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Posted by Jay Stootzmann on June 10, 2006, 1:48 pm
Have you considered running the outdoor lamp post from a seperate breaker on
you pannel? That would be the way I would prefer to go.
In addition to Kitchen, Bathrooms, and Outside outlets it would probably be
a good idea to have garage and basement circuits on GFCI's. After I bought
my house the builder only had installed GFCI's on the bathrooms and the
garage so I added it to all the kitchen, laundry room, dinnet room off the
kitchen, outside outlets, and basement circuits. I also had to rewire one
bathroom because it's GFCI was improperly wired.
> There was a lamp post in my front yard that the previous owners removed
> and buried the cable. I am going to put the lamp post back in. When I
> traced the electrical for the circuit that was previously used I found
> that the cable is on the same circuit that also services the door light
> and several outlets in my family room. The breaker in the panel for this
> circuit is non-gfci. I intend to replace the existing breaker with a GFCI
> breaker.
>
> 1.) Is there any issue with having a GFCI breaker and the other outlets
> including the lamp post on the same circuit?
> 2.) Also, if GFCI is so much safer than traditional breakers than how come
> they are only used in specific places (Kitchen, Bathroom, Outside). Why
> not use them everywhere? I assume the answer is probably cost, but when
> building a home is it really that much of a cost difference when looking
> at the larger total?
>
> Amy
>
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