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I have a Leviton GFI in my bathroom which I happened to test today
with my little 3 prong/3 lamp tester. The socket shows as being wired correctly (2 yellow lights, no red) but pressing the 'trip' button on my tester failed to trip the GFI (note when the trip button is depressed all 3 lights (yellow-yellow-red) light up on the tester). The test button on the GFI works fine though. Still figuring that something must be wrong with the GFI, I replaced it with a new one. The physical wiring is correct and again the tester shows it is wired correctly. Also, the little green LED on the GFI is lit presumably showing it is working. But again the trip button failed to trigger the GFI even though again the manual test button on the GFI worked. My GFI tester worked fine triggering the other 13 or so GFI's in my house. Any idea what could be happening here? Why would both the old and new GFI show as being wired correctly and yet fail to trip? I am stumped... |
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