GFI cord to GFI recep

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jam

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I had a question from a customer about plugging in a gfi protected cord connected appliance into a gfi outlet.

The appliance instructions advised to NEVER plug the appliance into a GFI outlet.

Any ideas why ???
 
Re: GFI cord to GFI recep

Plugging in a two wire corded appliance will not trip a GFCI receptacle with just it's load, it will still need a current path to something grounded to trip, All most all bathroom type appliances come with the corded GFCI and I have never seen a problem. With the way a GFCI works, it cant unless it has a current leakage to ground and that cant happen if the appliance cord don't have one. Both GFCI's will still work if there was a hot leakage that you were to touch while touching something grounded.

Here is some info that you can read to understand how GFCI's funtion:
All about GFCI's
 
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