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You, my friend, have a problem with your hairdryer! The windings for your motor or the heater are brushing the ground system within the dryer. The whole reason we have GFCI systems is to prevent you from using that very device in your bathroom. Buy a new one!
The ground wires are twisted together and then connected to the GFCI ground. The black and white wires may also be twisted together and then using a jumper wire connected to the GFCI. Hard to say without seeing exactly how it is wired.
If your spa is connected with a GFCI circuit breaker you will not need the GFCI receptacle.
The key to this situation is to establish whether it is the receptacle or the ( I am presuming a hair dryer and not a clothes dryer). If you have another dryer plug it into the receptacle and see if it also trips. If you don't have another dryer any appliance will do, fry pan or toaster for example. If the receptacle does not trip then the cause is the hair dryer. If the GFCI trips then it should be replaced. The operation of a GFCI is current in "hot" leg should equal current in the return neutral. Replacement can be done yourself. Shut the circuit off at the electrical panel to kill the electrical circuit and install the new one exactly as the old one was wired. P.S. Clothes dryers do not need to be connected to a GFCI breaker. <<>> Your gfci is trying to tell you that in all probability the dryer is too much of a load for the circuit. Call a good electrician!
GFCI recepticles are not required outside the bathroom so in the event of a current path from the dryer through the user to the ground / plumbing (faucets, water, drains), the path would not open until 15 amp circuit current is exceeded which is hundreds of times the fatal dose of current to the user. Bathroom GFCI recepticles detect the slightest current and break the circuit in an instant.
You, my friend, have a problem with your hairdryer! The windings for your motor or the heater are brushing the ground system within the dryer. The whole reason we have GFCI systems is to prevent you from using that very device in your bathroom. Buy a new one!
The ground wires are twisted together and then connected to the GFCI ground. The black and white wires may also be twisted together and then using a jumper wire connected to the GFCI. Hard to say without seeing exactly how it is wired.
There really isn't anything you couldn't plug into a gfci, but are usually 110V small appliances, and they are most common in bathrooms or kitchens (places there are water) to protect the person using an appliance such as a hair dryer from electrical shock.
A GFCI receptacle can extend its protection to regular receptacles connected to the output side of the GFCI. Each actual GFCI receptacle should be directly connected to a breaker in electric panel.
If your spa is connected with a GFCI circuit breaker you will not need the GFCI receptacle.
The key to this situation is to establish whether it is the receptacle or the ( I am presuming a hair dryer and not a clothes dryer). If you have another dryer plug it into the receptacle and see if it also trips. If you don't have another dryer any appliance will do, fry pan or toaster for example. If the receptacle does not trip then the cause is the hair dryer. If the GFCI trips then it should be replaced. The operation of a GFCI is current in "hot" leg should equal current in the return neutral. Replacement can be done yourself. Shut the circuit off at the electrical panel to kill the electrical circuit and install the new one exactly as the old one was wired. P.S. Clothes dryers do not need to be connected to a GFCI breaker. <<>> Your gfci is trying to tell you that in all probability the dryer is too much of a load for the circuit. Call a good electrician!
depends on the wattage of the hair dryer. most are 1250 to 1600 watts so a 20 amp gfci circuit would be able to carry the load of a standard hair dryer.
A down stream receptacle that is connected to the upstream GFCI will be protected. If the downstream receptacle senses a fault the upstream GFCI will trip.
Assume this is a ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) outlet. The GFCI looks for current that is flowing to ground, in a manner that could result in electrical shock to a user. The appliance that is being plugged in could be defective, the wiring connected to the load side of the GFCI may be incorrect, or the GFCI outlet could be defective. Try using another appliance. If the GFCI holds, the first appliance is most likely the cause.
GFCI recepticles are not required outside the bathroom so in the event of a current path from the dryer through the user to the ground / plumbing (faucets, water, drains), the path would not open until 15 amp circuit current is exceeded which is hundreds of times the fatal dose of current to the user. Bathroom GFCI recepticles detect the slightest current and break the circuit in an instant.
Your question is a bit vague, but let's try a two part answer. If you have a GFCI breaker in an electric panel you should only have one connection at the breaker, but the breaker will protect all devices on the circuit. If you are talking about a GFCI outlet, they are equipped to extend the GFCI protection to other non-GFCI outlets by using the proper "output" connection on the GFCI.
Not if the GFCI breaker is supplying the circuit you are wanting to put the GFCI receptacle into.