somewhere on this forum before I made a coment that you can't use a gfi on a circuit with a shared neutral (I remember one of my bosses telling me that a long time ago) and someone here said that you can and that there's nothing wrong with that. So now I wish I could remember who it was that said that and blast them!!
I'm talking about putting a gfi recep. on first outlet of just one circuit where it's a 3 wire homerun, protecting the rest of the outlets downstream on the one circuit, and a pigtailing the neutrals of course. The other circuit just leaves the outlet box with a 2 wire and goes where ever.
I always thought this was ok to do until along time ago my boss said that it won't work. I had run a 14-3 homerun to a gfi outlet in the ufinished part of a basement for the outside and garage outlets. Then the other circuit was tied through to a sump pump outlet if I remember correctly. And I wired it just like you said.
It is very common in older homes by me. Put a gfci breaker in and run around with those little stickers and put them on the outlets that are protected.
As long as you divide the 3-wire circuit into two 2-wire circuits before hitting the GFCI receptacle(s), and only land the conductors of one 2-wire circuit on each one, it should work.
will it still work if you put the gfi at the homerun outlet and pigtail the neutral from the homerun with the neutral circuit #2 (the circuit that does not need any gfi protection) and land that on the line side of the gfi and on the load side of the gfi you have the 2 wire connected which goes downstream and supplies the rest of circuit #1 (the one that you do want gfi protection for)? This should work correct?
Is this what we are talking about?
yes except for the #12 conductors. I use #14.Is this what we are talking about?
Absoloopy!Is this what we are talking about?
FYI I don't use GFCI breakers unless absolutely necessary because of the cost.