On Sep 6, 9:44*am, The dude wrote:
Mikepier wrote:
On Sep 6, 12:29 am, The dude wrote:
I have a 30+ year old house.
I want to add a GFCI near the kitchen sink

This is what I have to work with
*From the breaker box

Red - hot breaker 1
Black - hot breaker 2
White - neutral

Both breakers share the same neutral - they are chained together through
4 outlets

Red Outlet 1 (needs GFCI)
Red Outlet 2 (needs GFCI)
Black Outlet 3 (needs nothing)
Black Outlet 4 (needs nothing)

I tried to install the GFCI in outlet 1, but since it just constantly trips.
When I isolated the white from breaker 2 and was just using breaker 1,
it was ok.

Any suggestions??

The problem is on the "Load" side of the GFI outlet. You *attached the
red and neutral going to the next outlet, however the neutral is also
feeding the #3 &4 outlets. Since only the nuetral *is GFI Protected,
but not the black wire, it senses a current imbalance and trips. There
are 2 ways to correct this.
1) Run a seperate neutral wire from outlet #1 to outlet #2 ( probably
hard to do if walls are closed) Or maybe easier:
2) Connect GFI on outlet #1, but nothing on Load side, *and connect
another GFI on outlet #2 again with nothing on load side. This leaves
the black circuit by itself.

I cannot run a second neutral wire.

So I just need to buy another GFCI for #2.
What do you mean by not using the load side?- Hide quoted text -

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The load side of a GFCI is used when you want that GFCI to not only
protect that outlet, but also other outlets. The other outlets are
connected to the load side of the one GFCI.

The easiest solution to your Edison circuit problem is to just use two
GFCIs in the two outlets and NOT use the load side.