Hello,
Recently my house got struck by lightning. One of the things that happened was that all of the GFCI's tripped. I reset them and tested them (pushed the little test button) and they seem to work. My neighbor stated that when their old house got struck by lightning all of the GFCI's were damaged. They did not find out till they went to sell it 3 years later and it failed the electrical inspection. Now, she is a software engineer, so I am taking her comments with a grain of salt :-), but.... Does anyone know if lightning could damage the GFCI's so that they would test OK but still not work? If I want to test the GFCI's, could I just hook a 15 k ohm, 5 Watt resistor from line and neutral to ground? Has this happened to anyone else? Ned Devine Entela, Inc. Program Manager III Phone 616 248 9671 Fax 616 574 9752 e-mail [email protected] PS The EMC testing you do is working. Most of the new electronics survived. The only newer items that died were the garage door opener and the cordless answering machine. --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators).
