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Need Help Troubleshooting Potentially Faulty Neutral Wiring in Circuit
SOLVED! - After sleeping on it, I decided to test the wall switch and it was leaking current in the OFF position. I replaced the switch and took a suggestion that a couple different posters made to ...
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How to fix window A/C Unit tripping Kitchen GFCI outlet?
Since it worked last year, I think it is more likely that something is broken than that it is a design flaw. A few things you can try:
Plug it into a different GFCI - If it does not trip on a ...
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Need Help Troubleshooting Potentially Faulty Neutral Wiring in Circuit
You don't know how "Load" terminals work. There was warning tape saying don't use them if you don't know how they work. They aren't just "an extra screw connected to the other screw, ...
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Need Help Troubleshooting Potentially Faulty Neutral Wiring in Circuit
A single neutral wire by itself is very odd. Most likely, someone "stole" the neutral for another use (e. g. A neutral wire for a switch loop box to allow a smart switch to be installed). ...
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Electric ranges compatible with GFCI
There are lots of 50A GFCI breakers. Hopefully one for you panel. In the vicinity of $100, I don't see cost or availability being a limiting factor.
I also can't see why ranges would nuisance trip ...
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Electric ranges compatible with GFCI
Any properly built appliance should be "GFCI compatible". Despite the horror stories of GFCI-incompatible refrigerators, even those I suspect are more often a problem over time as various ...
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Electric ranges compatible with GFCI
Yours could possibly be viewed as an XY question..
Does the range require cord-and-plug connection? If you had the option to hard wire, doing so may side-step the "receptacles near sink shall be ...
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Could a GFCI going bad result in loud refrig compressor noise? Refrig later died, I replaced GFCi, now much quieter…but why?
If the inverter board was faulty it could cause noise in the compressor motor, so your current solution seems to have possibly solved the problem.
Inverters generate pulse trains or sinusoids that are ...
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GFCI and AFCI outlet on circuit with refrigerator ....tripping after 6-8 hours after reset
It's generally considered a bad idea to have refrigerators on a GFCI circuit, especially if the outlet isn't the only thing on the line to the circuit breaker box.
Why is it bad if the refrigerator ...
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New GFCI outlet popping with high powered appliances
The actual problem in this case was a faulty GFCI device. Replacing it solved the problem, and the replacement was an identical one, in fact from the same box.
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Wiring GFCI outlets to eliminate downstream GFCI protection
You seem to be asking about operation of a particular product. Some devices show a light when tripped. Some show it when not tripped.
In either case, the downstream power feed is completely ...
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Wiring GFCI outlets to eliminate downstream GFCI protection
First, the outlet in your photo seems to have the good/safe type of "back wiring" where the side screw clamps a metal plate onto the wire end inserted from the back, making a very secure ...
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Why is my refrigerator tripping a specific (brand new & tested) GFCI in my kitchen but not the other GFCI when I plug it in on another circuit?
As far as a fix, dedicated circuit is not, technically, the solution. You can have the refrigerator on a circuit that is part of the rest of the kitchen, just make it not be GFCI protected. The key - ...
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Why is my refrigerator tripping a specific (brand new & tested) GFCI in my kitchen but not the other GFCI when I plug it in on another circuit?
As per code:
GFCI protection is only required for kitchen receptacles that serve the countertop surfaces. There's no requirement to GFCI protect receptacles that serve a refrigerator. Unless the ...
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Why is my refrigerator tripping a specific (brand new & tested) GFCI in my kitchen but not the other GFCI when I plug it in on another circuit?
Because the outlets are just a little bit different.
Fridges shouldn't be on a GFCI circuit, for exactly the reason you're experiencing.
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Avoiding GFCI for my fridge
Kitchen outlets are only required to be GFCI when they serve the countertop
NEC 210.8(A) point 6 only requires GFCI protection for receptacles that serve the kitchen countertops:
(6) Kitchens — where ...
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New AFCI/GFCI instantly trips when installed downstream from a GFCI - no obvious reasons
I connected a new wire to the load screws, and attached the ground into the same ground screw, so this plug has 2 ground wires on the same ground screw
Not allowed to do that. The screw isn't ...
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Trying to find first outlet in on a circuit, but for each one, removing one leaves the other one powered
Tree Topology is required for cabling
A cable is several wires grouped or wrapped in a sheath.
AC mains power requires cabling is done in a Tree Topology. Meaning unlimited branches are permitted, ...
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This 1950s metal box was ungrounded so I added a ground line. Do I need that if the wires are GFCI protected?
IMHO, pointless but certainly no harm. Except that it is not pointless if it is required by code. The usual rule is "receptacles must be grounded to metal box". If the rule is actually "...
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Help diagnosing a GFCI that instantly trips. Did I nick a wire with a screw?
Since the GFCI is tripping in the next-to-last position, it seems to think there is some leakage.
With the power off, and the downstream from that position disconnected, I might put multimeter on the ...
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