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Track lighting on GFCI?

Matt

2006-05-31, 1:21 pm

First my apologies if this ends up as a multiple post. My newsreader seems
to be flaky.
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A question for the electricians on this BB:

I have a track light that will not work with a GFCI enabled circuit. No
issues if I take the light bulbs out of the sockets. If I replace either
bulb or both bulbs the circuit breaker breaks as soon as the switch is
thrown. If I place the track light onto a non-GFCI circuit all is fine. Of
course, the GFCI circuit is now fine as well.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Matt

John McGaw

2006-05-31, 3:21 pm

Matt wrote:
> First my apologies if this ends up as a multiple post. My newsreader seems
> to be flaky.
> =====================================
>
> A question for the electricians on this BB:
>
> I have a track light that will not work with a GFCI enabled circuit. No
> issues if I take the light bulbs out of the sockets. If I replace either
> bulb or both bulbs the circuit breaker breaks as soon as the switch is
> thrown. If I place the track light onto a non-GFCI circuit all is fine. Of
> course, the GFCI circuit is now fine as well.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
>

Could be various things -- something as stupid as wiring the track
improperly and having the ground and neutral wires reversed would do the
trick. What sort of track setup is it? Low or line voltage? If
low-voltage does it use separate transformers for each light?

--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com

Matt

2006-05-31, 5:21 pm

John:

Thanks for the reply. This was line voltage. We did make sure that the
neutral & gnd were wired correctly but if the wired were reversed somewhere
else we may not have seen it.

Matt

"John McGaw" <nobody@nowh.ere> wrote in message
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> Matt wrote:
>
> Could be various things -- something as stupid as wiring the track
> improperly and having the ground and neutral wires reversed would do the
> trick. What sort of track setup is it? Low or line voltage? If low-voltage
> does it use separate transformers for each light?
>
> --
> John McGaw
> [Knoxville, TN, USA]
> http://johnmcgaw.com

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