If that line is overloaded the circuit breaker in the panel would trip. If
only the hair dryer is doing it I would try it on another GFI circuit to make
sure it didn't trip it. Someone suggested the line and load wires may be
reversed. Never had that experience so can not answer to that.
Ron
----- Original Message -----
From: Lee A. Stone
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] GFI's
or is there to a way to test to see if that gfi line is overloaded?
Lee
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:36:32AM -0600, Ron
Yearns wrote:
> 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: [email protected]
> 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" <[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?
> >
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