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Why does the red reset button in the garage pop out when you plug in a refrigerator?
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∙ 12y ago
If You Had Provided More Information As To The Red Button, It Would Be Easier To Help You. Since You Mentioned A Hairdryer, I Will Assume This Is In The Bath. Also Since Your Mention Of A Hairdryer And A Red Button I Also Will Assume You Have A GFCI Recptical. This Will Have A Little Black Test Button & A Red Reset Button. If This Is The Case. You Are Overloading The Circuit { This May Be Due To The Way The Wiring Was Ran. And Again Your Ground Fault Recptical May Be Bad. ) That Is +++++++++ If We Are Talking About The Same Thing. Remember You Have Circuir Breakers In You House Also. These Are In Your Electric Control Box Where The Main Breaker Is. If This Isn`t Enough Info. Please Ask Question Again Providing More Info. But It Sounds Like You Are Overloading The Circuit. If It Is OK Without The Hairdryer On, Put It In Another Recptical. Also Your Circuit Breakers Can Go Bad. There Is Just To Many Things With So Little Info. Hope This Don`t Mess You Up If you are referring to the little red button on the outlet your hairdryer is attached to, it is a GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter). The little red button should only trip if water, such as dropping it into the bathtub, interferes with the circuit. If you are referring to such a device on your bathroom electrical outlet, there should be absolutely no relation to any other circuit, including outdoor lighting. In that case, a liscensed electrical contractor should be consulted.
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∙ 17y ago
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∙ 12y agoA garage will have a GFCI outlet. If this is what you are referring to then the refrigerator is either overloading the circuit or there is a ground fault. Sometimes equipment with motors, like a refrigerator, will cause a GFCI to trip. There may be a real problem in refrigerator causing the ground fault, or it may be an older GFCI that needs to be replaced.
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Is an outlet plug that says gfci on it but doesn't have a reset button really a gfci outlet?
It depends. It could be improperly installed. Outlets can be GFI protected by using a GFI rated breaker in the main panel box. Look for a breaker in the panel box that has a push to test button on it. Press the push to test button then plug something into the outlet to see if it still works. If the breaker turns off the power then it is GFI protected. To reset it flip the breaker to the fully of position then back to the on position.
What will happen if 110 volt refrigerator was plug to 220 volt?
If you are lucky the fuse will blow. If not the refrigerator might catch fire.
You replaced the GFCI but sill don't have any power what's wrong?
Where is the power coming from? Direct from the breaker panel or from another plug? Does that outlet have a wall switch? You pushed in the reset button on the new plug? You just have to back track and find the break in the line. Make sure the breaker is coming on.
Should you un-plug the refrigerator when you go for a long vacation?
At a vacation home tenants leave refriderators on a month or two before returning home you should be just fine.
How do you test if the plug protects against electric shock?
Many GFCI plugs have a switch to test the GFCI functionality, and all you have to do it press the test button while it is plugged in. The reset button will pop out. Then you press the reset button to make the appliance operable again.If the appliance has a bulky square plug (but not a transformer), but no test nor reset switch, it is likely a single-use GFCI, meaning that once it is tripped, the appliance never works again. A lot of hairdryers are like this. The ground wire even extends to the metal screen at the end of the air duct. Some people like to put their hairdryers into their wet hair, and then they wonder why it stops working. In that case, they were saved from an electric shock. At that point, they will either need to open it up and replace the cord -- with a working GFCI cord, or replace the appliance. Most people should just get a new hairdryer at that point.Regular plugs don't protect from electrical shock. Transformer plugs don't either. Even a D-size battery has enough current to kill, but even if the transformer brings it down to even lower than that, there is always the possibility of malfunction or a power surge. In other words, don't depend on them to protect you.
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