Home Electrical Wiring For Morons

[walrus]

Re: Home Electrical Wiring For Morons

That being said, most electricians would wire a light switch in parallel so it is not GFCI protected.

I don't want the lights going out because the GFCI tripped

 

[goldy_331]

Re: Home Electrical Wiring For Morons

I don't want the lights going out because the GFCI tripped

Hard to find the reset button in the dark?

 

[bigblue_dl]

Re: Home Electrical Wiring For Morons

there are plenty of situations where you would feed power to a switch from an outlet. not sure why you would expect power to go to the switch first.

as I mentioned (and walrus also mentioned) anything fed off the load side of a GFCI outlet will be protected by the GFCI. That being said, most electricians would wire a light switch in parallel so it is not GFCI protected.

This is the way that I have seen it in the limited electrical work that I've done. I haven't had a situation where anything but the outlet would need to be GFCI, but like was said earlier, lights in showers and that kind of thing would be a different story.

 

[walrus]

Re: Home Electrical Wiring For Morons

Hard to find the reset button in the dark?

Yes, Its a safety issue, any good electrician will think of things like that

 

[goldy_331]

Re: Home Electrical Wiring For Morons

So, did EODS get it fixed, or get fried?

 

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

Re: Home Electrical Wiring For Morons

I'm dead. On the inside.

Swapped out the GFCI today, everything's back up.

I'm still kind of weirded out by the fact that I can't really get at the wiring for the light/fan combo, though... seems like something I should remedy before anything bad happens.