I recently rewired an old house. The laundry room is on its own circuit and the washer plugs directly into the gfci outlet. Everything seemed to be working great. The lights works and the outlets worked to plug in a shop vac or other various things. When I tried to install the washer and plugged it in,The washer started to fill with water and then tripped the breaker which is a 20 amp dual gfci afic. When i flipped the breaker I plugged a 6amp screw gun into the recepticial it worked fine so I tried my 9amp saw and once again it tripped the circuit. I am stumped. Any suggestions?
Electrical – My washer keeps tripping the gfci
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Check for a neutral to ground short somewhere on the load side of the GFCI and downstream outlets. Also, make sure there isn't a shared neutral with any other circuit and that you don't have a connection from the neutral load directly to the line side of the GFCI (in other words, the whites cannot all be pigtailed together, the line and load neutrals must be separated by the GFCI).
- Get a wiring tester and verify the GFCI outlet is wired correctly.
- Swap out he 20A AFCI breaker for a standard 15A or 20A breaker and then see if the GFCI outlet works after that.
- Use a multimeter at the GFCI outlet to see if the voltage is in the expected range.
- Post photos of wiring at all locations so we can better help you.
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Best Answer
Do not plug anything that has a big motor (like a washer) into a GFCI outlet.
Motors have big surge circuit controllers that can cause unpredictable imbalances in line load that will trip a GFCI even though there is no current leakage.