"David Nebenzahl" wrote in message
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On 1/18/2011 2:23 PM DerbyDad03 spake thus:

On Jan 18, 3:21 pm, Tony Hwang wrote:

Hmm, The purpose of GFCI breaker is dual fold tripping on overload
or current leakage. Watt is amount of energy, the OP's question is
flawed to begin with.

Please tell us what is flawed with my original question.

I can't wait to hear this one.

The answer: nothing. Dunno where Mr. Hwang got "watts", since you wrote:

If a GFCI breaker trips, can you tell if it tripped due to a ground
fault or due to an over-current situation just by looking at it?

"Over-current" is absolutely the correct term here. Amps, dontcha know.



There was a similar question a day or so befor this one. When similar
threads start, it is easy to get confused as to which is which, especially
when they get long.
The heading was can "wattage" trip a GFIC or something similar to that.
The Wattage was in quotes as maybe the poster did not use the correct term
of current, although it really was a wattage question the way it was put.

Here is part of the question:


"I believe that it's the pure wattage requirements of these lights,
more than their quality (or lack thereof) that caused my GFCI to
trip."

Does that make any sense?

If it was an current overage the breaker would trip not the GFCI so
why would a "high wattage" device trip the GFCI?