AFCI vs GFCI Receptacle for Bedroom

[KULTULZ]

Neither AFCI nor GFCI will protect from overload or short circuit. This is the job of the breaker.

Now...GFI on ungrounded circuits DOES provide an added level of safety, AND on the LOAD side of a GFI breaker or receptacle you can install 3-prong receptacles. This is a code complaint alternative to re-wiring.

That said, AFCI will provide an even additional level of safety, but with such older wiring you may get more than normal nuisance tripping.

If you were going to protect the wiring with AFCI you would want to change the breakers to include all the wires not just the outlet. With and older house that is likely going to include a new breaker box.

This man knows of what he speaks... :

 

[frodo]

With maybe 100M dwellings and 330M people in the U.S. this is not a big safety hazard. Vehicle deaths are about 30K per year and tobacco related deaths are ~500 per day.

But, in any case, how has this changed from what the numbers were before AFCIs?

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I think we need to pass new laws to ban cars, and tobacco products, hammers also, they are killing people