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  1. Electrical
    An older house was rewired a while ago and now the owners want to add AFCI/GFCI. There's a 12/3 (with ground) wire run to the attic that then splits into two 120v circuits using one hot for each and a common neutral. Is there a way to put combination breakers on both circuits at the panel? Like...
  2. Electrical
    I have two circuits in the house and both are 240v (for heat exchangers) but the load side doesn't use the neutral, just the two out of phase hot lines. I'd like to add AFCI (at a minimum) at the panel (an Eaton PON that accepts BR breakers). I'm unsure what type of breaker to look for. Any...
  3. Electrical
    I have a gfci out in the front of my house plug the sprinkler control box into. Something recently happened and iit's ot working properly now. We plugged a bounce house motor into it (which we've done before) and it stopped working. The gfci won't reset. I replaced the outlet and same problem...
  4. Electrical
    Hi everyone, Just a heads up here, I'm pretty new to the residential electrical gig, so forgive me if these questions are obvious. My new condo has outlets in boxes that jut out from the wall - I understand that they had to be like that for ADA compliance. I'd like to remove the box that juts...
  5. Electrical
    Try as I may, I find myself unable to stuff the new gfci outlet into a new weatherproof outlet box. The box and its deep capacity cover are both plastic. The problem I have is I can't get the thing stuffed together. I thought they made box extenders that would increase the space available...
  6. Electrical
    The top of the GFCI outlet is the LINE side and the bottom the LOAD side. Assume all the grounds are wired properly. I didn't want to over crowd the diagram. I want to make sure the bottom two outlets will be GFCI protected by the top outlet. I want to make sure the bottom 2 outlets can be...
  7. Electrical
    My friend owns a 30-year-old-ish townhouse. I'd say 90% of the outlets are original, including any GFCIs. This morning, one the (original-30 year old) GFCIs started sparking and burned (photo below). He had nothing plugged into it. On the circuit, downstream, he has a watercooler, a computer...
  8. Electrical
    I need a Homeline 1-pole 30A GFCI circuit breaker (HOM130GFIC). Hard to find and expensive, if found. Homeline 2-pole 30A GFCI circuit breakers (HOM230GFIC) are readily available. Is it safe and effective and legal/allowed to use just one leg of the 2-pole GFCI circuit breaker?
  9. Electrical
    Hi. I am wiring up my crawl space for a basement encapsulation. I am running 12/3 (not using the red hot) from the panel to a GFCI at the humidifier, then sump pump 1, then sump pump 2. So, sump pump 1 and 2 have power (120), but humidifier GFCI won't reset. I am using the line connections on...
  10. Electrical
    I have a 15+ year old refrigerator on a dedicated 20A circuit with GFCI. All of a sudden, it started tripping the GFCI. I moved it to another GFCI outlet in a different circuit that has no other load on it and it was OK for a few days, but then started tripping that GFCI as well. I opened up the...
  11. Electrical
    I have a 220 volt GFCI breaker on a boat dock that runs a pump, dock lights and security cameras. I live about 60 miles away so anytime we get a lightning strike nearby, especially on the water probably, it trips the breaker. I have to have a GFCI because it is required for a boat dock. I want...
  12. Electrical
    I have a garbage disposal that was direct connected to a 15A breaker and working fine. I needed to share that line with a new dishwasher install so I tried to install an outlet. I disconnected the disposal and connected a GFCI outlet (and double checked that I connected to the LINE not the LOAD...
  13. Electrical
    When replacing a non-grounding (2 prong) receptacle in an ungrounded location in a bedroom with a three-prong receptacle: Article 406.4 (D) (2) says I must use a GFCI receptacle or GFCI circuit breaker (and the receptacle must have a sticker that says GFCI protected and no equipment ground)...
  14. Electrical
    We had a whole-house remodel done a couple of years ago with all new wiring and a new sub panel stuffed with AFCI breakers. This was all done by a (supposedly) competent licensed electrician. We've had more than a few of these breakers trip in the time we've been in the house, always...
  15. Electrical
    My sump pump keeps tripping my GFI, but ONLY when it's actually raining. Sump is plugged into a NON-GFI outlet, but is on a GFI circuit. The outlet in the basement, happens to be on the same circuit as the GFI in an upstairs, unused bathroom. I replaced the GFI after last storm, but a month...
  16. Electrical
    I am in British Columbia, Canada. I got my 60 amp breaker, 80 feet of 6/3 teck, 60 amp GFCI spa pack... everything figured out, until I noticed this little rule. What is the definition of a barrier to prevent contact? People seem to mention a wall or fence. The perfect location for my spa pack...
  17. Electrical
    I recently constructed a shed 100ft away from my house. In the shed, I wired three outlets. Instead of burying a cable and hardwiring the shed to the panel or a subpanel, I put a plug on the inlet to the shed wiring and then plugged that into an extension cord. That cord is plugged into a GFCI...
  18. Electrical
    I have a GFCI that won't reset. It's been tripped for a long time and I'm just getting around to fixing it. The GFCI is in an outside installation in a watertight box but it's on a breaker that controls outlets in my living room on the interior. There's only one cable running into the metal box...
  19. Electrical
    With the historic heat wave in the Pacific NW, I plugged in a portable condensing AC unit in my home office . This panel-protected AFCI circuit also serves a switch in another room, which is in a double gang box with a switch that is on a panel-protected GFCI circuit for that room. The GFCI...
  20. Electrical
    Hello Internet, I have a dishwasher on it's own 20A circuit breaker. It shares a neutral on 12/3 wire with an adjacent 20A (GFCI) breaker for some other outlets. Every time i turn on the dishwasher, the adjacent breaker pops. The dishwasher continues to run. Here's a clue, maybe: I...
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