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Why An Open Neutral Kills 120V Devices
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<blockquote data-quote="Rob Spence" data-source="post: 57697" data-attributes="member: 80"><p>Re: Why An Open Neutral Kills 120V Devices</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Note that if you have a GFI protected outlet and you try to test between the hot and the ground you WILL trip the GFI. For us old fogys that learned most of our electrics before GFIs, the reflex of checking the hot to both ground and neutral gets us to have to reset the GFIs all the time <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile :-)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rob Spence, post: 57697, member: 80"] Re: Why An Open Neutral Kills 120V Devices Note that if you have a GFI protected outlet and you try to test between the hot and the ground you WILL trip the GFI. For us old fogys that learned most of our electrics before GFIs, the reflex of checking the hot to both ground and neutral gets us to have to reset the GFIs all the time :-) [/QUOTE]
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