"to protect them"
The arc detection is to protect you from house fires, but I doubt these things have made a significant change from when we didn't have them & we relied on common sense.
"AFCIs have proven so effective at preventing electrical fires that the National Electrical Code (NEC) requires AFCIs to be installed in almost every room in newly built houses."
Show me the
numbers in a
sworn statement, guys. . .
Appliances are not generally flammable.
They also want GFCIs in car washes even tho Mike Holt said there has never been an incident in car washes.
In any case, I hope you don't need this.
https://www.familyhandyman.com/article/fix-a-sensitive-arc-fault-circuit-breaker/
I believe I know why GFCIs are required in car washes.
It’s not a conspiracy because it is not a crime to sell people something they don’t really need.
If car washes can get by without GCFIs where one would think they are desperately needed, this is an advertisement to the whole world that
maybe they are not really needed, at all, anywhere.
If these things are installed & still no electrocutions, the GCFI vendors can then claim that it is partly or wholly due to the use of GFCIs.
And because of the Moral Hazard, you might actually get more electrocutions.
Not that I can do anything about all this.