Circuits, what is excessive?
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 8:05 pm
It’s been a long time since I was on here, I’ve missed everyone!
I’m running into some electrical problems and, I understand for the most part, no help is given, I totally understand why. Here’s my dilema, scenario though.. GFi in master bath keeps tripping. In trying to find the source I’ve discovered after the GFI, the entire bedroom is on the circuit (4 outlets and ceiling light fixture and closet light), the entrance way from the front door is on the same circuit (4 outlets ceiling light fixture and front porch light), and I just discovered today, where I thought the circuit would surely end, (what I thought was last outlet), that in that outlet there were still 2 sets of wires, which for some reason I’m guessing go all the way up to the ceiling and across to the kitchen light! The bathroom light is not on the circuit, and I haven’t tested yet to see if the plug on the outside of the house (same end as master bed/bath) is on the same circuit or not. A lot of people are telling me it seems like way too much on one circuit.
I am the second owner, I have not rewired anything and I’m pretty sure the original owners didn’t. So my main question is, is it common to have soo many outlets/lights, on one circuit? Is it also common to put so much stuff past the GFI so that the bedroom/front room are all limited to the 15A that the GFI allows instead of the full 20A from the breaker itself?
I never thought trying to trace the circuit from beginning to end would be so difficult! I’m probably wrong about what I thought was the end of the circuit feeding the kitchen light for the fact that when the GFI trips, that outlet does trip, but the kitchen light stays on! How in the world did they wire this house!? Lol
I’m running into some electrical problems and, I understand for the most part, no help is given, I totally understand why. Here’s my dilema, scenario though.. GFi in master bath keeps tripping. In trying to find the source I’ve discovered after the GFI, the entire bedroom is on the circuit (4 outlets and ceiling light fixture and closet light), the entrance way from the front door is on the same circuit (4 outlets ceiling light fixture and front porch light), and I just discovered today, where I thought the circuit would surely end, (what I thought was last outlet), that in that outlet there were still 2 sets of wires, which for some reason I’m guessing go all the way up to the ceiling and across to the kitchen light! The bathroom light is not on the circuit, and I haven’t tested yet to see if the plug on the outside of the house (same end as master bed/bath) is on the same circuit or not. A lot of people are telling me it seems like way too much on one circuit.
I am the second owner, I have not rewired anything and I’m pretty sure the original owners didn’t. So my main question is, is it common to have soo many outlets/lights, on one circuit? Is it also common to put so much stuff past the GFI so that the bedroom/front room are all limited to the 15A that the GFI allows instead of the full 20A from the breaker itself?
I never thought trying to trace the circuit from beginning to end would be so difficult! I’m probably wrong about what I thought was the end of the circuit feeding the kitchen light for the fact that when the GFI trips, that outlet does trip, but the kitchen light stays on! How in the world did they wire this house!? Lol