On May 28, 5:08*pm, Ziggs wrote:
When the hair dryer is on, our 15AMP circuit breaker has been tripping
lately to the bathroom's outlet. *Sometimes my wife sees a tiny flash
when the power to the outlet goes out. *I just looked at the outlet
and it's a 20amp GFCI on the 15AMP circuit breaker. *I just looked at
the three neutral wires on the other side of the pigtail and they are
melted.

So, here are a copy of questions

1. Should I replace the outlet with a 15AMP GFIC instead of the 20AMP?
2. Can I just cut back the wires that are melted and put in a new
pigtail or should the wires coming into the outlet box be inspected or
possible *replaced?

First of all, your bathroom should have a 20 amp circuit. It sounds
like your house was built a while ago, and a 15A circuit was put in.

Also putting in a 15A GFi is not going to help. You can leave the 20A
outlet, it is still limited to 15A by the breaker. Your wasting your
money changing it to a 15A GFI.

If replacing the wiring to a 20A circuit is not feasible, then either
get a smaller hair dryer, or perhaps take some load of that circuit by
putting in some CFL bulbs.