Questions tagged [gfci]
Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter(GFCI). Sometimes known as a GFI, or a residual-current device (RCD or RCCB). Can refer to receptacles as well as circuit breakers. They detect a leak in current, or an imbalance between the current on the hot and neutral wires. This is used to prevent electrical shock. Use with the [electrical] tag
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GFCI Failures when not powered during cold weather
Does anyone know if GFCI failures are common when they are not powered during cold temperatures?
We have an outdoor GFCI outlet in a yard in front of our house. The outlet is controlled by a switch in ...
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GFCI breaker pops only when a specific other breaker is enabled?
My mother had a NEMA 14-50R outlet installed outside her house so I'd have a place to charge my EV. The outlet connects to her breaker panel via a 50 amp 2-pole GFCI breaker. Unfortunately, the ...
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Under sink GFCI outlet wiring - hard-wired dishwasher and switched plug-in disposer_UPDATED
Hard core DIY'er here, but not as savvy with complex home electrical yet. I'm pretty good with most electrical, but before I burn the house down, need someone more qualified to look over my diagram ...
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New GFCI Tamper Resistant Outlet not working
Purchased a new Leviton Tamper-Resistant GFCI Outlet. Installed it and the green light comes on, but when I plug something into it, it doesn't come on. Tried something else that I know works and ...
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GFCI on an induction range?
Based on my reading, NEC2023 says that if a stove is within 6 feet of the edge of a kitchen sink then the stove needs to be GFCI protected.
Modern induction ranges pull 50 amps and (usually) need ...
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GFCI outlet or centralized differential circuit breakers
Looking at the North American electrical regulations, I come across the concept of GFCI protection in electrical outlets. In contrast, in the IEC regulations, differential protection is comprehensive ...
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Can I wire a MWBC with GFCI's using separate neutral wires on the load terminals?
I want to wire the circuit shown in the attached image in my garage. I want to have two circuits, and they need to be GFCI protected due to being in the garage. I've read through a number of posts ...
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Sparks when wiring a plug
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The garage but I guess I still had power to the bad gfci that I was replacing. At the end of the install the ground wire touched the hot wire and sparked. The breaker did ...
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Electrical gfci breaker
I installed a gfci breaker with black-red-white wires with no ground and it trips. Found the problem and the neutral is supplying two circuits in the same cable. Is my only remedy to run neutral for ...
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20 amp Circuit breaker GFCI and CAFCI
I'm confused on usage of these 2 breakers on a 20 amp circuit for outlets. All outlets are inside of house except kitchen and bathroom but few are located in a crawlspace also. Which one would be more ...
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Washing machine with GFCI Outlet and GFCI breaker
I just bought a brand new washing machine and the hookups are located in the basement by a single GFCI outlet. This GFCI outlet is connected to a dual function AFCI/GFCI breaker. When initially ...
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Which kitchenette breakers need to be AFCI?
I'm adding a kitchenette to my basement and am in WA state. My plan right now is to run one 20 amp circuit for the fridge, two 20 amp circuits with GFCI outlets above the counters, one 50 amp circuit ...
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Can I ground only part of my house?
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My house was built in the 50s (I think) or thereabout. Hence the electrical wiring reflects the understanding of that time and is not the way that current (2023) code and safety ...
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GFCI breaker trips with no load connected
I installed a 20A GFCI breaker on a circuit of 6 wall & counter outlets in kitchen and it trips instantly. I unplugged everything from the outlets and still trips. Then disconnected load and ...
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Will harmonics cause nuisance GFI tripping with a Kohler generator?
I have a Kohler 20RCA 20kW residential generator. About 10 minutes after the generator starts some of the GFI outlets will begin to trip. There are 19 GFI outlets across both legs and two panels. I ...
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Adding GFCI Outlet in 2-wire ungrounded branch
I have a 1938 house. Most of it has had the wiring upgraded. However, I have one room with multiple outlets that are all ungrounded with the original cloth covered wiring. There is only one pair ...
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How do I install a GFCI in a main panel without separate ground/neutral bars?
I am wiring an old garage. I will have 5 circuits. I am trying to install a GFCI breaker and a GFCI receptacle on separate circuits and I can't get either one of them to work. I can get a regular 15 ...
