How Do You Hook Up A Gfci

Plug a lamp radio or the gfci tester into the outlet to test for power and make sure it s off.

How do you hook up a gfci. Turn the power back on at the circuit breaker box and plug a radio into the outlet. Use a screwdriver or drill to remove the wall plate. Disconnect wires from the existing outlet. Attach the cover plate.

Attach your ground wires to the green grounding screw of the gfci. For increased electrical safety leviton strongly recommends installing a gfci in every non grounding circuit. Then unscrew and pull out the old outlet and count the number of wires in the box. Without a ground wire.

When a gfci receptacle trips you must be able to reset it at the receptacle location. A ground wire provides protection by offering a parallel path back to ground for any fault current. Switch the new gfci breaker to the off position. The gfci can sense the current flowing through you because not all of the current is flowing from hot to neutral as it expects some of it is flowing through you to the ground.

If replacing an existing gfci label the black and white wires on the line and load terminals. Press the red button on the outlet to reset it. Connect the hot circuit wire to the hot or load screw terminal on the gfci breaker using a screwdriver. Press the black button on the outlet.

Calculate the minimum box size required for all of the wires plus the gfci see required box size below. If the radio turns off the outlet is working. Connect the gfci breaker s coiled white neutral wire to the neutral bus bar on the service panel. The gfci can feed through to a grounding receptacle which must be marked gfci protected.

Connect the neutral circuit wire to the neutral screw terminal on the gfci breaker. Fold your wires into the box making sure the grounding wires do not touch any exposed line or load terminals. Remove mounting screws and gently pull the switch out of the wall box.