Ground fault outlet didn't trip
Kevin Ricks wrote in
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Frank wrote:
Did some wet diamond grinding with my electric angle grinder (double
insulated) on a concrete walkway in the backyard. Felt a tingle on my
hand but the GFCI outlet didn't trip, must be too low of a fault
current.
If you felt it then you may have bad or mis-wired GFCI.
Note that if the path of current is from hot wire -through you- and
then back to the neutral wire, (not ground) then you will be shocked
all day long.. until the cows come home..... The GFCI does not know
you from a light bulb or any other load.
Kevin
Just a note. I recently bought some (Leviton I think) GFCI's. They will
not even reset if it's miswired.
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