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Originally Posted by gshase
I have been told by several electricians that the life span of a GFCI is about 10 years. After this they either trip easily or may stop tripping all together. I have a general comment about this in every report. The same goes for GFCI & AFCI breakers. I have also noticed that in 9-11year old homes there seem to be at least 2-3 GFCI outlets that are not functioning properly.
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What!? No one knows this, I mean no normal homeowner knows he needs to test or replace his GFCI outlets and breakers every ten years.does this mean there are tens of millions of faulty GFCI outlets out there?