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GFI is part of the electrical code, unfortunately. I'm at the electrical phase of my shop building, and the electrician I hired to do my panel connection is the local community college instructor for electrical code. He taught me a few things while I helped him pull wire about GFI. A GFI breaker is the best way to go, but they cost $70 each, so that's a grand on breakers right there. For $20 per circuit, you can use a standard breaker and run a single heavy duty GFI outlet first in line in series with cheap, regular grounded outlets. It isn't necessary to have a GFI outlet on every receptacle. You can use the money saved ($50 per circuit!) for something else that you actually want in your shop. That may help with the number of senseless GFI trips. For the record, I hate GFI outlets. My Oster beard trimmer tripped the one in my bathroom three times the other day, and that's a 20 watt double-insulated power tool.