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Default Wiring Double GFCI?

On Sep 19, 3:35*pm, Josh wrote:
I'm replacing the single 20A kitchen countertop duplex outlet with a
double box and two 20A GFCIs (both side by side in the double box) fed
by a single dedicated 20A circuit breaker.

Do I simply jumper Load to Load and Line to Line, or should I have the
Load on the first GFCI feed the Line on the second GFCI with nothing
attached to the Load on the second one? *The circuit terminates at
that box.

I've read that the second outlet doesn't particularly need to be a
GFCI, but I want them both to be GFCI anyway. *Humor me!


Hard to understand what is trying to be achieved.????
1) If the two outlets are to work independently presumably one would
feed both (live and neutral) from the common supply, from the single
pole breaker. Into the line terminals. But have nothing wired to the
load side at all?.
1a) However if each is to protect other non GFCI outlets 'downstream'
those would be presumably be wired to the load terminals for each run,
from each GFCI?
2) What one would not do is to common the load terminals (i.e connect
a load to 'both' GFCI???? What would be the point???
3) If the intention is to feed two live leads form a double pole
breaker, with one live wire to each GFCI; it won't IMO work because
there will automatically be unbalance in the common neutral; the
moment something is plugged into the 'other' GFCI circuit.
But as said WHAT IS the objective????