I am in the process of selling my house, and the buyers ordered and received a home inspection report for the property. One of the health & safety items that needed immediate repair is:
“Main Panel
General Comments
• Some of the ground-fault outlets have been installed in parallel and should be serviced”
I have no idea what this means. I know that there are no GFCI breakers in the panel. There are 3 AFCI breakers. I do understand the difference between series and parallel wiring in terms of wiring outlets, but don’t understand how this would apply to the main panel.
Does anyone want to make an educated guess?
Thanks
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The simple answer would be........
contact whomever did the report and ask.
They saw it, no one here did.
However, I'm sure someone here with a heck of alot more experience in electric would be able to hazard an answer.
Best of luck.
I think the report isn't talking about the panel, it's talking about actual GCFI outlets, like in the kitchen, garage, or bathroom.
I'll bet they put GCFI outlets downstream on an already GCFI protected line.
I'm not sure how that would be a hazard, and not just an annoyance though.
HI in search of a clue?
The statement is basically meaningless. GFCI outlets are always installed "in parallel". It may be, as suggested, the inspector meant to say that they were daisy-chained, but if so he has a very poor command of the terminology.
Ask him what he meant to say.