GFCI Risks? Update
Updated 24 March
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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 had power, showing two lights on the tester as "normal", but the GFCI was popped and would not reset. The rest of the receptacles all dead.
The other 120v circuits in the trailer, including the GFCI "galley" receptacle on its own cicuit are ok.
Swapped over to inverter with shore power plugged into that, and now the receptacle circuit is fine and the GFCI button can be reset so everything seems ok. Back to shore power and not ok.
To get a quick fix, I took out the GFCI receptacle and replaced it with an ordinary one, so now everything seems ok even when plugged into the house.
However, whatever was causing that GFCI to pop is still there of course. I checked for that by plugging the trailer into the house bathroom GFCI receptacle and it popped.
So just what is the risk here? If I don't plug into a shore power GFCI receptacle, I would never know, and when off-grid on inverter I would never know.
Hunting for that GFCI would take hours and hours taking out each receptacle I guess, since the usual swapping things around didn't find it. So until I get that ambitious, should I care?
Thanks
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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 had power, showing two lights on the tester as "normal", but the GFCI was popped and would not reset. The rest of the receptacles all dead.
The other 120v circuits in the trailer, including the GFCI "galley" receptacle on its own cicuit are ok.
Swapped over to inverter with shore power plugged into that, and now the receptacle circuit is fine and the GFCI button can be reset so everything seems ok. Back to shore power and not ok.
To get a quick fix, I took out the GFCI receptacle and replaced it with an ordinary one, so now everything seems ok even when plugged into the house.
However, whatever was causing that GFCI to pop is still there of course. I checked for that by plugging the trailer into the house bathroom GFCI receptacle and it popped.
So just what is the risk here? If I don't plug into a shore power GFCI receptacle, I would never know, and when off-grid on inverter I would never know.
Hunting for that GFCI would take hours and hours taking out each receptacle I guess, since the usual swapping things around didn't find it. So until I get that ambitious, should I care?
Thanks
