GRADE 12 - ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE

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Quarter: 1st Week: 11 SSLM No. 11

ELC(s): Select the wiring devices used for floor and ground fault current interrupter
Objectives :
● Identify types of ground fault circuit interrupters
● Draw power lay-out for ground fault circuit interrupters installation
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Let Us Discover

How to Select Wiring Devices

1. Select a known industry manufacturer.

2. Look for a multi-year product warranty.
3. Make sure that there is an easy and clear way to contact the manufacturer support.
4. Check for a connected equipment damage warranty.
5. Always ask for the manufacturer's manual.
6. Select wiring devices which are well-made and durable.
7. Ease of use and installation.
8. Select wiring devices according to job requirements.

GROUND FAULT CIRCUIT INTERRUPTER (GFCI) INFORMATION

As well as those in the kitchens, outdoor receptacles, bathrooms, and everywhere else near
water, the ground fault should be form of interrupting circuit (GFCI).

A GFCI is a circuit interrupter with a ground fault. It is, modestly speaking, a priced electrical
device when mounted in electrical circuits for residential use. two-thirds of the approximately
300 electrocutions that occur in and around the home.

The GFCI is designed to protect individuals and pets from serious and extreme
a fatal electric shock, occasionally.

HOW GFCI WORKS

The GFCI interrupts power within milliseconds to prevent a lethal dose of electricity.

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A Classic Example of the GFCI at Work

If the toaster is plugged in, the housing is charged with electricity. (You are cleaning the kitchen
and moving counter top items around.) When you touch the toaster housing with one hand
while the other hand is touching a grounded metal object, like a kitchen faucet, you will receive
a life-threatening shock! If the toaster was plugged into a GFCI protected outlet, the power
would have been turned off before a fatal shock was delivered through your body.

TYPES OF GROUND FAULT CIRCUIT INTERRUPTERS

Receptacle GFCI. This GFCI is used in place of a regular wall outlet or "duplex receptacle".

This GFCI is normally found throughout the house in places like bathrooms, kitchens, garages,
outdoor areas and other locations where damp conditions do or could exist.

Temporary/Portable GFCI. When permanent GFCls are not practical, temporary GFCls are
used. Temporary GFCIs contain the GFCI circuitry in an enclosure with plug prongs at the
back and receptacle plugs in front. It can be plugged into an unprotected outlet, then the
electrical appliance/device is plugged into the temporary GFCI.

Circuit Breaker GFCI: Residences equipped with

circuit breakers can have circuit breaker GFCI
protection installed in the panel box to give
protection for specific circuits. The circuit breaker
GFCI serves two functions. The circuit breaker GFCI
will shut off power to the circuit in the instance of a
ground fault plus the GFCI protected circuit breaker
will turn power off if a short circuit or overload is
detected.

NEC Provisions on Installing Wiring Devices

This section has been revised to require GFCI protection for receptacles installed within 6 feet
of laundry sinks, wet bar sinks and utility
sinks in dwelling units. This requirement
previously applied only to receptacles
installed in countertop surfaces within 6 feet
of wet
bar sinks.

Revised text to require all 15 and 20A, 220v

receptacles within 6 ft of the dwelling unit laundry or utility sink to be GFCI protected. This is
because irons, hair dryers and similar items with ungrounded polarized and non-polarized cord
caps are commonly used in this area and present the same shock hazard found in other areas
where the NEC currently requires GFCI protection.

⮚ The GFCI protection requirement for commercial kitchens was clarified by adding a
definition of a kitchen. New requirement expands the GFCI protection requirements for 15
or 20A, 220V receptacles to include receptacles located outdoors that are accessible to
the public. And new requirement expands the GFCI protection requirements for the
required 15 or 20A, 220V receptacle for heating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration
equipment

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⮚ The rule specifies that GFCI protection is required for "outlets" that supply boat hoists, not
just "receptacle outlet." This will ensure GFCI protection regardless of whether the unit's
cord and plug-connected or hard-wired.

Let Us Try

Activity 1: What Type?

Directions: Given the list of wiring devices below, select what type of wiring devices
they belong, follow the format given.

Wiring Devices Types

1. GFCI _____________________________________
2. Toggle _____________________________________
3. Flat Cord _____________________________________
4. Polarized _____________________________________
5. Outlet _____________________________________
6. Rotary _____________________________________
7. Magnetic ____________________________________-
8. Cable ____________________________________

Let Us Do

Activity 2: Let’s Enumerate

Directions: Use another paper for your answer
1-3 Give the different types of GFCI.
4-11 How do you select wiring devices?
12-16 What are the different types of wiring devices?
17-19 Give areas in your household a GFCI outlet installed.

Let Us Apply

Activity 3: Draw me
Directions: Draw a power lay-out where GFCI installed and in accordance with NEC
Provisions on Installing Wiring Devices. Draw in a separate clean coupon band
short.

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 Rubrics

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 References

● Max B. Fajardo Jr. & Leo R. Fajardo. Electrical Layout and Estimate, 2nd Edition.
● Azares, Efren F. and Recana, Cirilo B. Practical Electricity III; Adriana Publishing:
1999.
● Roland E. Palmquist. Audel House Wiring, 7th Edition.
● www.doityourself.com/stry/typeselectricbox-cached
● www.ehow.com/how_2222734_install-gfci-receptacle.html
● rona.ca/content/installing.gfci-ground_fault_circuit_interrupter
www.osha.gov

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