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Sat 28 Sep, 2013 10:42 pm
I am running a circuit and having some issues.
Circuit Contains:
- 1 Dimmer Switch feeding 6 pot lights
- 2 Plugs
The power is coming from the breaker box to the switch box.
The switch box has lines out to the first outdoor outlet and one light
In the switch box I have performed the following connections:
- all white wires are connected
- all ground wires are connected and connected to the box and the dimmer switch
- the hot black is connected with the black to the plug and one black on the dimmer switch
- the other black on the dimmer switch is connected to the black leading to the pot light
For the first plug I have a GFIC plug because it is outside.
This issue I am having is as follows:
When I have the lights hooked up and the GFIC plug wired bring the hot into it and nothing going out everything works fine. However, when I attached the line to the next plug the GFIC will no longer reset. If I move the GFIC from the first plug to the last plug everything works fine but I then have one outdoor plug unprotected by the GFIC plug.
I have tried 2 separate GFIC plugs to ensure I don't have a faulty plug but I continue to have the same issue.
What am I missing here?
@cdjordan,
Sounds like you may have used the grounded circuit conductor from the feed-thru side of your GFI receptacle to supply your light. If your first GFCI is protecting your second receptacle, it will be feed from the load side of the first GFCI receptacle. If you connected your light to the grounded circuit conductor on the load side of the first GFCI it will create an imbalance that will trip your first GFCI because it will no longer see a balanced circuit. I am not sure if that is what you did as I do not know what conductors you installed where but that's my best guess at this point. If that is what you did, then just tap off on the line side of the GFCI for the light.
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