Want to move to all 208V for server racks

Nathan Stratton nathan at robotics.net
Thu Dec 2 22:26:51 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Ricky Beam wrote:

> On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:39:16 -0500, Kevin Day <toasty at dragondata.com> wrote:
>> You can get breakers with GFIs built into them(called GFCIs), but they're 
>> favored less than putting them at the outlet. ...
>
> I think they are now a violation of the NEC.  And they were delisted by UL 
> years ago.  They pose a hazard as they will not react fast enough to prevent 
> a fatal shock. (and the only one's I've ever seen were outlawed as the 
> breaker itself was a fire hazard.)

They are????

Bought some at Grainger the other day..

http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/search.shtml?searchQuery=GFCI+breaker&op=search&Ntt=GFCI+breaker&N=0&sst=subset

Home Depot also must have missed this:

http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?keyword=gfci+breaker&langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053

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