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Old 10-28-2014, 08:19 PM   #1 (permalink)
Cobb
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GFCI circuit breaker limitations?

I was visiting a neighbor and she showed me this. Its an outlet hiding in a corner of a bedroom for a kid. The whole room is on a ground fault circuit braker.

This outlet cycles off and on with the braker. Turns out the kid liked to watch sparks and piaced something metal across the leads of a night light and watched the show uninterrupted.

Is it because it didnt involve ground it didnt trip?


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