Gfci

[finster1]

Haven't done any homework on this looking for you guys to help ............An outlet protected by a GFCI breaker , what is the legal issue and is it a problem having a gfci receptacle wired to the same circuit? I should know this but want to throw it out there

Finster

 

[mdshunk]

No problems legally or functionally installing a GFCI receptacle on a circuit protected by a GFCI breaker. It might confuse the heck out of the occupant, however, if one or the other was to trip.

 

[finster1]

Gfci

Thanks,
When I run across things that aren't normally covered by code, it is always nice to know you have a friend out there.

 

[LarryFine]

On a dead-receptacles troubleshoot, I found three (!) GFCI receptacles wired feed-thru on a single circuit, all tripped.

My guess: every time one tripped, they moved the offending device upstream via extension cords until they found the last still-working receptacle.

By the time we got there, they had three cords powering two bedrooms' worth of lights, TV's, and boom-boxes.

 

[tallguy]

On a dead-receptacles troubleshoot, I found three (!) GFCI receptacles wired feed-thru on a single circuit, all tripped.

My guess: every time one tripped, they moved the offending device upstream via extension cords until they found the last still-working receptacle.

By the time we got there, they had three cords powering two bedrooms' worth of lights, TV's, and boom-boxes.

Why ever did they have GFCIs in bedrooms??

 

[LarryFine]

Why ever did they have GFCIs in bedrooms??

Actually, one was in the living room and the other two were in the bedrooms; all on one circuit.

Why? Who knows? The more, the merrier?

 

[tallguy]

Actually, one was in the living room and the other two were in the bedrooms; all on one circuit.

Why? Who knows? The more, the merrier?

Sort of like AFCI logic, except in reverse... We'll have them in kitchens and bathrooms by 2011. :grin: