Our three bathrooms and one outdoor outlet are on one circuit with a GFCI breaker. When my wife uses a blowdryer in one of the the bathrooms, the GFCI occassionally trips. I replaced the GFCI breaker, but it doesn't help. Not knowing what else to do, I checked every outlet, but they all look fine. I don't know what else to check. Could it be the blowdryer? Any suggestions would be welcome. I thought about putting a GFCI outlet in that bathroom, so at least she wouldn't have to go down to the basement to reset it, but if it doesn't trip the one built into the blowdryer, there is no reason to think that will help. (I suppose I could replace all the outlets with GFCIs and the breaker with a non-GFCI, but then I am looking at $60 plus time. I expect my wife would say it was money well spent.)
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20 years ago