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GFCI stickers?

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#1 ·
I noticed when I installed my new outlets in my garage, the GFCI came with little stickers. Do these need to be placed on the load side outlet plates to meet NEC, or can I just toss them?
 
#4 · (Edited)
if you use the GFCI as the first rec on a circuit ,with no equipment grounding conductor, and put the rest of the rec on the load side of the GFCI then you would need to place a sticker on each rec stating GFCI protected, no equipment ground. Then you can put three prong rec in place of a two prong rec and still be following the code
 
#7 ·
the reason you don't see them in new houses is because new houses are required to have equipment ground run with the circuits. the sticker is used when replacing two prong rec with three prong rec and installing a GFCI ahead of all the other rec a lot of old houses do not have equipment grounds
 
#11 ·
Dave I was just clarifying the sticker requirement on GFCI'd circuits/receptacles that do not have an equipment ground. If no equiment ground exists, the code is clear that two stickers are required on each receptacle. That does in fact include the GFCI receptacle device itself. Technicality? Kind of dumb? Yes, but the code is clear on its requirement.
 
#13 ·
What is interesting is how many people post questions on this site, the first responses to which are "look for a GFCI nearby that has tripped."(meaning that the receptacle in question that is not working is being fed from a neardby GFCI receptacle.). What I find interesting is that there is nothing in the NEC that requires labeling for load-connected receptacles to indicate where the upstream GFCI is located (that has potential to de-energize the downstream loads).

In the end, Joe homeowner would not necessarily know what that label meant anyhow. Still, I find it odd that the electrical code does not require such labeling.

FWIW, in my house, I always note (using a Sharpe marker) the circuit breakers serving the circuits contained in each box along the way.

Jimmy
 
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