On Aug 10, 12:59*pm, terry wrote:
On Aug 10, 12:10*pm, (Doug Miller) wrote:





In article , "JohnR66" wrote:

I'm trying to solve an issue at my brothers house. He came home and the
outlets around his kitchen had no power. I found the GFCI was tripped. I
reset, but it trips instantly. I unplugged every device and it still trips.
I bought a new GFCI, still trips.

Next I checked the load side hot to neutral with my meter. Infinity
resistance (nothing plugged in). I checked to be sure I was getting 120 volts
to the black wire and that it was connected to the line side of the GFCI.

Some other notes:
If I bypass the GFCI, The circuit works (no short)
With load side of GFCI not connected, it does not trip.
If I touch the black load side wire to the hot load side of GFCI, no trip.
If I touch the white load side wire to the to the neutral load side of the
CFCI, it trips! (I'm confused on that one)

Bathroom has its own GFCI circuit that works and I can find no outside
outlets on the dead circuit.

I'm puzzled on this one. Any ideas?

Check for dead outlets in the basement and garage.- Hide quoted text -

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Good idea; for example our now enclosed garage was once an outside car
port. And we have one now unused outlet out there that is 'on' one
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My kitchen and one wall of my garage(one outlet) was on the same GFCI
breaker and I started having trouble. The problem was the result of me
leaving a long extension cord plugged in. Whenever there was something
plugged into the extension cord(usually a vacuum cleaner) no problem,
whenever it was just coiled up on its hook it would intermittently
trip the GFCI breaker. Anyway, rewired the garage so that it is on its
own breaker and turned the extension cord into speaker wire.

Jimmie