New wiring trips breaker
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09-12-16, 04:39 PM
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New wiring trips breaker
Hello everyone: I hope someone can give me an answer to this problem: I recently installed about 400 ft of UF 10/2 cable from the garage to my front gate. At the gate, I routed several runs of outlets for the lights. The problem is when I finally installed a GFCI at the beginning of the run and wired it to the existing outlet at the garage, the breaker kept tripping. Even when I removed the GFCI and just connected it to the existing outlet, the breaker still kept tripping. What did I do wrong?
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09-12-16, 04:49 PM
You may have a ground touching an outlet terminal. Disconnect all the new outlets at end of the 10/2 and just test the 10/2 by itself. If it doesn't trip go from there connecting the outlets and testing as you go.
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09-12-16, 04:54 PM
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Thanks. That's a good idea. Just to make sure I wired the GFCI correctly, I connected the garage outlet to the "line" side then the 10-2 to the "load" side. Did I do that correctly? The reason I asked is because before the breaker trips, I tested and verified that there was power to the line side but no power to the load side.
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09-12-16, 05:22 PM
Just to make sure we're talking apples to apples, the breaker is the breaker in the panel tripping, not the GFCI tripping? Also I assume the existing garage outlet is not GFCI protected that you tapped off of for the new GFCI outlet. Sorry, I'm just a little confused on what's what.
