There are some other things concern me about tamper resistant receptacles and AFCIs:

1. My experience is that a number of solid state components do not last that much longer than industrial grade vacuum tubes or at best about as long as the vacuum tubes that went into undersea telephone cables.

Solid state components do undergo types of wear and tear. Even at room temperature, the itty bitty metal wires in integrated circuits have enough metal atoms undergo diffusion through solid materials that some chips particularly digital to analog converters die at about 10 to 12 years of age even if never used.

2. A sprinkler system protects against a much broader range of fire hazards than AFCIs. For that matter, so would a real fire and burglar alarm system. I would rather put money into a fire alarm system or a sprinkler system.

3. The residential tamper resistant receptacles can be defeated using 2 small screwdrivers. Essentially, they are a LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would like to test some 5 yedar olds and 10 year olds and give them 2 screwdrivers each and see how long it takes them to figure this out.

4. Pass & Seymour is so far the only manufacturer that has come up with a cheap tamper resistant receptacle. The illogic is that if P&S can do it, so can somebody else.