[132935] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Want to move to all 208V for server racks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Dec 2 19:22:45 2010
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 19:21:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <op.vm3zluzttfhldh@rbeam.xactional.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
>
> Just because someone is selling them doesn't mean they meet building
> codes. (esp. for residential use.) None of the dozen or so licensed
> electricians I've ever talked to will use them.
The breakers, I assume you mean.
> None of my local Lowes stock anything you'd use in a home. (60A
> breakers?) [of course, their website does lie.] And some of those available
> online are not UL listed.
>
> I know the one's I've seen installed (circa 1980) were delisted -- GE
> sent notice to the electricians that installed them.
This page: http://www.hilo-electric.com/blank?pageid=63 suggests that 2008
code still *permits* them, but neither it nor the concurring Wikipedia
article mentions then category having been delisted or manufacture-decontinued.
And indeed, I had little luck with Google trying to find evidence of mass
delistings of GFCI breakers.
Cheers,
-- jr 'are we off-topic enough, now? :-)' a
