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Arc Fault Circuit Protection Its Purpose
Every year thousands of fires occur in homes due to electrical arcing. Electrical arcing is extremely hot, and can cause carpet, wall board, timber framing to burst into flames. The national fire protection association, NFPA for short, determined several years ago that the major cause of arcing based fires occurred in bedrooms. now the NFPA 70 (national electrical code) requires that all single family homes(dwelling units) have arc fault protection for the entire bedroom circuit, for all outlets in the bedroom, that means all switches, plugs(receptacles) light fixtures, be protected by an arc fault device.
