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ground fault and shunt trip devices in commercial kitchens

ground fault and shunt trip devices in commercial kitchens

ground fault and shunt trip devices in commercial kitchens

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If you are suppose to shunt trip any 125v devices underneath an exhaust hood, and all 125v, 15-20amp devices in the same kitchen shall be protected by ground fault devices (breakers or receptacles), Then what do you do when you have a device that falls under both of thos rules and requires shunt tripping because of being underneath the hood, but in the other hand, also requires ground fault protection. I really didn't want to use a GFCI receptacle on a shunt trip breaker because that would locate the GFCI receptacle behind a rather large gas stove (where it would be very hard to reset should it trip)

RE: ground fault and shunt trip devices in commercial kitchens

So if the receptacle is going to be hard to reset, won't it be hard to use in the first place?  Maybe it's in the wrong place.  GFCI breakers are a pain in neck in general.  Can you feed through from another GFCI receptacle to this one?  

RE: ground fault and shunt trip devices in commercial kitchens

You can also get "Blank" GFCI devices that fit like receptacles but don't have the holes and are used to provide GFCI protection for a receptacle at a different location.  GFCI breakers are just trouble and almost never the best solution.

If you need to shunt trip more than just a handful of circuits it may be less expensive, and far simpler, to have a panel dedicated to shunt trip load and just shunt trip the panel main.

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