Posted: 12/31/2015 10:49:35 AM EDT
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I bought a house in May, and have slowly been working to bring it up to par with current electrical code, or as close as I can.
Last night, I replaced the laundry room outlets on either side of the utility sink with GFCIs since they didn't have any. One outlet was the end of the run and I hooked the cable up to the LINE side obviously. The other outlet had 2 cables, but since it wasn't a GFCI, I wasn't sure which was line and which was load. Therefore, I just hooked both cables to the LINE side since I've put individual GFCI outlets in every location that requires them. I don't really need any downstream protection via the LOAD side. Is that the correct/acceptable thing to do? |
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GFI goes upstream of the outlets you want to protect. The protected downstream outlets are regular, not GFI type outlets. Hot goes to LINE terminals on the upstream GFI, then connect the wire leading to the other outlets you want to protect downstream to the LOAD terminals. |
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Correct. Typically used when you don't want all circuit outlets tripping simultaneously. Quoted:
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Nothing wrong with 2 GFI, just not needed. Correct. Typically used when you don't want all circuit outlets tripping simultaneously. Thanks. This is all I needed. I didn't need pics or anything, I fully understand LINE and LOAD, but 1) I'd rather not trip the whole circuit at once and 2) I didn't feel like tracing wires to sort out LINE and LOAD since the outlet I replaced wasn't GFCI. |