Comments on: GFCI Types, Testing and Hazards http://www.checkthishouse.com/gfci-types-testing-and-hazards.html Help and advice on house maintenance, repairs, remodeling projects for home owners, buyers, from your Illinois home inspector Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:55:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: admin http://www.checkthishouse.com/gfci-types-testing-and-hazards.html/comment-page-1#comment-843 admin Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:54:37 +0000 http://www.checkthishouse.com/?p=2686#comment-843 It's not about finding devices that can be used with small size aluminum wiring. It's about your safety and code requirements - in 1975, the NEC prohibited the use of single conductor aluminum wiring smaller than #8 (smaller gauges are #10, #12...). Pigtailing and / or installation of CO/ALR switches and outlets is not considered acceptable by Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPCS). So, in order to correctly install this new GFCI outlet receptacle, the electrical wiring should be replaced with a copper one, or the existing aluminum wire circuit should be repaired with a COPALUM parallel splice connector.

It’s not about finding devices that can be used with small size aluminum wiring. It’s about your safety and code requirements – in 1975, the NEC prohibited the use of single conductor aluminum wiring smaller than #8 (smaller gauges are #10, #12…). Pigtailing and / or installation of CO/ALR switches and outlets is not considered acceptable by Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPCS). So, in order to correctly install this new GFCI outlet receptacle, the electrical wiring should be replaced with a copper one, or the existing aluminum wire circuit should be repaired with a COPALUM parallel splice connector.

]]> By: richard stanley http://www.checkthishouse.com/gfci-types-testing-and-hazards.html/comment-page-1#comment-838 richard stanley Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:58:05 +0000 http://www.checkthishouse.com/?p=2686#comment-838 Does anyone make a GFCI receptacle that can be used with aluminum wiring --- Or must I use a pigtail connection and add an additional box to accommdate the larger GFCI receptacle ?

Does anyone make a GFCI receptacle that can be used with aluminum wiring — Or must I use a pigtail connection and add an additional box to accommdate the larger GFCI receptacle ?

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