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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

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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.
 
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.
 
LarryFine said:
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.
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Why ever did they have GFCIs in bedrooms??
 
tallguy said:
Why ever did they have GFCIs in bedrooms??
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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? :rolleyes:
 
LarryFine said:
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? :rolleyes:
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Sort of like AFCI logic, except in reverse... We'll have them in kitchens and bathrooms by 2011. :grin:
 
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