from > happening without violating code? > > Thanks, > > -- > > Troy Settle, Network Administrator > > The Wired Road Authority > > 1117 E. Stuart Dr. > > Galax, VA 24333 > > (276) 238-0049 (office) > > (276) 237-3890 (cell) > > tset...@thewiredroad.net <mailto:tset...@thewiredroad.net> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org <mailto:Wireless@wispa.org> > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing > list Wireless@wispa.org <mailto:Wireless@wispa.org> > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
