It's tripping in the master bath only under a load from a blow dryer, and it's reset within the bathroom it self. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Yearns" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:56 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] GFI's
> As to an answer of why, I don't have a answer. If the breaker feeding the > baths is GFI also I would probably remove the GFI outlets and just depend > on the circuit breaker one. Over the years I have changed the outlet > types ones a few times. Just don't seem to have the quality in them.. If > that doesn't clear the problem since I couldn't tell from the post which > was tripping. If it is the circuit breaker GFI then I would replace it > with a regular circuit breaker and leave the individual outlet GFI's in > place. If both trip or they take turns then a ground fault exists > somewhere which means open things up and really do some searching. > Ron > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Brice Mijares > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 8:36 AM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] GFI's > > > > Back in early December my wife and I bought a triple wide mobile home. As > most of you know, that would be in 3 sections joined together. On one of > the outside sections, there is two full bathrooms. After we moved in I > had > a electrician friend of mine come in and restore power to both bathrooms > which have GFI's already installed. Once here, he found the problem right > away. On that section there is an outlet on the outside for the patio > which > was fried. Also, in the breaker box, the breaker for the 2 bathrooms and > the > patio outlet is GFI as well. If I lost you, I'm saying that where the > breaker is tripped, it is also equip with a extra GFI as part of the > breaker > switch. That was fried too and was replaced. Well last night I plug in my > digital player to charge in the extra bathroom and there was no juice. I > reset it and asked my wife if she had any problems in the master bath, > and > she told me she had to reset it every time she used the blow dryer for > her > hair. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening? > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 4895 (20100225) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 4895 (20100225) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4895 (20100225) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com
