GFCI recep spitting fire

[jumper]

Aww I was serious. If they trip with out reason the 2014 kitchen ( refridge) requirements are going to be a real problem.

I was serious. I do not think they all work exactly the same and I have not seen any real great explanatory info on them unlike the GFCI and its technology. See kwired's statement below.

Sad thing is he was pretty much correct. They supposedly look for particular patterns in the current wave form that could potentially be result of an arcing fault, but sounds like if you go from one Mfgr. to another they do not all look for exactly the same particular patterns.

 

[K8MHZ]

I was serious. I do not think they all work exactly the same and I have not seen any real great explanatory info on them unlike the GFCI and its technology. See kwired's statement below.

Here is some good info. Not as detailed as I would like, but still, more than I knew about AFCI's before I found this info on Sq. D's. web site.

http://static.schneider-electric.us...ault Circuit Interrupters-AFCI/0760DB0204.pdf

http://products.schneider-electric....bination-arcfault-circuit-interrupters/#tab=2

Edit to add: This is probably the very best info I have seen about AFCI's. Probably enough to start a separate thread about them.

http://www.pfeiffereng.com/The Arc Fault Circuit Interrupter.pdf