Outdoor Outlets - Want The Best!

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Scotty13

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I recently purchased a condo a block away from the beach in S. Florida.
I'm looking to replace my patio outlets with the best on the market. (Home Dept, Loews or online) I need a 4 geng & waterproof. Can you recommend what I should get?
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One block from the beach and the salt air will cause havoc on just about everything let alone the S Florida high humidity. Anywhere you can replace the receptacle boxes with heavy duty PVC and glued joints. Use GFCI for outdoor use and ones rated at 20 amps even if you have 15 amp circuits and weather resistant outlets for any down stream outlet from the GFCI's. They're just more robust and use plastic outlet covers. Besure that the foam seals for outlet covers are on correctly. You can use silicone grease to put a very thin layer over any exposed wires such as the side screws of all the outlets and switches to minimize salt air corrosion. All this and you'll probably will need to change the outlets every few years due to corrosion.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Leviton-...I-Duplex-Outlet-White-R62-WT899-0KW/202993877
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Cooper-W...al-Duplex-Outlet-White-TWRBR20W-SPL/203492706
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Hubbell-...herproof-In-Use-Cover-Clear-MM2420C/100181101
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Super-Lube-3-oz-Tube-Silicone-Hi-Dielectric-Vacuum-Grease-91003/202932695
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Cannot use orange outlets unless you connect the neutral and ground at the receptacle. Orange outlets generally means that it's on a circuit with an isolated ground or in many cases in computer rooms its on a UPS.

From http://electrical.about.com/od/receptaclesandoutlets/a/isolated_receptacles.htm

"Wiring an isolated-ground receptacle isn't all that difficult. You'll need a three wire NM cable with a ground wire. The black wire connects to the brass-colored terminal, the white wire connects to the silver-colored terminal, the bare ground wire connects to the box ground screw, and the red wire will connect to the isolated-ground receptacle's ground screw. This ground screw is unlike those on other receptacles. What I mean is this ground screw is not physically connected to the grounding plate, only to the rounded ground holes of the two receptacle slots."
 

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Not all waterproof covers are created equal, so check them out carefully.
 

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