Recent content by mrjohnson24

Thanks for these informative responses, suggestions and feedback, folks. I'm truly grateful. I received confirmation from Eaton this morning that BRC and BRL breakers should work with my panel. The BRC breakers with AFCI only are cheaper with my Lowe's discount so I figured I'd start with two...

Yep - I have that as well.

Thats probably the reason - my laundry area is in/attached to the current garage space. Amador county, CA. My apologies - will fix my profile to include that information.

Nope - the garage is being used as a garage. The NEC 2014 requires arc fault resistance for the space (according to the county/inspector/rulebook he showed me).

Thanks! I just got off the phone with Platt, and essentially they said the same thing. Apparently there isn't a compatibility issue between "BR" and "BRL", and BRL is just a newer (< 6 mo old) breaker that works with BR-compatible panels to be in line with NEC 2014 AFCI requirements. Platt...

Thanks for the response - so then I should plan to replace a tandem breaker with two AFCI breakers, at minimum. Is that correct? And assuming I have an unused breaker spot in the panel, I should be able to proceed with this plan? Is separating the inputs to the tandem breaker and rewiring them...

Appreciate the information, @pattenp, and apologies if my terminology is incorrect. I was thinking that I'd want to have a "dual function AFCI/GFCI breaker" sold by Eaton marked "AF/GF". See here for more...

Hi Folks, long time lurker in these forums, and wanted to ask a question that I'm struggling with and that I'm hoping your collective wisdom will be able to resolve. I apologize if this is too much detail, but the short version is I'm trying to figure out which breakers to buy, and I have some...