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Single GFCI Outlet for Multiple Bathroom on Single Breaker
I have 5 bathrooms in an older (30 yrs) house, only one of which has a GFCI outlet. The other 4 bathrooms each have a standard outlet. Each bathroom is tied to a single 15A breaker (i hope nobody is ...
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Electrical two prong wiring / gfi swap
I purchased an old home with partial knob and tube. Previous owners changed out all two prong outlets with GFI's. All of the outlets outlets are reading hot and neutral reversed.
Is this fix as ...
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How can I open these "holes" on the bottom/side of an outdoor GFCI enclosure?
I would like to plug in my outside nest camera to the outside GFCI circuit.
It is a weatherproof outlet but I can't get the flaps/holes on the bottom or side to open.
How to do that?
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Is it safe to run a device with large current leakage from an ungrounded outlet on a GFCI breaker?
I have a Bambu Carbon X1 3D Printer in my shop. My shop was built before grounding was required; so it has a GFCI Breaker installed to protect new 3-prong electrical outlets with their applicable &...
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Dual function circuit tests OK, but breaker trips
I just powered up the (dual function, 20A Siemens) circuit for my new laundry room, which is on a new subpanel. The circuit tests fine with my trusty 3-prong, 3-light tester. But whenever I plug ...
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GFCI and light fixture not working
I have a GFCI on the outside of home that I cannot push the test button to test and I replaced it. A new one is doing the same thing as well not allowed me to test I believe it is hooked up to a ...
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GFCI AF breaker not tripping with outlet tester
I have a Eaton CHFN120A1CS which feeds a couple of outlets on our kitchen counter. The combo breaker tests fine at the panel, but when I use a GFCI circuit tester on the kitchen outlet, it does not ...
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What are the versions of AFCI?
Leviton had an AFCI that said "AFCI 2.0" and one now says "AFCI 3.0". Any idea what the difference is?
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SOLVED :D New GFCI outlets won't work, but old one works fine!
I'm trying to go with nicer, newer outlets throughout my thirty year old house, and with great guidance from the friendly older gentleman at Home Depot, I got a Leviton Tamper Resistant GFCI Outlet ...
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Tapping in garage door opener outlet for ring flood light/gfci? [closed]
Ok so really I have a 2 part question. The 20 amp garage circuit breaker says it’s gfi protected on my panel and has one gfi outlet on my garage wall. I tested this by tripping a normal wall outlet in ...
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Old two-wire house-- AFCI or GFCI possible?
1940s era house with two-wire electrical. I'd like to install AFCI/GFCI throughout the house for fire-protection and for the third prong.
-> Kitchen and bathroom already have GFCI outlets.
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Can a series of standard outlets share the feed for a 60A pool circuit?
I have a residential living space above a detached garage in central Texas. The structures were built in the 1998-2000 timeframe. There is a circuit on which a series of outlets stopped working ...
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GFCI Not Fully Tripping under small load
Our kitchen is supplied by a multi-wire branch circuit to provide 2x 20-amp circuits. One circuit has the fridge and a single GFCI receptacle on it (the fridge is not protected by the GFCI receptacle)....
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Placing a deep freezer in the laundry room basement, where to move a GCFI along the circuit?
I have a deep freezer in our basement laundry room and the only available space is next to a GCFI outlet that was already in place when we moved in. To avoid tripping the outlet constantly, I was ...
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GFCI breaker good, no power to outlets
Drought in Texas over 2 months until last night. Now both bathroom outlets are dead. Closest outlet to gfci shows
.443 ohms on 1 set of wires. Any ideas?
I did not check continuity on outlet until I ...
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Power consumption of GFCI+CAFCI combo breaker (Siemens Q115DFN)
Has anyone measured the power consumption of this breaker or a similar one?
on the internet one can find horror stories of 1W+ for such breakers but no quantitative data. Data sheet does not mention ...
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Is handle-tying two 15A CACFI/GFCI breakers for MWBC allowed?
I have an old MWBC and I'd like to protect the circuits with GFCI and CACFI (they are general purpose 15A circuits and include receptacles and lights). Note, currently they just have their own 15A ...
