GFCI Risks? Update
Updated 24 March ------------ Having a new GFCI problem I have been unable to locate in the "receptacle circuit". While on shore power (from house) The GFCI receptacle on that string itself h...
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keepingthelightson wrote:
IF you are connecting the shore power cord to a GFCI outlet on your house and you are expecting the GFCI in your trailer to work. IT will not. You CAN NOT have two GFCI on the same circuit in parallel. You need to remove your GFCI from your shore power at the house.
Good luck! ;)
35 yrs. electrical experience.
The GFCI devices are not in parallel, they are in series.
House GFCI (H) -> camper connection -> camper branch circuits and returns back through camper branch circuits -> camper connection -> House GFCI (N) so the currents should balance unless somewhere along the line it leaks between neutral and ground.
