Discuss Line power but receptacle not working. in the UK Electrical Forum area at ElectriciansForums.net
Originally there was a 2 prong receptacle that was not working properly. I Wanted to put in some 3 prong receptacles so i am using GFCI. The house was built in the 60s so its only hot and nuetral wires. There are 2 sets in the gang box. 1 set is the line which is hot, the other is the load which is feeding another receptacle. Trying to figure out why the GFCI doesnt power on when the line wires are connected? Is the GFCI bad?You say you have two wires a hot in and an outgoing hot, is there a neutral?
What was connected there previously.
Yes, in the romax there is a hot wire and a nuetral wire. The neutral is not reading hot. But the black wire is reading hot. I am getting 120 from hot to neutral. There is no ground wire.Okay this is probably something for @Megawatt who is based in the States but is there a neutral there.
To wire a GFCI look on the back of the GFCI and read where it says line on top and load on the bottom. You have 2 cables coming in the box with one cable being the hot which goes to line and the other cable being used as the load so hook them up on the load terminals. Remember the white wire has to go on the neutral side that corresponds with the black wire in the same cable. Power it back up and press the reset.So i have 2 wires coming into a gang box. 1 is hot, the other is not powered because it is feeding the next device. Im trying to connect a gfci. I put the hot line in the outlet and it never powered on. What could the problem be?
If you are 100% sure you have it wired correctly and you mash the reset and it won’t reset then you have problems down stream from the load sideSir I have done this already. The problem is that the GFCI does not power up. What reason could that be?
Are you saying that you don’t have power to the GFCI ?If you are 100% sure you have it wired correctly and you mash the reset and it won’t reset then you have problems down stream from the load side
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