Posted on 07/17/2017 2:01:31 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
After injecting a little levity into the previous post, I suppose I should say that I do feel sorry for the young girl who was careless with electricity and was electrocuted. She didn’t deserve a death sentence.
I’m trying to keep the empathy at a superficial level, though. If I can — and without images I usually can (if I don’t hear too many details about the person) — I don’t take these things to heart. Somewhere in the world they are happening every minute, maybe every second, and if we took them all to heart, we’d all be miserable all the time.
When you install the GFI outlet it will come with some stickers. They do not make 2 prong GFI Outlets. Since the new Outlet will now have a floating ground Pin(unhooked)- You need to put a sticker on the front of the new outlet cover. Use the sticker that says “No Equipment Ground”.
Your old Outlet might have more than two wires. It might have power coming in and power heading out to the next outlet or light in the circuit. Four screws on the outlet might be being used. You either have to connect all of them to the “Line” side of the GFI(Black to Black and White to White) or else you will use the “Load” side of the outlet to protect everything down stream as well. Connect the black wires to the smaller prong side of the outlet. And it will not work if you do not connect the incoming power to the line side to the GFI.(if you switch the line and load wire sets).
I believe that you can by code actually replace all downstream GFI protected outlets with regular 3 prong outlets. You just have to put that sticker on them.
Pretty cool.
Always better to be extra safe, with electricity.
The deceased's downfall was that she was well-grounded.
Otherwise, she would only have felt a strong tickle.
I know nothing about electricity, but when I redid my bathroom and put in a CFCI outlet, there was nothing to ground it to, as my house is 67 years old, so I had to poke a hole in my wall and ground it to a pipe.
The circuit would trip constantly without that grounding. Now it doesn’t, so I assume I did something right.
Thanks.
Thanks for the additional information about the connections (and I’ll use the sticker).
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