I would change it to a 20 amp
----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Yearns
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 11:36
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] GFI's
Looks like the outlet GFI that is tripping is defective. Since the GFI
circuit breaker protects it I would use a regular outlet.
Ron
----- Original Message -----
From: Brice Mijares
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] GFI's
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" <ryea...@sbcglobal.net>
To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com>
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: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
> 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?
>
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