On Oct 26, 7:45 pm, "Ryan Weihl" wrote:
wrote:
On Oct 26, 12:51 pm, Jay Chan wrote:
When I turn off the light in my bathroom, the GFCI outlet inside the
bathroom will also go dead. This is quite inconvenient because I
need to use that outlet to recharge an electric razor, and two
electric powered tooth brushes. Now, I must leave them outside the
bathroom in order to have them recharged.

The strange thing is that I see the same situation in another
bathroom in my house. I have also see the same thing in my
brother-in-law apartment -- the power of the whole bathroom is off
as soon as I turn off the light.

Why is that? What's the reasoning behind this?

Your bathroom was wired with a switched outlet originally, a REGULAR
outlet. At some point, some genius decided to install a GFCI in place
of the switched outlet.

A properly wired GFCI will disconnect not only itself, but everything
else "downline" from it when the power is removed. Light switch goes
off, all power goes out.

hallo everybody
this newsgroup is not only frequented by us-americans. other countries,
other rules.
rw

--- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Very true. A good observation.
This is from Canada! Where we have similar but not identical building
and electrical standards. Canada is a huge country with one tenth of
the population of the USA and has three coast lines. Arctic, Pacific
and Atlantic so a fairly wide range of climate; as does the USA from
Alaska to Florida and Hawaii.
We also do it in Canadian English (Colour, humour, etc). and some of
us also in French; along with greater use of international units such
as litres, centimetres and kilometres, degrees Celsius etc.
Although many of us are bi-lingual: Or tri-lingual, if one considers
'American' a separate tongue! :-)
Generally, however our building methods are similar and both countries
(Also Mexico and others, who do it in Spanish or Portuguese) use
similar 115/230 volt electrical systems. So there is a lot of common
ground and commonality of methods if not standards.
But countries of the EU (European Community) and much of the Middle
East often do things differently. Just look at the back of many
computers; there are switches for both North American 115 volts (60
hertz) and 230 volts (50 hertz)!
Also Australia and many Asian countries differ. For example many still
drive on the left. (This was originally European custom; to have your
right (sword or dagger weapon) hand freer to defend yourself as you
passed a stranger going the opposite direction on narrow path or
roadway. Same as we shake with the right hand; except those of us who
have 'funny' hand shakes. :-)
Haven't been to China yet but will be interesting to see how they do
things! Apart from make a lot of the stuff we buy! Yes we have US
owned Wal Marts here!
USA and Canada are major trading partners. So many of the products in
Canada are similar or identical; or are frequently those manufactured
in the USA. Thus as a follower of this group much of the discussion is
pertinent and useful. So thanks once again for those who in the past
have replied and helped with specific items and for those who continue
to respond; often very useful. Frequently thought provoking.