[R-390] GFCI Travails

[Joe Foley]

You would NOT believe how many I've fixed that were installed wrong!  And some people just can not be made to understand how they work.

Back to back GFCI's will cause problems.

And don't put the load receptacles in another room, or extend them to another  part of the building,.... or another building!  It just causes me to use bad language.

Joe




--- On Wed, 3/20/13, rbethman <rbethman at comcast.net> wrote:

From: rbethman <rbethman at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [R-390] GFCI Travails
To: "R-390-List" <R-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 2:31 PM

Yep!  The one in the wall would trip when a hair dryer WITH its own GFCI 
was plugged in AND turned on.

So removing the back to back GFCI issue - STOPPED the problem.

So I'm STILL plugging in to a GFCI receptacle.

Bob - N0DGN

On 3/20/2013 1:28 PM, William A Kulze wrote:
> Keep in mind, NEC requires any bathroom receptacle to be GFI (which is why I don't plug my R-390a in there), so you would wind up with two GFI's back to back anyway.
>
> Bill W2NVD
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of rbethman
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:31 AM
> To: R-390-List
> Subject: Re: [R-390] GFCI Travails
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> I agree!
>
> The interesting thing is - I took the oldest hair dryer and removed its GFCI.  I replaced it with a simple two prong plug.
>
> While this does not follow NEC, it brings up the interaction of two GFCIs back to back.
>
> Technically, it is STILL protected by the GFCI outlet.
>
> Interesting results!
>
> Bob - N0DGN
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