[TowerTalk] outlet ground problems and shack grounds updating info needed please.

[Jim Brown]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:16:41 -0400, Pete Smith wrote:

>I was advised by 
>my contractor that putting a GFCI outlet at the point in the circuit 
>nearest the breaker would adequately protect all the other outlets on 
>the circuit (this, however, was before our county had a building code).

That is generally permitted, and is pretty common. For example, a kitchen 
or bath may have a GFCI at the first outlet (from the panel) and ordinary 
outlets daisy-chained from it. 

73, Jim K9YC