2 prongers to GFIC at Main panel

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#1

Originally Posted By: abishop
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If a home has 2 prong outlets and some have been converted to 3 prong but show open ground … could you add the GFI to the panel and not add GFI at each outlet? Yes, the main panel is Circuit breakers.


Thanks

#2

Originally Posted By: bbadger
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Yes, the plugs are required to marked no ground present GFCI protected.



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406.3(D)(3)(c)A nongrounding-type receptacle(s) shall be permitted to be replaced with a grounding-type receptacle(s) where supplied through a ground-fault circuit interrupter. Grounding-type receptacles supplied through the ground-fault circuit interrupter shall be marked ?GFCI Protected? and ?No Equipment Ground.? An equipment grounding conductor shall not be connected between the grounding-type receptacles.


#3

Originally Posted By: pdickerson
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If this has been done in a home, and there is a three prong standard outlet protected by an upstream GFCI on an ungrounded circuit, and there is no sticker the at standard outlet indicating GFCI protection, is there any way an HI can determine if there is GFCI proection?

#4

Originally Posted By: Greg Fretwell
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Trip the GFCI that is supposed to protect the circuit and see if the outlet is dead. That is how the code inspectors test AFCIs. They trip all the AFCIs and then <spot> check bedroom outlets.

#5

Originally Posted By: bking
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You can just report the presence of the GFCI breaker and that the actual outlets served is unknown and recommend that it be determined by further testing. Or after you trip the breaker during the inspection, leave it off and go around and find the outlets that were previously powered and now unpowered.


Either way should satisfy any SOP.