http://blog.nema.org/blogs/currents/archive/2008/12/15/electrical-safety-ohio-back-on-track.aspxCommon sense won the day as the Ohio Board of Building Standards voted for a second time to adopt the 2008 National Electrical Code (NEC) on December 12 th . This cleared up a confused year in which Governor Stickland succumbed to pressure from the HomeenCommunityServer 2008.5 (Debug Build: 30929.2835)http://blog.nema.org/blogs/currents/archive/2008/12/15/electrical-safety-ohio-back-on-track.aspx#7638Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:21:43 GMT1447dd18-a85e-48e6-bb73-6fd9ba4b7540:7638Matt<p>Electrical saftey is always good. That beeing said, with regards to arc fault breakers. Untill someone show&#39;s me test results that suggest we have a problem with new home&#39;s having arc fault fires, the code adoption is &nbsp;frutel efort. I can see the benefit for older homes, but new homes? Not sold on that at all. The cost of a new home has gone threw the roof, so now on an average home add another $500 in the name of saftey, common sense?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blog.nema.org/aggbug.aspx?PostID=7638" width="1" height="1">