Ground fault
I have a ground fault outlet on each circuit in my coach, but I keep frying the one in the bathroom. Happens when the circuit is over loaded usually by my wife's hair dryer. My question is why does th...
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kg1d dx wrote:
I have a ground fault outlet on each circuit in my coach, but I keep frying the one in the bathroom. Happens when the circuit is over loaded usually by my wife's hair dryer. My question is why does the ground fault pop? The breaker does not trip. Could this be caused by the wrong amperage ground fault outlet?
A ground fault will obviously trip the GFI outlet itself.
Over current will trip the circuit breaker that's feeding it.
For some reason, using 15amp outlets on 20amp circuits is a common practice, acceptable and evidently legal, so a 15amp outlet being fed with #12awg wire and protected by a 20amp breaker, drawing close to 20amps and without fault, could very well do some cooking, without tripping anything and given that it's the weakest link in the chain.
