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Location: md | Cleaning up trailer yesterday. Showing correct electricity in outlet checker. Today-Hot and Ground Reversed. Same cord, same adapter. Changed cord ect, still wrong. Hit curcuit breakers and they wer'nt tripped. Outlet showing correct, both yellow lit. Hit ground fault breaker and still no change. |
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Location: md | Never mind--Fixed It! |
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Location: Rocky Mount N.C. | Soooooooo! What did you have to do to fix it!? |
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Location: md | Somehow the ground fault breaker outlet in the kitchen area was tripped. But does that make sense-- ?? I hit that and then tester showed OK. I thougt if the ground fault breaker tripped--it would shut off electric to that particular outlet. |
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Location: Rocky Mount N.C. | If we trip a ground fault in our master bath, then none of the other ground faults in the house will work. Kitchen and the other bath will be dead also, along with the outside recepticles... Not really sure how all that works. |
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Location: md | Yes. Once a GF breaker trips all is dead. This was showing hot ground reversed what ever the red on the left and the yellow on the far right of the tester. |
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | A GFCI can be wired two ways, one in which the GFCI is the last outlet in the electrical run, and therefore it is the only outlet that is protected. Or it can be wired the first in the electrical run and those outlets that follow it are protected.So in a home, the outlets on say a deck or patio are protected, but they may not have the test/reset buttons on it. And you may find that the GFCI outlet is in an upstairs bathroom, or in the garage, or in the utility room. Electricians can get creative with the wire runs sometimes. |
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Location: Vermont | Originally written by wyndancer on 2008-04-05 8:44 PM
A GFCI can be wired two ways, one in which the GFCI is the last outlet in the electrical run, and therefore it is the only outlet that is protected. Or it can be wired the first in the electrical run and those outlets that follow it are protected.So in a home, the outlets on say a deck or patio are protected, but they may not have the test/reset buttons on it. And you may find that the GFCI outlet is in an upstairs bathroom, or in the garage, or in the utility room. Electricians can get creative with the wire runs sometimes. Actually there is a third alternative of wiring options, where each GFCI outlet protects itself and nothing else on the circuit... |
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