I’ve got a customer who bought a house about 6 months ago. (Remodeled house in historic district.) Master bath has a whirlpool tub in it. At the purchase time the whirlpool would not work. I checked it for them and found the ground-fault receptacle for the unit to be faulty. I replaced it and everything worked. Now the new one is not working either.
My question, What should I look for as a cause to this problem? I’ve seen new ground-faults go bad before and know that I may have just gotten a “faulty” receptacle.
Thanks for any light you can shed on this.
wdb
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It may just be a faulty one. There was a big batch of bad ones awhile back.
EXACTLY what do you mean by NOT WORKING?
What are the symptoms? What test have been performed?
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
Sorry, I meant that the unit does not let any current through it, the "test" button or the re-set button have no action, effect, etc. I have 120 volts to the unit but nothing is getting through..
Don't mean to be too simple but is the hot line going to the line side of the gfi lside not load side?
Don't mean to be too simple but is the hot line going to the line side of the gfi lside not load side?
Good question but it is wired to the line side. I've found GFI's wired to the load side.
If it will not reset, while it has power, and there is no ground fault (disconnect the load to verify) then it is defective.New GFCI's the real verification is not in the Test button, but the ability to reset after trip, real or from self test.It is part of the fail safe design..
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
Thanks to Bill and all who answered. I felt that it was a faulty GFI but wanted to see if some one else concurred.I've got storm windows ordered for the same customer and will replace the GFI at the time I install the windows. I'll let you know the results later.again, thanks to all.