"Tony Hwang" wrote in message
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I agree with the guy that they do seem to do that.
If you had a
licensed electrician put the thing in I would not
sweat it. If though
the feed somehow could have gotten wet, that's what
gfci is intended to
react to, which may indicate some sort of leak
somewhere ? Did they
run the outdoor wire thru a conduit and all that
jazz ?


No offense, but you say that if it was a licensed
electrician it's OK don't sweat it, but then you ask
how the installation was done? The OP isn't likely
to know whether it was done to "all that jazz" or he
wouldn't have posted here.

IMO, that's an unacceptable situation and the
electrician/contractor needs to be put on notice
that it needs to be taken care of.
Hi,
Taken care of? OP'er said it rained. GFCI did it's
job.
Unless it keeps happening over and over, I wouldn't
worry about it.
Tripped once after rain and..... hmmm, What is your
idea? GFCI should
never trip? If not, when does it suppose to trip?
Tony

No, as another poster mentioned, lightning could
possibly do that. The OP didn't say anything about
that though; only a lot of rain. If it tripped because
of water entry, and since it's a new install, it's
going to trip more often and shouldn't have tripped.
The contractor teling him not to worry was a tipoff
that he should put the contractor on notice so that if
it trips next time it rains, he will have to remedy it.
Otherwise the contractor gets to say it didn't bother
until now? Oh, not my job then.
I am reacting mostly to the glib response about it
being "normal" for them to trip. They should NEVER
trip unless they see an imbalance in the current flows.
If water's getting into a new install, something's not
right.
They should only trip when there is a fault in an
item plugged into that gfci protected line. And water
should not be getting into the wiring.