Hi Everybody,
I looked at a condo this morning. In this 2 bdrm/1bath condo. that was built in the late 50's i noticed that all the outlets were changed over to GFCI,and awaiting to be put back in the boxes and covers put on. Upon looking around I also noticed each outlet had 2 wires going to each GFCI outlet (a positive and a Neutral wire) I asked why no ground at outlets. I was told with GFCI outlets no ground needed as they monitor the electricity between the hot and neutral wires ,and if not the same reading it shuts the outlet down very swiftly. I asked also if one GFCI is shut down do all outlets shut down. He said not in this case. Due to the older routing of the circuits where two outlets might be in two different rooms each outlet can be individually GFCI monitered. Usually I was told on a given circuit there is only one GFCI outlet and when that GFCI goes off it shuts down all other outlets downstream on that circuit. Got more of an answer than i thought I was going to get.
Happy day to all
I looked at a condo this morning. In this 2 bdrm/1bath condo. that was built in the late 50's i noticed that all the outlets were changed over to GFCI,and awaiting to be put back in the boxes and covers put on. Upon looking around I also noticed each outlet had 2 wires going to each GFCI outlet (a positive and a Neutral wire) I asked why no ground at outlets. I was told with GFCI outlets no ground needed as they monitor the electricity between the hot and neutral wires ,and if not the same reading it shuts the outlet down very swiftly. I asked also if one GFCI is shut down do all outlets shut down. He said not in this case. Due to the older routing of the circuits where two outlets might be in two different rooms each outlet can be individually GFCI monitered. Usually I was told on a given circuit there is only one GFCI outlet and when that GFCI goes off it shuts down all other outlets downstream on that circuit. Got more of an answer than i thought I was going to get.
Happy day to all