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ghterve@lemmy.world 3 months ago
After realizing both shavers and cordless toothbrush chargers are going this route, I gave in and installed these in the bathroom
Leviton T5632-BW R02-T5632-0Bw… www.amazon.com/dp/B002DQT22G?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_s…
Beartotem@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
The electrical code require using GFCI outlet for outlets within a certain distance of water source. I don’t remember precisely the distance (and it likely vary a bit by jurisdiciton), but i know that in my bathroom, there’s nowhere beyond it.
In order to use that sort of outlet in a bathroom like mine, it would have to have GFCI protection as well as USB, be a second outlet wired to the GFCI protected terminal of a GFCI outlet, or be wired to a circuit breaker with GFCI protection built in, in the electrical panel.
ghterve@lemmy.world 3 months ago
In all my cases where I installed those, the GFCI protection is upstream in another outlet somewhere or at the breaker. You don’t need actual GFCI outlets at each location. One GFCI outlet can protect a whole circuit.
Jyek@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
If you have more than one outlet in your bathroom and only one is GFCI, they are likely already wired downstream of the protected outlet and will be protected.