GFCI again

BTW,GFCIs are called here RCCBs-Residual Current Circuit Breaker.The term in greek would be literally greek to you.They can be wired either way-load up and supply down or the other way.

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So what are RCD protected socket outlets ?

sQuick..

In the UK we have both types. Our GFCI outlets are expensive though, more expensive than a single GFCI panel breaker, which can cover many outlets.

You can buy plug-in GFCI's here easily, and they're cheap.

That's amazing on this side of the pond you could buy 3-5 GFCI receptacles for the price of one GFCI breaker. And the GFCI outlets can protect downstream non-GFCI receptacles.

Mike. Mike

In the UK, GFCI outlets don't have any connection for downstream protected outlets. It wouldn't make much sense, as our outlets are normally connected in a ring circuit anyway.

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outlets.Only

I've never seen them.

Take a look here

Really?

So if you want to add an outlet you have to loop both sides of the "ring" to the new outlet?

Seens wasteful to me.

Note that in the US, better quality GFCI (still less that $10 each) have ways of chaining with the line or load side. The electrician only has to strip 1/2" of the wire, poke it in the hole, and tighten the screw.

You can add an extra outlet by tapping off the ring, but usually as the ring is fused at 32amps its not wasteful, but safer to take both sides of the ring to every socket.

sQuick..

You don't have to. You can create spurs off the ring. Generally, a newly installed ring won't have any spurs, but later additions are often done that way.

And on the basis that two cables take up little more space than one, rather than taking a spur, you can extend the ring after dividing it at the point that would otherwise have been the spur take-off. But be careful, just as there are limitations on the number of spurs, there are also limitations as to the maximum size of a ring.

Interesting. In the aviation field RCCB stands for Remote Controlled Circuit Breaker.