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Old 4/19/11, 9:33 PM
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Default Re: Minimum Height from the ground for gfci

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Is this too low?


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Well, an earthquake is a "ground fault"!!



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and it would stop earthquakes dead in their tracks, as a GFCI is a Ground Fault Interrupter..



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