In a 2015 post, I saw your recommendation to not use AFCI breakers in a horse barn. A local electrician is telling me that I should use a combination GFCI/AFCI because of the water buckets and all the dust, hay, etc. floating around. Is there a code that specifies what we should use?
I don’t know about the combination breakers. You want to use AFCI breakersin circuits on electrical appliances like fans. A fan, whose motor is going bad, won’t trip a GFCI breaker. But it will spark and possibly cause a fire. Anything the horses can reach like heated water buckets I put on a GFCI.
I can separate pretty easily because I run a separate circuit above the stalls for fans. There is a circuit on the front of the stalls for things like water buckets.
As I said I have not used the combo breakers.
