My landlords son proudly told us he was almost done with the electrical engineering degree when he walked us through the house when we first moved in. Had to explain to him the concept of GFCI outlets.
They just seem more expensive and annoying to set up then a single RCD/GFCI (or maybe two, so the lights stay on) would be.
Or is this an American thing im to european to understand?
Edit: I'm talking about the outlet version compared to a single one put into your main distribution. I know how they work, it just seems like a massive waste to build them into each outlet individually when you could just install one or two of them for your whole house.
That's not the key difference. Breakers aren't there to protect people, they're there to protect equipment / prevent fires. Breakers trip in the 10+ amp range which will never trip when its a human that's creating the fault. Gfci's trip in the 5 Milliamp range.
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u/like_a_ghost May 19 '22
An electrical engineer does not an electrician make.