My TT has two receptacles, one near kitchen sink and one near bathroom sink, with a green paper label "GFCI" but no kind of reset or test button. Except for the little green GFCI label they look like any other receptacle. In the circuit breaker panel there is a breaker that the panel says is GFCI but it appears just like all the other 15 amp breakers.Could this be right or is it a bad installation?

There is another GFCI outlet elsewhere that they piggyback off of. If the other GFCI outlet trips, these will lose power. Now is the time to find the other outlet.I have a GFCI outlet by my entrance door that protects itself, an outside outlet, a kitchen outlet, and a bathroom outlet.I have a GFCI on an inverter that protects the outlets on my 2 entertainment centers, since it can provide power to those 2 outlets.I have 3 outlets that are not protected by GFCI.Get one of these testers. Note the button on it since some don't have the button. Plug it into one of your GFCI outlets and press the button. It will trip the GFCI. Then when you find it to reset it, you will know where it is forever.

It's also possible that the circuit is protected by GFI circuit breaker - if so reset button on breaker.

A GFCI breaker will have some kind of reset button on the front. If you have no outlets upstream with a GFCI and the breaker does not have a GFCI reset button then someone messed up. Maybe the previous owner changed the breaker due to excess tripping.

The existing GFCI outlet protects all the outlets down the line from it.

ksg5000 wrote:It's also possible that the circuit is protected by GFI circuit breaker - if so reset button on breaker.Actually that would be a "Test" button on the breaker.When you press it, the breaker trips.

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Gene_Ginny
Explorer
Nov 10, 2013
A GFCI breaker will have some kind of reset button on the front. If you have no outlets upstream with a GFCI and the breaker does not have a GFCI reset button then someone messed up. Maybe the previous owner changed the breaker due to excess tripping.
ksg5000
Explorer
Nov 10, 2013
It's also possible that the circuit is protected by GFI circuit breaker - if so reset button on breaker.
Bobbo
Explorer II
Nov 10, 2013
There is another GFCI outlet elsewhere that they piggyback off of. If the other GFCI outlet trips, these will lose power. Now is the time to find the other outlet.

I have a GFCI outlet by my entrance door that protects itself, an outside outlet, a kitchen outlet, and a bathroom outlet.

I have a GFCI on an inverter that protects the outlets on my 2 entertainment centers, since it can provide power to those 2 outlets.

I have 3 outlets that are not protected by GFCI.

Get one of these testers. Note the button on it since some don't have the button. Plug it into one of your GFCI outlets and press the button. It will trip the GFCI. Then when you find it to reset it, you will know where it is forever.

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