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Doug Miller

In article , wrote:
Our basement flooded with about 1" of water in the unfinished area
(concrete) and most of the carpeted area wet. This was after a lot of
rain and melting snow in the last few days in Detroit. Turned out the
breaker on the sump pump outlet had tripped and caused it to stop
pumping.

Just one question: when you say "the breaker on the sump pump outlet", do you
mean the breaker for the CIRCUIT that the sump pump outlet is on? Or do you
mean a ground fault circuit interrupter outlet that the sump pump plugs into?

If the former... ignore the rest of my post. You've gotten good advice from
other people who have responded.

If the latter... shut off the breaker, replace the GFCI outlet with a standard
outlet, and turn the breaker back on. Sump pumps should NOT be on
GFCI-protected outlets.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.