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Is it important to have an AFCI breaker installed in your home?

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Question: Is it important to have an AFCI breaker installed in your home?
Top Answer (92% of 38 votes): Very important.

Answer: Very important
Explanation: The code now requires it most living spaces in a home. If you're home was built after 2010, it is wired so it can be protected if it's prior to 2010, you can get art receptacles because. Internet protected with a breaker unless once you rewire your wholehome
Alltypes electric llc
Answer: Very important
Explanation: the National Electrical Code (NEC) requires AFCIs to be installed in almost every room in newly built houses.
Ross Electric Company
Answer: Very important
Explanation: The National Electrical Code has changed and now requires that new residential construction will have either AFCI or GFCI protection on the majority of all circuits in a house. Since the AFCI breaker is designed to monitor arc's in a wiring system, they will trip and disconnect power going to a particular circuit. This will reduce the possibility of a fire hazard.
Electrical Services Plus LLC
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Answer: Very important
Explanation: They are the most modern protection a home can have. It is important to understand that they don't usually protect against poorly installed or aged systems.
Aegis Electric LLC
Answer: Very important
Explanation: NEC requires AFCI breakers
Electrical Services Inc.
Answer: Very important
Explanation: AFCI breakers are Arch Fault Circuit Breakers intended to be installed for bed room, ect wiring (outlets, switch's, lights, ect)Romex wiring inside the walls can arch for quite a time before it ignites its surroundings. The AFCI circuit breaker senses this arch and trips more rapidly then standard breakers. Grounding for both breakers are the key here. Electricity will all ways take the least resistance to ground
D B Electric
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Answer: Very important
Explanation: New code requirements make it so that all circuits in a home be protected by a arc fault and or GFCI protection
Seabreeze Electric
Answer: Very important
Explanation: Nec require AFCI in each bedroom
Gacem Electric
Answer: Very important
Explanation: Safety and code complaint for new installations.
Kristoff Electric
ProMatcher
Answer: Very important
Explanation: with each code cycle they are required in more locations
Jove Electric
Answer: Very important
Explanation: According to the national electrical code it is important and required when any new work is preformed, and in newer homes.
LED Electrical Services
Answer: Not important
Explanation: We didn't need them in the last 100 years why do we need them now ? They trip most of the time when you turn on the vacuum, I think they are worthless and a waste of money but they are required.
DiBiagio Electrical Construction llc
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Related Questions

Can an electrician install a phone jack?Top answer: In most cases

True or False: It is harder to install a combination AFCI than a branch AFCI.Top answer: No significant difference

How often does a home typically need to be rewired?Top answer: Over 20 years

Is it safe to install my own GFCI outlet?Top answer: No

Is rewiring necessary after an arc fault flash occurs? Top answer: Sometimes



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