Paddy
Veteran Member
Ok. I've got an issue with a GFI breaker triping that feeds an outdoor water garden. I have tried several things that I feel has isolated every link in the system and it still trips...some times. It may go a week just fine or just a few hours.
We have a few GFI breakers for indoor bath rooms. Off one of these GFI breaker circuits, the line feeds the pond pump.
1 I replaced the pump that had worked fine for over a year, still triped
2 Pluged an extension cord into a garage GFI recptical, still triped
3 Changed wires in main breaker panel from GFI #1 to GFI #2, still triped
So the entire original run, breaker/wire/out door recptical and pump have been replaced with new or as with the breaker just switched. The wire being eliminated via an extension cord may not be a good test. The pump is a utility pump used to pump out a wet basement and maybe the small GFI recpt in the garage could not handel the load? So maybe I need to run a new pc of romex to a new recpt by the pond. This is no easy task because the wires are in a wall!
Any ideas?
Patrick T.
We have a few GFI breakers for indoor bath rooms. Off one of these GFI breaker circuits, the line feeds the pond pump.
1 I replaced the pump that had worked fine for over a year, still triped
2 Pluged an extension cord into a garage GFI recptical, still triped
3 Changed wires in main breaker panel from GFI #1 to GFI #2, still triped
So the entire original run, breaker/wire/out door recptical and pump have been replaced with new or as with the breaker just switched. The wire being eliminated via an extension cord may not be a good test. The pump is a utility pump used to pump out a wet basement and maybe the small GFI recpt in the garage could not handel the load? So maybe I need to run a new pc of romex to a new recpt by the pond. This is no easy task because the wires are in a wall!
Any ideas?
Patrick T.