Will GFCI work with items without equipment ground
I know it's probably a dumb question but my wife's hair dryer is old and has no equipment ground. Wanted to be sure she is still protected if it should be dropped into water or otherwise shorted.
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time2roll wrote:Sam Spade wrote:I am trying to figure out how you drop a hot GFCI outlet into a bowl of water and not touch the ground pin of the connector.
If the bowl of water it was dropped into is not grounded, then the detector likely wouldn't trip until a persons hand supplied a foreign ground....and maybe not then.
However if 5ma leaves the bowl the GFCI will trip.
You're not dropping the outlet into the water. You are dropping the two prong corded hair dryer into the bowl of water.
