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How can I open these "holes" on the bottom/side of an outdoor GFCI enclosure?
Typically a utility knife, a pair of pliers, or both. Cut, then twist, if using both.
The plastic is made thin at the edges to be broken out, but thick enough that the port remains intact until ...
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How can I open these "holes" on the bottom/side of an outdoor GFCI enclosure?
If you want this to stay waterproof-ish and the cabling is thin enough, I'd suggest to drill a hole big enough to accommodate a cable gland big enough for the cable and just use cable glands (the ...
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Dual function circuit tests OK, but breaker trips
This sounds remarkably familiar.
Is the neutral wire correctly connected TO THE BREAKER? Insta-trip on device plug-in is very common with GFCI or GFCI/AFCI (and many but not all AFCI-only) breakers ...
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Old two-wire house-- AFCI or GFCI possible?
You have the challenge of the tandems. (Which is a Google-nope, but won't be once Google indexes this page. Yay!)
Two big things have happened in the world of residential electricity in the past few ...
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What are the versions of AFCI?
from Leviton: " Thank you for contacting Leviton Tech Support. The difference between AFCI 2.0 and 3.0 is the 3.0 has more arc signatures built-in/programmed. The 3.0 would be less likely to ...
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SOLVED :D New GFCI outlets won't work, but old one works fine!
FIXED - thank you so much, everyone! I made the assumption that the Line would have been at the top of the old outlet, and it was not, that brand puts it at the bottom. I now have a perfectly working, ...
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Can a series of standard outlets share the feed for a 60A pool circuit?
This is our second case in 2 days of someone finding a subpanel feeder, shutting it off, and observing that the 120V outlet of interest loses power. That is not a complete picture.
It's extremely ...
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GFCI Not Fully Tripping under small load
That sounds like series arcing, probably caused by a bad connection. Take everything apart and look for signs of overheating/burning/melting. When reassembling, be sure to only use screw terminals on ...
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Is it safe to run a device with large current leakage from an ungrounded outlet on a GFCI breaker?
A GFCI should detect and interrupt leakage current no matter what the destination of the leakage -- the leakage doesn't have to go into an equipment ground conductor. If you walk up and touch that ...
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How can I open these "holes" on the bottom/side of an outdoor GFCI enclosure?
In my version of such a box, the cable exit tabs can be yanked out with a pair of pliers, and re-inserted. For things plugged in for days or weeks I like to carve a notch in the bottom one just big ...
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Power consumption of GFCI+CAFCI combo breaker (Siemens Q115DFN)
GFCI's and AFCI's (including CAFCI's) require power their detection circuits, but it's a small price to pay. Even at 55c/KWH (which is four times the US average), it costs less than $5 a year per ...
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What are the versions of AFCI?
Based on limited info from Leviton, I would conclude that the 2.0 and 3.0 are simply receptacle updates, similar to model years for cars. The part number isn't changing but they made some trivial ...
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GFCI AF breaker not tripping with outlet tester
Usually when a GFCI tester won't trip at an outlet, the outlet has a bad/missing (or worse, bootlegged to neutral) ground connection.
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Electrical two prong wiring / gfi swap
If the wiring was indeed two wire, there should not be a ground. Without a ground, your 3-light tester cannot detect hot/neutral reversal, it can only report open-ground.
Unless they pulled a new ...
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How can I open these "holes" on the bottom/side of an outdoor GFCI enclosure?
I don't exactly know the name of this, but thanks to a precocious 2-year-old, I noticed that some of these weatherproof receptacles come with a sort of rubber brush cable pass.
You can barely see it ...
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Tapping in garage door opener outlet for ring flood light/gfci?
The NEC requirements for GFCI protection changes almost every cycle. Work done in 2003 needed to be done according to the Code as locally adopted with local amendments at that time. Work done now must ...
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How to add GFI circuit under sink for water filter?
Your panel is not too old, it's QO
You seem to be under the impression that Square-D's only current product line is their (aptly named) HomeLine of 1" breakers and matching panels. This is a ...
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