"David Nebenzahl" wrote in message
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On 5/19/2008 4:44 AM John Grabowski spake thus:

It is unusual to have so many GFI receptacles on the same circuit from
the original builder. In many cases one GFI would protect all of the
receptacles down stream. I have had a few customers think that they need
to change every outlet in a bathroom to a GFI and they wind up creating
GFI hell. They put three or four GFI's in series. When a ground fault
occurs in one of the downstream GFI's, one of the GFI's before it
sometimes trips. In that case the homeowner needs to go push the reset
button on each GFI.

In that case (multiple GFCIs in a room), wouldn't it make much more sense
*not* to wire them in series, and just have each outlet protect itself?
What's the point of wiring multiple GFCIs in series?



The ones that I have seen this way were all done by the homeowners
themselves. Need I say more?



That way, you'd know exactly which one tripped, and it wouldn't affect any
of its neighbors.


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