GFI reset

Hi All.

First thing, is to check the Power Sorce, Period. Where you have your RV plugged in to. It may not even be your RV'S GFIC Box at all, but somewhere in the circuit that your at plugged ito. A friend paid over $400 dollars to have a so called Seniro Service M obile Tech come out to his house. He fiddled around for a while, and changed the RV;s GFCI Box, then changed him $400 dolllars for the time it toook him to drive =both ways, and for sure marked up the GFCI Box plenty. He left, it still didn;t work.

I told my friend to unplug from that line and plug into some other line in the garage. "Hey" it worked perfectly. The first place he plugged into had a bad ground, so it keep poppong his GFCY Box.

Everyone should check their "Main Electrail Box" for lose wires and bad grounds on there entire RV every couple of years. Its called "Proventive Maintence Programs". Its really pretty easy to keep from breaking down, or having problems if you take the time to take good care of your RV, not just when you have problems.

Good Luck. Happy Travels. Dan & Jill & The Yorkie Kidss

enblethen wrote:
It could be an open ground in the system.

Open or missing ground will not effect GFCI function.
(I know, I was surprised too)

Thanks for all the input pulled gfi plug one hot lead melted to a screw replaced plug all seems to be well thanks again

First unplug any equipment that you have on the affected GFI circuits. If it fails to reset, check any exterior 110v plugs for moisture I had a TT that used to trip the GFI if there was a strong rain storm. If the GFI resets, plug in the devices until you find the offending piece of equipment.

It could be an open ground in the system.
Can you use a different receptacle, even with an adapter?
Are you using an adapter? It could be bad.
Do you have an electric element in your water heater? turn it off and try.

When you say your camping I assume you have electricity. Is so and you've tried all the other things mentioned so far you can simply visit a hardware store, Walmart or any other store that sells electrical items and buy a new GFI outlet. They are the same as is in your home and easy to replace. Have had the same problem a couple of times and it's always the main GFI that goes bad. Have never had to replace the ones that have no reset button. Good luck to you and happy RV'ing. :)

Reset breaker at pedestal and still nothing all other plugs work fine now with the exception of 2 gfi plugs. when I push reset on gfl I get a yellow light on plug should I change plug also forgot to add I am camping in Aruba TT sorry

I do not believe the GFI will reset if no power is available. So as said before check the breaker.

I would search all the plugs in the RV, one is probably tripped. Also try turning your breaker all the way off then on.