I haven’t done any disassembly or checking yet, but I wanted to get some upfront advice. In our redone kitchen, we have one particular duplex outlet that is protected by a GFCI outlet. I can plug something in to the lower receptacle, but as soon as I plug something into the upper receptacle, the GFCI (on the other side of the room) immediately trips. That struck me as odd; I would have thought that whatever one receptacle did, the other would also do. Anywho, anyone have any ideas? I didn’t install the outlet, but I’m at least reasonably comfortable working with the things.
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Well I can thing of a thousand things.
But basically either the hot or neutral tabs are broken off and the receptacle is "split". Between what I don't know or why it was done.
The neutral the hot is tied to one circuit on that segment which is different fromwhat the neutral is tied to.
My guess is that this is a multi-wire circuit and some one screwed it up. But just speculation.
Also it is possible that there is some kind of internal mechanical fault in the receptacle. But you would probably notice it plugging in the load.