As temperatures heat up across the country, efforts by states, homebuilders, HVAC contractors, and others to sidestep a 2020 National Electrical Code (NEC) requirement linked to worrisome cases of repeated tripping of GFCI breakers on newly installed HVAC units have been following suit.
To date, review committee procedures of The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), the body that develops NFPA 70 (i.e., the NEC), have rejected proposals to change the Code’s requirement.