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A GFCI? A GFCI outlet? A GFCI receptacle? A GFCI protecte receptacle? What?


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A GFCI? A GFCI outlet? A GFCI receptacle? A GFCI protecte receptacle? What?
GFCI Outlet or GFCI receptacle


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Leviton calls it a GFCI receptacle.


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GFCI Outlet or GFCI receptacle


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"Outlet" is not technically correct.


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GFCI protected receptacle
A GFCI protected receptacle describes an ordinary receptacle wired on the load side of a GFCI receptacle.

The actual device which contains the GFCI protective circuits and is also a receptacle is just a "GFCI receptacle".

In instances where the UL refers to this device, they nearly always refer to it with this specific language: "...a ground-fault circuit-interrupting (GFCI) receptacle."
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A GFCI receptacle or device. A GFCI outlet could mean any outlet down stream from the device or GFCI breaker.
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