Calling all Electricians: Does any company make quad gfic recepticals?

[thespeakerbox]

I've seen doubles used together then covered by a quad faceplate, but never a quad receptical. Anyone know if they do, indeed, make quad recepticles?

 

[Squisher]

Why would you even have a double? You could gang some Decora outlets on the load side that would all be protected by the one GFCI and would have a sameness to their looks.

 

[Rubycon]

No they just put two duplexes in an 1800 box. Also GFCI receptacles protect anything downstream of them.

 

[thespeakerbox]

"You could gang some Decora outlets on the load side that would be all protected by the one GFCI and would have a sameness to their looks. "

Can you explain what that means?

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: thespeakerbox
"You could gang some Decora outlets on the load side that would be all protected by the one GFCI and would have a sameness to their looks. "

Can you explain what that means?

On the back of a GFCI there are set of connections taped over with yellow tape. Anything hooked up to those connections will be protected by the GFCI too.

Decora outlets have one large square face cutout on their covers (similar to the GFCI) rather than the two of a normal duplex outlet.

 

[BigJ]

The ONLY thing I've ever seen like you were talking about is something like this:
http://www.lindequipment.net/GFCImult.htm

MS Dawn explained what Squisher meant. Anything on the run "after" the GFCI is going to be protected by the GFCI and trip it if there is a problem.

Why would you even want a quad outlet receptacle? If it exists, it'd be extremely costly up front, and extremely costly to replace.

 

[91TTZ]

Make sure you get one with a flux capacitor if you're going to use it for mobile use.

 

[DrPizza]

why not just get a GFCI breaker and protect the entire circuit?

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
why not just get a GFCI breaker and protect the entire circuit?

GFCI outlet = 5~6 bucks
GFCI breaker = 60+ bucks

Anything downstream of the one GFCI outlet is protected, in any case.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: skyking

Originally posted by: DrPizza
why not just get a GFCI breaker and protect the entire circuit?

GFCI outlet = 5~6 bucks
GFCI breaker = 60+ bucks

Anything downstream of the one GFCI outlet is protected, in any case.

Where are you buying your GFCI breakers? At max, they should only be costing you $40 for a 15A. Now if we're talking Arch Fault, that's a different story.

 

[skyking]

Local hardware stores, that is the price for a square D commercial line. I have not checked the 'homeowner' line for Square D.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: skyking

Originally posted by: DrPizza
why not just get a GFCI breaker and protect the entire circuit?

GFCI outlet = 5~6 bucks
GFCI breaker = 60+ bucks

Anything downstream of the one GFCI outlet is protected, in any case.

Originally posted by: skyking
Local hardware stores, that is the price for a square D commercial line. I have not checked the 'homeowner' line for Square D.

Where the hell are you buying GFCI breakers for $60?! Run to menards, they are $12. even arc fault breakers aren't that bad. Square D arc fault breakers are about $40, I installed 2 about 6 months ago and I was pissed off that I needed to pay $39. You need to find a new store.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Where the hell are you buying GFCI breakers for $60?! Run to menards, they are $12. even arc fault breakers aren't that bad. Square D arc fault breakers are about $40, I installed 2 about 6 months ago and I was pissed off that I needed to pay $39. You need to find a new store.

$12 for a GFCI Circuit Breaker? :Q

The lowest I've ever seen 'em at Hardware Stores was for about ~$30.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: Evadman

Where the hell are you buying GFCI breakers for $60?! Run to menards, they are $12. even arc fault breakers aren't that bad. Square D arc fault breakers are about $40, I installed 2 about 6 months ago and I was pissed off that I needed to pay $39. You need to find a new store.

$12 for a GFCI Circuit Breaker? :Q

The lowest I've ever seen 'em at Hardware Stores was for about ~$30.

I got 2 GFCI's for my workbench in the garage. They were cutler-hammer brand (I think that's how you spell it) the GFCI recepticals I used for another part of the garage (on a regular circuit breaker) were $7 (I think) from harber freight. They were more expensive at depot.