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There have been a request in my apartment building for adding few plugs to recharge some electrical bicycle,
and my landlord would like to get some high level recommendations for adding some outlets in a bicycle storage room.
This storage is located at floor level, not an underground basement, there is a lockable door and some air vents.
The building is quite old (build around 1970 may be) and I believe that there now new codes requiring
using GFCI outlets in a garage, even if the outlets are not located outside or in an underground basement.
The first question I have is to determine in this situation if you can:
- Install some GFCI outlets with regular circuit breakers, or
- Install some regular outlets with GFCI circuit breakers, or
- If you have to use both GFCI outlets and GFCI circuit breakers?
The second question I have is that there are various types of electrical shock protection,
which start to be quite confusing, so I wonder what would be necessary and recommend among the following:
The last question would be concerning the requirement to have any proper smoke detection, extinguishers…,
because of the electrical bicycles?
and my landlord would like to get some high level recommendations for adding some outlets in a bicycle storage room.
This storage is located at floor level, not an underground basement, there is a lockable door and some air vents.
The building is quite old (build around 1970 may be) and I believe that there now new codes requiring
using GFCI outlets in a garage, even if the outlets are not located outside or in an underground basement.
The first question I have is to determine in this situation if you can:
- Install some GFCI outlets with regular circuit breakers, or
- Install some regular outlets with GFCI circuit breakers, or
- If you have to use both GFCI outlets and GFCI circuit breakers?
The second question I have is that there are various types of electrical shock protection,
which start to be quite confusing, so I wonder what would be necessary and recommend among the following:
- GFCI
- AFCI
- CAFCI
- Dual Function (GFCI+AFCI)
- ...
- AFCI
- CAFCI
- Dual Function (GFCI+AFCI)
- ...
The last question would be concerning the requirement to have any proper smoke detection, extinguishers…,
because of the electrical bicycles?