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klinteeth

Thu, 09/21/2006 - 5:02am

GFCI Plug Installation

I am having the worst time putting in a GFCI plug! Is it this hard for everyone? I can install it but it doesn't work right!! Help, what am I doing wrong?!?!

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GFCI Plug Installation

amiew writes:

Thu, 09/21/2006 - 5:00am

Hi Julia,

What exactly is a GFCI plug? I can't guarantee I can help with your problem but maybe if I knew what it was I could try.

GFCI Plug Installation

klinteeth writes:

Thu, 09/21/2006 - 5:00am

Hi Ames,

Thanks for your reply! A GFCI plug is a plug that you put near any water sources. It will shut itself off if it feels a surge of electricity. It's the kind with a reset button in the middle.

GFCI Plug Installation

amiew writes:

Thu, 09/21/2006 - 5:00am

Hi Julia,

Have you hit the reset button after installing? I can't think of anything else, except that it is already "tripped" when you first install them.

There are two differant

sworthin writes:

Tue, 10/03/2006 - 8:23am

There are two differant places on the back of the GFI outlet where you can attach your Hot and Neutral wires. They are marked "line" and "load". The incoming wires go on the "line side". If there is another outlet fed down stream, it goes on the "load" side. Also make sure you have the "Hot"(colored wire) on the brass colored screw and the "Neutral" or white wire on the silver screw. If there is a ground wire (green or bare) it goes on the green screw. It is really important on these to get the right wire on the right screw or it won't work. Don't forget to hit the reset button after you turn the power back on.

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emjones35 writes:

Fri, 10/06/2006 - 10:07am

I have just been totally indoctrinated in the GFCI world as I bought a house that doesn't have anything grounded. For the outlet, one of the things that I was told is that it needs to be at the beginning of the circuit. If you are installing this in the middle of the circuit, this may be causing some of the problems. If it keeps tripping, that also indicates that there is something else going on in the wiring that may need to be looked at. My house is very eclectic on its wiring, so I have just invested in replacing the breakers with GFCI breakers. That way I don't have to find the beginning of the circuit, especially since the wiring is going all over the place.

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jeffe_verde writes:

Thu, 11/23/2006 - 7:48am

As others have said, it sounds like you've got bad wiring. There's tester that will tell you if you've got open-hot/open-neutral/open-ground/reversed-polarity. Any of these conditions would cause the GFCI to trip. The tester looks like a plug with three lights on the back and they're only $10-15.