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2 out of 3 sets of (black) wires in receptacle are hot
I am trying to replace old receptacles in my 1952 home.
None of the receptacles have ground wires, so I am replacing the first ones on the line to protect the ones connected to the load using a GFCI ...
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Exterior outlet from interior main breaker
Let me preface this by saying that my home’s breaker panel is inside in the laundry room.
What I want to do is add a new breaker in the panel for a series of exterior GFCI outlets because I have none ...
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Grounding a GFCI outlet by connecting the receptacle's grounding screw to a metal box
Would connecting the grounding screw of a single-location GFCI receptacle to a metal box with an armored cable leading to it serve as equipment ground, making the "no E.G." sticker ...
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Refrigerator Instantly Trips GFCI [duplicate]
We have lived in our current house for three years. It was built in 1975 and the attached garage was added in 1987. Had an old Kenmoore freezer top refrigerator plugged into a GFCI circuit in the ...
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Why does this work when plugged into GFCI and blow a house circuit breaker when plugged into standard outlet
I connected two 14 AWG 3 Conductor 3-Prong Power Cords to a 15 amp 125 V GFCI outlet. I tied all three hot wires together, all three neutral wires together, and all three ground wires together. I also ...
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Updating old 2 prong outlets to GFCI
I recently purchased an older home in New Jersey and am trying to pass a certificate of occupancy inspection. Part of the requirements is to update all outlets in bathrooms/kitchen/basement to GFCI. ...
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GFCI to Outlet controlled by Switch
I have an existing GFCI outlet under my sink dedicated to my dishwasher. I want to add an outlet next to the GFCI that can be controlled by a switch for my garbage disposal. There is 14/2 wire ...
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Installing GFCI and surge protection in pool subpanel
Looking to install GFCI breaker for VSP pool pump. Have square D HOM replacement GFCI and was wondering about the neutral connections. Understand that the neutral pigtail from the breaker goes to the ...
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GFCI receptacles vs GFCI breaker - Can my kitchen receptacles be standard receptacles (i.e. non-GFCI) IF the breaker is GFCI protected?
It is my understanding that most (if not all?) receptacles near wet locations (e.g. kitchens, bathrooms, etc...) need to be "GFCI" per the NEC... does this just mean GFCI protected? In other ...
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Is the wiring on this NEMA 10-50R incorrect?
While looking into EV charging I noticed I had a 240V receptacle (Leviton 10-50R) conveniently located right beneath my main panel. After some research (I have little to no electrical knowledge), I ...
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Bathroom outlet tripping causes power loss in multiple areas
Is it normal that when my bathroom outlet randomly trips it shuts off power to my bathroom, staircase lights, and some outlets in my living room? I'm starting to get concerned I rent a apartment.
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Can a bathroom and adjacent wetbar use the same 20amp circuit for receptacles only
Our homebuilders have 1 hall bath receptacles and 1 master bathroom receptacles plus 2 shower lights using 2 independent gfci runs (1 for each bathroom) on one 20amp circuit.
Can I do the same in our ...
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GFCI Breaker trips when powering on two pcs at the same time but not when staggered
I have two pcs. One pc connects to TV, and stereo. The other to three monitors (may be worth noting it has a 3090, and with the new world gpu bug that drew too much spike power would trip the breaker ...
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Is GFCI and surge suppressor needed on a grounded 3-prong plug?
Recently a plumber installed a VIQUA IHS12-D4 Whole Home Integrated UV Water Treatment at our cottage. It plugs into a standard wall electrical socket with a 3-prong plug. The socket and panel are ...
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GFCI keeps tripping after several minutes of gas range running
I have an odd issue:
My new(ish) gas range is on a 20 amp GFCI and has been working fine for 4-5 months. Recently, (after a self clean cycle, though not sure it matters) it has been tripping the GFCI ...
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Do I need a GFI Breaker if there are lights on the circuit prior to an outlet?
Our home has no grounding run throughout it an 2 prong outlets currently except for GFI outlets in bathrooms, kitchen, basement. I am currently installing GFI outlets in the first outlets in the ...
