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Re: my ht, and my problem
It's scary sometimes to find out how illogically circuits were arranged by the original electrician.
We have a half-bath off the foyer. There are two outlets, one at the sink which is regular and a GFI on the opposite wall. Recently, the sink outlet, as well as all the oulets in the two full baths went dead, but that powder room GFI stayed hot. Hmm, must have failed open. Killed power, replaced with a new device...it *was* wired incorrectly (in parallel to downstream instead of series). No joy, all other outlets still dead. Figured one must have developed a bad connection so just replaced all with new parts. Still dead. Huh? Eventually, some random act lead me to discover I had dead outlets in the garage too...hmmm, this is gettin' weird. The garage GFI outlet had power even when tripped. Ruh-roh. Turns out the garage GFI controlled the sink outlet in the powder room and both full baths. The GFI in the powder room was on a completely different circuit. Why???? They're the only 2 outlets in the room and they're only 5' apart? If you've kept up with my confusing narrative this long, the scary part is I replaced 9 outlets on a live circuit b/c I turned off the circuit feeding the powder room GFI thinking the powder room GFI was protecting the other two baths.
-Brent
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