GFCI melt down

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Tom Baker said:
Leviton has a 800 tech support phone.
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Here's the # : 1-800-824-3005. Depending on what time you place the call you may or may not have to pack a lunch waiting to get through.
Give them a call, see if its a isolated case or a known issue. They may want the defective one back for evaluation.
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Yes, and make sure you're prepared with as much information as possible (i.e model #, photos, etc.) to send them. If they ask you to fax over info ask them to make sure their fax is working properly. I wasn't able to fax anything to them last weekend and ended up snail-mailing the info.
 
I never caught a full melt-down i've seen plenty of smoked, I try to keep white, ivory, almond, and brown on hand. seems whenever I had only almond they wanted ivory or vice-versa.
 
I have a camera phone, but don't know what to do with the pic. once I take it. I don't have any type of data cable to connect the phone to my P.C.

If any one wants to PM me with instructions, I'll try to post a pic.
 
sparky_magoo said:
I have a camera phone, but don't know what to do with the pic. once I take it. I don't have any type of data cable to connect the phone to my P.C.

If any one wants to PM me with instructions, I'll try to post a pic.
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The easiest thing to do is email the picture from the phone to yourself, then you'll have that picture file on your computer.
 
Technically challenged

Technically challenged

I have the pics, but it appears my phone can only send pics to a phone number.
 
sparky_magoo said:
I have the pics, but it appears my phone can only send pics to a phone number.
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I thought mine was the same way, but if you scroll up to the top of the list of phone numbers, to a blank, you can enter text and put in an email address. Or, you can send it to the wife's phone if hers can send more easily to an email.
 
I read the manual for the phone. It makes no mention of emailing photos. If anyone wants to see the melted solenoid, they are welcome to PM me with a cell phone number.

Whoa! We just felt a sharp earthquake on CA's central coast. It was too short to do damage.
 
SparkyMagoo's pics:

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I had a brand new GFI [Leviton] go into meltdown a few months ago. Had everything wired up, turned on the breaker and sparks flew out of the face of the gfi, and let out all the smoke. I took it apart and the coil thats on the PCB melted, and strands of the coil were blown all over the inside of the shell. I kind of wished I had taken pics.

~Matt
 
DanZ said:
As a side note, am I the only person who laughs *nervously* when people "update" their 2 prong receptacles with grounded receptacles, without adding wires?
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Nope, you're not the only one. I'm redoing most of a house I recently bought because the previous owner "updated" that way. He didn't even tie the ground pin to the neutral like some people do.
 
DanZ said:
As a side note, am I the only person who laughs *nervously* when people "update" their 2 prong receptacles with grounded receptacles, without adding wires?
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I think that is a total waste of time, IMO a better update if your not adding an EGC is leave the two wire receptacles and add a GFCI breaker.

250.114 pretty much prevents using the ungrounded 3 wire receptacle from having anything plugged into it.
 
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