Hey all I am new here as for posting but have been reading many post now for a while. Great site for alot of different types of info. Thanks for all the help so far. Hope this is in the right forum
Troubleshooting a circiut that is GFCI protected in the garage, which is also the cir for the bathrooms. All the bathrooms have their own gfi outlets. gfi in garage will trip all the time, meaning sometime instantly other times it can take upto 15 min or so. This particular gfi was wired with all other outlets down line on the load side. disconnected to trouble shoot testing other outlets on cir. when I did this the neutral instantly became hot in the box. Keep in mind that both neutrals become enrgized.
In another box in master bath 3 sets of romex junction, if either one of the outgoing lines,feeding the other 2 bathrooms, are energized both neutrals also become enrgized. This is seemingly true even without any devices, known, are connected.
Also when I connected the other baths to the line side of garage gfi it instantly tripped. Why would it trip if its all landed on the line side? Also any ideas about odd neutral voltage? There is no continuity between hot and neutral that I can read and obviously I read 120v from hot to ground and N to grd, nothing from hot to N.
I plan to go back and use light bulb test, and do some further investigation, looking for boxes that may be hidden etc., also try toning it out thursday.
Any insight would be greatly appriciated.
Thanks
Troubleshooting a circiut that is GFCI protected in the garage, which is also the cir for the bathrooms. All the bathrooms have their own gfi outlets. gfi in garage will trip all the time, meaning sometime instantly other times it can take upto 15 min or so. This particular gfi was wired with all other outlets down line on the load side. disconnected to trouble shoot testing other outlets on cir. when I did this the neutral instantly became hot in the box. Keep in mind that both neutrals become enrgized.
In another box in master bath 3 sets of romex junction, if either one of the outgoing lines,feeding the other 2 bathrooms, are energized both neutrals also become enrgized. This is seemingly true even without any devices, known, are connected.
Also when I connected the other baths to the line side of garage gfi it instantly tripped. Why would it trip if its all landed on the line side? Also any ideas about odd neutral voltage? There is no continuity between hot and neutral that I can read and obviously I read 120v from hot to ground and N to grd, nothing from hot to N.
I plan to go back and use light bulb test, and do some further investigation, looking for boxes that may be hidden etc., also try toning it out thursday.
Any insight would be greatly appriciated.
Thanks